CAFOS such as the ones we have in Lenawee County are one big culprit for this danger!
International organizations unite on critical recommendations to combat drug-resistant infections and prevent staggering number of deaths each year
29 April 2019 Joint News Release New York
UN, international agencies and experts today released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
Continue reading at: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis
Following what goes on with oil and gas exploitation in and around Adrian, Michigan since 2013 - and how these events in our little city connect to the global environmental situation... - with the occasional sidetrack to other related environmental issues in Lenawee county, Michigan and how those relate to global issues.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA - Setting the standard in design and sustainability
The 2019 COTE® Top Ten program highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE® Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons.

2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA

2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
‘Die-in’ staged at Natural History Museum as protesters gather at legal site in Marble Arch
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history.
The Metropolitan police said that as of 10am on Monday, 1,065 arrests had been made and 53 people charged in relation to the protests.

Extinction Rebellion activists at the Natural History Museum. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Read more at: Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history.
The Metropolitan police said that as of 10am on Monday, 1,065 arrests had been made and 53 people charged in relation to the protests.

Extinction Rebellion activists at the Natural History Museum. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Read more at: Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
Saturday, April 20, 2019
‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’ - The New York Times
‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’
How a group of five activists called the Valve Turners decided to fight global warming by doing whatever it takes.

On Oct. 11, 2016, Michael Foster and two companions rose before dawn, left their budget hotel in Grand Forks, N.D., and drove a white rental sedan toward the Canadian border, diligently minding the speed limit. The day was cold and overcast, and Foster, his diminutive frame wrapped in a down jacket, had prepared for a morning outdoors. As the driver, Sam Jessup, followed a succession of laser-straight farm roads through the sugar-beet fields, and a documentary filmmaker, Deia Schlosberg, recorded events from the back seat, Foster sat hunched in the passenger seat, mentally rehearsing his plan.
Continue reading at: ‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’ - The New York Times
How a group of five activists called the Valve Turners decided to fight global warming by doing whatever it takes.

On Oct. 11, 2016, Michael Foster and two companions rose before dawn, left their budget hotel in Grand Forks, N.D., and drove a white rental sedan toward the Canadian border, diligently minding the speed limit. The day was cold and overcast, and Foster, his diminutive frame wrapped in a down jacket, had prepared for a morning outdoors. As the driver, Sam Jessup, followed a succession of laser-straight farm roads through the sugar-beet fields, and a documentary filmmaker, Deia Schlosberg, recorded events from the back seat, Foster sat hunched in the passenger seat, mentally rehearsing his plan.
Continue reading at: ‘I’m Just More Afraid of Climate Change Than I Am of Prison’ - The New York Times
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