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medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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LISTEN: Joel Brogon bears testament to his history and the majesty of his home -- and the peril it faces -- in the stately song "Here on the Rio Grande."

https://rainbowrodeomag.com/listen-joel-brogon-honors-the-earth-here-on-the-rio-grande/

#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq #Texas #RioGrande #EarthDay

#EarthDay #ClimateAction #TrumpTower

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5h2by3mpysstkwiy5wsgkhxl/post/3mk44d5dql22j

ADORO IL GENIO - KARMA

Un invito ad evitare la reazione di #madrenatura in occasione dell' #earthday🌎 2026 che, come sempre accade in queste occasioni, evitiamo di celebrare nel giorno preposto.

#adoroilgenio #28febbraio #karma #badkarma #eco #ecosostenibilità #giornatamondialedellaterra🌍 #GiornataDellaTerra #ecosostenibile♻️ #inquinamento #video #commercial #commercvials #pubblicita #pubblicità #Spot #SpotTV #comunicazione #azioneereazione

WATCH: 22 years ago, a group of neighbors started an ecovillage in Cincinnati. Now, it spans 4 streets in East Price Hill, #Cincinnati, #Ohio #EcoVillage #Gardening #Sustainability #EarthDay
https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/cincinnati/east-price-hill/22-years-ago-a-group-of-neighbors-started-an-ecovillage-now-it-spans-4-streets-in-east-price-hill

Kaye Kittrell: Happy Earth Day and 14th Anniversary! #earthday https://www.allforgardening.com/1727279/kaye-kittrell-happy-earth-day-and-14th-anniversary-earthday/ #14thAnniversary #CountryLiving #EarthDayMessage #EmptyNester #flowers #gardening #green #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood #GrowYourOwnVegetables #homesteading #KayeKittrell #LateBloomer #LateBloomerShow #LateBloomerUrbanOrganicGardenShow #organic #RainCapture #StartingOver #sustainability #SustainableHomestead #Tennessee #TennesseeGardening #TennesseeHomestead #VLog

Alle Räder stehen still, wenn die Sonne es so will

Nicht ganz.

Wenn die #Sonne satt scheint und die #PVAnlagen kräftig einspeisen, werden die #Windräder abgeregelt - bis zum Stillstand. Die #Netzbetreiber können mit dem Geschenk der Sonne nichts Gescheites anfangen, nicht einmal speichern, um #Dunkelflauten zu überbrücken.
#KatherinaReiche unterstützt einen #Speicher-Ausbau auch nicht. Sie hat nur #Erdgas im Sinn.

Heute wieder erlebt:

Bis etwa 16:30 Uhr standen alle #Windanlagen in dieser Region regungslos da. Dann durften sie loslegen und zeigen, daß die Luft sich auch während einer Schwachwindphase auf Nabenhöhe ordentlich bewegt.

Unsere #Solaranlagen zeigen bei Sonnenuntergang, was heute am #EarthDay los war.

#Solarthermie:

Der #Warmwasserspeicher ist auf 73°C aufgeheizt.

#Solarstrom (#PV):

1. Ostanlage (Bj. 2025, moderne #Bifazial-Technik, Ausrichtung 80°):
17,6 kWh bzw. 3,7 kWh/kWp

2. Westanlage (Bj. 1999/2000, damalige Polykristallin-Technik, Ausrichtung 260°):
11,1kWh bzw. 5,05kWh/kWp

Lufttemperatur um 19 Uhr: 16°C

Earth Day

Giornata della Terra torna anche nel 2026 con un’energia nuova e un tema che parla chiaro:

Restore & Rebalance

 un invito globale a ripensare il nostro rapporto con il pianeta. Se nel articolo del 2025 — che i lettori possono ritrovare qui: ⇓

https://perfettamentechic.com/2025/04/22/giornata-della-terra-earth-day/

si raccontavano le origini dell’Earth Day e il suo spirito pionieristico, quest’anno il focus si sposta sulle azioni concrete e sulle innovazioni ambientali che stanno ridisegnando il futuro.

