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Planning the next move out here on the left coast.

Here you will find art, ska, and news good or bad about the environment.
Pinned
This is the ultimate tipping point. The crushing of the jewel in the crown of America's only original idea. Contact your elected representatives. Contribute to legal funds. Go there if you can. This must be stopped!
Trump Administration Opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Drilling
In its latest push to develop Alaska's energy, the Trump Administration is reopening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
www.outdoorlife.com
Franklin Carmichael - Grace Lake , 1931
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This summer, Kristi Noem began requiring that she personally approve any DHS payment over $100,000. Since then $143 million has been paid to a shadowy Delaware LLC connected to her friends and family.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Big trouble in Tehran, and a harbinger of life on the Canadian prairies after Rocky Mountain glaciers have melted.
www.reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mirsoslav Šašek - Night Lights of Picadilly, 1959
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On the difference between empty pledges and current policies, which have worsened due to the Trump effect.

Pledges say world oil and gas demand will peak this year, but current policies mean demand could grow until 2050.

Talk and burn. Talk and burn. Talk and burn.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mob grazing enhances the landscape by simulating the effect of grazing by migratory herds. It works everywhere ungulates once roamed free.
Why ‘mob grazing’ may help protect drought-hit Senegal’s vast grasslands
A regenerative scheme has shown early promise, with herders hopeful it can restore degraded pastures
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"The United States of America is as dumb as we want to be on this topic, but the state of California is not."

Newsom is stepping into the void made by Trump.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tom Thomson - Autumn, Algonquin Park, 1916
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Emily Carr - Heina, 1928
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A.Y. Jackson - 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘮𝘢, 1920

First snow, yes, but this piece is clearly influenced by his experience in the trenches of WWI.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Things are not always as they seem.
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Arthur Lismer - Winter in the Northern Woods, 1915
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Drax destroys ancient British Columbia forests, grinds them into pellets, then burns them to generate electricity in the UK -causing health problems due to elevated atmospheric particulates. The UK government subsidizes this criminal activity. Petition your elected representatives to stop this.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Alaska has been poaching BC, WA and OR salmon for years, catching so many fish that some runs are suffering an existential crisis. This is permitted and even encouraged by the state. It must be stopped.
Alaska's Dirty Secret
Stand up for BC salmon. Alaskan fisheries harvest BC salmon headed home to spawn.
www.alaskasdirtysecret.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Lawren Harris - Snow II, 1915
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Clarence Gagnon - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘯𝘰𝘸, 1933
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by RudeBoy
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Lawren Harris - Shimmering Water, Algonquin Park, 1922
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hope never dies.
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by SamCookeVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Can you imagine how breathtaking it would be to see free-ranging bison migrating across the prairies and rangelands?
Restoring the buffalo way of life - Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Bringing bison back to their lands, and reconnecting Indigenous peoples to their ancestral ways of life is meaningful work.
y2y.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Tom Thomson - View from a Height, Algonquin Park, 1916
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A climate chart by Zachary Lobe, 2025
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
'Without [CDFIs], small business owners and entrepreneurs may turn to credit cards or payday lenders for capital.'

'North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis, a supporter of the program and member of the Senate Banking Committee, called the move to defund them “amateurish.”'
Trump’s war on ‘woke’ forces community lenders to cut services or close
A year ago, Karlene Sinclair-Robinson was writing loans and hosting education seminars for small businesses and entrepreneurs as finance director of a community development financial institution, or CDFI, in northern Virginia. Now, she’s helping shut it down for good on December 31.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Arthur Shilling - Girl with Dreams, 1983
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM