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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/

You Can Spell Your Name is Aerial Images Thanks to NASA https://petapixel.com/2026/04/27/you-can-spell-your-name-is-aerial-images-thanks-to-nasa/ #satelliteimage #interactive #Features #earthday #landsat #Space #News #NASA

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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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

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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

>#EarthDay 1970–2022: What's Changed? #datavisualization<

#Ecocide #Topocide
The Loss Of #Biodiversity

#RebuildDemocracy 🗽
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuilding

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PL31i1cu22U&is=mY9ClgBswn4JnCLr

A glorious #EarthDay to all who celebrate!
Every year on Earth Day, San Francisco's #KALW plays the sounds of nature, all day.

And for those concerned about #Palestine, they also air #TangentsRadio which is primarily world wide music hosted by #DoreStein but includes #GazaCorner in the middle somewhere, usually occurring at Central Time 1 AM, and then posts reference links and media on their own website on the Playlist page,
tangents.com/playlists/

We’re very excited to be part of this year’s #EarthRaise, meaning that as from 12 noon TODAY (until 12 noon 29 April) every donation to our campaign will be Matched £ for £.

wordforest.org/earthraise

#LettersToTheEarth #EarthDay #DoubleYourImpact #MatchFunding #Nature #TreesAreTheKey

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

22. April: Weltweiter EARTH DAY

schon seit 1970. Und alle machen mit, denn das Motto ist so einfach, fast nichtssagend, dass Alle zustimmen können: "Unsere Kraft, unser Planet".

https://www.umwelttage.info/umwelttage-im-april.html#22b
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#earthday #welttage #umwelttage #22april #april22 #baldwald

#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

#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

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

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

🚌🌎🚌🌎🚌🌎🚌
To encourage local travelers to try the bus🚌, MCDOT is waiving the $1 bus fare on all #MontgomeryCountyMD buses🚌including Ride On, Ride On extRa, Ride On flex and Flash on #EarthDay 🌎, Tuesday, April 22, 2025.
🚌 🔗 https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=46893&Dept=50
#earthmonth #earthday2025 #maryland #mdcommuters #commutingforfree #freerides #bus #bustransportation #transitTooter

Stand up for Justice and the Earth!
Rally and community day - Oakland, PA.
4/19 Schenley Plaza @ 1pm.

Rally with speakers, donate mutual aid, learn skills, and play games. Organized by 50501PGH and StandUpForScience. Donations go to the Our Streets Collective & the DSA/Community Forge Free Pantry. We will also have QR codes set up to direct donations to the Greater Pittsburgh Area Food Bank.

Suggested donations: Canned goods, nonperishable items, personal care items (tylenol, cold & flu, bandaids, masks, covid tests, tampons/pads, toothbrush/toothpaste, deodorant, diapers, wipes, formula, shampoo, body wash), tents, sleeping bags, and tarps.

#50501movement #50501protests #50501protest #50501activists #50501NoKings #handsoff50501 #protest50501 #fiftyfiftyone #fiftyfiftyonemovement #Rally #protest #protests #resist #resistance #nokings #standupforscience #standupforscience2025 #EarthDay #earthday2025 #Pittsburgh

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

#EarthDay #EarthDayPics #ClimateChange #WorkthatReconnects How does the Earth nourish you? How do you interconnect? Post a picture of what Earth inspires in you, or how she inspires you.

Openning today of collective online exibition of "Like Water NFT Art Award"

https://akaverse.app/showroom/10049

#LikeWater23 #WorldPeace #EarthDay
#NFTs #CleanNft #Tezos #TezosCommunity #TezosCollectors #Akaswap
#Art #Exibition #ArtCurator #ArtGallery #ArtCollector

Hi Fedi !

I am proud to share with you my win of the Taiwanese "Like Water NFT Art Award" in the static group category.

https://akaswap.com/event/likewater23

#LikeWater23 #WorldPeace #EarthDay
#NFTs #CleanNft #NftCommunity #NftCollectors #Tezos #TezosCommunity #TezosCollectors #Akaswap #NFTartwork #NftArt #NftArtist #NftPhotography
#Art #Arte #Kunst #MastoArt #FediArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters
#Photography #Fotografie #Photographie #Photogram

Daily #Hashtags for April

Apr 01
#AprilFoolsDay #WalktoWorkDay

Apr 02
#WorldAutismAwarenessDay

Apr 03
#FindaRainbowDay #WorldPartyDay

Apr 04
#InternationalCarrotDay #InternationalDayforMineAwareness #WorldRatDay

Apr 05
#NationalMaritimeDay

Apr 06
#NationalWalkingDay #SiameseCatDay

Apr 07
#NationalBeerDay #WorldHealthDay

Apr 08
#DayofSilence

Apr 09 •

Apr 10
#FarmAnimalsDay #NationalHugYourDogDay #SiblingsDay #WorldHomeopathyDay

Apr 11
#NationalPetDay #NationalSafeMotherhoodDay

Apr 12
#InternationalDayofHumanSpaceFlight #LibraryWorkersDay

Apr 13
#InternationalPlantAppreciationDay

Apr 14
#LookUpattheSkyDay #NationalGardeningDay

Apr 15
#TitanicRemembranceDay #WorldArtDay

Apr 16
#HusbandAppreciationDay #NationalLibrarianDay

Apr 17
#InternationalHaikuPoetryDay #WorldHaemophiliaDay

Apr 18
#GoodFriday #WorldHeritageDay

Apr 19
#WorldLiverDay

Apr 20
#EasterSunday #NationalLookAlikeDay

Apr 21
#HighFiveDay

Apr 22
#EarthDay

Apr 23
#EnglishLanguageDay #NationalPicnicDay #ShakespeareDay #WorldBookDay

Apr 24
#WorldLaboratoryDay

Apr 25
#ANZACDay (Aus/NZ) #NationalDNADay #WorldMalariaDay

Apr 26
#WorldIntellectualPropertyDay

Apr 27
#TellaStoryDay

Apr 28
#StopFoodWasteDay #WorldDayforSafetyandHealthatWork

Apr 29
#InternationalDanceDay #NationalArborDay

Apr 30
#HonestyDay #InternationalJazzDay #WorldVeterinaryDay

(See Index for More Hashtags)

[Nat Geo] Why is America running out of water?:
"By 2100 the U.S. population will have increased by nearly 200 million, with a total population of some 514 million people. Given that we use water for everything, the simple math is that more people mean more water stress across the country."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-content-americas-looming-water-crisis

#earthday #worldwaterday #megadrought
#uspopulationgrowth #unsustainablegrowth #congestionahead

Our local garden center gifted us this purple pansy on earth day. We are still looking for just the perfect spot to plant it. But first I had to take a portrait of this beauty. #Pansy #SpringFlower #Gardening #EarthDay

#FediGiftShop https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Single-Large-Purple-Pansy/1166259

#MastoArt #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Anza-Borrego State Park, California #EarthDay #MyHome

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