The article below is head-lined: California water agencies resolve Colorado River dispute (chuckle) . . . I high-lighted Imperial has rights to more than one-third of the water allocated to the three states in the river’s (Colorado) lower basin and Mexico. and I think Good God! And I hope you might have read the “IMPLICATIONS […]
IN PROTECTION OF THIS WOMAN, Corporal Adrienne Gilvesy, I say Use simple, common sense. If we provide the ammunition to paint ourselves as far-right or crazies, we simultaneously paint her. What she is doing is pretty incredible. She needs all possible support from us. 2021-09-09 Julius Ruechel: Under the Shadow of Damocles’ Sword: Forcing Employers […]
Category: Peace or Violence Sub-category: Resource depletion (Water in USA) Prompted by, Aug 30: 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River, But it’s Drying Up Fast. What Happens Next? = = = = = = = = = = = = = […]
THE WELL FIXER’S WARNING The lesson that California never learns By Mark Arax AUGUST 17, 2021 (There are photos if you go to the link) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/well-fixers-story-california-drought/619753/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=masthead-newsletter&utm_content=20210821&silverid=%25%25RECIPIENT_ID%25%25&utm_term=Subscriber%20Only%20Weekly%20Newsletter The well fixer and I were standing at the edge of an almond orchard in the exhausted middle of California. It was late July, and so many wells on […]
CONTENTS 1. (Utah) Lake Powell water level at a historic low. From “TownLife”, Bullfrog Utah, May 28, 2021. For now, the water level continues to drop a little more than an inch a day. 2. (Nevada) Projections for Lake Mead show it dropping well below the lowest level on record, in the next 20 […]
You may want to view this on the Defend Democracy website, click on Swiss Development Aid, Nestlé and Water Privatization. Canadians should be aware, important information. = = = = = = = = = = = = = By Franklin Frederick Translation: Tamanna Kohi Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of […]
Ron writes: This may help the current overfishing situation. More help will come when the indigenous people are given back their right to harvest the seals. = = = = = = = = = ‘I think that’s quite a critical mission for our department and for Canada,’ says federal official Illegal fishing takes place […]
Rising grey seal population eating adult cod at unsustainable levels Paul Withers In this April 23, 2016, file photo, cod fill a box on a trawler off the coast of Hampton Beach, N.H. (Robert F. Bukaty/The Associated Press) Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has issued a stark warning linking the demise of codfish in the […]
Ladakh is an old Buddhist Kingdom, high in the Himayalas, now a part of India. The capital city is Leh. It has lessons for us. Series of Youtubes: (The links work, even if they show as not) 1. I watched Ancient Futures, Learning from Ladakh. You will see pictures of Helena Norberg-Hodge as a […]
With thanks to Janet Eaton: Richard Heinberg concludes: It is probably not within the capability of philanthropic foundations to avert all the human impacts that will accompany the end of economic growth, nor the environmental impacts of past growth. Nevertheless, the strategic application of some of society’s accumulated wealth toward solving the problem of systemic adaptation […]