Spotlight on inexperienced information & views: Debate mods keep away from mentioning local weather; Trump backs CO2 air pollution

Posted On Nov 12, 2019 By admin With Comments Off

This is the 614 th copy of the Spotlight on Green News& Views( previously known as the Green Diary Rescue ). Here is the October 12 copy . Inclusion of a narrative in the Spotlight does not undoubtedly indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.

OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIE

This Old Growth Mountain Hemlock( Tsuga mertensiana) multitudes a large example of what I believe to be Heterobasidion annosum, a vicious parasitic fungi that destroys conifers by criticizing disclosed seeds and tree butts, as shown here.

RonK writes–The Daily Bucket: Cavorting Among Ancient Trees in an Old Growth Forest: “Pacific Northwest. Whatcom County, WA. There is a 700 -acre stand of old growth forest sequestered in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains about 25 miles east of Bellingham, WA, and about 10 miles west of Mt. Baker at the edge of the Mt. Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest. I had long wanted to see and suffer this ancient forest as it is one of the two largest such stands in the Pacific Northwest–the other being Grove of the Patriarchs in the Mt. Rainier National Park. Around here aged raise timber is reverenced as an endangered relic of our natural world as it formerly was in the same way that other adored PNW icons, the Orca and the salmon are endangered. And maybe for that reason, it is a good thing that this forest is not readily accessible to the public. This old growth tract resides within a larger 2,300 acre packet, currently owned in part by our county ballpark system and is designated as a nature preserve that is technically open to the public. However, access is limited. The only access is via a structure of gated and active logging roads owned by Sierra Pacific Timber corporation. On occasion the Whatcom Land Trust, which first orchestrated the acquisition of this tract in 1998 and touches a conservation easement on those arteries,can obtain the keys to the gates. Without be made available to a key, it is an additional 5.7 mile hike past the locked entrance merely to get to the trailhead.”

ClimateDenierRoundup writes–Climate Protesters: We need system mutate. Lomborg: Why aren’t objectors involving organisation alter ? “It’s been years since anyone could be excused for taking Bjorn Lomborg’s “Skeptical Environmentalist” schtick earnestly. Time and again he’s proven himself to be a hollow shell of pseudo-intellectual pretense, a good-looking argument that falls apart upon even the most cursory inspection. His latest op-ed in the NYPost is nothing new. In the patch, Lomborg claims, as is his mantra, that objectors are’ focused on all the inaccurate solutions.’ The jab of his argument is that individual activities, like not driving, flying, or devouring flesh, aren’t enough to save the atmosphere. That’s true. What isn’t true, though, is Lomborg’s mischaracterization of the dissents, which no honest observer could possibly claim is about requesting beings to reach token sacrifices.

CRITTERS AND THE GREAT OUTDOOR

CaptBLI writes–The Daily Bucket – Hornets and wasps: “I watched, mesmerized by the speed and talent, as the Bald-faced Hornets improved the nest on the bottom of the electrical transformer in my breast yard. The horde had the construction finished in two weeks. I informed the electric company and they refer a repairman out. “Don’t mess with it” was his sage advice. I heeded his words. I’ve been an active outdoors party all my life and have been stung or chewed by everything, smaller than a bat, that flies. Now are few important things I’ve learned. The single point of interest is the difference between a bee and a wasp or hornet sting. Bees have a barbed stinger with a poison sac affixed. The toxin will pulse into you even when a bee is touched off. The bees dies due to the bodily impair of the stinger’s separation from it’s body. A hornet has a syringe-like stinger that can puncture you repeatedly, introduce all their venom and live to brag about their onrush( they also bite ). Mean little cusses too.”

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CaptBLI writes–The Daily Bucket – A Fall Friday in Mississippi: “My home in Oxford, MS ., on the morning of October 18 th, 2019, was a crisp 45 grades, with clear skies and a indication of a breeze. The temperature would climb to 74 severities, with spotty clouds and no gale by noon. Certainly, a Fall day that anyone could enjoy. I was greeted by a neighborhood Blue Jay that was compelled to announce her joyfulnes. The Golden Rod shown bright in the early rays. […] The fence word was aflutter. There were several genus of butterflies on the Aster and Golden Rod there. I tried to get as many photos as I could, but feed out of time. There were just as countless that I missed but I hope you will enjoy these. I certainly did.”

Gulf Fritillary( Agraulis vanillae) Flipped over to show the underside.

OceanDiver writes–BackyardBirdRace/ Daily Bucket combo – October tally: “In January, we introduces the brand-new and revised version of the Backyard BirdRace. This time around, we each watch for chicks in our garden — however you want to define that — and retain a list of them to share here each month in the BirdRace diary. We’ll each be keeping track of our own fowl rosters this time. eBird is a very easy way to do that. Or you can write them down in a diary. […] So if you’d like to participate, satisfy schedule the chicks you’ve seen, referring your general venue and type of setting. Pointing out who are the new fledglings since last-place month will be useful information too. For me up to mid September:* My general locale is coastal northwest Washington state, a mix of habitats from shrubs to lumbers to roadside to beach overlook.* New birds: 3. New total for me: 73. ”

OceanDiver writes–The Daily Bucket – seals fishing: “October 13, 2019. Salish Sea, PacificNorthwest. Harbor seals are usually individualists at sea. They will haul out at close quarters on stones and islands but once out fishing, each travels their own way. Usually. On this day there were at least four in this bay. It was hard to tell because they were diving most of the time, as they do, shooting down fish, merely surfacing to take a breath and seldom get a look at what’s going on elsewhere. But I could tell there were two fairly far out from shore, and two nearer. One in particular was right below the bank where I stood.By the form of its face I can tell it’s a kid, likely assume the summer months, weaned in August. Every seal has a distinctive unique pattern of commemorates that perseveres through annual molts, so if I see this individual again I’ll know it’s the same WhiteEars.”

OceanDiver writes–The Daily Bucket – firstly of season Red-Breasted mergansers: “October 16, 2019. Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest. Blustery day yesterday. I grabbed a opening between the hurricane gust and raining rain to go out for my walkies. Halfway along I was endowed with a sighting well worth the rain that started really then. […] First Red-breasted mergansers of drop-off. These ducks migrate up to Alaska and northern Canada to breed. Fowls of North America calls them “late breeders”, with young fledging into September. They will hang out in the shallow waters of the SalishSea until spring, feeding on fish. birdsna.org /…”

PHScott writes–The Daily Bucket: A Year and a Bit : “A time and a bit ago Hurricane Michael affected the center of the Florida Panhandle; wiped out a entire cluster and marred much more. Tonight another tropical storm , not near as large-hearted, follows the same track across the Panhandle and into Georgia. Dang, certainly? Who plans these things? Not me that’s for sure. I spent most the day cleaning up my usual outdoor nonsense for the expected 30 -4 5 mph breaths. Surges to 50 maybe but it seems the gale is moving a little deep west( just like Michael) so maybe it’s simply rain and some wind and my 80 -1 00 ’ trees get another chance to toughen up for the next storm. No flood yet , no jazz. Looking at radar, it remains well offshore but at 20 MPH, Nestor will be here soon. I will not be sleeping in my berthed tonight — not in the bedroom next to the huge Water Oak leaning at 45 o right outside. Bless the large-scale Magnolia for hampering it up for the past year as the oak slowly decomposes and dusks in pieces. Or it gets really windy and bigger portions fall tonight. ”

North Flicker

Kestrel writes–Dawn Chorus: These State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their Government as the World Warms: “From Brad Plumer at The New York Times–Each state in America has an official state bird, often an iconic categories that helps define the landscape. Minnesota chose the common loon, whose haunting roars resonate across the state’s northern lakes each summer. Georgia picked the brown thrasher, a strenuously territory fledgling with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types. But as countries around the world heateds and chicks across the country relocate to escape the hot, at least eight commonwealths could see their territory birds chiefly or wholly disappear from within their borders over the summer, according to a brand-new study. The study, released Thursday by the National Audubon Society, projects that hundreds of bird species across North America are likely to drastically shift their compass in the decades onward in answer to rising temperatures and other threats from climate change.