🌍 Cosa c’è di nuovo nel 2026

• Raddoppiano le iniziative locali: dalle “strade verdi temporanee” nelle città europee ai laboratori di riciclo creativo per famiglie, l’Earth Day diventa sempre più un evento diffuso e partecipato.
• Debutto delle “Eco-Pledge Cards”: una campagna internazionale che invita ogni cittadino a scegliere un impegno personale per l’ambiente, da conservare per un anno.
• Tecnologie green protagoniste: nel 2026 si parla molto di bioplastica di nuova generazione, capace di degradarsi in poche settimane, e dei primi prototipi di micro-filtri domestici per ridurre le microplastiche nelle acque reflue.
• Focus sul Mediterraneo: l’Italia partecipa con un programma speciale dedicato alla tutela delle coste e alla riduzione dell’inquinamento marino, con eventi da Trieste a Palermo.
• Ritorno dei “Citizen Scientists”: migliaia di volontari raccolgono dati su biodiversità urbana, qualità dell’aria e presenza di insetti impollinatori, contribuendo a un grande database globale.

🌱 Un filo rosso con il 2025

Se l’articolo precedente raccontava la storia e il significato dell’Earth Day, il 2026 rappresenta la sua evoluzione naturale: meno celebrazione simbolica, più azione quotidiana. Il messaggio è semplice e potente:

la sostenibilità non è un evento annuale, ma un’abitudine da coltivare ogni giorno.

✨ Perché questa giornata conta ancora

Perché, nonostante i progressi, il pianeta continua a chiedere attenzione. E l’Earth Day rimane un’occasione preziosa per fermarsi, respirare e ricordare che ogni gesto — anche il più piccolo — può fare la differenza.

Autore: Lynda Di Natale
Fonte: web
Immagine: AI

#SacoME #EarthDay #Cleanup

Come Celebrate Earth Day in Saco!

April 24 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

"Registration is NOW OPEN!

Each year, the Saco Parks & Recreation Department offers an opportunity to bring the community together to clean up and prepare the local green spaces and parks for spring and summer! It is now more important than ever to focus on our green space, clean energy, eliminating waste, and becoming an eco-friendly community.

"#ecomaine is proud to be part of this year’s celebration! Stop by our table at the #SacoCommunityCenter at the start of the day to pick up #recycling resources, meet our education team, and learn about the sustainable waste programs available to Saco residents. At the end of the cleanup, we’ll be weighing the trash collected from parks, trails, and open spaces across the city so volunteers can see the real impact their community made together.

"Looking to get involved? Join your neighbors to volunteer in Saco and help clean up and prepare local parks for spring and summer. Duties include #TrashPickUp, #weeding, #mulching, raking, and more. This event is (light) rain or shine!


Schedule of Events:

When: Friday, April 24th, 2026
Where: Our very own Saco parks, schools, trails, and open spaces!
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm
Please meet at the Saco Community Center at 9:00am to check-in. Everyone who registers by the T-shirt deadline will pick up their shirts.
We will also have coffee and refreshments for everyone so that we can fuel up before we go!
Volunteers will disperse to your locations after we take a group photo!
Fee: FREE but must pre-register!
Ages: Volunteers under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult.


Earth Day Location Options:

Please only sign up for one location.

Options this year include:

Diamond Riverside Park: On Irving St. overlooking the Saco River.

Pepperell Park: Located around the Saco Dog Park and Fairfield School on Beach St./School St. - nice and quiet (and shaded!).

Front Street Park and River Walk Trail: On Front St. near the river and boat launch and includes the new walkway.

Cascade Falls Trail: Located on Cascade Rd. off of Route 1.

Haley Park: Located on King St. near the Saco Community Garden.

Saco Community Center: 75 Franklin St.

Saco Middle School: 40 Buxton Rd.

Memorial Park at CK Burns School: 135 Middle Street

Jubilee Park: Covered bridge park on Water Street.

Rendezvous Point & Outlook Cemeteries

If your preferred location has reached capacity, please register for another site. There are plenty of opportunities to help us prepare Saco's parks for the spring and summer!"

