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Marc writes that cars couldn't see him until he added a flashing red rear light, and now they see him and no longer drive right next to him. link Manfred writes of a car that turned right into him at...

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Details of Obama's proposed regs to ban ivory trade. link

A play about the women's peace movement 9-24-15 at 4:30 pm plus an exhibit about the movement from 3-4pm. Local members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom nudged me to protest at the Nevada Nuclear Test site...

Thirst, walruses beaching, forests disappearing, Salmon overhating,.... Good news: the Pope, Islamic leaders, and the Navy call for action. link

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Compost helps build soil, store carbon, absorb water, increase food, and increase resilience. Food production (mostly hemical fertilizers and feedlots) causes 20% of greenhouse gases. Ocean acidification could harm the phytoplankton, which creates much of the world's oxygen. See the...

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"Ivory belongs to elephants only" is the message of African natives who march and protest. "Please be our protector. Please deliver us from evil" is the imagined cry of the elephants. some good news: Daphne Sheldrick and a team of...

Using native sovereign treaty rights plus educating local people about the threats to water quality, wetlands, fish, wildlife, and rice beds, natives stopped the huge Gogebic Taconite iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Pro-mining forces gave $ 15 million to Gov....

Hundreds of kayaktivists delayed the gargantuan Shell arctic drilling platform in Seattle. 1500 people shut down the largest machine on earth, a giant coal excavator in Germany. link

Razz Gormley volunteered to to go join Greenpeace and rappel off the bridge to block the Shell oil icebreaker in Portland. Fracking gas companies and oil companies drilling in the Arctic corrupt our courts, legislatures, elections, governor, and Congress. So...

Community conservancies provide jobs as rangers and income to poor local people. Then the clans protect the elephants. Elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce. Their range has decreased from 3 million square miles in 1978 to 1...

Only a few thousand forest elephants remain in the Central African Republic. 62 % of them were killed and they lost one third of their range between 2002 and 2011. Peter Canby wrote in the New Yorker about Andrea Turkalo,...

A Boulder activist with Frack Free Colorado hung from the bridge with other Greenpeace activists, delaying the Shell icebreaker ship from getting up Alaska. The activists who were hanging 100 feet below the bridge and 100 feet above the water...

New loopholes would remove protections from ponds, wetlands, and streams if they are over 4000 feet from other waters, if they are used for farming, ranching, or silviculture, if they are channelized or ditched, or if they are connected underground...

link to article on how ivory is smuggled from Africa to China and Hong Kong via Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.