Those who revel in the suffering and death of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers are licking their own wounds today, as the Trump administration disbanded its advisory board created to help boost trophy hunting and relax federal rules for importing …
Category: Sustainability
Trump’s Actions Maximize Chaos, Fear, Suffering
Commenting on the meme here, frequent contributor Glenn Doty writes: The only purpose of any action that this administration seems to be is to maximize chaos, fear, and suffering.
Tagged with: Trump's Actions Maximize Chaos Fear Suffering
Gandhi: Tyrants Always Fail
What Gandhi said here is interesting. FWIW, most of us are not afraid that Trump is going to be here forever; we believe that through some mechanism, the United States will eventually restore some sort of rule by law. I’m …
Tagged with: Gandhi, Trump's, Trump's brazen criminality, Trump's cruelty, Trump's pathological lying, Trump's petty vindictiveness, Trump's roadblock to climate change mitigation and countless other environmental imperatives, Trump's support of dictatorships, United States will eventually restore rule by law
Trump Administration V. First Amendment Protection of the Free Press
From this article: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the State Department’s decision to deny NPR press credentials for his trip to Europe following his confrontation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly, stating in an interview in Kazakhstan Sunday that it …
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U.S. Bureau of Land Management Working Its Hardest To Sell Public Property To Drilling, Mining Enterprises
William Pendley, acting head of the BLM, appears to be headed for reappointment without any involvement from the American public. OK, so what’s the issue? Perry’s decades-long career as a property-rights lawyer whose focus was removing federal control of the …
Bernie-Bashing
The mainstream, corporate owned media can’t get out of its own way to push voters away from Bernie Sanders; it’s disgusting how blatantly obvious this is. And I’m not talking about Fox News; I mean MSNBC, CNN and the like. …
Planting Trees
As we’ve discussed more than a few times here, rebuilding Earth’s trees is one of two things this civilization can do in its attempt to ensure its continued existence. Stopping deforestation in the Amazon sounds like an impossible task, but …
From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Can 3D Printing Be Considered a Green Technology?
Manufacturing may find a greener alternative in 3D printing. It’s no secret that traditional manufacturing methods aren’t exactly eco-friendly. As 3D printing becomes more prevalent, some hail it as a more sustainable choice. But what about it makes it greener?
“Smart Water”
Something inside me recoils when I see people coming out of (enormous American retail chain) Costco with cases of bottled water.
Tagged with: bottled water, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, plastic its way into our food system as microplastics, plastic killing marine life, plastic washing around with the ocean currents, plastic will be around of hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, quality of tap water in the United States is generally good
The Truth Suffers
We need to consider the words of George Orwell when acts of petty vengeance are taken against people who obey subpoenas and tell the truth under oath. Yes, their words resulted in damage to the U.S. president, a man who …