To sign up:
https://sacome.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=28247

#SolarPunkSunday #MaineEvents #EarthDay2026 #ParkCleanups #CommunitySpaces #CemeteryCleanups #BuildingCommunity #Volunteering

#Orillia - #EarthDay Documentary: Saving the #NightCaller

April 22 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Price: CA$10.00

Lakehead University – Orillia Campus
500 University Ave
Orillia, #Ontario L3V 0B9 Canada

"Celebrate Earth Day! Arrive early from 4 to 6 PM, explore community vendors, enjoy family-friendly activities and take a tour of the #IndigenousGarden.

Afterward, settle in for a screening of #WorkCabin’s documentary #SavingTheNightCaller, which follows conservation efforts to protect the elusive and enchanting #EasternWhippoorwill. The film will be followed by a discussion on local conservation work and community action, led by Mark Bisset."

FMI: https://www.birdscanada.org/event/earth-day-documentary-saving-the-night-caller

#SolarPunkSunday #BirdConservation #ConserveNature #NatureEducation #EarthDay2026 #Conservation #IndigenousGardening #Conservation

Earth Day with the World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/03/earth-day-2026-climate-change-global-action-protest-movement/

#EarthDayCelebrations #EarthDay2026 #SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay #Waste #Climate #WorldEconomicForum #WEF

#PhiladelphiaPA -🌱 #EarthDay Party & #ToySwap! 🎉

A celebration of community & sustainability!

"Join us for Rutabaga’s Earth Day Toy Swap & Celebration—a fun-filled day of community, sustainability, and play.

📅 Date: April 25th, 1pm- 4pm
📍 Location: East Falls Presbyterian Church, 3800 Vaux St.
💚 Event Cost: FREE to ALL
🎟 Toy Swap Ticket: $25 per bag (Donate in advance & get $5 off!)

What to expect:
- Plant a seed with Dirt Baby Farm
- Earth Day Circle Time with Greene Towne Montessori
- Live music from the Blumbellies
- Rutabaga merch
- Tie Dying Station - Buy a shirt or Bring your own Item to Dye!
- (Mostly Native) #PlantSwap – Bring your seedlings or transplants to swap
-Rabbit #Recycling table. Bring your recyclables: #PlasticBags, #Electronics/Tech (handheld or small), #Cables, #cords, #wires, #Cork, #RubberBands, #BreadClips, and #TwistTies
- Games with East Falls Presbyterian Church
- Decorate Tree Cookies with The Miquon School


How the Toy Swap works

Donate (optional, but awesome).
- Drop off toys and goodies the week before the event at EFPC or Rutabaga Toy Library to get $5 off your bag.

Show up on Saturday.
- Check in at the door, grab your ticket, and get to “shopping” the swap.

Fill your bag.
- Browse toys, books, games, decor, and stocking stuffers for all ages and fill your bag to the brim.

Feel good.
- You’re keeping great stuff in circulation, skipping new manufacturing and extra waste, and supporting Rutabaga’s Scholarship Fund.


How to Donate

To help us set up thoughtfully, please drop off donations ahead of time (starting 4/20) rather than bringing them the day of the swap.

You can donate toys ahead of time in two ways:

Bin outside East Falls Presbyterian Church (by the entrance) @ 3800 Vaux Street, East Falls

At Rutabaga Toy Library during our open hours, listed here

We just ask that donations are:
✨ Clean
✨ In working condition
✨ With all important pieces

Basically, if it’s something you’d be happy to find at a swap, it’s perfect.


Volunteer & Get Early Access

We’d love some helping hands to make the swap magical.

- Friday: Sorting and setting up donated toys
- Saturday: Welcoming folks, keeping tables tidy, and supporting the flow of the event

As a thank you, volunteers get early access to shop the swap before doors open."

👉 Sign up to volunteer and FMI...
https://www.rutabagatoylibrary.com/earth-day

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #BuildingCommunity #Recycling

#earthhour #earthday #animals

Unity Gardens prepares for Irish Day, Earth Day celebrations https://www.allforgardening.com/1659328/unity-gardens-prepares-for-irish-day-earth-day-celebrations/ #celebrations #EarthDay #garden #gardening #IrishDay #SouthBend #UnityGardens #WNDU

Take this, #flatearthers!

