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An Ecology Florida Feature December 2022 Monica Starr Did you enjoy this article? Please consider supporting and donating at EcologyFlorida.org Americans produce considerably more waste during the holiday season. Specifically, from Thanksgiving to New...
by jtietz
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Researchers say that coastal fish nurseries are filled with an alarming amount of microplastics. When oceanographer Jamison Gove and his colleagues set out to study larval fish congregating in ocean slicks, “ribbons of calm water that form naturally on...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 14, 2019 at 09:21 AM PST
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Campaign Action Nestlé Waters is trying to take an astounding 1.1 million gallons of water per day from Ginnie Springs and the Santa Fe River in Florida, as first reported by The Guardian. Local conservationists are afraid that the corporate giant will...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Aug 27, 2019 at 11:52 AM PDT
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This year our family is participating in Plastic Free July. In the month of July we want to use absolutely no single-use plastic, and we’ve been working toward that for a while now.
With that in mind, we’ve been adjusting our consumption. For one...
by AuntieB
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on Mon Jun 25, 2018 at 07:02 PM PDT
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On my couple of acres, sustainability is high on the list of eventual goals. Ducks help me reach that goal.
Two summers ago I was given a duck with an injured leg. On inspecting it, we found a wire was wrapped around the upper leg, under the...
by AuntieB
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on Fri Jul 22, 2016 at 02:06 PM PDT
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Everyone should know this.
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by Mark Lippman
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on Sun Jan 10, 2016 at 01:39 PM PST
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...is a little girl born with a tumor who asks her mother, "Mom, what's that thing outside? Why do you keep me indoors? Will that thing hurt me?"
Journalist Chai Jing managed to do something, ...
by remembrance
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on Fri Mar 13, 2015 at 05:00 PM PDT
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• First round of 2015 UN climate talks kick off in Geneva on Sunday
• Economic case for climate action strengthened, while momentum for a complete phase-out of fossil fuel emissions grows
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by Joshua Wiese
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on Sat Feb 07, 2015 at 08:30 AM PST
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Written by Elizabeth Arnold
Despite two-thirds of Democrats supporting a statewide moratorium on fracking, during his acceptance speech Pennsylvanian Governor-elect Tom ...
by StewartAcuff
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on Tue Nov 18, 2014 at 05:39 AM PST
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Written by Elizabeth Arnold
Susan G. Komen for the Cure recently partnered with gas drillers Baker Hughes to paint 1,000 drill bits pink in order to pinkwash Hughes’ dirty fracking business.
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by StewartAcuff
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on Tue Nov 11, 2014 at 08:19 AM PST
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It turns out that fracking not only is an environmental disaster, but also a jobs disaster. Fracking is the practice of drilling into shale formations in the earth and blowing them apart to ...
by StewartAcuff
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on Mon Oct 27, 2014 at 07:58 AM PDT
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A team of scientists and meteorologists funded in part by the National Science Foundation recently published an article showing the link between global climate change and the awful drought in ...
by StewartAcuff
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on Tue Oct 07, 2014 at 06:05 AM PDT
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The value of the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept 21st cannot be overstated. The march is the face and representation of millions of Americans who know we are killing our planet ...
by StewartAcuff
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on Thu Sep 18, 2014 at 07:54 AM PDT
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An exciting tour by my Goddaughter Liz Arnold around Europe to talk about the awful effects of fracking for poisonous natural gas has seemed to spur a movement in Europe that is even stronger than ...
by StewartAcuff
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on Wed Jul 23, 2014 at 06:54 AM PDT
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Surely Kibitzers can provide in depth philosophical and scientific reasons why the chicken crossed the road, meanwhile the response, "to get to the other side,
by remembrance
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on Thu Nov 14, 2013 at 05:00 PM PST
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More goats!
If you are keeping up with the Kos Katalogue blogathon then you know how special and unique the community is here at Daily Kos. Thanks to the kindness of strangers , yet virtual friends,
by remembrance
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on Thu Nov 14, 2013 at 05:00 PM PST
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Rosh Hashanah falls in the seventh Hebrew month of Tishri , characterized as early fall and which follows the warm winds of summer. It is referred to as the birthday of the world so it fits that ...
by remembrance
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At SimplyInfo.org we have reported extensively on the highly radioactive black stuff being found around eastern Japan, as far away as Tokyo. Citizens initially found the substance, usually ...
by SDstuck
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on Tue Jul 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM PDT
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I joined a Progressive Reform Synagogue about a year and a half ago. I first wrote about an experience I had there in this diary . Last year I wasn't too active beyond taking my daughter to Hebrew ...
by remembrance
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on Tue Jul 16, 2013 at 09:30 AM PDT
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All the scandals, all the rants and the anger, it all matters, but I would probably be shocked to death if people got this angry over climate change and environmental issues in this Country as they ...
by Ellinorianne
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on Fri Jun 07, 2013 at 09:57 PM PDT
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