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Reveal  report on how private debt collection companies and the privatized Sallie Mae   rip off students.  High fees and high interest rates along with private debt collection companies that call and threaten students at 5 am, leave students almost in...

Step Away  We need to "Step way from Nuclear Weapons, reduce the number of first-strike missiles, and limit the ability of lots of US and Russian officers to independently launch nuclear attacks.  We should  reduce  the number of nuclear bombs, get missiles...

Great interview on NPR's 1A.  Fewer bees, ladybugs, butterflies, and pollinators.  so less food and fewer flowers, bushes, and trees. Citizen science can report trends and help us learn how to save insects and biodiversity.  Kids and adults can count...

It is amazing!  I have met Ellsberg at protests at the polluting nuclear weapons plant here in Colorado. The Reveal radio show and transcript shows how Daniel Ellsberg went from a Harvard grad to an on-the-ground-marine; to a top level analyst for...

Sunday March 3, 2019  is World Wildlife Day.  The theme is “Life Below Water: For People and the Planet” .  In order to help wildlife, people are writing to Congresspersons, asking to protect sharks.  Please ask your senators and representative to...

On Friday, Sandy Elkins came by and showed me a tree sculpture with hearts that she had made, inspired by the idea of the “Love Grows” t-shirt design. She was playing with a new pen that makes rigid plastic coils....

link The California population has dropped from 10 million in the 1980s to 28,429 last year.

There some risks for farmed salmon.  They may be fed dangerous anti-oxidants and antibiotics.  They may require pesticides, toxic chemicals, and lots of other fish to eat.  The farms may pollute.   This VIdeo shows potentially dangerous antioxidants being added to the feed mix...

Thomas Emmel, a famed butterfly researcher,  got his start when  he was 8 years old when his father made  butterfly nets for Tom and his brother.  Tom discovered a new species of butterfly in Chiapas, Mexico. He taught zoology and entomology...

“The Man Who Saved the World” a great movie about Lt. Col Stanislav Petrov who refused to proceed to start World War III. In 1983 he mistrusted the supposedly “maximum reliable” satellite alarm that reported that 5 missiles were launched...

I've admired Dahr Jamail for years. He's asked that we protect whales, dolphins and fish from super loud military sonar in Alaska in war games. He was a mountain climbing guide in Denali and later he was an unembedded journalist...

link  In China, the sales of gasoline powered cars ICE (Internal  Combustion Engine) drop, while EV sales ( electric and hybrid cars)  increase.   Photo Credit: greentechmedia.com

Trump removes regulations that protect forests and wildlife.  His administration is limiting the consideration of wildlife. “Logging in the back country is just a gift to the timber industry.”  Forest store carbon, create water through needle condensation and shade, store water,...

And this leaves out the costs from  pollution harming health, increasing global warming, and harming wildlife.  Link  David Roberts writes in VOX.   Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more than we thought Most energy subsidies go not to renewables but...

Link  Students tell stories of how climate change harms their own families.  They rally, march, lobby, and sit- in in congressional offices.  They organize.  They care. It reminds me of the energy of the civil rights movement.  They know they are...

Link  This article repeats the obvious, but surprising, case that political elites want to stay in power more than they want to help the people and causes that they profess to care about, such as affordable health care, higher education, jobs,...

Robert Reich has a intriguing list progressive groups that we should join in order to persuade the Democratic leadership in Congress to reduce Global Warming.

Trees and bushes make us healthier!  So we should plant more trees and bushes.  Plus birds,  wildlife, and we  get fruits tom eat!  Groups like Treepeople and individuals like Wangari Maathai  start movements that lead to millions of trees being...

Gardening makes people live longer and healthier lives.  Link   Working outdoors and growing and eating food that you like both contribute to health.  This study reminds of earlier one on long lived people.  Those studies said that people who lived...