Ella Rose lives in the blast zone of a massive, dangerous fracked-gas pipeline and compressor proposed just a few hundred feet from her home in a historic black community in rural Virginia. Paula and Herman Mann live in the blast zone of a different fracked-gas pipeline in West Virginia, and have been living with...
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Ask Amazon to Reduce the Use of Plastic in their Packaging
While I've never been a big fan of Walmart and the like, big chain stores are beginning to look better when compared to the alternative; namely, Amazon. One of the main environmental concerns with Amazon, and other online outlets, is all of the packaging that's involved. Recently, Jimena Rodriguez started a petition on Change.org...
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, also called Newtown shootings of 2012, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. After murdering his mother at their home, Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before taking his own life....
Why 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg will not meet with Trump
Why 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg will not meet with Trump...
US to allow trophy hunter to import body of rare black rhino
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FILE – In this June 6, 1997 file photo, Spike, a rare black rhino, is shown at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio. The Trump administration says it will issue a permit to a Michigan trophy hunter to import the skin, skull and horns from a rare black rhinoceros he...
Petition to Ban the Use of Permethrin in the State of Virginia
Dear neighbor – It has been 10 days since the city sprayed my neighborhood, Lakeview Shores, for mosquitoes. The mosquitoes have returned, but the bees have not. The spray that the city uses contains permethrin, which not only kills mosquitoes, but kills bees, and other essential insects. It can cause problems in dogs, cats,...
Mosquitoes, Dragonflies, and Bees (update)
Today, August 2nd, 2019, marks one week since the City of Virginia Beach sprayed our neighborhood for mosquitoes. The mosquitoes have returned, but the bees have not. See my original post about this here On Monday, July 29, I paid a visit to the Mosquito Control Center of Virginia Beach, and spoke, in person,...
Mosquitoes, Dragonflies, and Bees
This year, 2019, I saw the first honeybees that I’ve seen in more than 3 years in Virginia Beach. I attribute this to all of the wildflowers that I’ve grown this summer (most from seed). Each morning I go out to my garden to water and watch the honeybees, bumblebees, dragonflies, and hummingbirds enjoying...