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Reporter, journalist and author who has owned and operated a bookstore, a pool and spa full service business, an apple farm, and is now committed to environmental issues. She has written four books: The Gathering Basket, Connection with 48 Natural Contemplations, Seek Beauty, Find Joy: a Companion Journal to Natural Contemplations; and children's book, Isu Learns to Swim.
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Recycle Your Cell Phone-Help Clean Oceans Project
October is recycle your cell phone month at The Clean Oceans Project. There are more than 500 million used cell phones in the U.S. sitting in people’s drawers, or worse, in our landfills. Another 130 million will be added… Read More ›
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Community Event Scores 100% Zero Waste
By Charmaine Coimbra Throw it out. Get rid of it. Toss it. A big truck empties the waste can and all that garbage, useless junk, and trash goes away and disappears. But not really. Landfills produce about one-third of… Read More ›
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Getting to Know Mama–The California Gray Whale in Klamath River
Editor’s Note: December 29, 2011: Scroll to bottom for story update From the San Luis Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/09/03/1742473/mama-whale-klamath-river.html By Julia Hickey | jhickey@thetribunenews.com Julia Hickey The Tribune Morro Bay resident Ashala Tylor’s intimate photographs of “Mama” — the gray whale that… Read More ›
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Walruses Running Out of Ice
Melting Arctic Sea Ice Drives Walruses Onto Land Date: 18-Aug-11 Country: USA Author: Deborah Zabarenko Fast-melting Arctic sea ice appears to be pushing walruses to haul themselves out onto land, and many are moving around the area where oil leases… Read More ›
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Eels Suffocating Near Gulf Dead Zone
From Science News In June, scientists predicted that the Gulf of Mexico’s annual dead zone — a subsea region where the water contains too little oxygen to support life — might develop into the biggest ever. In fact, that… Read More ›
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International Whaling Commission 2011 Update
From the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society Although the 63rd International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Jersey adopted a proposal by the United Kingdom to clean up the practices of the Commission, less than a day later Japan and its… Read More ›
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Journalists Investigage Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunmai Contamination
Two journalists recently uncovered and discussed the short and long term environmental damage from the March tsunami in Japan. Beside the fact that much of the toxic wastes will/has flowed into the ocean, they discovered that the existing toxic sludge… Read More ›
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Will Oceans Succumb To Manmade Stress? Experts Worry.
Editor’s Note: The oceans seem so big that they appear immune to change. But the fact that the oceans comprise 71% of Planet Earth, perhaps it is time for educating ourselves about the oceans and how they regulate our weather,… Read More ›
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Marine Mammal Entanglement Up Close & Personal
By Charmaine Coimbra This year I’ve been up close and personal with marine entanglement. A near-handful of northern elephant seals that hauled out to molt at Piedras Blancas, where I volunteer as a docent, arrived with strapping bands around their necks. If the straps… Read More ›
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Plastics: “Most pervasive pollution problems facing the world’s oceans…”
Editor’s Note: Before reading another dismal report on the conditions our ocean’s face, some communities are trying to stop one use plastics within their communites, such as this report from Surfrider Foundation: Supermarkets, pharmacies and certain retail stores in Long… Read More ›
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