Goldman Sachs burdened Greece, Oakland, and the Detroit Water Dept., and the Chicago school system with huge fees and penalties involving complex interest rate swaps (financial derivatives), according to Robert Reich in the Nation –link. The amounts are large: $ 793 million in fees from Greece plus an increase in its debt of $ […]
Archive | July, 2015
Ivory Trade Ban!
Great News! Obama Bans Ivory Trade! Link to NYT article.
We can save the oceans!
Reducing fishing, protecting marine areas, and banning large trawlers help. Activists are organizing in the Blue Frontier movement. David Helvarg wrote about saving the seas in the Progressive. He wrote Saved by the Sea:Hope, Heartbreak, and wonder in the Blue World.
Lawsuits against Global Warming
Citizens & youth are winning lawsuits! Incriminating Exxon papers are found by UCS. Here is the link.
Movie & Book on PR Deceit- re: Global Warming, War, Smoking
The same few scientists have been paid to lie to create doubt about the dangers of smoking, fossil fuels, global warming, nuclear war, and missile defense systems. The movie plays in Boulder at the Boedecker July 15-18. Here is info on the book.
White Pelicans, Canyon Wrens, & a Poorwill
White pelicans rhythmically lunged their bills down into the shallow water while swimming together yesterday morning at Walden Pond. At 7pm I hiked up a foothill to watch the sunset. Canyon wrens sang their swinging, descending notes in the twilight. One darted about on the cliff face. Other birds flew out and back, […]
Defend your Right to Garden
Here a couple organizes and gathers signatures to gain the right to garden.
Petitioning to get the Right to Garden
Here is the story of a couple organizing to gain the right to garden.
Joanie Mitchell-Singer for Nature & Peace
Here is a neat blogpost on Joanie, from an early Greenpeace activist, who came to Denver to give shows about protecting whales.
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