The report promotes the future prospects that many bird species could struggle to cope as warming violences them into unfamiliar territory or shrinks their existing environments. And it highlights how exhaustively the avian life as we know it may be remapped if humans continue shooting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.”

CLIMATE CHAO

Meteor Blades writes–Summer sea ice had ceased evaporate, but 2019 ‘s grim Arctic news ought to spur aggressive activism: “Three-and-a-half weeks ago, right when Greta Thunberg and 6 million other young partisanswere gearing up for the Global Week for Future–the second in a round of ten-strikes and declarations aimed at persuading global leader to prove themselves unambiguously serious about the climate crisis–summer comes down to an rapid tip in the Arctic ocean as the sea ice reached its minimum length for its first year. This was hardly the biggest recent word about the Arctic, simply another milestone, a indication of the unruly, planet-wide alters we’re attending from Pole to Pole. It was another summer of Arctic heatwaves. The news from Greenland alone was astounding, with the ice sheet softening six experiences faster than it was in the 1980 s and a new phenomenon happening as the island’s ice cap softens’ like ice cream sliding off a piece of cake.’ […] If what happens in the Arctic stayed in the Arctic, the conversion going on at the top of the world right now would be troublesome merely for the 4 million people living in places like the near-Arctic Siberian city of Yakutsk where builds are literally tip-off over because of melting permafrost and for the 400,000 indigenous circumpolar families who are seeing whole townscollapsing for the same reason. As we know all too well, however, what happens in the Arctic will have far-reaching effects.”

teacherken writes–about world climate change: “I am on an emergency alert email system for severe weather. We have had almost no rain in the past month. We are in a drought. And perhaps 5 of every 7 days I get a severe weather alert for coastal flooding, 1-2 1/2 paws above’ normal.’ Except it now seems to be the new normal. […] And hitherto, we have some, including the occupant of the Oval and far too many elected Republicans both in DC and in state capitals, who do not want to accept the reality — and who challenge the social sciences. I hope more beings will take that into account when they vote, starting with elections in Virginia and Kentucky this fall.”

AmericaAdapts writes–You Can’t Handle the Truth: Rising Sea Levels and the Law: “In episode 98 of America Adapts, which is a re-release of bout 64, Doug Parsons talks with Margaret Peloso, of the law firm Vinson and Elkins. Margaret shares penetrations from her book Adapting to Rising Sea level: Legal Challenges and Possibility. Doug and Margaret dig into topics such as the conversion of private tract to public ground as the oceans rise; adaptation and the public trust doctrine; coastal Superfund places and corporate responsibility; will eminent domain drive coastal scheduling in the years ahead and much more! Bonus material, Jesse Terry and Alex Wong share their music album about climate change! ”

ClimateDenierRoundup writes–WSJ Columnist Uses Baby-Eating Attack on AOC to Misrepresent Bernie, Environmentalists: “Last Thursday, WSJ columnist Joseph Sternberg exploited his perch at the’ political economics’ blog, which’ chooses on personal revelation and experience’ to talk about the E.U ., to talk about AOC, Bernie Sanders, Japan, and babes. In a piece named’ A Hostile Climate For Children ,’ Sternberg writes that AOC just’ couldn’t relatively returning herself’ to say no to the’ faux constituent’’ prankster’ that asked about eating babies–a thesis that substantiates Sternberg’s willingness to participate in an self-evident ruse, even while we appreciate it as such. He connected the scam with a response Bernie Sanders held at the recent climate town hall, when he said that reaching sure wives have access to birth control is “a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe.” From there, Sternberg mentions Prince Harry’s announcement that he would only have two children for environmental intellects, before finally getting to his object: Japan’s low-toned birth rates. Japan’s waning population growth is, as Sternberg writes, a social issue that’s cause for concern. But what he doesn’t memo is that it’s in no way actually related to or caused by environmental concerns.”

