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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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I rely on my library of cookbooks rather than Google for recipes, and prefer my cassettes, CDs, and LPs to my iTunes collection. I use envelopes and stamps instead of online billpay, and pay tolls with coins instead of a plastic transponder. Ironically, we met through a dating website.).

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances. I’m glad that Collective Arts Brewing agrees. So drink up.

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Birders are Freeloaders

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Proponents of non-hunter adoption of the Duck Stamp have painfully ignored the political realities of a government instrument and have consequently contributed to the marginalization of non-extractive wildlife watchers in America. I’ve been against buying the Duck Stamp for a long time.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. As Cocker writes in the Introduction , “It is only when whole societies collectively believe in the goal that it is attainable.”

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up!

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Stamps to the Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

Adopt a shelter pet stamps from the postal service were just revealed on the Ellen DeGeneres Show! The 44-cent stamps feature photos of five cats and five dogs who were all adopted from shelters. The Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet stamps were photographed at an animal shelter in New Milford, Conn., Stamps to the Rescue !

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Mexican Town Opposes Bullfighting

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More than 220 organizations, headed by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, are collecting signatures worldwide to petition the United Nations to adopt the proposed Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare.