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Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Extraction
One of the most significant events for environmental justice and human rights occurred Thursday, September 24, when over 50 tribes and First Nations in Canada and the U.S. signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Extraction. Since then the number … Continue reading
California Desert Protection
As explained in this video, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has come up with an historic plan to permanently protect large areas of California desert, including protection from renewable energy development in places like this that would negatively impact … Continue reading
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Scattergood Earth Walk
I’ve been thinking about my Quaker friend and mentor, Don Laughlin, who died recently. Don was a very committed environmentalist. He and his son designed an environmentally friendly house in Iowa City, with solar panels, in floor heating, etc. I … Continue reading
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Don Laughlin on our Environment
Following are a few excerpts from conversations with Don Laughlin, a life long environmentalist and Quaker, who died recently. 1/28/2015 I’m not really depressed over the state of the planet—I’ve just forced myself to face my view of reality which is that … Continue reading
How Ironic
Yesterday I posted a link to Bill McKibben’s tremendous article in the New Republic, A World at War. The Facebook link shared had been titled “We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change”. In it he says “It’s not … Continue reading
Clinton utterly fails environment
How is it possible that the Clinton campaign utterly fails to address the greatest threat we face? If way opens for Bernie to be on any ballot this fall, I’m voting for him. The alternative is the Green Party. http://www.gp.org/ … Continue reading
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Windmills old and new
Traveling to Rocky Mountain National Park with my parents last fall, I began to capture as many photos of windmills as I could from the backseat of the car. The telephoto lens was really helpful. Traveling at 70 mph wasn’t. … Continue reading
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Tagged Rocky Mountain National Park, telephoto, wind turbine, windmill
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BOOK release: Explore Sustainable Indiana
My friends at Sustainable Indiana 2016 have just published their book, “Explore Sustainable Indiana, Celebrating Hoosier Solutions to Our Climate Crisis”. Order your copy here. Sustainable Indiana staff include John Gibson, Jim Poyser, Shannon Anderson, Judy Voss and Richard Clough. … Continue reading
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Tagged book, cars, environmental justice, Sustainable Indiana
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Do You Care?
Earth Day, 2016, is today. While on the one hand it is discouraging to think of one day a year people give a thought to the earth. On the other hand, any way to draw attention to our environmental crisis … Continue reading
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Tagged climate crisis, mobilization, renewable energy
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Solar Power is a Moral Issue
This is the work of the Indiana Moral Mondays Environmental Justice group: Solar power is a moral issue posted by Frank Rosenthal March 10, 2015 In keeping with its values of social and economic justice and the use of resources … Continue reading
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Tagged economic justice, environmental justice, moral issue
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