ECO-ACTION& ECO JUSTICE

cultureanimal writes–Four Million Marchers Were Not Enough ! “According to The Guardian, large-scale greenhouse gas emissions data are traditionally collected at a national level, but this new report focuses on fossil fuel producers. Compiled from a database of publicly available radiations digits, it’s intended as the first in a series of pamphlets to highlight the role corporations and their investors could play in tackling climate change. This report found that more than half of world-wide industrial emissions since 1988( its first year the Intergovernmental committee of experts on Climate Change was established) traced back to simply 25 corporate and state-owned entities. The scale of historic radiations is connected with these fossil fuel producers is large enough to have contributed significantly to climate change, according to the report. Entitled the Carbon Majors Report, it’s found that direct wars like[ Jane] Fonda’s are necessary to save us from the atmosphere crisis. Fonda was arrested for blocking the Capitol steps. It’s important to block traffic, stop drawbridges from opening, turn the valves off, and do anything else that will get attention and stop business as usual. Four million of us rallied worldwide and good-for-nothing has changed. We need direct act like Fonda is taking! ”

Dan Bacher writes–Extinction Rebellion attaches worldwide direct act – State Capitol die-in mount for Thursday: “Extinction Rebellion Sacramento will join the October International Rebellion when it impounds a funeral procession, kudo and die-in at the State Capitol( North Steps ). The direct act begins at 11:15 a.m. at 1100 L St. with a funeral procession, followed by the eulogy and die-in at the North Steps of the Capitol. […]( 4) We requirement a only transition that prioritizes the most vulnerable people and indigenous sovereignty; supports mends and remediation is presided over by and for Black beings, Indigenous people, people of color and good communities for years of environmental sin, launches legal rights for ecosystems to thrive and renovate in perpetuity, and fixings the effects of ongoing ecocide to prevent extinction of human and all species, in order to maintain a livable, merely planet for all.”

CANDIDATES, STATE AND DC ECO-RELATED POLITIC

6412093 writes–NYT, CNN play Gotcha! with Senator Kamala Harris’ Environmental Record: “Since Senator Harris served six years as the Attorney general of California, and forcefully enforced some of the toughest environmental laws in the US, and world, she should benefit from her stellar environmental accomplishments. But The New York Times and CNN have accused Harris of misrepresenting her environmental record. Their vitriol began to flow after a climate change forum, when a moderator asked Harris what she would do about global warming and beings polluters like Exxon that lie about it. www.nytimes.com /…‘ I’ll sue them, ’ Harris said,’ I’ve indicted Exxon.’ The New York Times fact-checkers now claim that Harris never indicted Exxon over global warming controversies. This is a classic contingency of Gotcha !, because Harris, as senator, recently deferred an amicus summary to assistance a prominent global warming court suit against Exxon and others, filed by California municipals, although she did not sue Exxon herself. But the NYT never disclosed that Harris had provided this important and caring filing of a amicus brief on behalf of a global warming suit against Exxon. They earmarked the impression that Harris had done nothing against Exxon on this issue, and that she fibbed about it.”

Angmar writes–Climate change: Shame on CNN and the New York Times moderators for discounting the environment crisis: “The climate crisis was everywhere and nowhere to be found in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate. American foreign policy–and conflicts in the Middle East, specially- are deeply bound up in the politics of oil, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. The conflict in Syria discussed at length can be linked to historic droughts fueled by rising temperatures, which propagandized numerous beings off district they could no longer farm. The Wall Street banks Elizabeth Warren worked to regulate through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau- an enterprise Joe Biden made recognition for creating–have funneled $1.9 tn into the fossil fuel industry since the adoption of the Paris agreement. And the billionaires Bernie Sanders hopes to eliminate have some of the largest carbon footprints on Earth. Given that it’s the context in which all politics over the coming century will play out, ever-accelerating climate significances can already be found in virtually every policy field brought up on stage last darknes. Various applicants- Sanders, most frequently- used a matter of them as a connection to talk about rising temperatures and a Green New Deal. Debate moderators with CNN and The New York Times only couldn’t be riled to mention it.”

