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https://www.facebook.com/EnvironmentfortheAmericas

https://www.migratorybirdday.org/bird-book-club   storytime for children with bird books

I like to watch cloud forms  move up ridges and hillsides.  I also like to see the branches and leaves trailing in the stream, bending back and forth.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUTYiRGTvw&fbclid=IwAR1PRiC7obrpgZJEUQC86W5O7JRWuEnVFMf4Z96t_WnfbqbMKjKthvdK1Tg

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/29/why-the-lesser-evil-argument-for-biden-sounds-hollow This claims that organizing and overturning entrenched power interests is more important than supporting a centrist.

https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-rollback-allows-hunters-to-kill-bears-and-wolves-in-their-dens-2646114404.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1 This is part of Trump allowing Big Oil and Mining into public lands  by exempting them from regulations and laws that protect wildlife, human health, clean water, and clean air.

https://grist.org/climate/a-landmark-lawsuit-against-big-oil-is-back-from-the-dead

https://grist.org/fix/want-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-this-doctor-is-prescribing-climate-action Fighting Big Oil and Climate Change will prevent air and water pollution and toxic waste.   https://grist.org/climate/world-health-leaders-are-calling-for-a-green-recovery-from-coronavirus   Here is Colorado, the Suncor refinery keeps  spilling toxic solvents into the rivers, groundwater , and the air.  Daily Camera .  ...

Insurance cos. are increasing the fees to patients, decreasing the payment to doctors, and kicking out doctors from being in-network.   https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/29/rep-katie-porter-accuses-unitedhealth-putting-profits-patients-and-providers-midst

    https://www.ecowatch.com/corporations-pollution-fines-coronavirus-2646106896.html

https://www.ecowatch.com/dogs-smell-covid-19-2646105814.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1 So we could have lots of friendly dogs that could smell a person's pee sample and instantly know if they had the virus.    No shortage of testing once alot of dogs are trained! No profiteering!

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/28/top-6-reasons-authorities-are-cracking-down-hard-black-protesters-while-treating  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/29/its-bigger-buildings-america-burning https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234 Great Matt Taibbi book, I Can't Breathe, about the murder or Eric Garner, and on how gentrification and the desire of DAs  and prosecutors to be tough on crime (in order to run for higher office (congress...

https://www.pbs.org/show/windermere-children A relative is a friend of the son of the couple  that helped the refugees

https://grist.org/justice/epa-consent-decrees-are-supposed-to-hold-polluters-accountable-will-coronavirus-get-them-off-the-hook stop cleaning up the toxic emissions into the Mississippi River and into the air; and clean up  the lead in neighboring homes. enforcement and inspections down 70%. https://grist.org/justice/will-state-level-environmental-enforcement-survive-the-pandemic more fracking permits and more pollution of neighboring communities https://grist.org/energy/coronavirus-has-states-hitting-pause-except-when-it-comes-to-oil-and-gas-drilling fracking flowback...

"destructive human pressures such as climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, population growth, and wildlife trade, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions" "approximately 173 species went extinct between 2001 and 2014, which "is 25 times more extinct species than you would...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/04/monsanto-herbicide-court-overrules-epa?fbclid=IwAR2NipReGn79OP72m3RX7uPLRg2ba_k_445lq1LhmGkypexi5zaf86-AR4I This pesticide kills crops on neighboring fields.  

Some of the books that I like about public health and epidemiology are The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett and Spillover by David Quammen. These have a sense of adventure and cooperation in crisis times, where investigators/detectives try to find...

"This is our time to be kind, to be calm, and to be safe".  "It is really about the recognition that we are all in the same storm".  "If you tell people what they need to  do and why, and...

Frogs, toads, salamanders, reptiles, birds, bees, primates,  coral reefs, turtles, sharks, rays, plants ocean species, and vertebrates all are declining in abundance.  There are fewer species and smaller populations remaining.  And as we are minds embodied and bodies environment, we are interdependent...

“Footprints: Conscious Living through Environmentally-Friendly Choices” is a FB group that you might like.  They try to do one thing each month.  Next month it is to not buy anything new, except food or parts.  This month it is not to use disposable food containers....