Calling your Senators works… By all accounts, Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski [Alaska] and Susan Collins [Maine] are going against the wishes of their party to vote in opposition of Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos because of the pushback they’re received from their constituents. Earlier this week in Anchorage, there were reports of over 200 […]
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Stop Pruitt before he can kill the EPA for Big Oil
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-science, Betsy DeVos, big oil, Bill Moyers, Christie Todd Whitman, confirmation hearings, Devon Energy, environmental protection, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fracking, Jason Chaffetz, Lisa Murkowski, methane gas, Oklahoma, Richard Nixon, Scott Pruitt, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, Susan Collins, those anti-science Republicans 6 Comments
107-degrees, with no pool, and looking for someone to blame
Maybe it’s not the responsible thing to do, but I’m hot and I’m looking for someone to blame for the fact that our community pool is dry this summer, as we’re living trough the most brutally hot season in memory… Like I said, I realize that it’s not terribly responsible to want to assign blame. […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged asshole Republicans, drill baby drill, Friends of Rutherford pool, gas, Global Warming, heat, Jeff Irwin, John Weiss, looking for someone to blame, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund, Michigan Senate, oil, public pools, Rutherford Pool, Tom Casperson 40 Comments
Guerilla grafting, and living off the fat of the land in Ypsilanti
A few days ago, I posted something here about a group in San Francisco that has made it their mission to convert non-fruit-bearing trees on public land into ones that bear edible fruit. They call themselves guerilla grafters. I think it’s a great idea, but, some, it would seem, don’t share my enthusiasm for giving […]
Posted in Environment, Food, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged apples, Bacon, Beezy's, Charley Bowers, Doug Skinner, fleshy growths, food security, free food, fruit trees, grafting, grafting bacon onto skin tags, grapes, guerilla grafting, healthy food access, Lisa Bashert, moles, mulberries, Neighborhood Fruit, Now You Tell One, raspberries, rats, silent films, skin tags, surrealism, Sustainable Ypsi, trees, vermin, walnuts, Ypsilanti Fertile Ground 23 Comments