#waterkeepers

[wijanarkofx]

"hanya cinta yang boleh mengakar, benci tidak" #rootsoftree #roots ##hangingroots #plantroots #rootsplanted #akargantung #akar #akarberingin #pohonberingin #beringin #moracea #waterseeker #waterkeepers #waterkeeper #respiration #green #forest #rainforest #giantree #🌲 #nature #naturephotography #xperia (at Batam, Riau, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9GCi_zA-sQ/?igshid=1aenc4vhp01in

[bighairmonkey]

@damienvoid‘s Z Nation fan art

This one is centered around the necklace the Waterkeepers handed 10K for his protection during his travels. Over to the changing into Murphy's dogtaggs, when it got lost, and circling to the antlers in S5.

[rjzimmerman]

As Trump’s E.P.A. administrator imperils the environment, a band of passionate Californians is fighting to keep the state’s waterways clean. Bruno Navasky journeys up the coast with the crusaders who call themselves the Waterkeepers.

From left, Matt O’Malley, Melinda Booth, Konrad Fisher, Sara Aminzadeh, Steve Shimek, Don McEnhill, Garry Brown, Jennifer Kalt, Bruce Reznik and Kira Redmond. Photograph by Daniel Månsson.

Excerpt:

The Tijuana River is a temporary river, which is to say that at times it runs dry. But when the rains come, it runs near bursting. After a healthy spring storm, tires and bottles litter the muddy banks. A refrigerator door reclines, half submerged in gray sediment. What looks like an old bathrobe hangs from the trees amid varicolored shreds of plastic bags, uninvited markers of high water. A bright yellow boom, broken free from a network of battens intended to snag larger flotsam, lies idle at the side of a catch basin in Goat Canyon. “I wouldn’t necessarily touch anything here,” cautions Matt O’Malley, executive director of San Diego Coastkeeper. He and 10 like-minded advocates run grassroots environmental organizations stationed up and down California’s shorelines. The Waterkeepers, as these crusaders call themselves, are the closest thing to aquatic superheroes that the Golden State’s got.

Although Governor Brown tries to keep the door open to comity, it often seems as if the president has, bafflingly, declared war on California. “Trump and [Enviromental Protection Agency head Scott] Pruitt are waging an all-out attack on the institutions and laws that protect our air, land, and water,” says Jared Blumenfeld, who during the Obama administration ran the E.P.A.’s Pacific Southwest United States region, home to 50 million people. “In normal circumstances, California and the federal E.P.A. are partners. Today, California is working to defend environmental laws and values from a targeted attack led by Trump’s E.P.A. and Department of the Interior.”

As Trump makes his way to a fund-raiser in Beverly Hills, O’Malley and Sara Aminzadeh, the executive director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance, take me on a tour of the San Diego harbor. Aminzadeh represents 10 Waterkeeper organizations, including O’Malley’s: four in Southern California, two on the Central Coast, and four in the northern part of the state. Members of the state alliance also belong to the international Waterkeeper Alliance, a network of not-for-profit water advocates—lawyers, scientists, educators, and activists—who patrol and protect more than 2.5 million square miles of rivers, lakes, and coastal waterways on six continents, each supported primarily by local contributions and grants. Aminzadeh has helped plot a journey for me, to be led by representatives of the California groups, up hundreds of miles of rivers and shoreline in a state that prides itself on leadership in our climate crisis. “You cannot be active in California and not be involved in the water-supply issue,” says O’Malley.

[hughkretschmer]

I’m very grateful to have my project, “Plastic Waves”, be a part of Suzanne Sease’s @suzanne.sease wonderful weekly web post, Art of the Personal Project. Thank you, Suzanne and Rob Haggart @aphotoeditor for your contributions to our beloved industry. https://aphotoeditor.com/2020/11/05/the-art-of-the-personal-project-hugh-kretschmer-2/ #personalproject #lovephotography #climatechange #waterkeepers @waterkeeperalliance @_sidecarww_ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQYjyWgnrW/?igshid=cvnvtfeap176

[rjzimmerman]

Waterkeeper Alliance and Waterkeeper groups in the Carolinas are preparing to document the potentially devastating aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Waterkeepers will be monitoring conditions at coal ash pits, factory swine and poultry operations, and other pollution threats to the states’ waterways. Video and images will be available here. Hardest hit will likely be the Neuse, ...

I posted a link to an article from the Charlotte News and Observer, which was presented a somewhat rosy picture of the effects of flooding from Hurricane Florence on hog farms, coal ash pits and other potential sources of water pollution and toxic chemicals. The aerial photos provided by the Waterkeeper Alliance show us a different “reality:” some of these sources of pollution are flooded or are now surrounded by water, presenting a risk to the local populations and those downstream.

Here are some of those photos:

You get the idea.........

[axiomgrlworld]

“In Memory of Standing Rock” 2017 (mixed media) painting by Angie Gray

showing at #Artium January 12 thru February 12

calle Gen Alvarez de Castro,11, Madrid

[kaialtair]

Coming January 10th! So proud to announce this collaboration with @desert_dwellers_music %100 of the sales from the song will be donated to @coral_org and the protection of our waters. Artwork by the incredible @mugwortdesigns. More updates on the full remix album coming soon! #mamaocean #waterkeepers #savetheocean #oceanconservation #electronicmusic #remix #desertdwellers

[dfriday]

#thanksgiving #thanksgiving2016 #dakotapipeline #NoDAPL #waterkeepers #standingrock (at Montebello, California)