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KGNU radio episode on voting: Tuesday, 6/13/2017 Hemispheres 6pm to 7 pm on Tuesday in the "archives" Host: Joe Richey REALITY WINNER, DATA SECURITY AND ELECTION QUALITY This edition of Hemispheres features comments and testimony about voting technology in the...

These airgun soundbursts can be heard 2,500 miles away and go off every 10 seconds for months. They are planned on the Atlantic coast from Delaware down to Florida. Please support Greenpeace, Oceana, NRDC, and Sea Shepherd as they oppose...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-a-small-town-is-standing-up-to-fracking-w482577 A retired elementary school teacher, her daughter, the local League of Women Voters president, a retired coal company executive, a piano tuner, an interior designer, and other locals passed a law that gave residents the right to local self...

This article says that the movie "The Day After" about how brinkmanship between the US and Russia leads to a allout nuclear war persuaded persuaded President Reagan to reduce the tensions with Russia (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/wanted-role-model-of-strength-restraint.html). The stories of devastation affecting believable...

Great article on the collapse of big oil: http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/news/transportation/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com%2Fnews%2Ftransportation%2Ffossil-fuel-vehicles-will-vanish-in-8-years-in-twin-death-spiral-for-big-oil-and-big-autos-says-study-that-shocking-the-industry Go to his speech in Boulder on June 8: http://cleanenergyaction.org/

Oil co. Anadarko lobbies against bills requiring information being available to the public while saying that they care for threatened homeowners. They spent $ 7 million lobbying for secrecy and to stop regulations. They hired the former senator, former Secy...

Once they were common in the US and Canada. Then they were hunted for their feathers, skins, and meat. Around 1933 there were only 70 trumpeter swans left in the lower 48 states. Now there are more than 63,000. They...

Link to article: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/17/federal-lawsuit-visitor-center-rocky-flats

You can comment at suwa.org/comment. Also, here is info from High Country News. Here is sample letter from Beverly Kurtz: "President Trump and Secretary Zinke, I have spent most of my adult life recreating in Utah. I am a hiker...

Here is what one activist, Susan Elofson-Hurst, said afterward: "I was at the Sharing session at the Arvada Center last night; the only ones allowed to share were the speakers. It seemed obvious that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife staff...

The plant is being greenwashed- the DOE pretends it is cleaned up by making it a wildlife refuge, which is a way to avoid having to clean it up more fully ( the standards of clean-up are lower for wildlife...

Trump and EPA head Pruitt just reversed the protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon rivers. Please write your politicians and letters to the editor to protest this. Pruitt is approving a mine that will produce 10 million tons of mining...

Ask your senators and representatives to stop the international trade bullies at the WTO and NAFTA from imposing big fines to get the US to drop its "dolphin safe" labels for tuna. These labels allow shoppers to avoid tuna caught...

Click to ask your senators and representative to ban the trade in shark fins in the US. https://awionline.org/content/shark-fin-sales-elimination-act-2017

Leaders in the anti-fracking movement are speaking, after the 4-27-17 pipeline explosion that killed 2 people. pin Front Range Community College Longmont Campus 2121 Miller Dr. Classroom Bldg. Door C-4 Community Rm. https://www.facebook.com/events/105895039964263/ – Dr. Anthony Ingraffea - Professor of...

Enter your zip code and find what plants are good for birds and butterflies. A friend plated a cherry tree that is good for birds and pies too. https://www.audubon.org/native-plants

Swallows are back to nest in the bike path tunnel this morning in Boulder. Sandhill Cranes were flying Sunday morning 4-9-17. Scaups, American widgeon, and blue winged teal are back. The teal come all the way from South America. On...

Boulder City Council in having a public hearing on April 17 at 6 pm. Please come to support municipalizing. You can speak. You can email council at" council@bouldercolorado.gov". Xcel initially, strongly, and repeatedly resists Boulder's attempts to move to renewable,...

Link Earth Guardians won their lawsuit in the appeals court that the health and environment should be protected before allowing oil and gas drilling.