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There is a new article in the Rolling Stone by on how the Republicans are using 3 things to disenfranchise everyone else: dark money; gerrymandering with vote stuffing ( make a few districts 100% Dems and then have most districts...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-rights-of-nature-movement-goes-on-trial-w515299

I like this National Geographic documentary on Jane Goodall. It shows her excited to be living outdoors with animals, unafraid, observing wildlife behavior in the field. She climbs trees, gets the chimpanzee group used to her, discovers they make tools...

Maya K. Van Rossum, the author of the The Green Amendment. spoke about her book at the Boulder Bookstore. She wants people to talk about and pass this in states, to make well known. She wants to get it made...

"A Toad Story" about a Norwegian community that makes it so toads can safely cross a new highway -tonight at 6 pm at the Meadows library There is a discussion of boreal toad conservation and reintroduction in Colorado by a...

Thursday 1-25-18, 6:30 pm, Louisville Public Libraary , 951 Spruce, http://lwvbc.org/content.aspx?page_id=87&club_id=629866&item_id=738630

There is a talk tonight by Beth Osnes about her book Performance for Resilience: Engaging Youth through Movement, Music and Theatre at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 pearl, free 7:30 pm 1-25-18. She said the joy of children and youth comes...

Oil and gas expanding development is scaring off the deer, so they want to kill the bears and cougars. They don't have any scientific evidence of predator populations increasing and causing deer population declines. The bears are not hibernating as...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?smid=fb-share Not having FB, Google, and Amazon, and governments own our data.

https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-not-drill.html https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/nuclear-war-defining-issue-of-our-time.html

Here is where to comment. http://www.sportshootingpartners.org/commentform. Here is an article about shooting: http://www.dailycamera.com/science_columnists/ci_31556286/recreational-shooting-colorado-wilderness-areas. Given the reckless acts of some shooters, I oppose recreational shooting in the national forests. Map alternative 4 would prevent recreational shooting in national forests. Lead is...

"Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate" "The 'biotic pump' theory argues that natural forests act as a “pump” that draws moisture inland. condensation, rather than temperature differential, is a primary driver of weather...." "Here's a snapshot of the...

Doug Peacock writes about the need to save bears and wild places.  He coauthored a letter to delay the hunting of grizzly bears.  He shot a brief film about a young bear  playing with ice on a spring pond, pushing...

Doug Peacock writes about the need to save bears and wild places. He coauthored a letter to delay the hunting of grizzly bears. He shot a brief film about a young bear playing with ice on a spring pond, pushing...

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider allowing the bee-killing pesticide thiamethoxam to be sprayed on the most widely grown crops in the U.S. The application, if approved, would allow the highly toxic pesticide to be sprayed directly on...

"Under Milk Wood". The language is neat. Try to get there early so you can sit in the front. That way you will hear all of the interesting words. It describes a day in the life of a small Welsh...

Friends led me on a hike up the north side of a local 9,000 foot high mountain last Sunday. We scrambled over downed trunks from an earlier forest fire. It was comforting to regularly encounter cairns on the way up....

New "Autopsy" report says that Democrats need to focus on helping working people (white, black and brown) people and young people, Not on favors for Wall Street, hedge funds, big Pharma, health insurance companies, and huge corporations. The "Clinton-Obama crowd...

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16112017/fracking-chemicals-safety-epa-health-risks-water-bush-cheney?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialHistory of