Heck Yeah Conservation...

Susan Rice, Candidate for Secretary of State Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands and Canadian Banks Said to Finance the Keystone XL Pipeline

flora-photography — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:04:03 -0800

Susan Rice, Candidate for Secretary of State Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands and...

Get your feel-good on!

flora-photography — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:37:39 -0800

nprfreshair: “We’ve seen legalization in two states — that’s the first step toward legalization in...

nprfreshair: Reporter Tony Dokoupil on the initial “Green...

flora-photography — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:33:51 -0800

nprfreshair:

Reporter Tony Dokoupil on the initial “Green Rush”:

After Eric Holder and the Obama administration suggested that they weren’t going to crack down on medical marijuana, everybody and their brother grabbed a trash bag full of weed out of their backyard and were like, ‘All right, medical marijuana here for sale!’ … Then Colorado was really interesting … because there’s a core of young, educated, politically connected and well-financed guys who said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. We can’t have former black market drug dealers and bikini girls as the face of our industry, because the community’s not going to accept it.

So they partnered with law enforcement. They partnered with state legislators. They hired incredibly high-level political consultants and lobbyists who have worked nationally. And they are the inside force that led to the creation of Colorado’s regulated medical marijuana industry, which is unlike any in the country and which will be the basis for the legalized, regulated market. And so in response to the craziness that we saw in 2009 … a movement toward controlled, regulated, not-in-your-face, nonconfrontational pot culture has begun.

(Photo credit: Ron Werzer/Getty Images)

This was a great interview I listented to on NPR’s FreshAir this morning. The interview covered a lot of topic areas, some I had not even considered, especially how I naively thought the movement was total grass roots…HAAAA…you can thank Big Tobacco for helping to fund the passing of these laws in WA and CO aparently. Yah! Big Tobacco has had their eye on this market for their future for some time now, I believe it was even suggested that they already have plants! This is something I definately want to re-listen to later.

cheatsheet: buzzfeed: It’s a big night for America. So this...

flora-photography — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:29:06 -0800

cheatsheet:

buzzfeed:

It’s a big night for America.

So this also happened.

That first line…bwahahah. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. I am so at ease right now and I haven’t partake almost 10 years. This is just great for progress and getting rid of rediculous laws clogging our legal system.

"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies..."

flora-photography — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:00:10 -0700

“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that...

Winter Weather Outlook 2012-2013

flora-photography — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:04:00 -0700

Winter Weather Outlook 2012-2013: Had to wear a sweater last night…and that most certainly...

White House Releases New Car and Light Truck Fuel Efficiency and Carbon Pollution Standards

flora-photography — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:13:36 -0700

White House Releases New Car and Light Truck Fuel Efficiency and Carbon Pollution Standards:...

Five National Parks That Could Be Threatened Under The Romney Energy Plan

flora-photography — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:31:44 -0700

Five National Parks That Could Be Threatened Under The Romney Energy Plan: Because when I visit a...

gifhound: OMG! This is what Isaac looks like out in Caribbean...

flora-photography — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:59:46 -0700

gifhound:

OMG! This is what Isaac looks like out in Caribbean right now, reports US News! The storm hit Puerto Rico on Thursday, creating 10-foot waves, and knocking out power and water for thousands. Florida officials told US News Thursday that even a “glancing blow” from Isaac would disrupt the RNC.

[H/T @LizFlock for the GIF]

It’s extremely insensitive of me, but because I find the Talking to Doctors blog so creative, I am fighting the urge to make this a climate change denier meme for the RNC. But I am thinking of the innocent victims of the storm and for now I am restraining myself.

dendroica: itsfullofstars: Congress’s Science Committee...

flora-photography — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:01:33 -0700

dendroica:

itsfullofstars:

Congress’s Science Committee Doesn’t Get Science

Todd Akin is just scratching the surface.

return to high school, do not pass go, do not collect $200

Paul Ryan on the Environment

flora-photography — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:05:05 -0700

Paul Ryan on the Environment: No surprises here, but it’s worth reading…my friend Carrie...

122782: think-progress: Your guide to 23 consumer brands...

flora-photography — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:58:35 -0700

122782:

think-progress:

Your guide to 23 consumer brands helping bankroll right-wing attack ads.

Get the details at ThinkProgress and share this to spread the word.

[Note: An earlier version of this inadvertantly listed Wendy’s instead of White Castle.]

Thoughts:

That Coachella cruise this winter was too expensive anyway.

Brian, stop buying Angel Soft TP!

Waffle House hashbrowns, you will be missed.

New Balance - how the hell are you gonna sell me shoes made out of recycled plastic bottles and then support this shit?

So much hater-aid is contained in a Dixie cup…who knew? I was sort of surprised by Cochella, New Balance, & Regal Cinemas! Dad is going to be very upset that he cannot purchase New Balance anymore…maybe we can convince Vibram to donate to left leaning causes, so as to soften the blow.

sagansense: Bill Nye to CNN: “The two sides aren’t equal’ on...

flora-photography — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:36:54 -0700

sagansense:

Bill Nye to CNN: “The two sides aren’t equal’ on climate change

Science educator Bill Nye on Monday told CNN that they weren’t doing the public any favors by giving climate change deniers equal airtime because ‘the two sides aren’t equal.”

