Gulf Coast Oil Spill- the oil comes ashore

Update (just when you thought it couldn't get any worse): Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain (Huffington Post, 7-31-10)

On-topic update: Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO), Huffington Post, 7-27-10

On-topic update: US Expert: China Oil Spill Far Bigger Than Stated, AP/NPR, 7-30-10

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On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!

USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010

The Gulf Coast  is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida Keys, another important marine ecosystem area. Oil is about to wash up in Louisiana and is effecting  New Orleans. (See New Orleans artist Michelle Levine's painting that seems to foretell this disaster, that she started last year. Bless the talented and grounded people of New Orleans!)

Now that the enormity of this oil disaster is sinking in, good people are trying to find ways to help. Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (of the Lakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe has asked that we join together in prayer to heal Grandmother Earth and stop this oil disaster- A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders (May 12, 2010). Amen, and let's all join in. Continue reading →

Climate change- tree growth, higher seas & green scum

Interesting recent reports about climate change effects-

About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast:  Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken [...]

Placer County Corruption

Added Note: I am a long-term area resident, putting all of these links concerning Placer County corruption together in one place for other residents. (After people I know kept talking generally about these articles, and how little impact they seem to have made.) I have also placed this info on my old somewhat static Auburn links page.

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