REGULATIONS& PROTECTION

Meteor Blades writes–Knowing they would lose, Democrat push Senate vote on pathetic Trump radiations convention as poll tactic: “Amid the roars and demurrers and changed rationalizations accompanying the ever-growing exposure of the Trump regime’s roster of crooked behavior, a tactical move by Senate Democrat scarcely made a ripple in the media Thursday. Senators voted 41 -5 3against blocking Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy rule that eco-activists and others view as a gift to the fossil fuel industry. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said,’ Time is running out for the U.S. to meet the existential threat posed by climate change and that’s why this rule is such a grave mistake.’ Among other things, the Environmental Protection Agency itself has stated that the ACE would make 1,400 more extinctions yearly than would follow under the Obama era’s Clean Power Plan that the Trump rule replaces. Knowing from the outset that they would lose, Democrat pushed a elect anyway, understanding in it a matter with which to hammer vulnerable Republicans in the 2020 elections.”

Hunter writes–Trump EPA appointees bypassed residual of agency to devise contends ‘specifically to target California’: “This is the sort of thing that would have been considered a legitimate scandal in the last Republican administration, and would have caused Fox News to ruminate its own foot off in the last Democratic one. The New York Times wishes to report that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency principal, Andrew Wheeler, circumvented the agency’s California office and pretty much everyone else in order to taken together claims on a’ human feces’ problem in California that Trump would quickly enlarge in his pissant little campaign against the regime in September. Yes, that was several dozen gossips ago. The Times reports that Wheeler’s claims were’ put together by a small group of political nominees in Washington designated solely to target California, according to three current E.P.A. officials.’ First off , no kidding. And second off, this differentiates Wheeler and fellow Trump nominees as explicitly using their government office to invent a political demand against California for the self-evident sole reason that Donald, fuming hate-pustule, wanted to attack California and needed fodder for it.”

ENERGY

Fossil Fuels

ClimateDenierRoundup writes–Big Gas Running Same Ol’ Misinformation Playbook To Paint Gas as Climate Friendly: “A few weeks ago we talked about the brand-new advertisings the American Petroleum Institute is running that declare natural gas is a climate solution, and how the ads present fossil fuel corporations are altering away from outright denial. While you don’t need us to tell you that API is full of hot air, considering this prevents coming up, and Trump is speaking ata natural gas happening next week, we thought we’d dive into the substance of the issue. Or, well, we’d dive into a great fact-check of the ads by Justin Mikulka published the coming week at DeSmog. First, API claims that the US is reducing emissions thanks to natural gas. We know this isn’t true-life because the US isn’t reducing emissions at all–we viewed a 3.4 percentage rise in 2018. Mikulka points out that API is likely referencing power sector emission exclusively, but even so, while emissions resulting from that sector are down from their high in 2005, they rose nearly 2 percent in 2018. Plus, it’s not fair for natural gas to claim full responsibility for this decline in radiations, considering jazz and solar have also been superseding coal.”

Walter Einenkel writes–Bankrupted PG& E repudiates San Francisco’s bid to buy back the electricity grid: “At the beginning of Sept. San Francisco offered to buy Pacific Gas& Electric’s( PG& E )~ ATAGEND electrical grid in the city for $2.5 billion. The vitality being registered for insolvency in January, after historic wildfires ruined California, to move to billions in drawback occasions against the company. At the time city attorney Dennis Herrera told reporters,’ There has been a lack of investment in infrastructure over such courses of the past few decades by PG& E. And that is, and was, caused chiefly by pursuit of gain. That’s not something that San Francisco is going to be pursuing. We’re not interested in profit. We’re interested in providing safe inexpensive ability to ratepayers rather than trying to make sure that stockholders are get some immense proportion of return on their investment.’ On Monday, Reuters wishes to report that PG& E CEO Bill Johnson replied to the San Francisco offer with a character of his own, saying,’ Although we cannot accept your volunteer, we want to clearly communicate that PG& E intends to continue working with the City to best serve the citizens and businesses of San Francisco. Mayor London Breed and lawyer Dennis Herrera, who sent the initial offer to the energy company, said they were not surprised by the response, but would continue trying to get control over the city’s power grid.”

Dan Bacher writes–Newsom commissions two top oil regulators – one a former Chevron staffer – to Dept. of Conservation: “On October 12, Governor Gavin Newsom nominated David Shabazian as the brand-new superintendent of the Department of Conservation, and Uduak-Joe Ntuk — a former Chevron staffer — as the brand-new divide overseer, which operates under the Department of Conservation umbrella. On the same day, the Governor likewise indicated various greenbacks, including AB 1057 by Assemblymember Monique Limon( D-Santa Barbara ), which renames the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Source( DOGGR) the Geologic Energy Management Division.’ It also specifies that its mission include protecting public health and safety and environmental quality, including the reduction of Greenhouse Gas radiations, ’ according to the Governor’s Office.”

Renewables, Efficiency, Energy Storage& Conservation

Meteor Blades writes–Study proves 4% of U.S. workforce and 7% of GDP come from green economy’s $ 1.3 trillion in auctions: “A new study released by Palgrave Communications Tuesday estimates that the U.S.’ lettuce economy’ hires 9.5 million people and cranks out $1.3 trillion in annual auctions income. That’s 4% of the nation’s workforce and 7% of gross national product. It’s likewise 16.5% of the global green economy. U.S. light-green sales rose 20% between 2013 and 2016, and they are expected to rise further as more campaigns are made to reduce the impacts of the environment crisis. During that same four-year period, the coal industry appreciated the loss of another 37,000 undertakings. The study ascertained extremely large-scale increases in renewable energy, with consultancy and wind energy rising 9.36% and 8.56% respectively in 2015 -2 016. That strong demonstration was more than three times the GDP growth rate for the same period. Competition is rising. China plans to create 13 million clean-living intensity rackets by the end of next year.”

Mokurai writes–Renewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting II: “Yes, kinfolks, it’s Oil and Gaslighting time again. We looked at the Power Past Impossible campaign not long age. This time we are going to look at a different industry association, the oxymoronic Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, and its worldwide corporate members. They are publicly in total prohibition that electrical motor vehicles and grid storage and ever-cheaper renewables are about to give them the Death of Many Thousand Cuts that coal has been going through. I leave you to imagine the language they are using about that in private.”

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TRANSPORTATION& INFRASTRUCTURE

Mokurai writes–EV Tuesday: Informants and Approaches, With Poll: “Welcome to the first EV Tuesday from the EV Revolutions group. We will look at various kinds of electrical vehicle, from scooters to carries and spacecraft, and how EVs can save the planet, with assistance from other technologies covered in Renewable Friday Diaries. There wasn’t room in Renewable Fridays for all of the topics that have been coming up, as we start to take a serious bite out of the Global Warming crisis. Mokurai and Rei are authors to start with, and we welcome more voluntaries. PM Mokurai to get started. And once in a while, we will look at “cat-o-nine-tails” ascertaining new ways to ride Roombas. It isn’t merely hoomanz who can show ingenuity, you know.”

