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How to Get Rid of Water Stains From Your Ceiling
Even if the rest of a room is impeccably clean, decorated, and designed, a water stain on the ceiling can easily become the focal point, making the space look and feel dingy and neglected. Read more...
You Can Embrace 'Cluttercore' Without Your House Looking Like a Yard Sale
The year was 2019—January 1st, to be exact. Eight episodes of a show called “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” dropped on Netflix, aligning perfectly with all the resolutions made the night before by people vowing to organize their homes...
Plant These Succulents to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden
When we think of plants that attract pollinating insects, flowers with stamens, pistils, and visible pollen come to mind. But not everyone lives in an area where growing plants of that variety is feasible.Read more...
Pesticide Action Network
New report: Corporate influence at FAO
Corporations are gaining increasing influence at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), at the expense of states, small scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples and civil society. But far from resisting this corporate capture...
California rejects sweeping pesticide program
Our California work saw a major victory this week – a Sacramento County superior court judge has ruled an aggressive state pesticide spraying program unlawful. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) authorized the...
Pesticides are a hurdle to environmental justice
A new open access paper on environmental justice (EJ) and pesticides describes how current U.S. laws, regulations, policies, and practices perpetuate disparities in pesticide exposure and harm. The paper has an illustrious list of co-authors...
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Justice for Dogs Allegedly Imprisoned in Death Cages
Three dogs were found deceased and decomposed inside of a cage, their deaths allegedly due to the reckless indifference of their caretaker. Demand proper punishment if this disturbing case results in a guilty verdict...
Don’t Turn Away Victims of Next Humanitarian Crisis in Genocide-Ravaged Nation
Refugees are traveling as far as 4,000 miles to escape threats to their lives in Rwanda, the former site of deplorable genocide. Demand a key place of refuge not slam their doors on desperate families...
Stop Bank of America From Financing Climate Disaster
Bank of America is driving the climate disaster by investing billions of dollars in fossil fuel companies. Call on this financial giant to stop putting profits over our planet.
More sanctimonious idiocy. Power generation is a basic of what we used to call progress in those long ago days before wind ( Remember clipper ships ? ) and sun ( remember night time ? ) were thought to be realistic alternatives to full time baseload supply.
Unexplained Mysteries
Elephant kills woman, then returns to crash her funeral
The elephant not only killed the woman, but came back especially to trample all over her remains as well. The disturbing incident, which occurred in O...
Pieces from real-life 'Goonies' shipwreck found off Oregon coast
Timbers from the 17th-Century Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos have been discovered after 300 years. The famed vessel, which became the inspirat...
Why are we unable to remember being born ?
Psychologist Vanessa LoBue explores the phenomenon of 'infantile amnesia' and why we can't remember our earliest years. Whenever I teach about memory ...
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