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Greetings and welcome to another of Marko's little hairballs. It's almost all fluff. There might be a hint of something seriously phlegmy between the pictures. All of it is just an excuse for ...
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 01:07 PM PDT
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Made a comment on recent diary regarding the costs of insurance from climate change and its impact on inflation (here — www.dailykos.com/...) that I wanted to expand into a story. I was noting the existence of the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding...
by tjlord
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 11:20 AM PDT
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Welcome to another chapter in the saga that is my visit to the National Agricultural Museum in Prague. I think we'll squeeze one more diary out of it after this, but I may save that for a rainy day.
by Marko the Werelynx
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 01:07 PM PDT
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When Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss introduced the word “disinformation” to readers of their 1980 roman à clef spy novel “The Spike”—deriving the term from the Russian dezinformatsiya, the title of a KGB black propaganda department—it didn’t make...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Cartoon by Jen Sorensen. This Guardian article lists various foods that tend to be high in toxic PFAS, commonly known as "forever chemicals," which are used to make products stain- and water-resistant. To quote from the report, "Among the main sources...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 04:55 AM PDT
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More details for each event at http://hubevents.blogspot.com which is also a free listserv Forest Loss in 2023: Regional Contexts and Global Trends Thursday, April 4 9 - 10am EDT Online RSVP at...
by gmoke
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 08:49 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM PDT
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/dickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests hat tip G. S. Murphy from Boston Food System...
by gmoke
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 09:34 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 04:08 PM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM PST
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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Cherry and other stone fruits, such as plums, peaches, and nectarines, are grown in British Columbia's interior region, where growers say that disruptive weather patterns from flooding, lack of protective snow cover, warmer temperatures, and sudden...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 01:26 PM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 08:15 AM PST
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There are many steps we need to take�to a sustainable planet, and many possible paths.� One path involves�steering America’s farmers and ranchers toward�greener food production. Joe Biden is ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30 AM PST
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[This piece is appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed/] ************************* It’s an old story-- new technologies replacing the labor of people with well-developed and valuable skills. Over thousands of years, many peoples around the world...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 08:03 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 08:09 AM PST
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Now that the mainstream media have stopped giving equal time to science deniers, their focus on the climate emergency mostly targets the already observable, dramatic impacts: melting polar and glacial ice, surging seas and floods, droughts, and...
by Meteor Blades
42 comments
on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 10:26 AM PST
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