“Western resort towns being loved to death”: Red Lodge (and many similar towns in our region), are you listening?…
A good read, from High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-economy-western-resort-towns-risk-being-loved-to-death? Gardiner, Montana, Colorado, Headwaters Economics, many places not meant for so many people, overtourism
Eastern Montana Congressman, fascist and freedom-hating Matt Rosendale also hates our public lands, wanting them managed for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2023/05/24/rosendale-calls-blm-activist-organization-ahead-of-hearing-on-land-conservation-proposal/? BLM, conservation, The Mountain Pact
He’s not only racist, misogynist and a COVID denier, wacky Joe Rogan is also a climate-change denier…
From Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/climate-change-conspiracy-theory-about-cataclysmic-changes-earths-magnetic-field-goes-viral Search our site for other Joe Rogan wackiness. TikTok, magnetic fields
From our man-caused climate change section: incredibly, Montana is already experiencing wildfire smoke season, as record high temps plague the Pacific NW, wildfires burn in Canada & the MT legislature makes things worse…
From cnbc.com: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/17/wildfires-burn-millions-of-acres-in-canada-send-oil-prices-higher.html From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/12/gianforte-signs-climate-change-analysis-ban-into-law/ unprecedented drought, tar sands oil, climate change denial, Gianforte, HB971
The Republican approach to every problem seems to be the same: prohibit people and communities from deciding what’s best for themselves — the affordable housing crisis is no different (of course, no mention of not advertising Montana, anymore)…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/10/how-the-montana-legeislature-tried-to-tackle-housing-crunch/? There are simply too many people in Montana now. Our environment and infrastructure is suffering because of too many people....
As Red Lodge decides the fate of local recycling, perhaps plastic “recycling” should be abandoned, since only a tiny fraction of plastic is “recycled” (and, even then, it’s not really recycled), & people encouraged to just stop using plastic instead…
Recycling reduces the cost of Red Lodge's solid waste management system, since less solid waste has to be hauled to the landfill when people are...
In these times of man-caused climate change we can throw the “500-year-flood” and similar jargon out the window — Red Lodge is still cleaning up but who knows what will happen this year…
From The Billings Gazette: https://billingsgazette.com/news/red-lodge-hustles-to-repair-last-junes-flood-damage-before-this-years-runoff/article_85052e2e-ccc6-11ed-b8ba-8bfa7e5fe185.html?
If you’re going to own a pet please be responsible and minimize their impact on the planet, and here’s how…
From davidsuzuki.org: https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/is-your-pet-care-planet-friendly/?
Here are 31 easy things you can do to help mitigate the catastrophe of man-caused climate change…
From the Zero-Waste Chef: https://zerowastechef.com/2023/03/22/31-climate-actions-ipcc-report/ especially important if you have kids or grandkids, since they'll suffer the most, Big Oil, fossil fuels
Microplastics in our bodies, huge islands of plastic trash in the oceans and now plastic rocks, the lesson is clear, avoid using plastics whenever possible…
From phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-disturbing-remote-island-plastic.html hormone disrupters, plastic doesn't recycle, fossil fuels industry trying to foist plastics on us, forever chemicals