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Oil companies and their contractors and police have been attacking nonviolent water protectors with dogs, tear gas, freezing water, loud sonic weapons, rubber bullets, and deadly projectiles. Here is a great article about the need to protect native rights and...

Standing Rock FB page 10 ways to help Standing Rock how to contact the banks financing the standing Rcok DAPL pipeline

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) proposes to hunt and trap bears and cougars and then kill them, claiming that this will help deer populations. This is an old disproved claim. Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949 that idea of killing predators...

Mountaintop removal poisons the people, air, land, and streams. And it destroys the forest ecosystems, leaving toxic piles and ponds of waste. There is some good news in that " former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is serving a prison...

600,000 doctors in Britain called for an end to coal burning in an article on the health and climate effects of coal. "Pollution also disproportionately impacts children and can cause diseases ranging from lung cancer to stroke, killing 40,000 people...

Another fracking pipeline constructed by Spectra blew up in April in Pennsylvania. If this new Spectra pipeline blew up where it passes near the Indian Point nuclear power plant, it could cause a catastrophe. Plus, pipelines and drilling for fracked...

The oil and gas companies are spending over $ 3 million to try to prevent citizens from amending the Colorado constitution. They want to put fracking wells and pipelines next to homes, schools, hospitals. They want to be able to...

Activists are bearing witness and publicizing the dolphin capture and killing. Over the last 6 weeks, 68 bottlenose dolphins and 1 pilot whale were violently captured and 35 Risso's dolphins and 16 pilot whales were slaughtered. Dolphin Project is the...

The seasons change. The swallows have left their nests under the bridge and their perchs on the wires. Our first frost occurred last night, so gardeners brought in their tomatoes. The streams are full of floating leaves. I tasted the...

It is neat when people care and rehabilitate penguins harmed byoil pollution! Videolink.

Inuit natives in Canada protest against superloud seismic blasts done in the ocean by oil companies. These blasts harm fish, whales, and dolphins. Please email or write Prime Minister Trudeau, asking him to stop these blasts. Email Trudeau at Link....

These suuperloud seismic airgun blasting for oil could injure 138,000 whales and dolphins from Delaware to Florida. The blasts go off every 10 seconds 24 hours a day. They threaten the endangered right whale. I first became entranced with whales...

LINK to radio show. KGNU radio show: "-Brand New Congress! Up next for the Bernie movement - hundreds of progressive candidates for 2018! With Brand New Congress founder Corbin Trent, and local activist Jason Sherry, moderator of Colorado Progressives for...

Sunday is the deadline for getting signatures for stopping fracking near homes and schools. LINK to help gather petitions. The pro-oil and gas fracking companies have spent over $ 10 million dollars to stop people from protecting their health so...

Please gather signatures for petitions to keep oil fracking away from schools, homes, and hospitals. Link to circulate petitions or donate. Link to a good article in the Boulder Weekly.

Monsanto is lobbying senators to pass the Monsanto Dream bill - the Dark Act ( S. 2609), which will ban states from requiring GMO labeling. Otherwise Vermont's law requiring labels on genetically engineered food goes into effect. The vote is...

Each year Janet Chu and her friends and relatives lead a butterfly census, sort of like an Audubon bird count. Janet Chu and Steve Jones wrote BUTTERFLIES OF THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE: A Photographic Guide to 80 Species, by Janet...

California's only nuclear power plant will be shut down and replaced with renewable energy, energy storage, and increases in energy efficiency. This is a great victory as it will make California safer by removing the risk of a nuclear accident...