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Let's Put America Back To Work!

(cross-posted at The Dead Guy)This is not a new concept. FDR and The New Deal. The late Senator Paul Simon's 1987 book by the same title as this post (Which I have a signed copy of - I had Senator...

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North Carolina funded to lead in Sea Level rise research

Many of us have some information from the scientific community about the changes caused by global warming. Growing up in North Carolina, one can see the changes of sea level rise over a 10-20 year...

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Grand Canyon, North Rim

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon ...http://www.flickr.com/...

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2009 UAW-Ford Tentative Agreement: "We Can’t Accept This!"

By Gary Walkowicz Bargaining Committeeman Dearborn Truck Plant UAW Local 600 Ford workers made it clear that we did not want any more concessions. But the top leadership of the UAW did not listen to...

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Rejoice! Ice Free Arctic Summers within a decade!

Great news here!  Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea Floor to find more fossil fuels, because the Arctic Circle will soon be Ice Free in the Summers - making...

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Help send a fellow Kossack to Copenhagen

Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen. This contest will provide a unique insight on Copenhagen, and will be a chance for the concerns of the people to be...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Kigoma, Tanzania

A two part series about Danielle's visit to the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Teacher Turned Farmer...Turned Teacher

This is the second in the four-part series on my visit to Heifer International projects in Gicumbi District in Rwanda. Crossposted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog.

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global warming deniers, you will be denied.

The North Carolina Coastal Resource Commission just finished the first study of sea level rise in the United States.The most significant part of the study was what the report said about what the market...

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Despite Challenges, Conserving Natural Resources and Improving Livelihoods in...

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’sNourishing the Planet.

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Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

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Back from the Sleeping Bear

Just got back from Sleeping Bear Dunes with the family. A national park in Northern Michigan. $12 per night. We stayed for 3 nights. $36 plus the ten dollar park entry fee, so $46.Fourty six bucks.Plus...

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The Daily Bucket: Winter Storm

The Daily Bucket is a place where we post and exchange our observations about the natural happenings we see. Birds, blooms, bugs and more - each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as...

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The Daily Bucket: Driftwood!

The Daily Bucket is a place where we post and exchange our observations about the natural happenings we see. Birds, blooms, bugs and more - each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as...

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Dkos Tour Series: Canyonlands NP

In this continuing armchair virtual tour series, and thanks to the community for being so receptive to same, we’re headed back to the desert country, this time in the Moab, Utah vicinity. Canyonlands...

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DKos Tour Series: Arches National Park

Location/Geography: Grand County, Moab, eastern Utah. Area: 76,358.98 acres; 119 square miles.Spotlight: This park setting has more arches than any other place on the planet!  Ancient salt evaporates...

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DKos Special Diary: 2 Recommended Hikes In Canyonlands NP

Prologue: This special supplement follows on the proverbial heals of yesterday's Canyonlands National Park tour. (Were you on the tour? I mean, did you get a chance to read along, as it were? Hope so,...

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DKos Tour Series: Cedar Breaks National Monument (Not Bryce Canyon, But Close)

Location/Geography: Closest town: Cedar City, Utah. Area: Unknown, though considerably smaller than neighboring Bryce Canyon. Surrounded by Dixie National Forest. Western edge of the Markagunt...

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My birthday request for President Barack Obama

It's my birthday. I don't want any presents. I want action from the President - to realize the urgency of Climate Change,  especially now that it is directly and possibly destroying his home state of...

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The Daily Bucket: just missed a landslide on the beach

The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group.  It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you.  Rain, sun, wind...insects, birds,...

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Sunday Shutterbugs • Hole-in-the-Wall, Pacific Northwest coast

Shutterbugs is a venue for photographers to push beyond existing formats in search of new ways to diary creative imagery. Sunday Shutterbugs is a weekly community diary publishing at 10:30 Central with...

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The Saga of the Sea Island Spit Continues

Yesterday, a goodly number of citizens turned out to hear from a legal person what our options are for calling the elected officials to account.What it boils down to is that 1) The Sea Island...

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Storms will wreak havoc in the Arctic with probability of Methane Hydrates...

We know that some things are adapting to a warmer climate by migrating north. Some of these species include the Mangrove forest, butterflies, fish, mosquitos and many others. NOAA has added a...

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The Daily Bucket - first big winter storm, reprise....with Turnstones

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.  Rain, sun, wind...insects, birds,...

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Evidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic as permafrost erosion...

The Arctic has a complex climate. There is little sunlight in winter, the summer days are long, the storms can include hurricane force winds, bitter cold temperatures, and at times, even rainfall. Ice...

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The Daily Bucket - Ellen Creek shifts her course

Olympic Peninsula, Pacific NorthwestNow and thenAnother change I saw at the beach this winter out on the Olympic Peninsula was much more obvious than the subtle rotations of Big Log out in front of the...

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The Daily Bucket - bouquet of beach rocks

March 2, 2018Salish Sea, Pacific NorthwestHigh tide means just a narrow strip of beach by the bank for walking. This particular beach gets as much wave strike as any in these inland waters, so it’s...

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The Daily Bucket - Fidalgo tales: Along the shore

May 23, 2018Fidalgo Island, Pacific NorthwestAmong the many islands of the Salish Sea, Fidalgo is the least island-like, being barely separated from mainland Washington State by a narrow shallow...

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Look at this Map!

We’re in the 6th great extinction event in the history of the planet:The  Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event...

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Geo-engineering Ancient Lakes - off setting sea level rise and Mega storms

Thanks to Meteor Blades’ Midday Open thread posted today, I saw something I have been waiting 5 years to see. This is what stood out from this article in Science Magazine:Study says large-scale solar...

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The Daily Bucket - King Tides, aka the future for shorelines

The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...

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Mangrove Carbon Sink

I was surfing the web for some info about what tree species absorb the most carbon. I stumbled across an article that went through several different ways to collect CO2 on a large scale. It was not...

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Reforesting Iceland Problems have Solutions Poem and 5:21 video

 The last few weeks feel like a cliffhanger moment. I see in the news that more people are starting to accept that we need action on climate change. At the same time one disaster after another strikes...

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Abrupt permafrost thaw will cause Arctic wildfire severity to double from one...

The high Arctic is in serious trouble from the fossil fuel and extraction industries to the degradation of the region's biomes from climate change. Despite the best efforts of the Trump regime to...

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The Daily Bucket - piddocks at low tide

The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...

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The Daily Bucket - windstorm, waves and wrack

The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...

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The Daily Bucket - sand library

I’m an arenophile. That word comes from the “Latin arena (sand) and the Greek phil (love)”, meaning sand lover.As Rachel Carson wrote, "In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every...

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Seismic data confirms ocean waves shake the earth as storms become more...

Seismic data confirms ocean waves from storms have become more widespread and ferocious due to climate change, according to a study from Colorado State University that the National Science Foundation...

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