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A Public Trust article claims that government has a duty to protect "life, liberty, and property". "Under the “public trust doctrine,” governments must manage the vital natural resources on which human well-being depends for the benefit of all present and...

InsideClimate News LA Times LA times in Dec Attorneys- General investgate Exxon.

Film maker will show and discuss 2 short films about renewables here in Boulder at the Boulder Public Library on Monday, 4-25-16, from 6 to 7:45 pm. Refreshments at 5:45. Films you can watch online. SP 7: From Paris to...

On Saturday 4-23-16 from 9 to 5, fascinating speakers will be at CU Math 100 from 9 am to 5 pm. Antonia Juhasz (live) wrote books about oil and Bush. Cornell professor Ingrafffea found that natural gas wells and pipelines...

There is a free showing at 6 pm Friday April 22 in Math 110 on the CU campus tonight. Merchants of Doubt shows how oil companies paid PR people and thinktanks to lie and say that it wasn't happening, and...

China is improving its water quality by paying farmers and former loggers to plant tress and become forest stewards. Link

Today from 6 to 9 pm, the executive director of the Sierra Club and local environmental leaders will be live streamed. Link to live stream  

Find endangred species events near you. Find books and films about wildlife. I like the film "Damnation" about people organizing to save rivers and their wildlife. Link

Link. Goldman Prize Winners. Destiny Watford organized students and neighbors organized to stop a toxic waste incinerator in Maryland. Leng Ouch worked undercover as logger to document illegal logging in Cambodia. Zuzana Caputova organized residents to stop an illegal toxic...

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Tigers increase from as few as 3200 to 3890. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-V3k8Y35NA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDkZEUGRzMQ

Ruling keeps lawsuit proceeding against government over failure to prevent climate change and the damage it will cause to young people. The oil & coal companies lost their attempt to dismiss the suit. Details.

A lovelorn bull elephant walked 130 miles, traveling by night and hiding by day, looking for a mate. He was avoiding the poachers who send ivory to China. Over 150 park rangers in the Congo have been killed by poachers...

  See the film “Born to Be Wild” and donate to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust refuge for orphaned elephants and to the Orangutan Foundation International for orphaned orangutans. This is an upbeat film, with adorable young elephants and orangutans...

Think Globally, Act Locally. We printed some “Local Organic” theme t-shirts for a women’s college in Japan. The shirts are made in the US of organic cotton, and we silkscreen them here in Boulder, Colorado. The students study peace, respect...

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Being frugal, doing things yourself, avoiding using lots of energy, lead you to having more time, money, friends, and also prevents overconsumption. Article

Huge coal project is stopped in Australia. Coal companies go bankrupt. Colleges, pension funds, banks, and the Rockefeller Fund divest from fossil fuels. Pipelines and export terminals are stopped. But the Koch brothers plan to spend 900 million on the...

" manufacturing, production and transportation of bottled water is 1,100 to 2,000 times as energy intensive as the treatment and distribution of tap water, using enough oil to fuel between 1.2 and 2.1 million cars a year. Then there’s the...