Actual whole apples baked in a vegan pastry shell and stuffed with rich dried fruit.

Source: Samhain Baked Apples

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A dead pelican was found bound in wire and electrical tape. The circumstances behind the death are as of yet unknown, but it is suspected that the bird was intended to be sold or traded, which is illegal. Sign this petition to demand justice for this innocent bird.

Source: Justice for Pelican Found Dead and Bound in Wire

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So far, in the past three months, we’ve had four major U.S. disasters whose impacts we can certainly say were made worse by human caused climate change.

The costs from these disasters to U.S. society and, in the end, to citizens and taxpayers is tremendous. Thousands of people have lost their homes. Irreplaceable lives were forever stripped from us. Many have lost access to work and livelihoods. And in the case of Puerto Rico, hundreds of thousands of people have been thrust back into what amounts to a modern rendition of the dark ages.

(A satellite image of the burn scar left following the North Bay fires. Human-caused climate change is a primary enabler for these kinds of disasters. Image source: NASA.)

As a measure of money alone and leaving aside the untold human misery, hurricane Harvey may ultimately cost the U.S. $180 billion, Irma may cost the U.S…

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It has been said that testosterone is the most dangerous drug in the world.” ~ caller on the Thom Hartmann show

I was awakened Saturday morning, Sept. 30, at 6:45 a.m., by a barrage of gunfire around my rural property north of Portage. I counted 120 shots fired close by over the next two hours — half of them semi-automatic. It was the same on Sunday morning, and Monday. My wild friends who live in my woods are surrounded and killed, lured to food plots off my land. I am not safe to walk out my door.

The semi-automatic guns that were used in the Las Vegas massacre are also used in killing hundreds of thousands of innocent wildlife in Wisconsin every year. This gets little press and less compassion.

Until we have the moral substance to stop the state from encouraging everyone from children to adults to…

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The only thing that environmental laws regulate are environmentalists.” ~ Thomas Linzey, 2014 Earth at Risk conference

Thomas Linzey co-founded the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in the early 1990s to help communities seeking environmental justice as they fought against factory hog farms, fracking, and pipelines moving into Pennsylvania.

At the 2014 Earth at Risk conference, Linzey laid out how he and his team of lawyers wasted 10 years thinking that American environmental regulations were the best in the world and just needed more lawyers to enforce them.

As he worked to help communities — free of charge — he found that the laws related to pipelines, huge hog farms and fracking had been written by the very groups he was fighting. High-paid lawyers for the 20,000-hog farm and the pipeline thanked him for finding flaws that allowed them to bill more hours and write more…