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Compound 1080 is is a persistent poison. It kills wolves, eagles, bears, coyotes, and dogs. It can kill humans too. There are better ways to protect livestock. Groups have filed a petition to the EPA to Also, it causes a...

Now we need to get the other ivory markets to close: Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan. African countries(Kenya, Gabon, Botswana,...) led the movement to shut down. They have been losing their rangers and elephants to poachers. "China Signals Shutdown of...

Jim Green of Friends of the Earth writes in Counterpunch on the 6 year anniversary of Fukashima that the nuke business is sick and dying. http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/14/terminal-decline-fukushima-and-the-deepening-crisis-of-nuclear-energy (photo from the environmental justice atlas)

Folks are protesting pipelines in South Dakota, Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana. http://www.ecowatch.com/next-steps-dakota-access-pipeline-2318112920.html . Solutions: march, get involved in politics, support local sustainable food, and divest from banks that invest in pipelines. Here is info on divesting: http://www.defunddapl.org/

Folks are protesting pipelines in South Dakota, Illinois, Texas, and Lousiana. http://www.ecowatch.com/next-steps-dakota-access-pipeline-2318112920.html . Solutions: march, get involved in politics, support local sustainable food, and divest from banks that invest in pipelines. Here is info on divesting: http://www.defunddapl.org/

Scary new photos show how birds look when they crash into glass windows. There are many solutions: covering windows with netting, curtains, patterns, frosting, dark or patterned vinyl, angling them down, having vegetation near the windows, .... threats to birds:...

ACT Donate to the legal defense: waterprotectorlegal.org & freshetcollective.org and the Tribes: standingrock.org & standwithstandingrock.net/donate Take a Pledge: Move Money Out of DAPL Banks Write to DAPL banks, move your money out of DAPL banks and get your city to...

History of Standing Rock protests. Video saying protest continues. https://www.facebook.com/fusionmedianetwork/videos/1815752308450739/  

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Fusion video on oil and gas pipeline accidents.

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Today Feb. 4, near Colorado and 47th. Last night they talked about ways that we can get off the couch and try different approaches to helping, building community, saving the earth, risking being uncomfortable,..... there are many ways. We can...

The Defenders of Wildlife photo contest is going on now thru 3-24-17 with prizes up to a $ 1000 gift certificate. Photos should be of wildlife or wildlife habitat. Wild lands must be natural and in North America. Animals must...

After protests by environmentalists, politicians, hunters, and recreationists, the bad bill by Chaffetz to sell off 3.3 million acres of public lands was withdrawn. But the Republican Congress already made it easier to sell off lands by pretending they are...

Alex Hutchinson in the New Yorker recounts "How Trees Calm Us Down". People recover faster when they can see trees. They do better on tests after a walk by trees. Seeing them thru a window or even a picture of...

When the city gave email addresses to individual trees, students wrote letters and got responses. Atlantic article

Ken Regelson says there is hope, as wind (1.7 cents per KWH) and solar cost much less than coal, and there are great advances in storage: new batteries, pumping water uphill, running weighted trains uphill, heating up molten salt and...

In Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone article, James Hansen says we need a new political party that takes no money from lobbyists, and we need a carbon tax on fossil fuels that is distributed back to the people. Further, he says...

New TV film "Rachel Carson" from WGBH. Rachel Carson combined three things: needing a sense of wonder to become curious and excited about nature; studying and learning through science about the natural world; and the need to publicize the risks...