• Keep car mfr’s on track – support high mileage standards!

    Click Here for larger, interactive version of the infographic below to share with friends and family. E. Fudd

  • Koch-funded scientists confirm global warming

    I guess the Koch brothers don’t control *every* scientist on their payroll after all….. E. Fudd From Grist: Koch-funded scientists confirm global warming Remember when physicist Richard Muller was called to testify in the House by denialist Republicans who thought he’d debunk global warming, and he ended up supporting it instead? That was fun! And […]

  • Roadless Rule reinstated!!!

    in an era of environmental denial, degradation and dishonesty, it’s great to see a big WIN once in a while! from Earthjustice: Major Victory Secures Roadless Rule “We’ve been representing the environmental community in this fight in more than a dozen cases over the last 13 years … We had to win every single one […]

  • Stop Ocean ‘clear cutting’!

    Sign the Avaaz petition noted below, and thanks!: Our oceans are being systematically destroyed and we have 48 hours to raise the alarm. The seafood industry uses long chains of heavy metal disks to drag nets across the sea floor in search of fish, crushing everything in their path. This bottom-trawling is like clear-cutting a […]

  • New Bird Species Discovered in Hawaii

    From Care2 – very cool! New Bird Species Discovered in Hawaii For the first time since 1974, ornithologists have discovered a new bird species in the United States. The small Hawaiian seabird, thought to be an undersized Boyd’s shearwater, proved to have enough unique genetic traits to separate it from the other species. Researchers and […]

  • California Shark Fin Ban One Step Closer…..

    From Care2: California Shark Fin Ban One Step Closer To Law A bill that would make it illegal to sell, trade, or posses shark fins in California passed the State’s Senate Appropriations Committee today on a 5-2 vote. The bill, officially known as AB 376, will now move to the Senate floor, where a vote […]

  • Columbia River coal terminal stopped – for now….

    from The Australian: Brisbane mining company pulls plans to build US river port A BRISBANE-BASED company proposing a coalmine seen as a litmus test in the battle between farmers and miners on Queensland’s Darling Downs has been pressured to withdraw plans for a port in the US. Ambre Energy has scrapped an application to build […]

  • Time to Step up, Obama….!

    Do the right thing to back up all that sterling rhetoric and STOP the Keystone XL pipeline! For once, stand up to Big Oil! You can’t pass the buck onto Congress for this one…. NYT link here. Bill McKibben’s take here. E. Fudd

  • New Monkey Species discovered in nw Brazil!

    Very cool, beautiful animal! link here. E. Fudd

  • Good news for whales!

    No Iceland hunt this year – woo hoo! link here. E. Fudd