Oil Shale Strip Mine Tries to Get 3.5 Billion Gallons of Upper Colorado River Water
link They want the water to process 9000 acres of strip mined oil shale to make oil. This process used to take lots of energy and water.
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Cancel Student Debt- Successes Thru Organizing!
Latino USA reporter explains how bogus fake colleges impoverish students and their families. She shows how students organized to get some of the debt cancelled. This is an ongoing story.
The Growing Call to Abolish Student Debt
By JULIA ROCHA JUL 22, 2022
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Government Accountablity Project Helps Government and Reporter Whistleblowers
Neat Group Offers Postcards to Voters, Explaining How to Do a Mail-in Ballot
Blue Wave Postcard Movement Individuals buy packs of 100 postcards for $12 preaddressed to100 different Dem voters in swing states. The cards explain how to get a mail-in ballot. The buyer gets stamps and adds a personal line about how important voting is, and mails the postcards to voters. This was started by women here in Boulder, CO. One of the leaders said that young people believe in a more progressive future. They will work for it if politicians inspire them.
See the Wind and Shadows
The cottonwood seeds blow like snowflakes and leaves, dancing in the wind, showing the curves and eddies. Also, when near a lake or flat area of a river, I can see the tracks the wind makes on the water. "Cats paws" they are called. You can see the lower parts of gusts laying tracks on the water. When messing about in small boats (sailboats, canoes, rowboats, windsurfers, paddleboards, rafts,...), your can seen the wind coming to you.
In the winter under a streetlight, you can see the shadow of the each snowflake rushing to join the snowflake as it hits the ground. In the summer, you can see your bicycling shadow cast onto the 3-d background of the bushes, grasses, and trees. When I hike near sunset, I see my shadow cast from me on down the mountainside ridge down onto trees on the slopes below. Because the sun is a large sphere, not a single point source, when you look at shadow of branches onto the ground or snow, the shadow has sharp edges when the branch casting the shadow is near to the grouond. But when it is highe , the edges of the shadow are blurrier, as different parts of the sun are casting different parts of the shadow edge. It is similar when you look at an solar eclipse shadow- the shadow cast by small holes like a from a colander are sharp when you hold the colander near a piece of paper and blurry when you hold the paper away from the colander.
Scary Climate Chaos Books- How Tipping Points can Cascade into Disaster
The Sixth Extinction interviews with citizens and researchers on the front lines of climate change