Planet-Saving Steps

This would worsen climate change, endanger drinking water sources, and damage vital wildlife habitat. Destroying old growth forest will greatly increase the risk of wildfires, threatening communities.

We have only days to comment. This link makes it quick and easy: action.nrdc.org/letter/4294-...

No matter which search engine or email client you use, leaving off the AI features will cut down the carbon footprint of your searches.

#saveenergy #savewater #costofai

You can also turn off the AI feature in your email client that summarizes the content of your emails. For instance in Yahoo, click on the three dots under your folder list, go to Settings, then AI features. You can switch it off there.

You can type -ai in lower case letters, too. This will bring up search results that don’t include an AI-generated answer and works in most search engines, including Google.

If you use the awesome DuckDuckGo browser, you can completely turn off AI under Settings > AI Features.

For example, a simple internet search will usually produce an AI answer we didn't ask for, and usually with inaccurate results.

But there is a very easy way to avoid this. Simply type -AI after your search words.

For example, type:

Where is the best place to camp near Carlsbad Caverns? -AI

Perhaps you intentionally use AI to write essays, ask questions, or create art. But many times we're using it when we don't even intend to, and this consumes vital water and energy and is damaging to the environment.

Are you struggling to communicate the importance and urgency of needed climate action to your community, family, or friends? This book provides fantastic ways to find common, relatable ground to reach even people who have different values than you. It's uplifting and hopeful, and a joy to read.

Researchers need help to restore the Back Bay of Biloxi, MS. Help from your own home by identifying birds on remote cameras. Spend as much or little time as you have available!

www.zooniverse.org/projects/les...

#backbay #biloxims #shorelines #communityscience #habitatrestoration #wildbirds

Want to help researchers better understand the distribution of periodic cicadas?

Just go to this link to learn more and to download the free Cicada Safari app and go out and explore. Take photos of adult cicadas and send in your data: scistarter.org/cicada-safari

#cicadas #communityscience

In this engaging book, psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action and the strategies for how to address these in a way that creates hope, action, and solutions, not further despair.

Stop the Sell Out of Public Lands and Wildlife The all-out assault on wildlife, public lands and the environment continues, this time in the form of the budget bill making its way through Congress. Urge your representative to oppose any bill that ...

Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to your representative, urging them to vote no on this disastrous bill.

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#protecttheenvironment #endangeredspecies #stopfossilfuels #belugas #polarbears

The bill also will sell off our beloved public lands to private ownership, including more than 500,000 acres in the West, which would allow developers to pollute and damage these lands and remove them from our beloved places to visit, camp, hike, and experience.

Furthermore, oil and gas companies would be able to pay the federal government to waive environmental regulations that are in place to protect clean air, drinking water, endangered species, and the environment.

It opens four million acres for new coal leasing, opens damaging mining projects in pristine habitats, and calls for 25% more timber production, targeting trees which will not only destroy habitat, but these trees are vital sources of carbon sequestration to fight climate change.

The current House reconciliation proposal includes huge giveaways to the fossil fuel industry that will endanger our health, environment, and endangered species. Rice’s whales, belugas, polar bears, and many more endangered species will be put in far more dangerous risk than they already are.

Spring is an important growing time for many species, including pollinators and other wildlife. Allowing your yard to grow for longer lets flowers bloom, providing vital nectar and pollen for bees and butterflies and cover for fireflies. #rewilding #yardrewilding #helppollinators #nomowmay

Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge J.P. Morgan not to back this disastrous move to sacrifice this refuge for fossil fuel profits.

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#gulfofcalifornia #marinesanctuary #protectmarinespecies #vaquita #vaquitaporpoise #saveseaturtles #savethewhales

How to Make Hummingbird Nectar In a few easy steps, you can bring these nectar-loving birds to your feeder.

Mix only a small batch at a time so mold does not collect in the feeder. Be sure to wash out your feeder with soap and hot water between each refill.

Refer to Audubon Society page: www.audubon.org/news/how-mak...

#hummingbirds #hummingbirdnectar #wildbirds #feedinghummingbirds #hummingbirdfeeders

Recipe for hummingbird nectar:
• 1/4 cup refined white sugar
• 1 cup boiling water

Mix sugar and boiling water until sugar is dissolved.  Cool completely before filling your feeder.

Hummingbirds can fall fatally ill from improper sweeteners.

Please use *only* white refined sugar mixed with water that has been purified by boiling. Never use honey, as that promotes dangerous fungal growth. Red food coloring is not necessary and can be harmful. See recipe below:

Please go to this link to learn more about the Shark Spy program! www.zooniverse.org/projects/sha...

#sharks #communityscience #marinelife #citizenscience

Use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge your senators to stand up for our national forests: action.wildearthguardians.org/page/81513/a...

#carbonsequestration #fightclimatechange #saveourforests

You can make your own bug hotel by gathering up sticks and small pieces of wood and placing them inside a small enclosure.

Pre-made bug hotels are available in stores, too!

#bughotel #pollinators #insectconservation

Please use this link to send a quick message to the new EPA administrator, urging him to keep vital environmental health safeguards in place: tinyurl.com/36j25j3t

#cleanwater #cleanair #environmentalprotectionagency #publichealth

Build a pollinator watering station! You can use colorful glass beads or little pebbles and then delight in the pollinators that come to visit and drink.

#pollinators #pollinatorwateringstation #waterforwildlife #pollinatorgarden

Tell the EPA to Regulate Factory Farms Although the EPA acknowledges that factory farms are a leading source of water pollution, it allows most of them to operate without a Clean Water Act permit. Urge the EPA to protect safe and clean wat...

Please use this link to send a quick and easy message to urge the EPA to require industrial animal agriculture to adhere to the Clean Water Act: tinyurl.com/58wa455z

#waterpollution #factoryfarms #environmentalprotectionagency #cleanwateract #cleanwaters

Factory farms, where animals are raised on an industrial scale, are a huge source of water pollution, and the EPA does not require them to hold a Clean Water Act permit to operate. Heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, and other contaminants end up in our rivers, wetlands, groundwater, and lakes.

It's quick and easy to get started, and you get to be outside, breathing in fresh air, and gazing at clouds!

To learn more, go to this link: observer.globe.gov/do-globe-obs...

#clouds #nasa #cloudwatcher #cloudscape #communityscience

The Xerces Society has a handy guide for judging if it's still too early to start yard cleanup and if you should wait a bit to protect pollinators: xerces.org/blog/dont-sp...

#pollinators #gardenwork #rewilding #protectpollinators #insectconservation #yardcleanup