Sunbeams has written a series of articles to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity. 

Join us to make small steps for biodiversity around us.  

Sunbeams articles on what you can do for biodiversity:

• main areas to do small steps - Sunbeams Newsletter May 2009 ( pdf 590Kb)
• small steps advice by IUCN - Sunbeams Newsletter January 2010 ( pdf 1.1Mb)

Sunbeams articles on biodiversity in Away Magazine:

• Interview with IUCN representative, by Leanne Halewyck [Jan-Feb 2010]
• Permaculture, by Dave Meyer [Mar-Apr 2010]
• You and me and biodiversity, by Ilke [May-June 2010] (available here soon )

Sunbeams article in Small Talk (BCT):

Celebrating biodiversity with children [June 2010] (available here soon)

Sunbeams Events related to biodiversity:

• 4 Workshops for children on nature and wildlife (as from October 2010)
• Annual workshop for adults on wildlife in Belgium (fall)
• Annual tree planting event (spring)
• Annual composting event (May-June)
• Build a herb spiral together with Sunbeams in your commune
• Guided nature walk in Zoniënwoud/Forêt de Soignes (in the fall)

Other events focusing on biodiversity:

• Natuurpunt needs your help to count biodiversity in your garden, weekend of 22-23 May 2010 www.waarnemingen.be
• EU Green Week, 2-5 June 2010
• Environmental Party outdoor in Jubelpark/Cinquantenaire, 6 June 2010 (come and see us at the Sunbeams stand)

Useful links can be found in all teh above articles, and here are a few more:
Check out the activities at the Museum of Natural Sciences and their focus on Biodiversity
http://www.naturalsciences.be/active/biodiv2010/biodiv2010_site
Order a little booklet with 366 ideas on what you can do for biodiversity in Dutch:
http://www.post-online.be/biodiv/nl/index.php
or in French:
http://www.post-online.be/biodiv/fr/index.php

More Sunbeams articles relating to specific areas of biodiversity:

• Biodiversity (!)
• Composting - April 2009
• Organic food baskets in and around Brussels - Sunbeams Newsletter September 2009 ( pdf 517Kb)
• How and when to plant trees in Belgium - Sunbeams Newsletter October 2009 (pdf 760Kb)
• Gardening for wildlife [Sunbeams Newsletter November 2009 ( pdf 560Kb)
• Saving energy - Sunbeams Newsletter December 2009 ( pdf 500 Kb)
• Precycling - Sunbeams Newsletter February ( pdf 600 Kb) and March ( pdf 1.0Mb) 2010
• Bees and biodiversity - Sunbeams Newsletter March 2010 ( pdf 1.0Mb)
• How to build a Herb Spiral - Sunbeams Newsletter March 2010 ( pdf 1.0Mb)
• Nature Nook, a new series on nature - starting in Sunbeams Newsletter May 2010

This article was originally published in the January 2010 issue of the Away Magazine.