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Menjaga Bumi untuk Generasi Mendatang: Tanggung Jawab Bersama dalam Konservasi Lingkungan

https://frnstudio.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/menjaga-bumi-untuk-generasi-mendatang-tanggung-jawab-bersama-dalam-konservasi-lingkungan/

slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

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

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

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

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

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

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

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

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

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

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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Tree planting, waste reduction, sustainability programs mark Earth Month efforts nationwide

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2026/04/24/312543/tree-planting-waste-reduction-sustainability-programs-mark-earth-month-efforts-nationwide/

#EarthDay
Gunung Rinjani
Lombok Island
Segara Anak lake
Rinjani mountain
Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain #photosky
#photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #sky #bluesky #lake #rinjani

Educators (of all kinds!), what are the films you love to teach with for Earth Day (or Earth Week or Earth Month), and why do you love them?

#Education #Homeschooling #EdTech #TeachWithFilm #EarthDay #EarthMonth #EarthWeek #Climate #Environment #Nature

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

What does it mean to be a "keeper"?

Check out the latest podcast episode of ONCE UPON A BAY, featuring the story of Baykeeper, from our scrappy beginnings to a formidable force defending the Bay 🌊

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.onceuponabay.org/episodes-launch/episode/4a6750bf/5-who-will-keep-this-place

And sign up for new episodes as they come out: https://once-upon-a-bay.kit.com/01c971c878

#sfbay #bayarea #sanfranciscobay #baykeeper #earthday #earthmonth

#sécheresse et #forêt en #Europe
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/edn-20260422-1 [ 🇬🇧 traduction automatique possible]

#statistiques #earthday #ODD

It's #EarthDay! 💚 Wondering what you can do locally to protect the Bay?

Throughout #EarthMonth, you can join us for our annual Clean Bay Challenge. As a Clean Bay Challenge volunteer, you'll protect the Bay by picking up trash in the places you already know and love. Baykeeper will provide the tools + tips you need to lead a safe and effective cleanup.

It is a great way for kids, families, and neighbors to make a difference together.

https://baykeeper.org/cleanups/

#bayarea #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #bayarea #volunteer #beachcleanup #trashfreebay

News From The Nest
10.46 Possibly four storklets having brunch, as we celebrate Earth Day.
16.21 Can confirm four storklets being tended to at Knepp.
https://whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/

#NewsFromTheNest #EarthDay2026 #ReturnOfTheStorklets #EarthDay #KneppEstate #WhiteStorkProject #SolarPunkSunday #Nature #Knepp #ReWilding #WildLife #BioDiversity #WhiteStorks #Storks #Stork #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #SaturdayStorks

🌎 For Earth Day, we're launching our newest climate film: The White House Effect!

Using exclusively archival material, The White House Effect tells the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis & how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.

The film explores how early promises of action were reshaped by political pressure and economic interests, and how those decisions set the stage for the climate challenges we now face.

Our film guides explore key themes of the film through reflection on leadership, responsibility, and more. Resources include a Climate Emotions Wheel and tools for centering hope through action and engagement. For grades 6-12, higher ed/adult and community use.

Learn more! https://journeysinfilm.org/film/the-white-house-effect/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=launch&utm_id=The+White+House+Effect&utm_term=Earth+Day&utm_content=link

@histodons

#EarthDay #EarthWeek #EarthMonth #ClimatePolicy #Education #Homeschooling #EnvironmentalStudies #CurrentEvents #Iran #Hormuz #Venezuela #Climate #Environment #USHistory #Movies #Histodons #Government #Netflix

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

@DoomsdaysCW

Isabella Tree's award-winning book, "Wilding," at World of Books
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/wilding-book-isabella-tree-9781509805099

#Knepp #ReWilding #IsabellaTree #Books #Wilding #EarthDay

@DoomsdaysCW

Isabella Tree's award-winning book, "Wilding," about rewilding the Knepp estate.
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/wilding-book-isabella-tree-9781509805099

#Knepp #ReWilding #IsabellaTree #Books #Wilding #EarthDay

#SurreyBC - #PartyForThePlanet

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Surrey Civic Plaza
11 am - 7 pm
Free Admission

"Party for the Planet is situated on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, including the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), and sǝmyámǝ (Semiahmoo) land-based Nations.

