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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...
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Read: The Hydropower Methane Bomb No One Wants to Talk About
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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....
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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
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Glyphosate (in Roundup), Atrazine, 2,4-D; Chlorpyrifos, and DDT need to be banned worldwide. Read: Health professionals join global call for ban of “Highly Hazardous Pesticides”
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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
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link Here is one interview. The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water. It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists. The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs,...
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link LA Times on 9-14-15
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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...
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Details of Obama's proposed regs to ban ivory trade. link
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A play about the women's peace movement 9-24-15 at 4:30 pm plus an exhibit about the movement from 3-4pm. Local members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom nudged me to protest at the Nevada Nuclear Test site...
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Thirst, walruses beaching, forests disappearing, Salmon overhating,.... Good news: the Pope, Islamic leaders, and the Navy call for action. link
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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...
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"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...
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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....