Aloha Happy Bluebird Friday!
Bluebirds are in the thrush family of birds, related to the American
Robin. Native to North America, there are three types of bluebirds:
eastern bluebird, western bluebird, and mountain bluebird. For thousands
of years, they have been associated with happiness. Besides being known
as both a harbinger and symbol of happiness, they are known as symbols
of love, good health, cheerfulness, new births, and home. Today we
celebrate them for all the joy and happiness they are associated with
and bring.
At 50, Greenpeace is an environmental success story — with a daunting future
Today, the group with
small beginnings in Vancouver has grown into one of the most
recognizable environmental organizations in the world. Greenpeace has a
presence in more than 55 countries, with nearly three million members
globally.
The lessons for British Columbia in Alaska’s epic Bristol Bay sockeye
The world’s most abundant sockeye fishery is teeming with 10 million
more fish than anticipated this year.
Sauk-Suiattle tribe sues Seattle City Light, demands it can’t call itself ‘green’
The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe took the city of Seattle to task in a
class-action lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of its members and the
public, stating the electric utility’s green power claims are misleading
and hurting the tribe.
Fairy Creek’s old-growth logging protests injunction remains temporarily: judge
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge suggested Thursday he will
consider new options to address the future of an injunction against
blockades by people opposed to logging old-growth trees on part of
Vancouver Island. He
said he will not deliver a decision Friday on the company’s application
and his ruling will come after Sept. 26.
Valuable crab populations are in a ‘very scary’ decline in warming Bering Sea
King and snow crab populations in the Bering Sea have plummeted ahead of
the harvest season, some by 99% compared to previous years.
What Canada’s environment and climate policies will look like under a Liberal minority government From eliminating fossil fuel subsidies to support for nature-based climate solutions and protected areas, here are some key things we can expect from the new federal government.
Swinomish tribal members say steelhead net pens violate fishing rights, add their voice to state Supreme Court case
The Swinomish Tribe has joined as a friend of the court in a lawsuit
to block permits that allow steelhead farming in a commercial net pen
just offshore near Hope Island.
Southern resident grandmother orca 'missing and likely dead'
The Center for Whale Research has declared mother and grandmother L47, or Marina, in one of the Puget
Sound’s endangered southern resident killer whale pods “missing and
likely dead.”
Orca census shows some improvement, but many whales still die before their time
The annual census of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales reports that the number of whales in L pod now totals
33, J pod has 24, and K pod has 16.
EPA Moves To Sharply Limit Potent Gases Used In Refrigerators And Air Conditioners
In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the
Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production
and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly
used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
Even a green city like Bellingham has learned it’s not easy to cap demand for fossil fuel
In late 2019, mere weeks before the first U.S. case of coronavirus case
was detected 60 miles south, the city council of Bellingham, Washington,
gathered for a presentation from its Climate Protection Action Plan
Task Force: nine community members charged with drawing up a road map
for Bellingham to achieve its goals for cutting carbon emissions.
Ysabelle Kempe reports. (Investigate What/Grist)
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