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Because they often leak, are situated on top of lower income and minority populations, and harm both people and wildlife with their toxins when they leak. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Center for Constitutional Rights are organizing against the...

Young people and future generations can continue their lawsuit versus the US government policies favoring oil, coal, and gas companies and contributing to global warming. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teens-lawsuit-battling-climate-change-wins-victory-over-justice-department_us_5aa20a12e4b01b9b0a39c53c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

  Lee Fang of the Intercept will speak. He studies the Koch brothers's use of money in politics, the alt-right, white supremacists, white nationalists, and the far right. Others will speak about how the journalism and race interact, abut labor...

Monarchs have declined by 80 % over the last 20 years. Monsanto's GMO crops and Roundup pesticides have removed the milkweed plants that monarchs eat. "In addition to glyphosate, monarchs are threatened by other herbicides including dicamba, Enlist Duo and...

E.O.wilson writes that we need field biologists and protected reserves for about one half of the earth. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Yesterday, I saw a group of about 25 northern shovelers swimming in a tight circle on the pond in the CU research park by the bike path SW of Foothills and Arapahoe. They herd and eat insects and snails that...

Feb 9 & 10 at SEEC building in Boulder- these talks inspire hope! https://frontrangeecosocialsolution2018.sched.com/

There is a new article in the Rolling Stone by on how the Republicans are using 3 things to disenfranchise everyone else: dark money; gerrymandering with vote stuffing ( make a few districts 100% Dems and then have most districts...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-rights-of-nature-movement-goes-on-trial-w515299

I like this National Geographic documentary on Jane Goodall. It shows her excited to be living outdoors with animals, unafraid, observing wildlife behavior in the field. She climbs trees, gets the chimpanzee group used to her, discovers they make tools...

Maya K. Van Rossum, the author of the The Green Amendment. spoke about her book at the Boulder Bookstore. She wants people to talk about and pass this in states, to make well known. She wants to get it made...

"A Toad Story" about a Norwegian community that makes it so toads can safely cross a new highway -tonight at 6 pm at the Meadows library There is a discussion of boreal toad conservation and reintroduction in Colorado by a...

Thursday 1-25-18, 6:30 pm, Louisville Public Libraary , 951 Spruce, http://lwvbc.org/content.aspx?page_id=87&club_id=629866&item_id=738630

There is a talk tonight by Beth Osnes about her book Performance for Resilience: Engaging Youth through Movement, Music and Theatre at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 pearl, free 7:30 pm 1-25-18. She said the joy of children and youth comes...

Oil and gas expanding development is scaring off the deer, so they want to kill the bears and cougars. They don't have any scientific evidence of predator populations increasing and causing deer population declines. The bears are not hibernating as...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?smid=fb-share Not having FB, Google, and Amazon, and governments own our data.

https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-not-drill.html https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/nuclear-war-defining-issue-of-our-time.html

Here is where to comment. http://www.sportshootingpartners.org/commentform. Here is an article about shooting: http://www.dailycamera.com/science_columnists/ci_31556286/recreational-shooting-colorado-wilderness-areas. Given the reckless acts of some shooters, I oppose recreational shooting in the national forests. Map alternative 4 would prevent recreational shooting in national forests. Lead is...