FIGHTING AND WINNING AGAINST DATA CENTERSfrom 2026 in ( life / health / environment / water )great news about how a community in Oregon got their elected officials to vote against a data center proposal. And there's another example of a town coming together to fight against another one. Great examples. Are people starting to realize these data centers are ushering in a global police state? I hope so.... read more EMBRACING NATURE'S WISDOM: DESIGNING FOR HARMONY, NOT CONTROLfrom 2025 in ( life / health / environment / tech )Prompted and edited by Bill.For centuries, human innovation has often been framed as a battle against nature--conquering the elements, bending the environment to our will, and engineering solutions that impose control. But what if, instead of fighting nature, we learned to collaborate with it? Across the world, architects, farmers, and ... read more CALIFORNIA HAD RECORD RAINFALL, LACKED STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE DUE TO MISMANAGEMENTfrom 2025 in ( life / environment / politics / weather )I was thinking the same thing. Glad these guys, below, did the research. Despite record rainfall last year, wildfire-ravaged California could not store it due to a lack of infrastructure in the Democrat-ruled state. Critics have challenged Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's call to avoid politicizing such issues, claim... read more RESURFACED CLIP OF GOV. NEWSOM BOASTING OF TAKING DOWN A DAMfrom 2025 in ( education / news / politics / environment )
The Rubin Report spoke to Dr. Drew Pinsky about the catastrophic wildfires raging through Los Angeles and Gavin Newsoms resurfaced clip boasting about the Klamath dam removal to protect certain fish species at the expense of California's water supply as LA's fire hydrants run out of water. Partial Transcript Dr. Drew: And.... read more NO FLOODING THAT I KNOW OF ANYWHERE NEAR MEfrom 2024 in ( life / environment / weather / conspiracies )Is this affecting the Nashville area? bitchute.com/video/3iBN8IZmkz6SWatch on Bitchute On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 6:58AM someone wrote: I was just about to ask the same question. I hope everyone is ok On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 08:47:37 AM PDT, The worst of it hit east of here in... read more BILL GATES FUNDING SCHEME TO CUT DOWN 70 MILLION ACRES OF FORESTSfrom 2023 in ( life / health / environment / trees )Gates needs to be stopped.Because Earth is a closed system, the amount of carbon on the planet never changes. The carbon cycle is vital to life on Earth. Nature tends to keep carbon levels balanced, meaning that the amount of carbon naturally released from reservoirs is equal to the amount that is naturally absorbed by reservoi... read more WHEN IS ARBOR DAY?from 2022 in ( culture / holidays / environment / trees )Yes, I know today (6/19/2022) is both Father's Day and Juneteenth, but I wanted to know when Arbor Day was. You know, add it to my calendar. Welp, as it turns out, that's not such a simple question. Here's the response I got when I asked the good people at ArborDay.org: I think on a website devoted to any particular holiday, first a... read more AT 5,000 YEARS OLD, ANCIENT CYPRESS IN CHILE MAY BE WORLD'S OLDEST TREEfrom 2022 in ( life / environment / trees )In 1993, a cypress tree stump in Chile was confirmed by tree-ring-counting as 3,622 years new, showing the capacity of these slow-growing relatives of sequoia to endure through centuries. However, another scientist recently found that a living individual, known as the millennium... ww... read more WIND ENERGY COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY FOR KILLING AT LEAST 150 EAGLES; ORDERED TO PAY $8M IN FINESfrom 2022 in ( education / environment / energy )Serves them right. There's a new kind of windmill that has no blades, and therefore kills no birds. See search.brave.com/search?qbladelessturbinesa new kind of windmill .By B.N. Frank Opposition to wind turbines and farms is worldwide. Experts have insisted for years that... read more WIND ENERGY COMPANY FINED $8 MILLION AFTER TURBINES KILL AT LEAST 150 EAGLESfrom 2022 in ( education / environment / energy )All windmills/turbines with blades, no matter what they're made of, need to be replaced by one of these: search.brave.com/search?qbladelessturbinesa new kind of windmill .Bald Eagle and Wind Turbines A company that runs wind farms was fined $8 million this week after its wi... read more RADIOACTIVITY