An environmental event for all-ages, Party for the Planet offers food trucks, a tomato plant giveaway, kids activities, and much more.

Featured events:

Sustainable Marketplace
Shop environmentally-friendly, artisan products made by local, small businesses from Surrey and the Lower Mainland.

Bike Smoothies
Hop on a #BlenderBike and pedal hard to turn the blender and make a smoothie!

Environmental Extravaganza
Learn about free environmental programs in Surrey from April to June.

No tickets required! Experience #WesternCanada’s largest, free #EarthDay event in the heart of Surrey City Centre."

FMI:
https://www.partyfortheplanet.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #EarthDayEvents #IndigenousArtisans #LocalArtisans #BritishColumbia #FirstNations

#SurreyBC - #PartyForThePlanet

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Surrey Civic Plaza
11 am - 7 pm
Free Admission

"Party for the Planet is situated on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, including the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), and sǝmyámǝ (Semiahmoo) land-based Nations.

An environmental event for all-ages, Party for the Planet offers food trucks, a tomato plant giveaway, kids activities, and much more.

Featured events:

Sustainable Marketplace
Shop environmentally-friendly, artisan products made by local, small businesses from Surrey and the Lower Mainland.

Bike Smoothies
Hop on a #BlenderBike and pedal hard to turn the blender and make a smoothie!

Environmental Extravaganza
Learn about free environmental programs in Surrey from April to June.

No tickets required! Experience #WesternCanada’s largest, free #EarthDay event in the heart of Surrey City Centre."

FMI:
https://www.partyfortheplanet.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #EarthDayEvents #IndigenousArtisans #LocalArtisans #BritishColumbia #FirstNations

#SurreyBC - #PartyForThePlanet

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Surrey Civic Plaza
11 am - 7 pm
Free Admission

"Party for the Planet is situated on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, including the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), and sǝmyámǝ (Semiahmoo) land-based Nations.

An environmental event for all-ages, Party for the Planet offers food trucks, a tomato plant giveaway, kids activities, and much more.

Featured events:

Sustainable Marketplace
Shop environmentally-friendly, artisan products made by local, small businesses from Surrey and the Lower Mainland.

Bike Smoothies
Hop on a #BlenderBike and pedal hard to turn the blender and make a smoothie!

Environmental Extravaganza
Learn about free environmental programs in Surrey from April to June.

No tickets required! Experience #WesternCanada’s largest, free #EarthDay event in the heart of Surrey City Centre."

FMI:
https://www.partyfortheplanet.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #EarthDayEvents #IndigenousArtisans #LocalArtisans #BritishColumbia #FirstNations

#SurreyBC - #PartyForThePlanet

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Surrey Civic Plaza
11 am - 7 pm
Free Admission

"Party for the Planet is situated on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Salish Peoples, including the q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), and sǝmyámǝ (Semiahmoo) land-based Nations.

An environmental event for all-ages, Party for the Planet offers food trucks, a tomato plant giveaway, kids activities, and much more.

Featured events:

Sustainable Marketplace
Shop environmentally-friendly, artisan products made by local, small businesses from Surrey and the Lower Mainland.

Bike Smoothies
Hop on a #BlenderBike and pedal hard to turn the blender and make a smoothie!

Environmental Extravaganza
Learn about free environmental programs in Surrey from April to June.

No tickets required! Experience #WesternCanada’s largest, free #EarthDay event in the heart of Surrey City Centre."

FMI:
https://www.partyfortheplanet.ca/

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #EarthDayEvents #IndigenousArtisans #LocalArtisans #BritishColumbia #FirstNations

We all know about #KneppEstate from @MaQuest 's informative posts!