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/earthcube/

#flatearthers #earth #astronomy #Space #animation #solarsystem #astrophysics #Science #flatearthday #worldearthday #earthday #physics

Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! https://youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #FoodWeb #FoodChain

To mark Earth Day, World of Books is doing 4 for 3 on ALL pre-loved books.

You better believe my bookish mate and I got very distracted by that opportunity!

:blobcatbook: #WorldOfBooks #EarthDay #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #BookSky

Do you like your tea with #microplastics ? if you prepare your tea like this it could be an extra ingredient;

https://gaianism.org/reading-the-tea-leavings/

#enviroment #earthday
#EarthDayEveryday #religion
#degrowthmovement #grounding
#interdependance #TerraMadre
#MotherEarth #Gaia #Gaianism
#Gaianist #She #Earth_Centered #flora #fauna #FloraFaunaHabitat #SoilFauna #Gaian_Way #The_Gaian_Way #Gaiapunk #deforestation #BrazilSaysNoToDeforestation #DefundDeforestation #déforestation #pollution #PollutionGreed #NoisePollution #InsectDecline #insect #birddecline #bird #BirdWatching #BirdPhotogaphy #birdconservation #habitat_decline

William Gibson
@GreatDismal
[https://twitter.com/GreatDismal]

Still listening!

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Wetland Project
@wetlandproject
Apr 8
@wetlandproject slow radio broadcast is back on #EarthDay (April 22) - https://mailchi.mp/d2c4c619de73/wetland-broadcast-2024 - @local1073fm @chmaFM @kpovbend @RadioTacoma @khoiradio @WIUPFM901 @TheLakeRadio @FlirtFM @cc_canadien #wetlandproject #wetlands #ecoacoustics #soundart #climateaction
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It seems that a post of mine about getting rid of lawns has gained traction, so for that I say #thankyou.

Since #mastodon isn't algorithm based, I'm going to guess that this is a subject that a fair amount of people care about, which is so damn important. We only have #oneplanet and we have to do what we can to preserve it-- especially when on the whole the world is going to hell in a hand basket.

That said, I feel the need to specify this for due diligence:

I am not a scientist, I have no formal secondary education on the environment of which to speak. I just happen to give a shit, and want the best for us all.

#earthday #earthweekend #loveyourenvironment #selfreliance #selfreliancy #selfsufficient #selfsufficiency #homestead #homesteading #fediverse #federated

There's many uplifting stories for #EarthDay (#earthday23) in #TheIrishTimes today.
My own is the growing awareness that tree fruits (and nuts) are among the most sustainable foods that people can eat. I often like to think that it wasn't coincidence that the #GardenOfEden was filled with fruits.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/04/22/55-reasons-to-be-cheerful-this-earth-day/

The Political Project of MCRC v. EPA, 2

Second In A Series
Activists Afoot!

As I suggested in my first post in this series on MCRC v. EPA, the complaint filed by the Marquette County Road Commission would have us believe that “anti-mining” forces worked secretly with and even infiltrated the EPA, and the agency’s objections to CR 595 followed a “predetermined plan.” The EPA, it claims, had decided to oppose the haul road even before the MCRC application was reviewed.

This sounds like legitimate cause for concern: permit applications should be reviewed on their merits, not pre-judged and not according to some other anti- or pro- agenda. We certainly wouldn’t want someone in the Environmental Protection Agency to be “pro-mining”; there are enough well-paid mining lobbyists already haunting the hallways in Lansing and Washington, DC. But in this case, the anti-mining label is being used as a term of opprobrium, and to distort and deliberately misrepresent what the Environmental Protection Agency is chartered and required by law to do: in short, to enforce the Clean Water Act and protect the environment.

When it comes to proving the insinuations it makes, the MCRC complaint offers slim evidence.

