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These suuperloud seismic airgun blasting for oil could injure 138,000 whales and dolphins from Delaware to Florida. The blasts go off every 10 seconds 24 hours a day. They threaten the endangered right whale. I first became entranced with whales...

LINK to radio show. KGNU radio show: "-Brand New Congress! Up next for the Bernie movement - hundreds of progressive candidates for 2018! With Brand New Congress founder Corbin Trent, and local activist Jason Sherry, moderator of Colorado Progressives for...

Sunday is the deadline for getting signatures for stopping fracking near homes and schools. LINK to help gather petitions. The pro-oil and gas fracking companies have spent over $ 10 million dollars to stop people from protecting their health so...

Please gather signatures for petitions to keep oil fracking away from schools, homes, and hospitals. Link to circulate petitions or donate. Link to a good article in the Boulder Weekly.

Monsanto is lobbying senators to pass the Monsanto Dream bill - the Dark Act ( S. 2609), which will ban states from requiring GMO labeling. Otherwise Vermont's law requiring labels on genetically engineered food goes into effect. The vote is...

Each year Janet Chu and her friends and relatives lead a butterfly census, sort of like an Audubon bird count. Janet Chu and Steve Jones wrote BUTTERFLIES OF THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE: A Photographic Guide to 80 Species, by Janet...

California's only nuclear power plant will be shut down and replaced with renewable energy, energy storage, and increases in energy efficiency. This is a great victory as it will make California safer by removing the risk of a nuclear accident...

Thanks to Bee Safe Boulder for organizing great volunteers to pull weeds and prevent pesticides! We at Jim Morris T-Shirts are happy to donate some wildlife t-shirts.

A great group that prserves prairie habitat and wildlife hosts its fundraising dinner tonight. Jim Morris Environmental T-shirts is donating some shirts to them. Link

Bee Safe Boulder is organizing a weed pull to prevent the use of pesticides at Walker Ranch trails. - link to event. Folks at Jim Morris Environmental T-Shirts are donating some of our wildlife t-shirts to the volunteers.

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Most trade in elephant ivory is now banned. This caused the price of ivory to drop, and poaching may decrease.

The co-chairs of the FAO/WHO/UN committee just claimed glyphophate was safe, but their institute received over $ 1 million dollars from Monsanto and other pesticide companies. Also, researchers found that the"inert" and " secret" ingredients appear to increase the toxicity...

Beyond Pesticides says that it feminizes male frogs, and is linked to childhood cancers and birth defects. It is applied to corn, sugarcane, forests, and sorghum. Syngenta, the pesticide company, criticized its former researcher after he found that it caused...

The area of forests burned due to climate change has doubled and soon will double again. Article

Alan Gilbert describes how electronic voting machines can be hacked easily. Technicians and hackers can hack into the machines and change the totals, even decreasing the vote totals for opposition candidates. The machines can be set up to look like...

Counterpunch Story Over the years, radioactive waste has spilled at over 1000 sites at the Hanford Plant. Many of the single walled tanks have split, and one double walled tank has volatile substances breaching the inner wall.

Mike Roselle says that we need confrontation, controversy, sacrifice, noncooperation, going to jail, and civil disobedience. He has stopped timeber sales and nuclear tests. He cofounded Earth First, The Rainforest Action Network, and the Ruckus Society. He moved to appalachia...

The Colorado Independent had a great story about gigantic amounts of methane emitted by the Arch coal mine near Paonia.