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Still more recent links, a Pet Peeves edition:

• Cigarette butt litter. Little toxic (nicotine, benzene and cadmium) nasties constitute 28 percent to 33 percent of all litter nationwide — measured by item number, not volume.


• The people in my neighborhood are completely infatuated with loud, gassy, unnecessary petroleum-powered lawn devices. As is pointed out in this great newspaper column reprint by Alan Gregory, gas-powered lawn mowers account for 5% of the nation's air pollution and a whole lot of absolutely infuriating, exasperating NOISE.


• I have written before about the importance of keeping cats indoors. Here is a video from the leading proponent of this movement (also one of the best bird conservation organizations in the world), the American Bird Conservancy.  It focuses on "trap, neuter, and release" programs, and why they do not work. It has spawned articles on blogs and the popular press; the one on The Wildlife Society Blog discusses their position, and the "tyranny of small decisions."

Comments

[John]

Gas-powered lawn devices are the scourge of summer (well, one of them, anyway).

[JUDY]

Thanks - I never even thought about it that way. We keep our cat indoors 99% of the time but he does escape from time to time - will try to do better and will also use this info to educate otherS!