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Citizens & youth are winning lawsuits! Incriminating Exxon papers are found by UCS. Here is the link.

Reducing fishing, protecting marine areas, and banning large trawlers help. Activists are organizing in the Blue Frontier movement. David Helvarg wrote about saving the seas in the Progressive. He wrote Saved by the Sea:Hope, Heartbreak, and wonder in the Blue World.

The same few scientists have been paid to lie to create doubt about the dangers of smoking, fossil fuels, global warming, nuclear war, and missile defense systems. The movie plays in Boulder at the Boedecker July 15-18. Here is info on the book.

White pelicans rhythmically lunged their bills down into the shallow water while swimming together yesterday morning at Walden Pond. At 7pm I hiked up a foothill to watch the sunset. Canyon wrens sang their swinging, descending notes in the twilight. One darted about on the cliff face. Other birds flew out and back, like a flycatcher. Later as it became dark, I heard a poorwill's sweet call from the hillside. There were gallardia, yellow cone and purple cone flowers, and bats. In the dark, I sensed a large animal about 20 feet away, and I relaxed after I realized it was a deer.

Here a couple organizes and gathers signatures to gain the right to garden.

Here is the link.