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Dec.02.2009
I've been saying, for far too long, that I've had to write more letters to the Obama administration than I ever had to write to Bush. From the Center for Biological Diversity, the record speaks for itself:
Species Are Still Dying - Where's the Change, Obama...
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Nov.27.2009
Ok, so the challenge I mentioned yesterday starts today. Question #1 is "Trace the water that you drink from precipitation to tap." On this side of the Continental Divide, our watersheds, including the valley's Ten Mile Creek and Prickly Pear Creek, flow into the greater Missouri River watershed....
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Nov.13.2009
A few weeks ago I stopped in a great independent book store in La Jolla California called D. G. Wills and found some great books in the stacks . . one of them was "My First Summer in the Sierra's" by John Muir. Written in 1896 it was a wonderful book of the way things were and the way...
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Oct.29.2009
Yet another report accuses Israel of human rights abuses, this time for denying Palestinians water. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost
JERUSALEM — Human-rights reports condemning Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians have become so frequent of late they’re like the dripping of Chinese water torture...
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Oct.05.2009
This week in my environmental blog, I've started blogging about all the ordinary things I run across as an environmental reporter that turn out to be bad for you, or bad for the planet. Like, salad.
How can salad be bad? Well, like just about everything, it depends on where it comes from. As I...
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Oct.01.2009
I've been asked the question a million times. Do you believe there is any such thing as Global Warming?
Knowing the split beliefs or views on the subject, my response is usually something like, "Don't ask the question, if you aren't prepared to hear the answer."
But, the...
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Sep.30.2009
That's what I was thinking the other day as I drove my Prius to the recycling center, and went shopping with my eco-friendly grocery bags. Then, I had a good laugh at myself for feeling so ecologically holier-than-thou...
Until last Thursday night when I was driving home from Boston. Tired from a...
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Sep.22.2009
Dear Participants of the UN General Assembly: The last few days, I'm in a funk.
According to Dr. Oz on the Oprah website that's fine. I can take some macca or some ginseng. According to Maureen Dowd's Op-Ed from September 19th in the New York Times, it's to be expected. Overall, women aren't very...
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Sep.06.2009
When in Monterey/Pacific Grove, California, my wife and I always make time-space for a real monument to hope in these environmentally perilous times: the Monterey Bay Aquarium, located in Monterey’s Cannery Row.
(Continued in Articles and stories)
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Aug.19.2009
The Archdruid returns from vacation with a flurry of unexpected announcements and a glimpse at a future resembling nothing so much as the nineteeth-century past. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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