“There are a couple of things that you can’t really dispute,” Nye explained to CNN’s Carol Costello. “Sixteen of the last 17 years have been the hottest years on record. That’s just how it is.”

“I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the stories — there’s a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren’t equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are very concerned and you have a few people who are in business of equating or drawing attention to the idea that uncertainty is the same as doubt. When you have a plus or minus percentage, that’s not the same thing as not believing the whole thing at all.”

The Washington Post noted on Sunday that scientists had been warning for years that because of warming weather and severe droughts, Colorado’s “table was set” for monster wildfires like the ones currently sweeping through the state.

“It is because of the heat ultimately,” Nye told Costello. “Just two years ago, it was was wet in Colorado and there was a lot of growth in forests. And then you can say they should have responsibly cleared that growth — it’s a difficult thing. So then two years later when it’s especially dry and the forest flora gets especially dry and then there’s a lightening strike, the fire is that much more intense than it would have been.”

“But the people who are politicizing this issue, they seem to be winning because not much is being done on the issue of climate change,” Costello pointed out.

“If you’re a voter consider taking the environment into account as well as the economy,” Nye advised. “I think the two candidates running for president right now have different views about the validity, for example, of science and the importance of it and what you would do about climate change in the coming years.”

“We in the science education community chip away at this problem all the time. We have an enormous population of people in the United States that don’t believe in evolution, the fundamental idea in all of life science. It would be like saying, I don’t believe in earthquakes or something. The analogies are disturbing.”

Earlier this year, a Media Matters analysis determined that coverage of climate change had dropped by 80 percent on U.S. broadcast networks between 2008 and 2011.

Watch this video from CNN’s Newsroom, broadcast July 2, 2012.

Now is as good a time as any to get real, facts are not negotiable.

Rosanne Barr is running for Green Party Presidential...

flora-photography — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:42:00 -0700

Rosanne Barr is running for Green Party Presidential Candidate…I am so out of the loop!

washingtonpoststyle:

The delegate count for the Green Party’s presidential nominee. Yes, that Roseanne.

mohandasgandhi: STUDY: Kardashians Get 40 Times More News...

flora-photography — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:24:12 -0700

mohandasgandhi:

STUDY: Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage Than Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification, which is currently at levels of 30% acidity and rising, has been called “global warming’s evil twin” and may be even more deadly and destructive than global warming itself, yet it receives very little media coverage. This is a huge media fail.

Wow, it is amazing to see it in numbers…shame!

quick-fix nation…are we surprised by this?

flora-photography — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:29:38 -0700

quick-fix nation…are we surprised by this?

Free Peach Tree Leaf Fungus

flora-photography — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:04:53 -0700

Free Peach Tree Leaf Fungus: We’ve got ourselves a frugal fruiting false! The free peach tree...

Mutant Seafood: Not just in Springfield, USA anymore. Mutant...

flora-photography — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:19:03 -0700

Mutant Seafood: Not just in Springfield, USA anymore.

Mutant Crabs Showing Up in the Gulf

BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be related to the eyeless shrimp, clawless crabs and other deformed animals now found in the Gulf, reported Al Jazeera. Fishers and marine biologists believe tremendous amounts of highly toxic chemicals may have had a negative effect on creatures that are constantly bathed in them, contrary to what BP asserts.

Al Jazeera quoted numerous fisherman who had pulled warped crustaceans from the waters where nearly 5 million barrels of oils spewed forth after the 2010 explosion that cost 11 men’s lives on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

“I’ve seen the brown shrimp catch drop by two-thirds, and so far the white shrimp have been wiped out,” Keath Ladner, a seafood processor in Hancock County, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “The shrimp are immune compromised. We are finding shrimp with tumors on their heads, and are seeing this everyday.”

Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, found eyeless shrimp and: “We are also finding eyeless crabs, crabs with their shells soft instead of hard, full grown crabs that are one-fifth their normal size, clawless crabs, and crabs with shells that don’t have their usual spikes … they look like they’ve been burned off by chemicals.”

“We also seeing eyeless fish, and fish lacking even eye-sockets, and fish with lesions, fish without covers over their gills, and others with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills,” Darla Rooks, a lifelong fisherperson from Port Sulfur, Louisiana said. (via discoverynews)

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2012 Garden...go!

flora-photography — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:50:05 -0700

Here’s to hoping the Hammen Home Produce is more productive in 2012 than it was in 2011! Over...

More from WAMU! (via Remembering Bluegrass Pioneer Earl...

flora-photography — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:54:22 -0700

I can’t believe I used to hate listening to this every Sunday morning on WAMU…on our way to church…it used to drive me nuts…but now I find it all so soothing.