Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 21, 2009, 5:05 pm
  Marine contamination, cultural sites at Makua at stake November 19, 2009     Honolulu, HI – Yesterday, U.S. District Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway ruled that the Army is obliged to giv...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 17, 2009, 8:47 pm
EPA has made strides on incinerators, cement kilns just in the last 10 months alone November 16, 2009       Washington, DC –     Contact:   Take a deep breath, and say Happy Birthday...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 14, 2009, 1:25 pm
  Conservation groups work to get stronger pollution controls November 9, 2009     Seattle, WA – Conservation groups today objected to a proposal by the state of Washington to allow a d...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 11, 2009, 10:00 am
  Momentum toward clean energy economy building November 5, 2009     Washington, DC – The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed climate change legislation today despit...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 7, 2009, 3:08 pm
  Agency announcement comes just weeks after groups petition for protections November 4, 2009     Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a first step today in add...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Nov 3, 2009, 4:22 pm
  Groups ask Pennsylvania to take a closer look at fast-tracked wastewater treatment plant November 3, 2009     Harrisburg, PA – Environmental groups are beefing up a legal challenge to ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 31, 2009, 11:15 am
  Development plans approved 25 years ago need update before more building allowed October 30, 2009     Honolulu, HI – The Supreme Court of Hawai`i announced it will review a lower court...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 28, 2009, 12:21 pm
  PATH would make grid less reliable, increase air pollution October 27, 2009     Richmond, VA – In the latest of a series of setbacks for the proposed Potomac-Appalachian Transmission ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 24, 2009, 7:35 am
Deadline of November 2011 for EPA rules to cut power plant toxic air pollution emissions October 23, 2009     Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to adop...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 22, 2009, 5:42 pm
  Clean Water Act enforcement cases are continually dropped due to flawed court rulings that cast doubt on our nation’s strongest environmental law. October 15, 2009     Washington, DC ̵...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 18, 2009, 2:40 pm
Adding to the groundbreaking nature of WILD9, The WILD Foundation, and its world-wide partners, will be using a wide array of digital and social media tools to share the World Wilderness Congress wit...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 16, 2009, 1:38 pm
The Bioneers 2009 conference will take place in San Rafael, CA between October 16 and 18. It’s the 20th anniversary of this leading-edge forum on environment and social justice issues focuses on sol...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 14, 2009, 10:00 pm
  Petition to EPA includes immediate no-spray buffer zones around homes, schools, day care centers for most toxic pesticides October 14, 2009     Lindsay, CA – Luis Medellin and his thre...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 14, 2009, 5:31 pm
On the very day that thousands of bloggers around the world have pledged to dedicate their blogs to the issue of climate change, more than 2 million people have said they are ready for a fair, ambitio...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 7, 2009, 10:42 pm
  Emissions reduction program targets heat-trapping pollution September 30, 2009     Washington, DC – Today Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) introduced their mu...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Oct 3, 2009, 11:20 am
Enduring and surviving rejection is part of every writer’s successful career. Rejection letters can be part of a writer’s toolkit to success. This comes from objectively perceiving them as opportu...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Oct 3, 2009, 12:16 am
State proposals for this serious environmental challenge deserve thorough public review September 30, 2009     Albany, NY – The state Department of Environmental Conservation released a ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 28, 2009, 10:16 pm
  Deficiencies cited in Environmental Protection Agency oversight September 25, 2009     San Francisco, CA – Following a legal battle launched by citizens groups, the long-contested air ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 24, 2009, 8:04 pm
The United Nations has designated the first Monday each October as World Habitat Day. This year on Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C. and around the world, please join Habitat for Humanity in support of this ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 22, 2009, 6:20 pm
Sept. 21, 2009 Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Sep 21, 2009, 4:08 pm
A story’s ending should conclude the story’s plot and theme satisfactorily to the reader. The last thing you want to do is create an ending or dénouement that struggles in its conclusions. The ki...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 19, 2009, 12:31 pm
  Heavy metal cleanup targeted following Earthjustice request September 16, 2009     Washington, DC – The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will write rules to limit the relea...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 16, 2009, 12:14 am
Agency announces further environmental review of dozens of permits, citing harmful impacts to waterways, legal concerns September 11, 2009   A valley fill created as part of mountaintop removal m...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 12, 2009, 6:15 pm
WILD9 is the next in a series of historic programs by The WILD Foundation to protect our planet’s wild-places and the people and animals that depend on them. The World Wilderness Congress (WWC),...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 5, 2009, 11:25 pm
  ‘Alberta Clipper’ Would Bring Canadian Tar Sands Crude to U.S. September 3, 2009     San Francisco, CA – Native American and environmental groups filed suit in federal court today ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 3, 2009, 6:07 pm
The US Forest Service and the Ad Council have launched the Where The Other You Lives campaign to try to reconnect our kids to nature.