WILDERNESS, FORESTS, PARKS& OTHER PUBLIC LAND

Dan Bacher writes–Plans to Privatize National Parks Outlined in Trump Adminstration Memo: “A new memoranda from a Department of the Interior’s industry-ladened’ Made in America’ Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee planneds recommendations to privatize America’s national parks, which would lead to’ blackout’ dates for majors, and reward multiplies.’ While the move would hurt working Americans, it would crowd the pockets of Trump donors who stand to ensure that there is rewarding contracts. New reporting from Yahoo News discovers the privatization push by industry and private corporate concessionaires, ’ according to a press release from the Western Values Project.’ David Bernhardt and President Trump won’t quit until the American beings are left totally empty-handed, and special interests own our outdoor heritage. Privatizing America’s public campsites and jacking up national park costs to appease big-business concessionaires and strong corporate safarus donors is just the latest egregious attempt to rip public regions out of public handwritings, ’ said Jayson O’Neill, Western Values Project Deputy Director.”

Colorado Blue writes–Trump administration issues plan to lift limits on logging in the Tongass rainforest – Updated: “OMFG. Another daytime another number of senseless insane vandalism by the CREEPS in the White House. Facing climate catastrophe and hurtling categories these Morons want to log in the last intact temperate rainforest in America. Damn these beings. Is there NOTHING they wouldn’t do for short-term gain? President Trump said a reversion of the longstanding limits on tree shorten in the Tongass National Forest at the request of Alaska’s exceed elected officials, on the grounds that it will improve the regional economy. The administration first moved the idea in August after Trump spoke to Alaska’s governor. Critics say that shelters for the purposes of the’ roadless rule, ’ finalise just before Bill Clinton left office in 2001, are critical to protecting the region’s lucrative salmon fishery and tourism operations.”

Walter Einenkel writes–Trump administration moves to open up the largest U.S. national forest to logging and proliferation: “At the end of August, Donald Trump reportedly told his Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to loosen up the logging restriction on the United States’ largest national forest–Tongass, in Southeast Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is home to over 16 million hectares of trees and wildlife, and for private industry that conveys lots of money. The Trump administration released a’ USDA Forest Service Seeks Public Comment on Draft Environmental Impact Statement , Alternatives to a Proposed Alaska Roadless Rule, ’ మంగళవారం. Inside Climate News reports that the Trump administration’s aims here are to exempt the rainforest area from the Clinton-era Roadless Rule , opening up 10,000 old-growth acres to logging. But there’s a lot more: If legislated, it would allow roads to be built throughout the now-protected area, and it would alter 165,000 old-growth acres and 20,000 young-growth acres previously identified as unfit beam regions to suited beam lands.”

AGRICULTURE, FOOD& GARDENING

Wee Mama writes–Small life spoofs for a vegetable garden-variety: “Someone said that the only work done in paradise was gardening. I do agree that done with a light hand, keeping a vegetable plot comes close to paradise: healthful, yummy meat, healthy workout, better carbon footprint, lighter environmental impact. What’s not to like? Our exclusively significant light-headed is in our breast yard, so that’s where we grow our veggies( and some returns — that’s another period ). The front bunks has been an increase over occasion and now cover approximately half the front garden. We play around a bit, enjoying the hortoporn of the Fedco catalog and trying brand-new assortments or brand-new floras. It’s not serious; “theres no way” to flunk at it. A few decades of gardening has given us a number of tips to share.”

beaky writes–Saturday Morning Garden Blog Vol: 15:42 Saturday, October 19, Gardening As Community Service : “I am the Vice President of the Board of Trustees of my county library. We have one library building for the entire county and it is located in the county seat which has the largest population of around 7600 beings. It is an historic building with an addition added in the 70 ’s or 80 ’s. Our Director has been requiring something to be done with this garden plot by the front entrance but doesn’t know anything about gardening so asked to provide my promotion. As you can see it is a very sad little garden story. కాబట్టి, we met at a neighbourhood plot center and I picked out seeds. Then, on a Sunday, because the library is closed, my husband and I set to work. […] After getting everything out of the bunked we contributed mushroom compost and peat moss to improve the soil. Then, lastly, the merriment responsibility. This is a north facing garden that goes morning sunshine so I picked out seeds that can handle shade but will also hold their hue over the winter.”

