Posts Tagged ‘Nature’

Chemical Companies Object to Mrs. Obama’s Organic Garden

This seems like a silly thing to get your panties in a bunch over, but they are nonetheless.  They even wrote a letter to send to Mrs. Obama about it and forwarded it to their supporters with a little message.  Here it is from La Vida Locavore:
Did you hear the news?  The White House is [...]

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Global Warming Denier Can’t Back Claims

What else is new?  From TPM Muckraker:

Paging Obama’s new environmental team: Fred Barnes has some crucial new information about global warming — it’s not man-made, apparently!
Problem is, Barnes won’t tell us how he knows that — but maybe he’ll tell you.
Check out this passage from Barnes’ latest column for the Weekly Standard:
Democrats couldn’t hide their [...]

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Top Ten Reasons Offshore Drilling is a Bad Idea

Oh Greenpeace, how do I love thee?  They’ve come out with a list of the top ten reasons to oppose offshore drilling and I just have to share it with you.  Here’s the link and here’s the list:
10. Offshore oil drilling won’t impact gas prices today, and it won’t have a significant impact on gas [...]

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The Other North American Bear

That’s right, the Black Bear and the Grizzly aren’t the only ones!  There’s actually a third: the Polar Bear! For the longest time, I would think of the polar bear as living in remote and uninhabitable places like the Antarctic, but no, there are actually polar bears in Alaska (not that Alaska’s not remote…).
What does [...]

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Geology at 30mph

Now I will tell you about the second day of my weekend, or Monday.  The first day’s events are recorded in the post previous to this one
Since I stayed up until 2am the night before, I had a very hard time getting up the next morning at 7:00am to make it to my [...]

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Stealthy Bison

This weekend (Sunday and Monday since those are the days I have off…we’ll call it the weekend at least) was incredibly busy.  I pretty much was doing something every second of the entire two days.
On Saturday, Tess and I got up early and went hiking out to Dollar Lake.  It’s a place that’s still within [...]

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Greenpeace Made Me Giggle

…but not in a bad way, more of a triumphant chuckle, really.
It’s all because of this article that was posted on Treehugger.com: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/greenpeace_coal_conference_activists.php
When a major coal conference was being set up, Greenpeace offered to sponsor the event, working through a misleading name.  It wasn’t until someone discovered that the “company’s” website redirected you to Greenpeace’s [...]

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The View is Better from Horseback

Part 2 of my Little Voice review is going to have to wait while I tell you all about my lovely horseback ride yesterday. 
There are three horses that live and work at the park during the summer.  They winter in greener pastures, if you will, but they come back to Great Sand Dunes when summer [...]

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Hiking and Talking

Life and Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (or GRSA as it’s known to the National Park Service) is wonderful.  Really!  Where else could you look outside your front window and see the tallest dunes in North America?  Where else could you go for a 10 mile hike through pristine wilderness just by driving [...]

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