AROUND CHERNOBYL REDUCED BY 47% USING ONLY PROCESSES OF EARTHfrom 2021 in ( life / health / environment )Wow, this is great! Next stop Fukishima?As they committed to doing last April, on the occasion of the 35th commemoration of the Chernobyl accident, the Swiss-based company Exlterra has reported spectacular results after one year of decontamination on a 2.5 acre plot of land (1 hectare), located in the radioactive...... read more HOW TO ATTRACT GROUND NESTING BEESfrom 2021 in ( life / health / environment / wildlife )A bee is a bee right? Wrong. There are actually many different types of bee, from the fluffy bumblebee which lives as part of a large colony, to the solitary bee. While the honey bee lives in a hive, the carpenter bee prefers to make its home by drilling into wooden objects. Some varieties can sting while others cannot.... read more FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ORDERS EPA TO BAN ALL FOOD USES OF TOXIC PESTICIDE CHLORPYRIFOSfrom 2021 in ( life / health / environment )By Julia Conley The environmental law organization Earthjustice celebrated a huge victory for farmworkers and children on Thursday after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban all food uses of a toxic pesticide linked to memory loss and... w... read more IT'S WORKING! VIDEO SHOWS DEER, BEARS AND MORE USING UTAH'S FIRST WILDLIFE OVERPASSfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment / wildlife )titleclick for larger image href/images/utah-b37f42f657ed05229809e40cd0a066d7-1024x597.webp 'It's working!' wrote DWR on social media, adding, 'As you can see, the 2nd year of this overp... read more CONSERVATION: AT LEAST 28 BIRD AND MAMMAL SPECIES HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM EXTINCTION SINCE 1993from 2020 in ( life / health / environment )Researchers from the UK analysed some of the world's most threatened species and predicted how many would have gone extinct were it not for conservation...: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech... read more FORESTRY TECHNIQUE TO AVOID CUTTING DOWN TREESfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment / trees )Japan's Ancient Forestry Technique Produces High-Grade Lumber With No Need to Chop Down Trees. The daisugi technique, like bonsai, is a forestry technique that involves heavily pruning the mother tree which allows narrow saplings to shoot upwards.: titleanother way to save... read more URBAN FORESTS OF NY REVEALED: THE CITY HAS 5 MILLION TREESfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment / trees )Most visitors think of New York's parks as the only place to find trees. However, a new study found New York City has over 5 million 'forested natural areas' along with 666,000 street trees.: h... read more RAW VIDEO OF NASHVILLE TORNADO AFTERMATH (2 MINS)from 2020 in ( life / environment / weather / tornadoes )Here's the video:tornado video (156mb) . It was taken March 11, the week after the tornado, on Eastgate Blvd. in Mt. Juliet where they have that big auto auction site you can see from I-40.... read more SIMPLE RECIPE FOR HOMEMADE NON-TOXIC FABRIC SOFTENERfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment )Fabric softener sheets are one of the most unnecessary dangerous chemicals that you may be using in your home, and it's important that you stop. We have been gravely misinformed and maybe we believe there are some kind of standards set by our governments. Unfortunately, it seems these protection agencies, for the most part, do... read more IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE BEES, LEAVE THE DANDELIONS ALONEfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment / home-garden )The British Ecological Society is encouraging people to mow around dandelions, buttercups, and other flowering weeds to help pollinators.... goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/Read, listen or watch t... read more BEES ABSOLUTELY LOVE CANNABIS, AND IT COULD HELP RESTORE THEIR POPULATIONSfrom 2020 in ( life / health / environment )New research out of Cornell University that's been published in Environmental Entomology, shows that humans aren't the only fans of cannabis... at themindunleashed.com/2020/01/bees-... read more TIME FOR TREESfrom 2019 in ( life / health / environment / trees )timefortrees.org/Time for Trees . Another worthy cause.Humankind is All organic lifeforms are facing a crisis: our ability to survive and thrive is at risk. Air and water pollution is rampant. Weather