I find it ironic that people mobilize so well to defend the second amendment but there’s hardly a glimmer over taking down a major tenet of the first. It will become a crime to videotape cruelty to animals on farms in many states. If you do tape and publicize them, you will have to register [ more... ]
Tags: environment
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area on the border between Canada and Minnesota sees 200,000 visitors a year, making it the most widely visited wilderness area in the nation. And you can tell when you’re there, you see people all the time, but they’re friendly so you don’t mind not being alone in a wilderness area. [ more... ]
Tags: boundary waters canoe area, bwca, environment, Green, minnesota, wilderness area
We’re rich! An Exxon pipeline that flooded an Arkansas neighborhood continues to be cleaned up by the giant oil company. The pipeline is capable of carrying 90k barrels of oil per day, though they haven’t announced how much leaked all over Arkansas. Opponents of the Keystone XL have latched onto the incident to use it as an example of how the pipeline will ruin our lives. Meanwhile, people who live in the affected neighborhood may never get their lawns to previous levels of perfection.
Tags: environment, oil, video
For the past several weeks illegal commercial fishermen in the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia have been fishing with dynamite. They throw the explosives overboard and then pick up the dead fish to sell on the mainland 100 miles away. These are not subsistence villagers, they are people from outside the local communities looking to make [ more... ]
Tags: environment, Surf