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I can’t stop climate change, but you can.
El Paso Climate Activist Robert Vines shares his message to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar. Use it as a template in contacting your elected officials across the nation. by Robert D. Vines PE, C.P.M. The last time CO2 was this high in the atmosphere, the oceans were 75 feet higher than they are now. According to two…
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Monday’s solar eclipse
The birds stopped singing and the sounds of crickets and other sounds of the night filled the air. I was a very young child, but all these years later I can still remember that day.
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Can we save Monarch Butterflies
Two North American populations, the migratory populations located east and west of the Rocky Mountains, have been monitored at their respective overwintering sites in Mexico and California since the mid-1990s.
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The world needs more rhinos…
There are many ways we all can get involved in supporting rhino conservation efforts.
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Texas Fires and Climate Change Deniers
After you have looked over the Climate Crisis Advisory Committee Framework document ask your elected officials if they have read it and what they plan to do about it. Help more people who can make a difference talk about climate change.
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When will Israel agree to a Palestinian State?
Perhaps the Israeli government needs to think more outside the box and put together a West Bank Palestinian Commission with the goal of two separate states and a plan on how to go forward.
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Can we survive the collapse of the Gulf Stream?
In some parts of Europe temperatures may decrease by 30 degrees. The collapse of the AMOC could begin as early as next year resulting in temperatures plunging dramatically in some regions and rising in others.
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Cement plant threatens El Paso’s fragile wetlands
FREE – Subscribe to One Earth One Time. Contact us if you would like to contribute with your own stories to this blog. Rio Bosque Wetlands Park is a 372-acre City of El Paso park managed by UTEP’s Center for Environmental Resource Management. According to the Corridor 20 Civic Association, a Neighborhood Association working together to improve and…
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What planet do you live on?
Do you live here on this blue planet? If your answer is yes and you care about the future of our only home, then One Earth One Time is for you. You can be a part of this blog and it’s Facebook page by simply subscribing or liking the Facebook page. Contact us with your contributions. We have…
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How to get involved in advocating for climate change
by Robert D. Vines PE, C.P.M. Note – Robert is on the Board of Directors of the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition, one of the Zoo’s most important education partners. Advocate Elect Legislators who are Pro-Earth. – El Paso is in good shape here, but our officials are in the minority in the state capital, and on…
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Forget Trump’s Border Wall. Let’s Build F.D.R.’s International Park.
A joint U.S.-Mexico park along the Rio Grande would send a message of cooperation when the loudest words are of division. By Dan W. Reicher Mr. Reicher was a member of the first reported expedition to navigate the 1,800-mile-plus Rio Grande. Originally published in the New York Times, March 14, 2019 Nearly 75 years ago, an…
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Helping educate the Batwa in Rwanda
The school to untie Batwa indigenous people from the extreme poverty. Few educated people from Batwa people reveal importance of education to untie from the vicious circle of poverty. In his testimony, Richard Ntakirutimana, as only first and only Mutwa that holds Master’s degree in Rwanda among 40 Batwa graduated students, emphasizes the impact of…
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Unrest in the DRC threatens the Virungas
The Academy Award nominated documentary Virunga is a must see for anyone who cares about Africa and conservation in 2018 – watch it on Netflix. FREE – Subscribe to One Earth One Time. Contact us if you would like to contribute with your own stories to this blog. by Rick LoBello, One Earth One Time…
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Conservation in the Big Bend Border Region
by James Cash FREE – Subscribe to One Earth One Time. Contact us if you would like to contribute with your own stories to this blog. The Rio Grande, or the Río Bravo as it’s known in Mexico, serves as the boundary marker for the border between Mexico and Texas, which makes up over half…
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A National Palm Oil Scheme
A National Palm Oil Scheme Towards Landscape Conservation by Robert Hii Palm oil, the cursed fruit or blessed fruit depending on who you ask, epitomizes the global struggle to find a balance between development and conservation. Widely grown in the tropical countries of Malaysia and Indonesia, the crop has become synonymous with the disappearance of…
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Committing to Conservation
By Rick LoBello FREE – Subscribe to One Earth One Time. Contact us if you would like to contribute with your own stories to this blog This past week I attended a Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Nearly 300 conservation leaders from around the world working at zoos and aquariums…
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Return the wolf to the wilds of Texas
By Rick LoBello Over 20,000 people in recent months have signed letters and petitions asking Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Governor of Texas to support returning the wolf to the ecosystem of our great state. I often tell people that returning the wolf to Texas will be a monumental task because of the state’s…
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What’s going on here?
By Rick LoBello Every day in El Paso we see more and more of what remains of the natural landscape in lower elevations of Franklin Mountains going under the blade of the bulldozer. In the name of progress we can’t seem to stop making more roads, building more Walmarts and more strip malls. I am all…
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Solar Cooker Workshop in Ghana
by Paula Ann Winchester I left the USA the day after Thanksgiving and landed in Accra, Ghana, at 8 pm the next day. As hundreds of folks mobbed the baggage conveyor belt, I anxiously waited for my 100# of solar cooker equipment in two suitcases. I believe my two suitcases were the last two to…