Gone forever, Lonesome George dies

Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said.

George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos. Tortoises were hunted for their meat by sailors and fishermen to the point of extinction, while their habitat has been eaten away by goats introduced from the mainland.

Take plenty of pictures of your grandchildren and great grandchildren now, there will nobody to record the last of their species when the time comes.

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Standing in the Circle of the Cedar

Please watch and listen to this beautiful and poignant plea to save the BC coast from the greed of Big Oil and the complicity of "our" government.




The thought, talent and emotion embodied in this work should cause every thinking person to reject the kind of false imperatives that would put the beauty of the world around us at grave risk in order to enrich those who are already mired beyond redemption in materialism.

If you feel even a little like I do, please vote for this song.


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A Repost of an Article by Kevin Grandia

Desmog Video Mordor found in Northern Alberta (via Desmogblog)

Following up on an article I wrote last week for Huffington Post Canada, a commenter suggested that the Alberta tar sands looked like a real-life version of Mordor, the home of the evil Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.  I agree. So does that make Stephen Harper Gollum?  (click to enlarge…