On May 28, 1892, John Muir organized the Sierra Club in San Francisco. Now, 125 years later we find eastern forests moving West & North. There are no reports of Treebeard, however, and their march is exceedingly slow.
We built a seed bank to preserve food crop seeds against all disasters and catastrophes and buried it in the the world's biggest deep freeze, the Arctic permafrost. It is buried inside a mountain on Spitsbergen, and global warming has produced such unimaginable temperatures there that meltwater flooded into the entrance tunnel.
https://boingboing.net/2017/05/20/the-arctic-seed-bank-that-was.html
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/21/selectivity-in-trashing-trump/
Investigative reporter Robert Parry, the author of this article, broke many of the Iran-Contra stories. He says there's good reason to denounce Trump's crude language, position on climate change, and if he follows Reagan and Bush's failed economic policies. However, he also mentions moving among protesters at the inauguration, and seeing signs denouncing Trump's interest in working peacefully with Putin. In other words, the warmongers were part of the crowd protesting him, too. And now Silicon Valley is up in arms and funding immigration protests (over H1B visas - they want to keep bringing in cheaper foreign IT workers).
But the current danger for Democrats and progressives is that – by bashing everything that Trump says and does – they will further alienate the white working-class voters who became his base and will push away anti-war activists.
Turns out the pipelines will actually raise gasoline prices 10 to 20 cents per gallon in the Midwest and Rockies, according to both Bloomberg and CNN - maybe that's the best argument to make to Trump? It would give him political cover to do the right thing, plus save us another expense in the short run.
Was just checking the "news" today and saw this on the front page of cnn.com . I didn't link to just cnn.com because it probably won't be front page for long.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plastic-island/
I received an e-mail from Point Blue Conservation Science (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) announcing a conservation agreement concerning the Ross Sea. The gist of it is that
the 24-nation Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) unanimously agreed to establish the Ross Sea as the world's largest marine protected area.
We are about to see the end point of the Democratic Party scam that they called a "Primary". The Republicans are doing their version and the theater just gets more and more sickening.
Stealing the First Lady's speech has caused another wave of reaction to the well established disregard for truth or ethics that should be expected by now.
Photo credit: DeSmog.ca
BUT NOT WHERE I LIVE!
The Site C dam is a proposed $9bn 1,100 megawatt hydro dam on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. It's called "Beautiful British Columbia" on tourist brochures. But look what's happening to the Peace River Valley.
