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Help Save the Planet; Reduce Consumption of Meat and Animal Products
High among its prescriptions for limiting global sea level rise and climate disruption is an advisory for humanity to reduce its collective consumption of animal products by at least 30 percent. After all, between the feed production required to raise cattle and other livestock and these animals’ massive release of methane, animal agriculture harms the […]
Open Letter to Decision Makers Concerning Wildfires in the West
The following link is to an open letter from scientists with backgrounds in ecological sciences and natural resources management to decision makers concerning wildfires in the west. This letter is sponsored by the Geos Institute, a science-based, non-profit organization conceived to study and combat climate change. It is signed by over 200 scientists with expertise […]
Public Hearings to Stop the Jordan Cove LNG Pipeline Being Held in Several Locations in January
Join us at a public hearing to stop the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. If built, the Jordan Cove LNG project would harm nearly 500 waterways, seize property from private landowners through eminent domain, create a major safety and public health hazards, impact Tribal territories, cultural resources, and burial […]
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