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We want to help expose the awful puppy mill industry and extend our support to groups that are trying to end this and other animal abuse. This article “The Dog Factory: Inside the Sickening World of Puppy Mills” provides disturbing...

President Obama protected Utah canyonlands by designating the new Bear Ears National Monument. Native Americans have gathered medicinal plants, firewood, and carried out ceremonies there. Native Americans will be involved in managing this area. The area will be protected from...

The Betrayal of Public Trust and The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett http://lauriegarrett.com/ She explains how medical investigators figure out the causes of epidemics. She describes how we need a public health system and a disease surveillance system. She also...

EPA Hid Planned Exposure Levels 1,000s of Times Safe Drinking Water Act Limits Source: RADICAL DRINKING WATER RADIATION RISE CONFIRMED IN EPA PLAN The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility group is making public these secretive plans of the EPA to...

70,000 citizens and the The Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness group pressured the federal governement to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from sulfide mining leases! The denying an extension of the leases. Mining pollutes the lakes and rivers...

I really liked the new movie, "I Voted? ", which shows how vulnerable electronic voting machines are. Also, on line voting is totally hackable. We need paper ballots to be able to do audits. In 30 seconds of access to...

Boulder County Commissioners public hearing on phasing out GMO crops and pesticides on county lands at 3 -5 pm on Wednesday, 11-30-16. 3:00 p.m. To 5 pm PARKS AND OPEN SPACE DEPARTMENT Public Hearing: Commissioners will consider the Draft Transition...

Oil companies and their contractors and police have been attacking nonviolent water protectors with dogs, tear gas, freezing water, loud sonic weapons, rubber bullets, and deadly projectiles. Here is a great article about the need to protect native rights and...

Standing Rock FB page 10 ways to help Standing Rock how to contact the banks financing the standing Rcok DAPL pipeline

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) proposes to hunt and trap bears and cougars and then kill them, claiming that this will help deer populations. This is an old disproved claim. Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that idea of killing predators...

Mountaintop removal poisons the people, air, land, and streams. And it destroys the forest ecosystems, leaving toxic piles and ponds of waste. There is some good news in that " former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is serving a prison...

600,000 doctors in Britain called for an end to coal burning in an article on the health and climate effects of coal. "Pollution also disproportionately impacts children and can cause diseases ranging from lung cancer to stroke, killing 40,000 people...

Another fracking pipeline constructed by Spectra blew up in April in Pennsylvania. If this new Spectra pipeline blew up where it passes near the Indian Point nuclear power plant, it could cause a catastrophe. Plus, pipelines and drilling for fracked...

The oil and gas companies are spending over $ 3 million to try to prevent citizens from amending the Colorado constitution. They want to put fracking wells and pipelines next to homes, schools, hospitals. They want to be able to...

Activists are bearing witness and publicizing the dolphin capture and killing. Over the last 6 weeks, 68 bottlenose dolphins and 1 pilot whale were violently captured and 35 Risso's dolphins and 16 pilot whales were slaughtered. Dolphin Project is the...

The seasons change. The swallows have left their nests under the bridge and their perchs on the wires. Our first frost occurred last night, so gardeners brought in their tomatoes. The streams are full of floating leaves. I tasted the...

It is neat when people care and rehabilitate penguins harmed byoil pollution! Videolink.

Inuit natives in Canada protest against superloud seismic blasts done in the ocean by oil companies. These blasts harm fish, whales, and dolphins. Please email or write Prime Minister Trudeau, asking him to stop these blasts. Email Trudeau at Link....