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Just finished Hunted ;-) and started Empire of AI. Love our local library!

Always. With family in Lithuania, I understand the stakes.
Slava Ukraini!

Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary) For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens. Standards, certification schemes and corporate sustainability policies have all aimed to…

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For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens.

And while these systems have helped reduce future damage, they remain largely unequipped to deal with the harm that has already occurred.

** The views expressed are author's.

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining? The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats. It once ranged widely…

The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats.

For World Lion Day on Aug. 10, Mongabay looks back at some of our coverage this year of the challenges that Panthera leo faces.

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.…

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

#BelieveInYourself, attain #prosperity, and #dotheimpossible this week! #youcandoit ❤️

American, and right there with you.

#YESquote: Hood Wellness/ Tamela Gordon - "There is no crystal strong enough to transmute the fluidity of #racism ...For those of us who exist w/in #marginalized #intersections, #wellness can never be in pursuit despite our identit[y] [but] must always prioritize it." #WellnessForAll bit.ly/4lZNZby

Meiselas: And it's certainly not anti-Semitic to criticize what Netanyahu is doing...you can have basic humanity and speak out against atrocities that are happening in Gaza and watching people starve to death, and that does not make you antisemitic at all.

Thank you for sharing - however, the #LIVEdammit #CafePress shop has been taken down: CafePress is marketing shops that sell #AlligatorAlcatraz merch.
Looking for an #eco-conscious #ethical #printondemand platform for products that walk their talk! #WeWontProfitFromPain #HealTraumaDontCauseIt

Keep Colbert on Air! We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount? The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as Stephen Colbert, have already been sacrificed

#WolffBites: Stephen Colbert got fired, CBS sold him and us out, billionaires and Trump won. But we long ago lost a free press. To be free, it would have to NOT be owned by billionaires.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

A great man, a great journalist, and a great patriot has died. #RestInPower. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

The word "hatred" in the Bible means "lack of compassion," an apathy, coldness, abstractness that prevents love of neighbor or is indifferent to it. But the Western rationalist tradition has inculcated [abstraction] into our patterns of thinking & acting...[educating] us in hatred. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

He's quite right that the individuals escalating the situation are criminals and insurrectionists: JAN6 insurrectionists.

Chief among the "mistakes": ignoring Muslim voters, not questioning election results when experts were petitioning her to do so, & certifying the election with multiple-multiple reasons not to do so. We are in our current crisis because of her action & inaction. Complicit, tainted, untrustworthy.

Or, as modern science indicates, a dance of interdependence and deep interconnection. Corruption belongs to human(un)kind, not nature.

A photograph of a downed log lying across a dirt trail in a dense, sun-dappled forest. The large tree trunk dominates the foreground, its bark weathered, split, and partially illuminated by a shaft of direct sunlight filtering through the forest canopy. The surrounding area is shaded, with tall trees casting long shadows and undergrowth filling the forest floor. A mix of grasses and low vegetation grows alongside the trail, while a few young saplings lean toward the filtered light. The log appears old and partially decayed, its exposed wood cracked and textured from years of weathering. The trail curves gently to the right, disappearing into deeper shadow. The scene is quiet, still, and layered with detail, capturing a moment of natural decomposition and regeneration typical of temperate deciduous forest ecosystems.

You want to talk about resilience?
Look at this thing.
Still holding light. Still feeding fungi. Still in the shot.

Falling apart isn’t failure.

It’s participation.

#YESquote: Microjoys/Cyndie Spiegel: “I’ve only ever known impermanence. It taught me that though life may be fleeting and fragile, it is equally stunning & profound in its precariousness. What is here today may not be tomorrow; loss & grief are simply layers of a life—a life lived.” bit.ly/4kxFnb7

“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”
-Euripides

#YESquote - How to Do Nothing/Jenny Odell - on shifting from self-driven, "git 'er done" rush-rush errand-running into paying attention:
bookshop.org/a/109848/978...

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

#YESquote: Catherine Gildiner/Good Morning Monster on surviving #concentrationcamp: “1st: shock, 2nd: apathy, 3rd: depersonalization... [Viktor] Frankl...points out that in every situation, there is always freedom of choice, even in extreme suffering.” #GiveYourLifeMeaning bit.ly/43CFvAo

#YESquote: from Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. #LIVEdammit

"...And transcending them is the ultimate point. The bittersweet is about the desire for communion, the wish to go home." #Balance #LIVEdammit #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth bit.ly/4d6DQ9F

#YESquote: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole/Susan Cain - "The tragedy of life is linked inescapably w/ its splendor....Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them....

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