#London - #Wilding - #Docunight in for #EarthDay

Friday, April 24 • 6:30 PM - 9 PM

St. James' Church
Prebend St
London N1 8PH

"Join us for movie night celebrating nature, hope and friendship. We'll watch Wilding following the #Knepp's estate work with the land.

Join us for a community screening of Wilding, the documentary telling the story of the #KneppEstate, one of the most influential #rewilding projects in the UK.

Hosted in our #CommunityGarden, this screening invites us to come together and explore what happens when land is allowed to recover, and how rethinking our relationship with #nature can transform landscapes, #biodiversity and our understanding of #conservation.

Arrival from 6:30pm | Screening starts at 7:00pm

This is a chance to gather, reflect and reconnect with the possibilities of nature in both rural and urban contexts.

Tickets are £5 to cover the screening rights, if by any chance this feels innaccessible please come anyway. This is a community screening :) "

Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilding-docunight-in-for-earth-day-tickets-1985866578394?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

#SolarPunkSunday #MovieNight #LondonEvents #LondonEngland #EarthDay2026 #RewildingUK

When is #EarthDay? #NYC goes #CarFree to celebrate

by Amethyst Martinez, April 9, 2026

Excerpt: "Earth Day is on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

"Car-free Earth Day takes place the following weekend on Saturday, April 25.

"#NewYorkCity shuts down streets across all five boroughs, allowing residents to #walk and #bike while taking advantage of a wide range of events hosted by the Department of Transportation.

"The tradition, which started in 2016, has become a fan-favorite across the city.

" 'Car-Free Earth Day has expanded to locations throughout the five boroughs – connecting #OpenStreets, #plazas, and accessing over 1,000 miles of NYC's #BikeNetwork,' the website says.'

[...]

"On the city's car-free day, public #art installations, musical performances, arts and #crafts and #workshops will all take place."

Learn more [includes list of street closures]:
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/earth-day-nyc-goes-car-202825568.html

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #BikeTooter #NYCEvents #CarFreeStreets

RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@tamarasellman/116332257265057922

Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday and #EarthDay / #EarthMonth!

#WellsME - #EarthDay Celebration

Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 10:00am – 2:00pm
#WellsReserve at #Laudholm

Reservations Not Required
Cost: Free

"Join us for a beach clean-up, visit from a humpback whale, seed planting and more in celebration of beautiful planet Earth.

Scheduled Activities:

8:30-10am: Just added! Bird Walk with York County #Audubon

Meet at the Gazebo and join for a walk to see some of the newly arrived early migrants! We’ll meet at 8:30am at the gazebo beside the main house. Please bring binoculars if you have them. We’ll have some pairs to lend if you don’t.

10am-12pm: Beach Clean-up

Walk the half mile down to Laudholm Beach to help pick up litter. Be an active Earth steward! We will meet at the gazebo just outside the Visitor Center to walk to the beach as a group.

12-2pm: Engaging Earth Activities

- #Pollinator Scavenger Hunt
- #SeedPlanting with Maine Master Gardeners
- Leaf Printing
- Earth Pledges

1-2pm: Within the Whale

Celebrate Earth Day by stepping inside one of the ocean’s most important animals! Join Within the Whale for an immersive experience where participants explore the inside of a life-size inflatable humpback whale and discover how whales support healthy oceans and a thriving planet. Through hands-on learning and engaging activities, you’ll learn how the survival of whales is connected to Earth’s ecosystems, and what we can all do to protect them. Perfect for curious learners of all ages who want to deepen their connection to our blue planet this Earth Day."

https://wellsreserve.org/event/83311/earth-day-celebration

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #MaineEvents #SpendTimeInNature #NatureBasedLearning #BeachCleanups

🌎 Teach with film to boost student engagement about the environment this Earth Month. We've updated our Environmental Studies Collection in 2026 with new award-winning films!

