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Laws against toxic PCBs, MMT lead, fracking, and 2-4,-D pesticides are overturned by crooked investor state dispute settlement courts.  Another reason to reject the TTP and TTIP ”trade” thefts.    Link Posted on October 23, 2015

On Saturday, 10-17, I heard the chortling gobbling sounds while under a large cottonwood.  After moving out from under the tree, I spied a group of aobut 100 cranes.  Similarly, on Sunday 10-18, twice I heard the calls, and each...

Floating leaves cast shadows, on the rocks on the  bottom of the stream. The shadows undulate  as they go over rocks and hollows.  There are still dragonflies, patrolling the streams.  Brown and orange caterpillars cross the bikepath.  I tried to...

At a cloudy sunset memorial at Walker Ranch, we heard the gobbling calls of cranes as they flew unseen over us.  It was drizzly and overcast, yet a band of  golden red appeared above the continental divide.  We were gathered...

# 1 Raise money to pay a lawyer to contest  the Corps of Engineers Record of Decision. #2 Thank the Boulder County Commissioners  for opposing the dam expansion.  -from the meeting on 10-11-15   More info: LINK and Link Posted on October 15, 2015

Free ex-President Nasheed, now.   Contact t The UN condemened his imprisonment.  He was jailed for speaking  on behalf of  low lying islands;  against countries pushing to cnotinue global warming; and against the corruption of his country    Link Here...

There are hearings on October 8.  Ask them to oppose the bill, HR 2406, which would  overturn rules against  illegal ivory trade and  elephant poaching.  This bad bill will also allow polar bear trophies to be imported, and it will...

This week the barn swallows that gather on the lines have left. The cottonwood leaves have been falling in Boulder, and the aspen leaves have been turning and falling in the mountains. I still see chicory blue blossoms in town....

Chrysler owes the water dept.  $21 million in back payments, and their water was not turned off. Marathon Refinery got $ 175 million in tax breaks (partly to  do the water intensive refining of toxic tar sands oil). LINK Posted...

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists says staff feel that wildlife science is  being overturned by business and political interests. Read: Science Endangered at the Fish and Wildlife Service Posted on October 2, 2015

Bicyclists need mirrors, panniers, lights, and fenders.  Biking to Better the World. Motorists should not rush to get past a cyclist or pedestrian.  They need to give space to bikers.  They should signal and watch out for bikers before turning.  Bikers should...

Marc writes that cars couldn’t see him until he added a flashing red  rear light, and now they see him and no longer drive right next to him. link Manfred writes of a car that turned right into him at the...

Compost helps build soil, store carbon, absorb water, increase food, and  increase resilience.  Food production (mostly hemical fertilizers and feedlots) causes 20% of greenhouse gases. Ocean acidification could harm the phytoplankton, which creates much of the world’s oxygen.  See the last...

Using native sovereign treaty rights plus educating local people about the threats to water quality, wetlands, fish, wildlife, and rice beds,  natives stopped the  huge Gogebic Taconite iron  mine in northern Wisconsin.  Pro-mining  forces gave $ 15 million to Gov....

“Ivory belongs to elephants only” is the message  of African natives who march and protest.  “Please be our protector.  Please deliver us from evil” is the imagined cry of the elephants.  Some good news: Daphne Sheldrick and a team of...

Razz Gormley volunteered to to go join Greenpeace and rappel off the bridge to block the Shell oil icebreaker in Portland.  Fracking gas companies and oil companies drilling in the Arctic corrupt our courts, legislatures, elections,  governor, and Congress. So...

Hundreds of kayaktivists delayed the gargantuan Shell arctic drilling platform in Seattle.  1500 people  shut down the largest machine on earth, a giant coal excavator in Germany. link Posted on August 21, 2015

Community conservancies provide  jobs as rangers and income to poor local people. Then the clans protect the elephants.  Elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce.  Their range has decreased from 3 million square miles in 1978 to 1...

Only a few thousand forest elephants remain in the Central African Republic.  62 %   of them were killed and they lost one third of their range between 2002 and 2011.  Peter Canby wrote in the New Yorker about Andrea...