Category: Environment
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Important things
Drove north and east to visit Erie, PA today, where my writing pals Alan DeNiro and Kristin Livdahl were visiting Alan’s parents. Had a great several hours to talk and catch up with them before having to head back home (and them having to catch a flight back to Minnesota). But on the way home,…
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Wick Park Revitalization Project
Please join Defend Youngstown and Youngstown CityScape with the professional services of The Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio in our initial meeting for Community-wide input in the WICK PARK REVITALIZATION PROJECT. What: Share sense of history of Wick Park, information about the current conditions, restrictions on its use; discuss community goals and intended outcome…
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Extinction
It’s this sort of news that always makes me really sad. Is it just me? I don’t know. I don’t really hear people talk about the loss of a species ever. For some reason it’s always been something that hits me in the gut.
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Inconvenient things
If Al Gore would decide to run for president again, I think my vote would be decided easily. According to this Times article, he says has no intention to run, despite a group of his former supporters campaigning to bring him out. Gore lost his first campaign for president for lots of reasons (even before…
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Stupid dies as stupid does
No matter what rights there may be to do something like this, I can’t help but intuitively feel it’s criminal, what the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) has done: offered money to scientists to undermine the U.N.’s assessment that global climate change is in a radical, dangerous state, mostly due to the human activity called industry,…