These classroom-ready lessons for grades 5-12 & adult/higher ed are great for AP Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Service Learning and Social Studies. 💙

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/environmental-studies-lessons/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Environmental+Studies&utm_term=Earth+Month&utm_content=link

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #Education #Homeschooling #Environment #Climate #Biodiversity #Movies #EnergyPolicy #Glaciers #ClimateChange #StemEducation

🌎 Celebrate Earth Month with Scrap, an environmental documentary about Beauty, Collection & Restoration. New at Journeys in Film!

Scrap explores the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and introduces the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap. The Scrap Discussion Guide can help you start conversations in your classrooms, public screenings and community education spaces about the circular economy, right to repair, upcycling, and urban exploration. For grades 6-12, adult/higher ed.

Get the Scrap Discussion Guide and educate, engage, and activate your community!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/scrap-an-environmental-documentary-about-beauty-collection-restoration/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Scrap+launch&utm_content=link

#EarthMonth #RightToRepair #EWaste #Recycling #Upcycling #Climate #Environment #EarthWeek #EarthDay #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #CanadianFilm #CanadianContent #Documentary #CBCGem #Solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday

🌍 Celebrate Nature with film for Earth Month! Discover the wonders of bugs, chimpanzees, coral, salmon, whales, and the power of recycling. For grades 3 and up.

Learn more:

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/celebration-of-nature/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=EarthMonth&utm_term=CelebrateNature&utm_content=link

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #Education #Homeschooling #Nature #Climate #Biodiversity #Environhment #Movies

Eco-Friendly Ways to Spruce Up Your Home | Home + Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1711521/eco-friendly-ways-to-spruce-up-your-home-home-garden/ #April2026 #Cleaning #EarthDay #EarthMonth #garden #gardener #gardening #home #SpringCleaning

🌍 For Earth Month, we're highlighting Searching for Amani! This award-winning documentary follows a thirteen-year-old boy’s investigation of his father’s tragic murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies.

Teach about the intersection of Biodiversity, Climate, Colonialism, Economic Justice. Indigenous Peoples, and Human Rights with the Searching for Amani Climate/Environment lesson, for grades 7-12 & adult/higher ed.

https://journeysinfilm.org/searching-for-amani-teaching-resources-new-at-journeys-in-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=EarthMonth&utm_content=Link

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #Education #Movies #Homeschooling #Climate #Environment #Kenya #Biodiversity #Colonialism #EconomicJustice #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights

@DoomsdaysCW Great! If people want to register an event they can sign up in advance: "by entering your email, you will receive toolkits, resources, and actions to support your event "
https://www.earthday.org/actions/register-your-earth-day-event/

#EarthDay #Events #ToolKits #Resources #EarthDay2026

🌍 Happy Earth Month! Make this Earth Month a celebration with award-winning films plus classroom-ready Earth Month resources across the curriculum. For grades 3-12. 💚💙

https://journeysinfilm.org/great-films-to-teach-for-earth-month-2026/?utm_source=mastodonn&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Genocide+Awareness+Month&utm_content=link

#EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay #EnvironmentalEducation #EnvironmentalStudies #Climate #Environment #Education #Homeschooling #StemEducation

Looking for service learning lessons and community service projects? We’ve rounded up some of our best service activities in our recent film guides for classrooms, workplaces, and service clubs.

These resources show that positive change is possible and that we all have the power to make an impact on the world around us.

These service activities are great for Volunteer Month in April and Volunteer Week April 19-25. 💕

Several of these lessons and activities have an environmental theme that also makes them great choices for Earth Month. 🌍

📢 We've updated this collection with our newest 2026 community service materials.