For example, the complaint makes a big fuss over a November 28, 2012 letter from Laura Farwell, who lives in the Marquette area and is described here as “a prominent environmental activist.”  The letter is addressed to Lynn Abramson, then a Senior Legislative Assistant for Senator Barbara Boxer, and Thomas Fox, Senior Counsel of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, asking them to “weigh-in” with the EPA on CR 595. (Exhibit 1).

EPA must determine whether to uphold its original objections to proposed County Road 595 under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), pursuant to its supervisory authority over Michigan’s delegated wetlands permitting program. Tom may remember that during the August 30, 2011 meeting at EPA Denise Keehner of EPA’s office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds definitively reiterated EPA’s position and stated that the haul road would not happen.
Thus, this letter is to request, respectfully, that you weigh-in as soon as possible with the EPA on its decision.

The MCRC complains about Farwell’s use of the word “definitively” here and casts the 2011 meeting in a sinister light:

on August 30, 2011, a very different type of meeting regarding CR 595 took place at USEPA Headquarters in Washington, DC. MCRC was neither invited to nor informed of the meeting. In attendance (as far as is known at the present time) were top USEPA officials, Congressional staff, KBIC representatives, and a prominent environmental activist opposed to the construction of CR 595. It further appears that USEPA made no formal record of the meeting.

Without a formal record, it’s impossible to know what transpired at this meeting, and if the complaint is going to rely on Farwell’s memory of the conversation, then it should also take into account her intentions in paraphrasing and recounting it, one year after it took place. The language here — “a very different type of meeting,” “neither invited nor informed,” “as far as is known at the present time,” “no formal record” — doesn’t help in that regard, and it’s meant to suggest that conjurations were already afoot.

It’s clear the MCRC was not included in some discussions at EPA. There’s nothing extraordinary or illicit about that. All concerned parties had been meeting with and petitioning the EPA for several years at this point. The complaint is still a long way from proving that the EPA “surreptitiously met with a number of environmental activists vocally opposed to the road,” and an even longer way from proving that there was anything like an anti-mining coalition assembled in secret at the offices of the EPA.

In an ironic twist, these allegations of secrecy and whispering behind closed doors may come back to haunt the MCRC: at a Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting this month, the Marquette County Road Commission itself faced accusations that it had violated the Open Meetings Act in planning to bring its suit against the EPA. Public officials who intentionally violate that act are ordinarily fined and incur other liabilities; in this case, there would be some eating of words as well.

By November 28, 2012, the EPA had, in fact, “decided against the proposed haul road,” as Farwell puts it in the email she sent along with the letter to Abramson and Fox. The EPA had entered objections to the Woodland Road Application (in March, 2010) and announced their objections to CR 595 (in March, 2012).  Even so, a Fall 2012 public meeting held by the EPA “in Marquette…for more input” had Farwell worried. She was not at all confident the EPA would uphold its original objections to the haul road.  The matter was still far from being “definitively” settled.

Whatever reassurances Farwell was given at that 2011 meeting — or thought she had been given, or recalled having been given, one year later — were clearly at risk of getting lost in the bureaucratic shuffle. The purpose of her letter is to prevent that.

There is nothing surprising in all this. Those watching new mining developments in the Upper Peninsula are constantly having to chase after the EPA and demand that the regulator step in and do its job.

Jeffery Loman, a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and a former federal regulator, has repeatedly put the EPA on notice and complained of the agency’s failure to enforce the Clean Water Act.

In May of this year, the grassroots environmental group Save the Wild UP filed a petition with the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board, arguing that Eagle Mine was issued the wrong regulatory permit. The appeal requested that the EPA require Eagle Mine to obtain a Clean Water Act permit in order to protect the Salmon Trout River and other surface waters from the discharge of mining effluent. The Appeals Board did not contest the facts put forward in the petition, but dismissed it for lack of jurisdiction. They hardly proved themselves to be staunch allies.

So watchdogs and environmental groups, too, have reason to gripe about the EPA and often feel powerless in the face of bureaucratic inertia and ineptitude. Laura Farwell herself seems to have felt that way, and that’s why we find her asking Abramson and Fox for help. The MCRC complaint exaggerates her influence at the EPA when it describes her as “a prominent environmental activist.” The epithet is used here to create the misleading impression that within the offices of EPA Region 5 and the confines of Marquette County there are political opponents with resources to match the power of multi-billion dollar, multinational mining companies.

