Quick! Plant milkweed!

Darcy Hitchcock

For generations, millions of Monarch butterflies have overwintered at Pismo Beach. But over the last decade, numbers have been dwindling badly. Last year only 2000 returned. So it came as a wonderful holiday surprise when biologists have counted over 100,000 so far this year.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059263867/the-butterflies-are-back-annual-migration-of-monarchs-shows-highest-numbers-in-y

This represents a potential turning point. We may be able to bring them back from the brink of extinction. Here’s what you can do if you live in one of their traditional routes:

  • Plant milkweed native to your area. If you’re lucky enough to get the plants covered by butterfly eggs, expect them to look ratty once the caterpillars chow down. So choose a spot in the garden where that won’t matter. Even a pot on an apartment balcony could help. Find varieties of milkweed that will grow in your area at the Xerces Society Plant Finder.
  • Fill your garden with other things they…

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Day 21/67 GED lesson, Growing your Brain, and Adulting Education

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      Did you know that you can coach yourself or others, becoming your own ‘Coachee?’  Learning new things, at any age, is crucial to our growth as human beings and as citizens of any democracy:

Let’s redefine Adulting to include learning for life, for citizenship, and for democracy!

Day 21 Lesson Plan
today, the Reading is via Closed Captions: “Just a Bill”
Math Warm-up: Area and estimation on Khan Academy
Practice Multiplying Powers: the Product Rule
Practice Dividing Powers: the Quotient Rule

Day 21 ExitSlips

(Day 20Day 22)

Action Items:

1.) Find three different sources describing the ways our brain can grow (four, if you use the source cited in today’s lesson plan…),

2.) Share your  findings with us, and

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those findings, and then, please tell us about it! If…

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Open Thread | The Media Doesn’t Think That We Don’t See Them Trying to ‘ Hillary’ MVP | 3CHICSPOLITICO

We see them from a mile away. We see them trying to slander the Vice-President. Trying to ” Hillary” her, and that they are taken aback by people calling them on their garbage. Trying to gaslight us that we don’t see what is right in front of our faces.

Source: Open Thread | The Media Doesn’t Think That We Don’t See Them Trying to ‘ Hillary’ MVP | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Here are 13 reasons why you should #BoycottGold4Yanomami

Palm Oil Detectives


Hunger for Gold in the Global North is fueling a living hell in the Global South


Hunger for gold in the Global North is fueling a living hell for Indigenous people in the Global South. Here’s reasons why you should #BoycottGold4Yanomami @barbaranavarro

10 Tactics of Sustainable Palm Oil Greenwashing Tactic 1 No Proof

1. Just like in every other extractive industry in the developing world- Gold mining goes hand-in-hand with greenwashing

Just like ‘sustainable’ palm oil and ‘clean’ fossil fuels – ‘sustainable’ gold mining doesn’t exist in reality…

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