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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com People used to think in terms of progress versus preservation – a zero-sum sort of thing, an either/or - but preservation and progress are two sides of the same coin, a symbiotic relationship. And that is very...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Thu Jan 27, 2022 at 12:37 PM PST
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“Permanent protection for the Rainy River Headwaters from the destruction and pollution that would be the inevitable result of copper mining is the vital next task in work that has gone on for more than 100 years to preserve this incomparable region."...
by Save the Boundary Waters
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on Tue Nov 30, 2021 at 09:39 AM PST
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Here in Wilmington we are blessed with lovely old live oak trees all around town so we (or most of us) take preserving these very seriously. About three years ago Publix supermarket chain was coming to town and planned to raze all of the live oaks on...
by nannyboz
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 02:29 PM PDT
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Welcome to DK Preppers: A place to discuss practical ways to get through emergencies, both short term and long. Topics may include skills for growing, storing and sharing food, lost and ...
by AuntieB
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on Thu Oct 04, 2018 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Anonymous sources have told reporters that Pr*@%!^#t Trump will visit Utah Monday to announce how many hundreds of thousands of acres he plans to chop from two national monuments in Utah. He doesn’t plan to visit the monuments, and he doesn’t plan to...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Nov 29, 2017 at 06:50 AM PST
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I’ve seen it before, this assault on our public lands, all my life in fact, and certainly it was going on before I appeared on scene. The attacks might be more brutal—and the consequences more dire—but we have long faced threats from those who place...
by R H Sheldon
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on Fri Jul 21, 2017 at 07:54 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from Governor Maggie Hassan’s (D. NH) U.S. Senate campaign:
From our colorful autumn forests and rolling mountains to our diverse wildlife to our pristine lakes and Seacoast, New Hampshire is home to many...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Apr 22, 2016 at 10:11 AM PDT
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He fell in love with Yosemite in 1895, standing waist-deep in a meadow filled with wild flowers. Eventually, he would record the life cycles of 500 of the estimated 1,500 species he identified in the
by themelindapf
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on Thu Jan 21, 2016 at 03:17 PM PST
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December 2015 Salish Sea, PNW
It’s the off-season for sea lions here in the Northwest, and usually they are pretty laid back as they lounge around their haulout site at Whale Roc
by OceanDiver
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on Fri Dec 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM PST
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This post continues the story of our personal quest to save a historically significant structure in St. Louis, Missouri, dramatically reducing its carbon footprint while reserving and conserving its h
by LeftOfYou
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on Sun Nov 08, 2015 at 06:16 PM PST
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The work on our historic restoration project has begun and one of the first pressing ...
by LeftOfYou
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on Tue Nov 03, 2015 at 03:02 PM PST
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Global forests have diminished by three percent since 1990. The total loss ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Sep 14, 2015 at 02:42 PM PDT
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How it all fits together and what it means when it changes.
This diary will follow the progress of my work on building a coherent philosophy of the nature of my own humanity in an inhuman world. I ...
by Politcal Alchemist
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on Tue Jun 02, 2015 at 05:48 PM PDT
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Sustainable Retirement #7: The Wood Eternal
For countless ages before Frenchmen founded St. Louis, 250 years ago, thick, old-growth forests of bald cypress grew, not far to the South, in the ...
by LeftOfYou
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on Tue Dec 23, 2014 at 11:55 AM PST
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Carnivores are gaining in Europe, thanks to the public and governments' willingness to embrace them. But in the US, they're still feared by a largely ignorant population.
by jroberthall
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on Mon Dec 22, 2014 at 12:39 AM PST
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Cross-posted at Booman Tribune
Regardless of the outcome of the US election, any elections in Europe, Australia, New Zealand--or even India, Pakistan, and China, the Washington consensus and ...
by TarheelDem
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on Fri Sep 26, 2014 at 08:24 AM PDT
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The archaeological case for protecting Greater Canyonlands
"Greater Canyonlands holds some of the most scientifically important cultural resources to be found anywhere in North America," says ...
by Dan Chu
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on Tue Sep 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM PDT
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Dr. Ron Butchart, of the University of Georgia, has documented that of some 11,700 school teachers active in the South after the Civil War, 4000 were missionaries from the North and mostly white, ...
by hannah
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on Sat May 03, 2014 at 02:36 PM PDT
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Downtown Austin from off Montopolis (East).
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Austin got a weather change today that was long overdue. 10/5/13 was the ...
by bastrop
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on Sun Oct 06, 2013 at 05:30 AM PDT
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The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Snails, fish, insects, weather, meteorites, ...
by OceanDiver
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on Sun Mar 31, 2013 at 08:00 AM PDT
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