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link  Marchs, boycotts, protests outside embassies, fiction, recordings of whalesongs along with general distrust of lying institutions and politicians during the Vietnam War- all led to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Pelley amendment.   Friends and...

UCS article The last paragraph explains how switching to electric cars is the answer.

Neat video of folks rebuilding beaver dams.  Here is the Gallatin Watershed Council's website.  Beavers restore the wet ecosystem,  help provide year round water, prevent fires, and restore healthy ecosystems.  People from 8 to 8 work together, twining  and lacing...

Ten endangered  US species :  Florida panther, loggerhead turtle, manatee, kit  fox, red  wolf, leopard frog, caribou, blue fin tuna,ferret,  condor.  The article lists the threats to them.

I often see Bonnie, this woman, walking along the bike path with her dog.  She picks up recyclables and dog poop.  I see her out in gales and heavy snowstorms.  She does this in freezing weather and high winds.  She is...

I was happily surprised to read these stories of inspiring women!  And there are lots of new info and links.   For example, I had heard of Rosalie Edge confronting old school conservationists who supported hunting birds for feather plumes...

This movie "The Age of Nature" shows people rescuing nature. In the first segment,  Maddy, a 10 year  old girl  in Belize swims along the coral reef in Belize, catalyzing the people of Belize to join her in protecting the reef...

Help protect grizzly bears in Yellowstone from from being over hunted while they explore and move to other wildlands. Watch the movie on YouTube: “The Beast of Our Time: Climate Change & Grizzly Bears" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cfuSIlEIyY “This movie with Terry Tempest Williams,...

Doctor Paul Farmer sought  to serve the ill and the poor; to accompany ill people on their journeys toward health; and to develop  systems of community health care done by nurses with follow-up. His group provides health care for the ...

A friend goes to this website in order to identify bugs that he photographs.   It is a citizen-science site, where naturalist and citizens share information and identification. Using the photo he took with his camera, he can figure out what...

The" Beaver Believer" movie made me feel hopeful.  People are cooperating in  groups to reintroduce bears.  Volunteers, students, and wildlife managers trap unwanted beavers and relocate them to places where beavers can restore the landscape.    These reintroduced beavers then...

great place to identify bird feathers that you find! https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas

New Yorker  article .They combine protests in Manchin's, Pelosi's, and Feinstein's offices with negotiations.  They do hunger strikes, sit-ins, ....  " "The Youth Movement Trying to Revolutionize Climate Politics Sunrise has already shifted the conventional wisdom about climate change. Now it wants...

Wolves: Good News- On 2-10-22, most wolves in the US were put back under the federal protection of the Endangered Species Act! This reverses the earlier delisting on the west coast and in the Midwest.   Bad News- However, the...

Book    Review  FB, Google, Amazon, etc. gather information about us , so they can predict and modify our behavior.  Then companies and political campaigns pay Google, FB, and Amazon for the predictions, so that they can modify our purchases,...

army  But putting these missiles near the border  threatens Russian  existence, though it would give the US an advantage in a limited conventional war.  The missiles can carry nuclear or conventional bombs, and the Russians are anxious- they can't tell...

Chevron profits up from $235 million to $5 billion!   Oil companies made $174 billion  in profits in 2021. Now Big Oil and Big Coal are pushing their latest charades; that we need to "burn baby burn" oil because otherwise we...

article  by Jim Hightower "How do you fight monopoly? Start where you live–and here’s some help! The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has a guide full of examples of successful local and state anti-monopoly efforts that could be models for your own...

Jim Hightower article  "Three special-interest groups: Insurance company profiteers, Big Pharma price gougers – and the political insiders who’re hooked on funding from those corporations."