Bees and Bluebells: Celebrating World Bee Day By Encouraging Pollinators in My Garden
Aorld Bee Day provided the chance to think about what plants to add to my garden to encorage bees to visit.
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As Covid Ravages Poor Nations, Pharma Vaccine Profiteering Has Created 9 New Billionaires
“These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines.”
Read more...Who’s Making — and Funding — the World’s Plastic Trash?
Report by Ausralia-based Minderoo Foundation details who the plastic pushers are and who is funding their activities.
Read more...Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives
The FTC and more than two dozen states mull right to repair initiatives; Big Tech companies mount a ;pbbying offensive.
Read more...Links 5/20/2021
Waste Watch: Turkey Bans Plastic Waste Imports
Will Turkey’s ban on plastic waste imports lead countries that generate such waste to accept that the recycling fairy cannot solve the plastics crisis?
Read more...Charging Indians for COVID Vaccines is Bad, Letting Vaccine Producers Charge What They Like is Unconscionable
India’s vaccine policy has opened the flood gates for a vulgar form of predatory capitalism to take the stage amid a raging human tragedy.
Read more...Why Your Dentist Might Seem Pushy
During the pandemic, many have deferred visiting their dentists, increasing pressure on dentists to push unnecessary expensive treatment.
Read more...9th Circuit Upholds $25 Million Judgement Against Monsanto for Glyphosate Liability
The decision is unlikely to affect a pending glyphosate settlement, but may hold wider signficance for the pesticides industry.
Read more...Links 5/17/2021
New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation
Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.
Read more...New Adventures in Gardening: Urban Composting
The next step in my adventures in gardening – composting – to feed my plants and reduce the waste I dump into NYC’s collection system.
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Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis
As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.
Read more...EU Proposes Opening to Fully Vaccinated Non-Essential Travelers; The Catch: Proving Vaccine Status
The fully-vaccinated may soon be able to visit the EU for non-essential travel. The catch: proving one’s vaccine status.
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