Female Roots & Shoots members cheer as Dr. Jane accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at Glamour's 2008 Women of the Year awards ceremony at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Get Glamour-ous.

Here's a list of ways that your group can celebrate the winter holidays with care and compassion. Happy Holidays!

Refugees and victims of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo need help—Roots & Shoots can show you how to give it. Help in DRC.

Follow these handy instructions from a Roots & Shoots member to create a Peace Dove ornament from used plastic bottles. Create peace.

What do people do to celebrate the holidays in your country? In your community? In your family? Go to the Roots & Shoots Discussion Boards and share your holiday traditions.

JGI-Canada brings members together at the 9th Annual Roots & Shoots Conference at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. Get conference details.

Written by physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity shows readers how all living things depend on one another for survival. Sustain life.

Roots & Shoots members and California Youth Leaders attend the 19th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, in October. Be a Bioneer.

Shawna Levins' year-old Roots & Shoots group at Spring Hill RECenter in McLean, Virginia, has already done seven projects, won two service awards and hosted a Roots & Shoots summer camp. Meet Shawna.

At a ceremony in Rome, Italy, Dr. Jane is named a patron of the Year of the Gorilla 2009. Go gorillas.

Flash—Boom—Bang! Fireworks are fun but can be damaging to people, animals and the environment. Forget the fireworks.

We at Roots & Shoots would like to wish our entire global Roots & Shoots community a happy, healthy and peaceful holiday season. With your inspiring care and concern, you have made 2008 a year to remember. May your coming year be filled with laughter, cheer and successful service projects!

Peace to All,
The Roots & Shoots Team