Pitiful before

Glorious after

MISCELLANY

gmoke writes–Donella Meadows’ Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems: “Donella Meadows’ Guidelines for Living in a World of Systems[ my observes ]: Get the lash of the system.[ music and dance ]. Expose your mental poses to the light of day. Honor, respect, and disperse intelligence. Use language with care and enrich it with organizations theories. Pay attention to “whats important” , not just what is quantifiable.[ organisation failing is too often the first evidence to what’s important] Form feedback programmes for feedback arrangements. Go for the good of the whole.[ Sarvodaya, a abstraction from Gandhian financials *] Listen to the wisdom of information systems. Locate responsibility within the system. Stay humble – stay a learner. Celebrate complexity.[ and recognize simplicity] Expand go scopes. Defy the disciplines. Expand the boundary of caring. Don’t erode the goal of goodness. My observes to Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems at http :// hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/ 2017/09/ summary-of-systems-principle.html.”

Austin Bailey writes–5 Things: Fossil Fuels Denial, So Does Big Tech, Citizens’ Assemble, Little Plastics, 2x Vodka: “Citizens’ assemblies have been used to create public policy in numerous democratic countries including Canada, Ireland and Australia. In Great Britain, Extinction Rebellion to appeal for the use of this instrument to make the process of developing climate policy away from legislators who are often more beholden to corporate interests than the public good. Extinction Rebellion has three areas where they believe that a citizens’ assembly could produce more enlightened public policy such as the initiation of a formal “climate emergency” declaration, implementing authority commitments to carbon neutrality by 2025 and … Their third demand is for the public to drive climate policy through a citizens’ assembly. Because parliamentary republic — under pressure from lobbyists and terrified of large-scale trade-offs — has proven unfit for such challenges, says Linda Doyle of Extinction Rebellion.”

Austin Bailey writes–5 Things: Primate Extinction, Trump’s Best, Costly Recycled Plastic, Clouds& Ghosts, Banned: “As a is part of that guild, humans need to consider that what happens to the smallest, most innocuous primate can happen to those species at the top of the food chain as well. Sadly, the greatest danger to the world’s primates are homo sapiens. With 43 percentage of the world’s primates classified as critically endangered or endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Category, it’s feeling like the time to help them is now.’ Their respective reports exposes the dour prospects of some of the world’s most incredible animals. Despite this, I still have hope that this is not too late, ’ said Christoph Schwitzer, chief zoological policeman at Bristol Zoological Society and IUCN Red List Authority coordinator for the SSC Primate Specialist Group.’ There is an unprecedented level of interest in world environmental issues, particularly among the younger generation, many of whom are more aroused, intense and motivated than ever before to do their responsibility to help make a difference. It is this kind of support, combined with effective conservation measures, which is vital if we are to avoid losing these wonderful and charismatic swine forever’. I most recommend construe the report( PDF here )~ ATAGEND.”

Austin Bailey writes–5 Things: Airline Meal Waste, Natural Gas PR, Clean Water& Beer, PG& E, Saving Coal Power: “If you’re an airline fare, you’ve had a airline meal at some point in your wanderings. Unless you’re in 1st class, the first thing you will notice is that your banquet immediately has generated more plastic trash than actual food. As you look around, you’ll also notice that most of your fellow travelers are leaving more menu on their trays than they are eating. కాబట్టి, it’s no astonish that your less than satisfying airplane banquet will generate more waste than nutrition. Airline passengers produce 3 pounds of debris per person per flight, according to British research. This includes disposable beakers and headphones, cloths, menu parcel, uneaten meat, and more. All of this goes to landfill or gets incinerated, depending on the requirements of the country in which the plane has property; and none is recycled, as regular flights are not equipped to deal with separate litter series . … When the form of airline junk are developed by 145 flights into Madrid was analyzed by the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change, they found that’ 33 percent was food waste, 28 percentage was cardboard and paper waste, and about 12 percent was plastic’.”