• ‘Business’ as usual in the US Govt….

    This STINKS! – E. Fudd From the New York Times: Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban Weary of plastic litter, Grand Canyon National Park officials were in the final stages of imposing a ban on the sale of disposable water bottles in the Grand Canyon late last year when the nation’s parks […]

  • Keystone XL stopped! For now…..

    A major victory, now we have to hit it out of the park and CANCEL this stupid project once and for all!!!! But kudos to Obama for standing up to Big Oil – now we just have to make it stick for good! Keystone XL Delayed, Feds To Explore New Routes E. Fudd

  • Big Oil – Biggest DB’s (barring Monsanto)

    E. Fudd

  • Orcas off Pt. Robinson, Vashon Island!

    Very, very cool. I wish I had been there! E. Fudd Click Here and/or watch more jumpy video below:

  • 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 […]

  • When calamari (don’t) attack…..

    Very cool scuba action off the SoCal coast with Humboldt squid! from Grindtv: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:44pm PDT Southern California’s rare squid invasion a bizarre nighttime spectacle By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com The rare invasion of perhaps millions of large and ravenous squid off Southern California has been more like a blitz, with the slithery […]

  • Hummingbirds 1, Spiders 0….

    yesterday I saw something I’d never seen before. I was crossing the street to see where all these chirping birds I heard were (whether in a big hedge or nearby tree) – and I saw a hummingbird zip out of nowhere. I watched him instead – and I saw something new – he was hovering […]

  • 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 […]

  • New Monkey Species discovered in nw Brazil!

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