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On Saturday, 10-17, I heard the chortling gobbling sounds while under a large cottonwood. After moving out from under the tree, I spied a group of aobut 100 cranes. Similarly, on Sunday 10-18, twice I heard the calls, and each...

Floating leaves cast shadows, on the rocks on the bottom of the stream. The shadows undulate as they go over rocks and hollows. There are still dragonflies, patrolling the streams. Brown and orange caterpillars cross the bikepath. I tried to...

At a cloudy sunset memorial at Walker Ranch, we heard the gobbling calls of cranes as they flew unseen over us. It was drizzly and overcast, yet a band of golden red appeared above the continental divide. We were gathered...

# 1 Raise money to pay a lawyer to contest the Corps of Engineers Record of Decision. #2 Thank the Boulder County Commissioners for opposing the dam expansion. -from the meeting on 10-11-15 More info: LINK and Link

http://www.colorado.edu/bulletin/post/8797

Free ex-President Nasheed, now. Contact t The UN condemened his imprisonment. He was jailed for speaking on behalf of low lying islands; against countries pushing to cnotinue global warming; and against the corruption of his country Link Here is Freedom...

Read: The Hydropower Methane Bomb No One Wants to Talk About

This week the barn swallows that gather on the lines have left. The cottonwood leaves have been falling in Boulder, and the aspen leaves have been turning and falling in the mountains. I still see chicory blue blossoms in town....

Glyphosate (in Roundup), Atrazine, 2,4-D; Chlorpyrifos, and DDT need to be banned worldwide. Read: Health professionals join global call for ban of “Highly Hazardous Pesticides”

Chrysler owes the water dept. $21 million in back payments, and their water was not turned off. Marathon Refinery got $ 175 million in tax breaks (partly to do the water intensive refining of toxic tar sands oil). LINK

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A play about the women's peace movement 9-24-15 at 4:30 pm plus an exhibit about the movement from 3-4pm. Local members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom nudged me to protest at the Nevada Nuclear Test site...

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Hundreds of kayaktivists delayed the gargantuan Shell arctic drilling platform in Seattle. 1500 people shut down the largest machine on earth, a giant coal excavator in Germany. link

New loopholes would remove protections from ponds, wetlands, and streams if they are over 4000 feet from other waters, if they are used for farming, ranching, or silviculture, if they are channelized or ditched, or if they are connected underground...

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Goldman Sachs burdened Greece, Oakland, and the Detroit Water Dept., and the Chicago school system with huge fees and penalties involving complex interest rate swaps (financial derivatives), according to Robert Reich in the Nation -link. The amounts are large: $...

Citizens & youth are winning lawsuits! Incriminating Exxon papers are found by UCS. Here is the link.