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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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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Biking and hiking, I spied barn swallows returning to nests above the bike underpass ring necked ducks, comorants, red-winged blackbirds, meadowlarks belting out their songs in meadows, a bald eagle, and goslings. The flowers are also sprouting out: plum trees,...

Nuclear power plant leaks in NY and FL

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There is a free showing at 6 pm Friday April 22 in Math 110 on the CU campus tonight. Merchants of Doubt shows how oil companies paid PR people and thinktanks to lie and say that it wasn't happening, and...

China is improving its water quality by paying farmers and former loggers to plant tress and become forest stewards. Link

Think Globally, Act Locally. We printed some “Local Organic” theme t-shirts for a women’s college in Japan. The shirts are made in the US of organic cotton, and we silkscreen them here in Boulder, Colorado. The students study peace, respect...

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Being frugal, doing things yourself, avoiding using lots of energy, lead you to having more time, money, friends, and also prevents overconsumption. Article

Huge coal project is stopped in Australia. Coal companies go bankrupt. Colleges, pension funds, banks, and the Rockefeller Fund divest from fossil fuels. Pipelines and export terminals are stopped. But the Koch brothers plan to spend 900 million on the...

" manufacturing, production and transportation of bottled water is 1,100 to 2,000 times as energy intensive as the treatment and distribution of tap water, using enough oil to fuel between 1.2 and 2.1 million cars a year. Then there’s the...