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  1. VT passes "Genuine Progress Indicators" bill is.gd/pEagss Considers the value of clean water, etc, when budgeting. #neweconomy 11:42 AM Jun 2nd via web
  2. What would Aldo do? is.gd/yVNcj2 "Sand County, the Sequel," in which the land ethic gets turned on its head. 10:59 AM Jun 2nd via web
  3. Judge denies youths access to courts for #climate change remedy ~ ourchildrenstrust.org/page/85/press-… via @OCTorg #350ppm 9:54 AM Jun 2nd via web
  4. Our newest Place Where You Live segment just aired on Living on Earth radio show: "Hermosa, South Dakota." Listen here: is.gd/cYWI3U 2:16 PM Jun 1st via web
  5. "The Fatherland of Apples" by Gary Nabhan ~ is.gd/bjGolI The origins of a favorite fruit and the race to save its native habitat. 1:31 PM Jun 1st via web
  6. Listen for our newest Place Where You Live feature airing on @livingonearth's next show, & tell us about *your* place: is.gd/3rH3PC 12:34 PM Jun 1st via web
  7. G Carlin on urban ecology “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.” 11:15 AM Jun 1st via web
  8. ABC News: shrimp farms ‘promote disease’ ~ is.gd/rll5r8 Our own coverage of the problems w/ 'all you can eat' ~ is.gd/om5ZE6 9:36 AM Jun 1st via web
  9. Happy National Short Story Month! Here's a choice entry from Orion's pages by Wendell Berry, "Whitefoot," is.gd/SJCFNi 8:52 AM Jun 1st via HootSuite
  10. Of an estimated 12 million species currently living on the planet, only about 2 million have been described. via @livingonearth 7:20 AM Jun 1st via web
  11. Eight articles by Terry @TempestWilliams on our site ~ is.gd/wMrJWk 6:10 PM May 31st via HootSuite
  12. Coyote as city dweller, and what that means is.gd/27hRQx "New Dog in Town" 5:10 PM May 31st via HootSuite
  13. Terry @TempestWilliams is on tour with her new book: where to see her in CO, UT, OR, and WA in June ~ is.gd/YRE5rn 4:10 PM May 31st via HootSuite
  14. Restoring Heritage Wheat Conference - is.gd/kL320e - planned by @MOFGA in Maine features Orion favorite Gary Nabhan among others. 2:58 PM May 31st via HootSuite
  15. Charles Wohlforth's grim letter from arctic Alaska, describing many more changes since his last Orion missive is.gd/HGalRn #350ppm 12:26 PM May 31st via HootSuite
  16. Paula Bohince on the making of her new #poetry collection, "The Children," at our blog ~ is.gd/qe4Y96 11:45 AM May 31st via HootSuite
  17. Keep up with us on Facebook, here: facebook.com/OrionMagazine 10:14 AM May 31st via HootSuite
  18. "Skagit River, Washington," new entry in our Place Where You Live feature: is.gd/FJ1HPC Submit your own here: is.gd/3rH3PC 9:25 AM May 31st via HootSuite
  19. Happy birthday, Walt Whitman (1819). 8:44 AM May 31st via HootSuite
  20. London/Cairo/Austin: 3 cities that offer world-class birdwatching—at their wastewater treatment plants: is.gd/nAq9Ly 7:10 AM May 31st via HootSuite