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Retired physicists and PR flacks who love to argue get paid and organized by tobacco, oil, pesticide, and other companies to create doubt and confusion about the dangers caused by their products.  They lie and deny the risks of global warming, acid...

Big banks are taking over.  They evicted elderly and poor people.  They bamboozled  pension funds and people into risky loans and made up fake securities: derivatives, credit swaps and credit debt obligations.  Balloon payments on loans bankrupted people.  They bribed...

Amazing slow motion video  of the movements of the wings and tail and body of songbirds.  Then a chain of stories about threats of songbirds: cutting down the forests  for timber, oil & gas drilling pads and pipelines; persistent neonicotinoid pesticides ;...

Plus military focuses on wars over oil, minerals, water, land, and shipping routes.  It protects oil fields, refineries, pipelines, and shipping routes.  It controls rivals’ access to oil and refined oil.  It sets prices to enrich US and allies and to weaken rivals....

Park rangers, rescuers of baby elephants, activists, and groups protect elephants against the ivory poachers.  We need to persuade the Chinese government to stop the sale of ivory.   Here are groups that need support:  Save the Elephants  The Thin Green...

Need “transformation” and  “awe at the grandeur, interconnectedness and unpredictability of the ecosystems and wild landscapes”, not compromise.  Need enforceable laws and empathy for the victims, not pro-corporate appeasement.  Posted on October 30, 2015

Here is one interview. The Water Knife is a detective thriller set amidst drought refugees and physical battles between cities over water.  It has romance, murder, gangs, chases, and journalists. The Windup Girl is about a future of GMOs, rising sea...

 Include stories of local people in campaigns to protect nature, wildlife, and the environment.  Protecting nature and the environment needs to include the stories of people of color and local people- and their food, families, and stories of origin.  In every...

Microtargeted propaganda is developed first get young people not to become terrorists. Later it is used to persuade some people not to vote and to persuade others to vote. In 2016 it was used to elect Trump and other Republicans. ...

Avoid rainwater runoff!   Move to Regenerative Agriculture.  Industrial farming  poisons the plants and soils with pesticides and leaves a barren, hard surface.  This causes the runoff of water and nutrients.  The plants and microbes that absorb carbon are killed, and...

   Interview on KGNU radio on 12-6-19  8:30 am to 9:30 am Connetions show at US Demands 1 That the Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, it must reverse all policies not in alignment with...

By organizing, lobbying their Congressman, visiting the US Fish and Wildlife service in Washington DC, and regularly exploring the wetlands, Mike and Patricia McCoy protected the wetland.  Despite having their meeting shot up by real estate developers, their efforts got this...

movie  This movie comes from the book Exposure about attorney Rob Bilott and the community of Parkersburg  rallying to uncover the toxic waste being dumped on them.  There is a happy ending to the book, as after years of battle,...

"The Report"  This movie is getting great reviews in the New Yorker and the Boulder Weekly.  It matches with the the book by Alfred McCoy, Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation especially  https://www.amazon.com/Torture-Impunity-Doctrine-Coercive-Interrogation/dp/0299288544

Francis Moore Lappe mentions tips to be effective and  productive. Act, have good examples of successes to follow, do acts from an "I can " prspective, not an "I should" perspective, and align your actions with setting an example and...

One whale sequesters  as much carbon as 30,000 trees.  One blue whale is worth $ 2 million in carbon storing.  link  

Existing and older forests are taking the most carbon out of the air and storing it in wood and in the soil.  But wetland hardwood forests are being clearcut to make wood pellets to burn for electricity.  This is falsely...

George Monbiot in the Guardian says that governments let commercial fishing cos. wipe out fish.  he says that international fishing should be stopped, and only fishing in national waters should be allowed.  Fish conglomerates dominate the industry and governments, preventing...