Tag: environment
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Clean Water Victory: Supreme Court Rules Against Hawaii Polluter and Trump Administration
But why is it “bizarre” to take into consideration how groundwater moves over time? What’s bizarre is to allow any pollution of our groundwater at all by a big, industrial source.
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Rumple Oxbridge: “The Death of Old King Coal”
By Rumple Oxbridge , imaginary rhymer-in-residence at The Pacific Old King Coal was a polluted old soul And a sick old soul was he. He called for his pick, and he called for his shovel And he called for his draglines three. Every dragline needed one man, Just one man and greed To scrape the heads of […]
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Cartoon: “Mountaintop Decapitation” by Khalil Bendib
(Khalil Bendib is OtherWords’ cartoonist. OtherWords.org ) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
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“Wisconsin is Open for Business” Lobbyists or Welcome to North Texas
(Photo by By Jonathan McIntosh [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons) By John Kaufman We in Wisconsin owe a great debt of gratitude to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency without which we would likely be facing the prospect of a huge new iron ore mine in the lovely, hilly, wetland-blessed Penokee Hills and having the […]
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Feeding the Birds: a poem
Feeding the Birds By John Kaufman for W.S. Merwin Here in the city we try to remember the birds, offering seed to nourish nothing but flight and song. We have sown plants and trees to nullify the lawn and streets a little, restore the forest and farms. And when the gulls fly by I always […]
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Special Morning Confusion: U.S. Fails to Support Carbon Pricing at U.N. Climate Summit
At Tuesday’s U.N. Climate summit, President Obama spoke of the United States and China, as the world’s two “biggest emitters” of carbon dioxide, as nations that “have to lead” the world on climate change action. A welcome waft of clarity. But the U.S. did not join 73 other countries, (including China, the European Union, Germany, […]
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More Than 300,000 March for Action on Climate Change in NY
Using crowd spotters and a mathematician, organizers of the People’s Climate March estimate that about 311,000 people marched yesterday through the streets of Manhattan for action on climate change. Hopefully this show of public concern will spur some action at the upcoming United Nations climate change summit. But as The Guardian reports today, the U.N. […]
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News from the People’s Climate March, New York City
People’s Climate March coverage via Politico. People’s Climate March website.
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Celebrating World Shorebirds Day
As someone who likes to saunter and sit along shores, I was pleased to learn via Oceana that tomorrow, Sept. 6th, has been declared World Shorebirds Day, a celebration which includes a global shorebird count. The group that created the day was founded by a Hungarian bird conservationist named Gyorgy Szimuly, and the website can be […]
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Let Them Eat Golf in Wisconsin
[So much for my summer blogging silence. But these days errant opinion (that of others, not my own) seldom takes a vacation.] What’s the strategy for improving both the environment and economy of Wisconsin? According to the Kohler Co. and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial Board, it’s golf. Yes! to yet another Kohler Co. golf […]
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Silent for the Summer
Posts on The Afternoon Journal will resume in September with a more national, diverse perspective. In the meantime, please see the list of the most recent posts and comments (as well as archived content) in the left sidebar. JK
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Sharing Some Intellectual Property
Sometimes property can get too intellectual, if you know what I mean. According to Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, one of the state’s rising industries is something called “agricultural tourism.” Says Kleefisch, “Visitors from all over the world are coming to Wisconsin to view our advanced agricultural operations, to learn more about our hybrid biotech seeds, to […]
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Friends of the Black River Forest Oppose Another Golf Course on the Lake Michigan Shore
A newly formed group of Wilson, WI residents called Friends of the Black River Forest has issued a press release on its website. The group is opposed to the proposed Kohler golf course on forested property the company owns along the Lake Michigan shore in Sheboygan County. I previously wrote about the golf course proposal (it would be […]
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Don’t Let Wisconsin Become the Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
(Thanks to writer Eric Hansen for relaying much of this information.) Today at the Superior Public Library in Superior, WI, the Wisconsin DNR is holding a public hearing on a permit (a simple air pollution permit) which would allow Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline corporation, to begin to expand the “Line 61” pipeline that slices right through the heart […]
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Can’t See the Forest for the Tees in Sheboygan County
Protect and preserve 247 acres of pristine forest close to Kohler Andrae State Park on the shore of Lake Michigan or build yet another golf course (number 5) in Sheboygan County? It is now clear that the Kohler Company, which owns the forest land in question, prefers the latter choice. And what about the rest of us? Speaking as […]
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The ongoing irony of Wisconsin’s open-pit iron mine law
Speaking of iron mines and irony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board today published an editorial claiming, yet again, that there is nothing wrong with GTAC’s proposed iron strip mine in the Penokee Hills of Wisconsin and the Republican’s iron mining bill that a little “tweaking” won’t fix. After noting that, as expected, the feds will not honor the iron mine bill’s […]
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