patterns are shifting at an alarming rate. Poverty is widespread. Th... read more REDUCE WI-FI TO ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES AND BEES TO YOUR GARDENfrom 2019 in ( life / health / environment / home-garden )Attract butterflies and bees to your garden, reduce wi-fi. A happy garden is a wireless-free garden. Decades of research has already determined that plants and insects as well as animals and people are harmed by exposure to wireless radiation.R... read more HOW WILDLIFE BRIDGES OVER HIGHWAYS MAKE ANIMALS -- AND PEOPLE -- SAFERfrom 2019 in ( life / health / environment / wildlife )I love this! Bridges for bears and tunnels for tortoises have significantly reduced the number of wildlife-car collisions worldwide. nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/wildlife-overpasses-underpasses-make-animals-people-safer/... read more 5G COMING TO OHIO AND TENNESSEEfrom 2019 in ( life / health / environment / wireless )And that's not a good thing. See also blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/at-senate-commerce-hearing-blumenthal-raises-concerns-on-5g-wireless-technologys-potential-health-risksSenate commerce hearing and hrefglobalresearch.ca/health-risks-associated-5g-... read more LEAVE THE TREES, PLEASEfrom 2017 in ( life / health / environment / trees )Another reason for short-sighted land developers to leave as many trees as possible when destroying/preparing the site for the next new neighborhood. People living in neighborhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress. To watch, hear or read the rest, g... read more ADJUSTED TO WINTERfrom 2016 in ( life / health / environment / weather )You know you've adjusted to winter when you walk outside to 45F degrees and think It's not bad out here!... read more COLD DAY IN NOVEMBERfrom 2012 in ( life / health / environment / weather )It was cold today in Nashville! The high for the day was only about 45. I guess that'll feel warm if we get that in January, but still.... It's supposed to get down to the mid-20s tonight. I know, I know. You all in Chicago and Moscow are saying pfftt!But that's why -- among other reasons -- I don't live in t... read more MORE EVIDENCE POINTS TO PESTICIDE AS CAUSE OF MASS BEE DEATHSfrom 2012 in ( life / health / environment / insects )So, literally, for the sake of human survival, please stop using at least this one pesticide by Bayer! A new study published in Naturwissenschaften -- The Science of Nature by a leading bee expert provides damning evidence that a widely-used pesticide, even at low levels, is responsible for the recent catastrophic decline in hon... read more LINK BETWEEN EARTHQUAKES AND HYDRAULIC FRACTURINGfrom 2011 in ( education / civics / politics / environment )... injecting water into deep rock formations causes earthquakes ...: tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/environment/21487-us-government-confirms-link-between-earthquakes-and-hydraulic-fractu... read more WAYS TO SAVE WATERfrom 2011 in ( life / health / environment / water )Great site: titlesave water hrefgoinggreenconsulting.wordpress.com/category/water-conservation/Ways to save water Graywater is the water that goes down the drains from your washing machine, bathroom sinks and showers. When you stop to think about it, the average top-loading washin... read more COOL SOLUTION TO CLEAN UP OIL DISASTERfrom 2011 in ( life / health / environment )Don't know if they used any of this on the BP oil disaster last year, but good to know for future events. youtube.com/watch?vYQuk68SjyEY. Bring2Help2 VIDEO .... read more FALL IS DEFINITELY HEREfrom 2010 in ( life / health / environment / blog )It was actually cold all day today, but that didn't stop me and Elizabeth, then the pugs, from spending half of our day outside! First, we went exploring the new neighborhood being built nearby. I don't know why they're building. There's plenty of existing houses that no one wants to buy. Whatever. At least they've created lo... read more AMNESTY DAY AT THE DUMPfrom 2009 in ( life / health / environment )That sounds weird, but I just returned from the dump/recycling center, in my case the one on Omohundro Drive. I dropped off the new dishwasher along with my usual recycling and household trash. Anyway, the woman there told me that today (Saturday, May 15) is an unadvertised amnesty day when you can drop off ANYTHING (other than nuclear wast... read more |
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