Science


Fifty Five Earth Days Later

2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day.  The local chapter of the Citizen's Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th.   Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together.  Truth be told, without Wisconsin Earth Day might not even exist.  Horrified by a disastrous oil spill off the coast of California in 1969, our own Senator Gaylord Nelson conceived and set in motion the gears that made Earth Day 1970 a phenomenon to be ...

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Earth Day 2025


Vaccinations: Who Needs Them?

According to the most recent information available on the CDC.gov website, “As of March 27, 2025, a total of 483 confirmed measles cases were reported by 20 jurisdictions: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Washington”.  Who should be concerned, and why?   First, Trump and Musk are eliminating jobs in the CDC and the NIH at alarming rates. These people have 20 twenty years or more of ...

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PEOPLE’S MARCH January 18, 2025

WAUSAU HUMAN RIGHTS MARCH The recent election can have far reaching consequences for our vulnerable communities. For Immediate Release: Saturday, January 18, 11 AM, meeting at the Marathon Dems Office, 218 Sherman Street Wausau Contact: Chair, Nancy Stencil, nstencil7983@gmail.com 715.581.7983   Come join Central Wisconsin's PEACEFUL PEOPLE’S MARCH. A place for us to all come together and let the world know WE WON'T BE SILENT!   “A place to fight for women's rights, BIPOC rights, reproductive rights, LQBTQIA+ rights, disability rights, ...

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Where Have all the Monarchs Gone?

I just enjoy sitting on my patio, surrounded by the beautiful native plants that grow all along the patio.  It is a wonder to me to watch the bees, moths and butterflies along with the birds that visit the plants.  If I am quiet enough and don’t move, it is very common to have a goldfinch or other birds that are hungry and want to eat, fly and land on a stalk from the flower that is no more than 6 feet away from me.  The birds will stay there as long as I don’t make any quick motions, or my dog doesn’t disturb them.  There is nothing better than to see all this ...

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ENVIRONMENT AND SPIRITUALITY SUMMIT

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Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map

Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump – Promotes Mining in Indian Nation Lands, in the Boundary Waters, in Alaska & the Arctic Circle, in Arizona, in Colorado, & in New Mexico; and Eliminates Climate Change and Conservation Initiatives Key Facts about Mining, Oil & Gas Drilling, Climate Change, and Conservation in Project 2025 Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation with help from more than 277 individual contributors and 100 other conservative groups, is a multi-part plan for the next conservative administration—...

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COOPERATION 101

cooperation [ koh-op-uh-rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth]   Boarding Spaceship Earth in 1895, Buckminster Fuller arrived with very poor vision. This wasn’t realized and corrected until he was in boyhood. As an adult Fuller saw this as a blessing because it had trained him to naturally envision the larger picture – the synergetic whole. This led to the publishing of Fuller’s book, Operating Manual ...

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WARHEADS TO WINDMILLS

Tim Wallis, is traveling across the country this spring to educate more people through his newest book: Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War. As the book title says: our two biggest existential threats--climate breakdown and nuclear weapons--can and must be addressed, both urgently and simultaneously. Here is a link to more information on Tim and the new book: https://warheadstowindmills.org/book/. (you can paste that link in your browser). Tim's presentation is of interest to several constituencies: Peace and Environmental groups ...

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EV’S THE TRUTH

The groundswell of trash talk around electric cars leaves me, an owner of both a Chevy Volt first, and now a Bolt, mystified, angry,  but hardly speechless.  Mystified, because the complaints about EV's bear no similarity to my own experience with them over the past six and a half years.  Angry, because I'd bet good money that the source of the snow job comes directly from the fossil fuel industry first, and anyone hawking the Infernal Combustion Engine (ICE), second.  After almost seven years behind the wheel of an EV here is what I have found. My entry into the EV ...

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