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For a decade now, Connecticut dealerships have blocked new electric vehicle competition. Send a message to legislators and dealerships that enough is enough.
Join Nobel laureates, scientists, public figures and citizens from all corners of the globe to demand a People’s Vaccine, available to everyone, everywhere.
Join the call to protect Puget Sound and sign Stand’s petition to the WA Department of Ecology to pass an amendment and ban scrubbers from Puget Sound.
A water rights adjudication of the Nooksack watershed will determine Lummi Nation and Nooksack Indian Tribe’s water rights to support their treaty rights for fish.
The For the People Act is a set of legislative reforms to ensure that our democracy works for everyone.
If built, Line 3 would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of tar sands crude oil — some of the dirtiest oil in the world — and would contribute the equivalent of 50 coal plants worth of carbon pollution to the atmosphere.
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Humanity’s greatest inventions are not anything that any of us can touch, see, or feel with our senses. Rather, our greatest inventions are all constructs of ours minds, mental technologies that allow us to see and show up in the world in entirely new, revolutionary ways.
I used to think there was more or less one way to meditate. Now it seems like there are probably endless approaches, even endless definitions of what it is in the first place.
Without instinct, human flourishing would be impossible. Humanity itself would not be possible. We are permanently indebted and connected to our biological forebears – non-human primates, birds, reptiles, amphibians, plants, fungi, bacteria, and countless others – for this wonderful gift of instinct for which we can claim no credit.
Part of anti-oppression accountability for me is being present to the pain that others have to deal with every day that I don’t. And part of it is harnessing the energies that are more available to me due to my privilege.