Laura Farwell and her husband Frank moved to the area in 2006 from Madison, Wisconsin. They are members of the St. Paul Episcopal Church and participate, along with their son Cody, in the church’s Earth Day tree plantings. The couple donated some money to the UP Land Conservancy. Farwell has also organized events for the Cedar Tree Institute, which works to bridge “faith communities and environmental groups.” (She is described on the Institute’s site  as “a concerned mother and local citizen.”) She is thanked for “working quietly behind the scenes” in a 2011 Earth Keeper TV video on the environmental risks posed by the Eagle Mine; and she’s copied along with many other local citizens in a Google Group post dated April 9, 2012, urging people to comment on CR 595 before the public comment period is closed.

Farwell’s commitments to land conservation are pretty clear, and while the complaint asks us to recoil in horror at the phrase “prominent environmental activist,” cooler heads are just as likely to be impressed by Farwell’s dedication to the people around her and the place where she lives. Maybe that dedication is all it takes to be a prominent environmental activist in the view of the Marquette County Road Commission.

Some locals, on the other hand, are legitimately concerned that nationally and internationally prominent environmentalists — like Bill McKibben, George Monbiot, Naomi Klein and their ilk — ignore the current situation around Lake Superior, or fail to give it the serious attention it deserves. National media have barely taken notice. Farwell herself admits that to the great and powerful in Washington DC “the proposed haul road may seem like some little back trail in the middle of nowhere,” but she urges that it will cut through “critical wetlands resources” and “enable the industrializing of this rural Great Lakes watershed by international mining interests.”

Farwell’s letter tries to create some urgency around the CR 595 issue by putting the road in context and specifying whose interests would be served by the industrializing of the region. A serious assessment of CR 595 would significantly widen the lens, taking into account the cumulative effects of all the new mining activities around Lake Superior: all leasing, exploration, development and active mining throughout northern Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ontario. Otherwise, we miss the big picture, and without that perspective, it’s just too easy to parcel out the land, the water, and the future of the region to the highest bidders.

The MCRC complaint, too, places CR 595 in the context of “mining and economic development in the Great Lakes region” in a few places, but only to make the specious argument that those who oppose or question the road are opposed to mining and therefore opposed to the region’s prosperity. These are the ideological leaps the complaint makes. Those who don’t make these leaps are called activists or anti-mining obstructionists. That is a political, not a legal argument.

It’s never too late to have a serious discussion of what sustainable economic development and true prosperity for the Great Lakes region might look like. How might we best organize our lives together in this place? is a fundamental political question. But at this juncture, it appears, the MCRC can’t afford to let that conversation happen. This lawsuit is an attempt to shut it down and stifle dissent. Where business leads, society must obediently follow. To question this order of things, as Laura Farwell seems to have repeatedly done, quietly, behind the scenes, is to commit some kind of nefarious act.

This is where the attitude on display in this complaint gets worrisome. With this lawsuit, the MCRC pretends to have the political authority to direct economic development in the region (not just to build and repair roads). But that is only pretense, and things in Marquette County are not as they appear. The public still does not know who is funding the Road Commission lawsuit, what they stand for and what they expect in return for their support. The real powers lurk behind the scenes.

#501c4 #antiMining #BillMcKibben #CedarTreeInstitute #CleanWaterAct #corporatePoliticalActivity #corruption #CountyRoad595 #CR595 #EagleMine #EarthDay #environmentalEthics #environmentalPolitics #environmentalism #EPA #GeorgeMonbiot #JefferyLoman #LauraFarwell #LundinMining #LynnAbramson #MarquetteCounty #MarquetteCountyRoadCommission #MarquetteCountyRoadCommissionVEPA #MCRCVEPA #mining #NaomiKlein #OpenMeetingsAct #politicalAuthority #politics #power #SaveTheWildUP #secrecy #StandUP_ #ThomasFox #TomCasperson #Water