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Category Archives: Environment
Setting an Example: Berkeley Outlaws Natural Gas
The Berkeley City Council has unanimously voted to ban natural gas in all new construction, a move critics say imposes higher utility costs on the poor. Beginning January 1, 2020, new homes, townhouses and small apartment buildings will be without … Continue reading
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Tagged BereleyCity Council, Berkeley, hydraulic fracking, natural gas
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Ithaca, NY: A Best City
Ithaca, New York, at the southern end of Cayuga Lake, is a progressive town of about 30,000 people and hub to one of the state´s prettiest areas of undulating rural greenery, consisting of vineyards, apple orchards, pastoral farms and scattered … Continue reading
And a Child Shall Lead Them
Today, May 24, was another walk-out-of-school day for thousands of children in 110 countries, urging their governments to take quick and meaningful action to avert environmental catastrophe. If only the politicians, and us, for that matter, would listen. It’s certainly, … Continue reading
Coming to Our Senses
Do you remember any of those asteroid disaster movies? Depending on how you do the counting, there were at least seven of these goosebump films, assuring you nightly bouts with insomnia. One of my favorites has to be Meteor (1979), … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative für Deutschland, Antarctica, Arctic, climate change, climatologists, climatology, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, Donald Trump, European Institue of Climate and Energy, Global Warming, Green New Deal, gulf Stream, Heartland Institute, Humboldt current, long range weather forecasts, long ranger weather forecasts, meterologists, meterology, Petition Project, Pew Research Center, United Nations
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Trophy Hunting Looms for Grizzly Bears
Averaging 800 pounds, powerful and fast moving, voracious defenders of their young, grizzly bears are a North American treasure deserving of our awe and worthy of preservation. Native Americans held them sacred and embedded them in their legends, dances and … Continue reading
You have every right to be afraid!
Many of us rightfully fear a Trump presidency for what it may mean for the welfare of our citizenry and nation. Will Affordable Health Care (AHC) and Medicare be on the chopping block? If you’re an undocumented immigrant, will Trump … Continue reading
Introducing my hummingbird friends…
They return every April to our Kentucky backyard, survivors of a 3000 journey from Central America, which includes a non-stop 500 mile flight across the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a journey my hummingbird friends will repeat again, returning in fall … Continue reading
Macdonald’s H is for Hawks: Finding Passage
The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade turning up things you had forgotten, surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world. … Continue reading
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Tagged aviary, birds, environment, falconry, goshawks, hawks, Helen MacDonald, His for Hawks
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Saving Spring’s Envoys: Our Vanishing Birds
We take for granted that birds in the millions returning from their winter feeding grounds in Central and South America will make it back to nest and mate in our yards each spring. The rude reality, however, paints a scenario … Continue reading
Good News for Elephants!
CNN reported yesterday that Hong Kong, the world’s largest retail market for ivory, will phase out ivory sales over the next eighteen months and impose severe penalties on those engaging in smuggling and trading of endangered species. Certainly this is … Continue reading