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Sep 2, 2009, 11:50 pm
  Details from 584 coal ash sites in 35 states finally released; public health at risk August 31, 2009   View of the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant fly ash spill, appx. 1 mile from the retention pond....
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 29, 2009, 11:08 pm
Clean Water Act violated in issuance of permits for mining August 27, 2009     Washington, DC – Earthjustice and the Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment have filed a peti...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 24, 2009, 9:26 pm
New policy contrasts with inaction by Bush administration August 21, 2009     Tallahassee, FL – In a major step forward for the environment, President Barack Obama’s administration ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 20, 2009, 5:34 pm
  Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision August 20, 2009     Oakland, CA – An international coalition of environmental and Native American groups strongly opposed Thursda...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 16, 2009, 9:06 pm
Won’t appeal court ruling striking down Bush era regulation August 14, 2009     Photo: The White House Seattle, WA – Today, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced the Obama administra...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 14, 2009, 3:23 am
1:24 PM (11 hours ago) Photo via JR Compton The oil giant   has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for killing 85 protected birds. The dead birds–hawks, owls, and waterfowl–were evidentl...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 11, 2009, 9:39 am
EarthJustice.org State revokes air quality permit August 7, 2009     Bozeman, MT – Following a lengthy legal battle launched by citizen groups, the state of Montana has officially ended p...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 7, 2009, 7:44 am
EarthJustice.org Environmental issues played a role in Senate confirmation hearing August 6, 2009 Washington, DC — The U.S. Senate voted to confirm judge Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 4, 2009, 5:27 pm
EarthJustice.org Plans proceeding without survey of whale calving grounds August 3, 2009 North Atlantic right whale with calf Photo: NOAA Atlanta, GA — Today’s decision by the U.S. Na...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Aug 2, 2009, 12:36 am
ScienceDaily.com ScienceDaily (Aug. 2, 2009) — The Micropalaeontology team at the Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is working on the st...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 28, 2009, 6:27 pm
EarthJustice.org $1.9 billion project would boost profits for dirty old coal plants and hamper clean energy efforts July 27, 2009     Richmond, VA – The Sierra Club is intervening in Virg...
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Karen Mason posted an article on Climate of Our Future - Jul 24, 2009, 11:31 pm
EarthJustice.org Household cleaner giants violated court procedure, case postponed until October July 23, 2009   What chemicals are the manufacturers of cleaning products trying to hide?   New ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Jul 22, 2009, 4:13 am
Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey, describes a 12-stage journey based on the three-act storyline of the Greeks. It is also based on Joseph Campbell’s 8-step transformation model. ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Jul 21, 2009, 7:49 am
The world of fairy tales and myth is peopled with recurring character types and relationships. Heroes on a quest, heralds and wise old men or women who provide them with “gifts”, shady fellow-trav...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Jul 21, 2009, 5:29 am
Before you submit your “science fiction” short story to a magazine that publishes science fiction, it’s wise for you to know what the science fiction genre is. And what it isn’t. Richard Treit...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Jul 19, 2009, 11:06 pm
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” — Dante Alighieri (Divine Comedy) “Summoned or not, the g...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Jul 19, 2009, 10:46 pm
Apart from having a compelling story to tell, the next important thing you need to do is tell it well. While the first part of this equation is up to your imaginative powers, the second part is easily...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - May 21, 2009, 11:07 pm
Nina MunteanuClimate of Our Future is very pleased and excited to announce that Nina Munteanu will be making regular contributions to our blog.Nina Munteanu is an internationally published author and ...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Apr 30, 2009, 1:56 am
Ever since my interview on CBC Radio last Tuesday with Danielle Marcotte, I’ve caught myself thinking in French from time to time. It’s wonderful. The French language is a sensual language, with...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Apr 24, 2009, 11:41 am
  Suite101 is one of those websites that gets everyone to write for them for free and then tries to pay them for their large traffic contributions with royalties for miniscule ad sales. Fortunatel...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Apr 13, 2009, 2:16 am
You are environment; and environment is you —Nina Munteanu In a recent Scientific American Mind article, entitled " Building Around the Mind " Emily Anthes recounts the story of how prizewinning...
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Karen Mason posted an article on The Passionate Writer - Mar 25, 2009, 7:06 am
Write a Story Title That Bites Think of the title to your story as the ultimate headline. It’s the first thing an editor reads of your work. Titles are often used by one reader to describe the stor...
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