Tag Archives: #NationalParks

Environmental Presidential Directive

Posted on 03/02/2025 by srplus

The importance and necessity of a healthy environment and functional ecosystems has obviously escaped this Republican President and the MAGA movement and its supporters, including those legislators who fail to speak up against environmental justice and have gone full in … Continue reading →

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Drill Baby, Drill

Posted on 02/03/2025 by srplus

The administration faces trouble with President Trump’s promise to open up and exploit more federal lands and federal waters, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to oil and gas drilling. Although the president has declared by Executive Order a … Continue reading →

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Teddy’s Exceptional Contributions

Posted on 10/27/2024 by srplus

Sometimes it is important to have a knowledge of history to realize what is possible in the future. Great people contributing to the environmental movement have gotten us where are. Theodore Roosevelt’s contribution set aside public lands to preserve them … Continue reading →

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Medical Intervention

Posted on 05/01/2024 by srplus

“Never has so much been written by so many, to be read by so few.” My friend Ian defined blogs for me years ago when I mentioned that I had one. I’ve become consumed by SPOF… Single Point of Failure … Continue reading →

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Book or Podcast?

Posted on 02/12/2023 by srplus

Sometimes it is not possible to improve the words of others; Silent Spring ushered in an understanding of ecosystems and biodiversity for American voters. It educated them about the horrible outcomes – the cause and effect of chemical use and … Continue reading →

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ProtoEnvironmentalism

Posted on 02/11/2023 by srplus

Thinking of those that came before us to launch a movement based upon conservation and preservation… They admonished us about DDT, nuclear fallout and the loss of our rivers to pollution and damming. By their action, by their words and … Continue reading →

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World Ocean Day

Posted on 06/09/2022 by srplus

Today is World Ocean Day. The gallery was posted on USA Today… Amazing photos of marine life… Great slide show: https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2021/06/08/world-ocean-day-amazing-photos-marine-life-under-sea/7549971002/ This URL was shared by 1 Million Women on their FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/worldoceansday That is all. Take a Lick … Continue reading →

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Our Ocean Dump

Posted on 05/29/2022 by srplus

‘The adage “out of sight, out of mind” has long summed up humans’ attitude to dumping personal and industrial waste. In a 1974 Scientific American article, the oceanographer Willard Bascom wrote that “the ocean is the plausible place for man … Continue reading →

Lipstick On A Pig

Posted on 05/20/2022 by srplus

“OUR NEW INITIATIVE: TOGETHER, WE’RE COMMITTED TO GETTING EVERY BOTTLE BACK Our plastic bottles are made to be remade. We are carefully designing them to be 100% recyclable – even the caps. Our goal is for every bottle to become … Continue reading →

There is no free lunch!

Posted on 05/04/2022 by srplus

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last released data on the recycling rate for plastics in 2018 it was 8.7%. Not only is the amount recycled less and has dropped to between 5 and 6%, but the total amount of single … Continue reading →

What Plastics Are the Least Recyclable?

Posted on 05/03/2022 by srplus

All of them? Seriously, with less than 10% of plastics recycled, it is quite disingenuous for the manufacturers of soda and other beverages packaged in single use plastic bottles to make claims of their 100% PET bottle recycling goal. Good … Continue reading →

Eating Garbage

Posted on 04/29/2022 by srplus

It may be possible. There is much work to do. Let’s get started. “The project focuses on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a significant polymer found in most consumer packaging, including cookie containers, soda bottles, fruit and salad packaging, and certain fibers … Continue reading →

YUP, That’s Greenwashing

Posted on 04/27/2022 by srplus

“The attorneys for bottled water company BlueTriton admitted that its environmental claims were false. They insisted the greenwashing was non-actionable because the statements were aspirational.” Aspirational in this case means using deliberately misleading or deceptive and inaccurate marketing and advertising. … Continue reading →

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Impact of Banning Single Use Plastics

Posted on 04/24/2022 by srplus

Governments around the world have started to ban and effectively outlaw many types of single use plastics. This is having a huge and measurable impact on our environment. Less plastic and microplastics garbage on our beaches and in our landfills … Continue reading →

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Our National Parks

Posted on 04/16/2022 by srplus

After Blue Planet and Blue Planet II executive producer James Honeyborne and series producer Sophie Todd have embarked upon a video tour of our planet’s National Parks and how nature when protected and left on its own can recover from … Continue reading →

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