Check out the link to learn more about these resources and boost student engagement with service learning! 👇

https://journeysinfilm.org/get-students-excited-about-service-learning-with-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=volunteer+month&utm_id=April+26&utm_term=service+learning&utm_content=link

#NationalVolunteerMonth #VolunteerMonth #Volunteering #NationalVolunteerWeek #VolunteerWeek #CommunityService #ServiceLearning #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #EarthMonth #EarthWeek #EarthDay

On 4/25, celebrate Earth Day with an evening of powerful environmental and outdoor adventure films at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival!

Featuring audience favorites from hundreds of films that inspire activism and a deep love of nature, this is a one-night event you won’t want to miss.

We're proud to be a community partner for this inspiring event!

Details:
Saturday, April 25 | Doors Open 6:30 PM | Films 7 PM
David Brower Center | 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley

Arrive at 6:30 PM for the pre-film Eco-Fair, free swag, and silent auction. Films begin at 7 PM. Proceeds support Citizens' Climate Lobby's local environmental advocacy.

Tickets and information at: https://cclalameda.org/wsff-2026/

$5.00 discount with code: CCL

#berkeley #wildandscenicfilmfestival #wildandscenic #davidbrowercenter #bayarea #bayareaevents #earthday #earthmonth

For Earth Day, these images remind me of grains and how we depend on them. They’re actually swamp grass on the shore of a pond, but grains are grasses (mostly?).

#EarthDay #EastCoastKin #photography #grass #sunset #MendonPonds #MonroeCounty #NY

Looking for a way to honor this beautiful corner of the earth for #EarthDay?

Join our ranks as a Clean Bay Challenge volunteer for a #TrashFreeBay!

Throughout #EarthMonth, our challenge volunteers will protect #SFBay by picking up trash in their communities -- whether it’s in neighborhood parks or a nearby shoreline. Baykeeper will provide all the tips and tools you need to conduct a safe and effective cleanup.

Learn more: baykeeper.org/cleanups

I hope the #Cardinals elect one of their own as the next #Pope!
#NatureRules #ProtectTheGarden #TheGardenOfEdenIsPlanetEarth #EarthDay #EarthMonth #LoveYourMother!

🗞️NEW🗞️
The April 2025 edition of our transportation newsletter, "GO Montgomery" has been released! Check out all the up-to-date transportation news happening in Montgomery County, MD
🗞️▶️ https://gomontgomery.blogspot.com/
#montgomkerycountymd #rideonbus #transportation #mdroads #mdcommuters #earthday #earthmonth #climatesmart #climitechange #mcgreenfest #capitalbikeshare #ridetheflash #biketoworkday #BTWD2025

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

Protect nature, make the future safe.

#SaveNature #ProtectOurPlanet #EcoFriendly #SaveTheEarth #NatureLovers #GoGreen #Sustainability #WildlifeConservation #ClimateAction #NatureConservation #ZeroWaste #EarthDay #GreenLiving #EnvironmentalAwareness #PlanetEarth

On this #EarthDay, I am again reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." ©Carl R. Englander Photo taken from Point Sublime, North Rim, #GrandCanyon #NationalPark #Arizona #AldoLeopold #Quote #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Film #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Climate #ClimateChange

Happy Earth Day #meditation #coast #earth #EarthDay #santabarbara #Reiki #Succulent #Stones #Sculpture #flower #plant #leaf #flowerphotography #floweroftheday #flowermagic #plantlife #plantlove #planttherapy #flowergardening

Song of the Day April 22 2023

In Celebration of Earth Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

Mighty Drop (ft. Iddy) - "Reggae Earth Day"

https://youtu.be/48EkvZs-GWA

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April22 #EarthDay #MightyDrop #Iddy #ReggaeEarthDay #HesGotTheWholeWorldInHisHands #ReduceReuseRecycle #Ecology #1920s #1970s #2020s

Al Caffè del Cappellaio Matto: Una #Terra piccina piccina https://buff.ly/3sHV1FI su @lospaziobianco #EarthDay #EarthDay2021 #inflazionecosmica #MysteryinSpace #dccomics #AlanGuth

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.

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