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Great Pt. Reyes billboard, thx to Nadine! & Postcard Campaign!

See billboard at bottom.

This is everyone’s national park, so please forward to friends and family, nationwide, to contact their senators and congresspeople, and send postcards. ?

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Dear Friends,

Yesterday, For Elk and our partners at?Point Reyes National Seashore Restoration Group?launched a postcard campaign to?save the Tule Elk and restore this vital Park. Now, we need your help.?

Will you help us raise awareness of this important issue?by writing 10 postcards?

Follow these four easy steps to get started:

to fill in a postcard request form. You'll then be mailed a pack of 10 postcards.
Write personal messages to our targeted?elected officials. Not sure exactly what to say? Don't worry --?we'll provide sample messages in the postcard packet!
Address the postcards using the mailing addresses provided. We'll?also include?postage in the packets, so you won't need to purchase?that?yourself.
Drop the completed postcards in the mail.

We're at a critical moment in the fight for the Tule Elk and the entire Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) ecosystem. The California Coastal Commission, the National Park Service and our California elected officials are all considering the proposed?plan to expand for-profit ranching at PRNS.

Let's?show them how detrimental expanded for-profit ranching will be, and how critical it is to preserve PRNS' native wildlife and landscapes. Thank you in advance for doing your part.?

Thank you,
Diana, Founder of For Elk

P.S. Have you seen our amazing new billboard? It's up now in Berkeley at the Gilman Exit of I-80. In two weeks, it will be relocated to Highway 101 near SFO. A huge thank you to Nadine, the?wonderful For Elk supporter who made this possible!

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The Vegan Spiritual Path

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Episode 23: Ahimsa and a Vegan Spiritual Path with Victoria Moran?

?We start Episode 23 with Hope offering some insight into the concept of Ahimsa. This Sanskrit word is being utilized in the vegan community to help consider non-violence and veganism in a deeper context than just food choices. Later in the podcast, we will have long-time animal activist, author, podcaster, and yogi Victoria Moran. Victoria and Hope discuss veganism and?spirituality? training vegan lifestyle educators through Victoria’s Main Street Vegan Academy, and the new Compassion Consortium, which is bringing together people of faith for vegan-focused spiritual services.?

Vegans on top: Ori Shavit at TEDxHiriya

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Funny; made me think of the Spanish film “Women on Too”.

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Better link: Your first Jewish Veg Bay Area event!

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Hi?Judith,

The time has finally come for our first Jewish Veg Bay Area event! And we couldn't be more excited about it. We are honored to have Tamearra Dyson,?Executive Chef and Owner of

Through sheer will, she opened this?full service, 2700ft restaurant with only twenty-six dollars to her name and equipment that her uncle purchased for her to get started.?

Now almost 12 years later, Tamearra has built Souley Vegan to a nationally known brand that now has 6 locations.

Join us for a riveting discussion with Tamearra about her journey, unique contribution to the food industry - and much, much more.

You don't want to miss this event! See you on Thursday, March 18th at 7 PM.

BONUS: Want to have double the fun? for the 18th and join all of us as we feast on Souley Vegan food together. Get an exclusive 15% off by applying this coupon code in checkout: jewishveg21
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***Note: Souley Vegan's kitchen is not certified Kosher

Have you purchased your ticket for the Jewish Veg Zeder? Join us for ritual, song, celebration, and insightful discussion on?Wednesday, March 31 at 3?PM PST.

We are honored to have Lex Rofeberg, recently ordained rabbi, host our first-ever Zeder! Lex is a Jewish educator and activist who works for the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, serving as co-host and producer of its Lex will guide us through celebrating the Passover story with an eye to how its themes apply to our world today.

was classically trained (in Germany and Israel) at the Abraham Geiger College. He?aspires to be a spiritual and musical guide along life's journeys, and we are so looking forward to experiencing that together on the 31st.

We look forward to "next year in person," but until then we are excited to bring our Jewish Veg community from across the country together for Passover.

We can't wait to see you next week on the 18th and 31st!

Please?share these events with others?so we can celebrate the achievements of our people and our movement no matter where we are!

, or you can send a check to:
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TODAY, 4PM! Yale Climate Talks with A Well-Fed World

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A Well-Fed World Joins Yale Climate Change Talks

Join?us at 7pm (EST) - today,?March 18th, when our founder Dawn Moncrief speaks as part of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health's , "From Plate to Planet: Food System?Solutions in a Time of Compounding Crises."
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From the event website: "Climate change, malnutrition, and the threat of future pandemics are ever-growing crises that have come to define our generation(s).

Featuring??(A Well-Fed World),??(New York University), and??(City of New Haven Food System Policy Division), this panel assembles a diverse group of experts to discuss food systems as both the thread that ties these crises together, and as an opportunity to drive positive, equitable change."

These talks are free: just??to get the Zoom link.

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MeatOut 2021 Captures Headlines & FARM's Food Network Change.org Petition Surges

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Dear Friend,

It feels like January just happened and here we are midway through March and days away from the 37th year of MeatOut. While this year is different, with fewer in-person events and restrictions on the ones that have been scheduled, MeatOut 2021 is proving to be the most succesful event of all time by capturing headlines from Fortune, to The New York Times, to the UK Independent. One Google search for "MeatOut" will reveal hundreds of headlines that prove we're making a diference and starting the conversations about kicking the meat habit.

Take the today

In addition to MeatOut, we've also seen significant success and support for our most recent Change.org petition, "Food Network: Compassion in the Kitchen." When we first rolled out this campaign we had no idea how it would take hold. Within weeks we were reaching 10,000 signatures, and just this week we're about to exceed 15,000. There is demand for a vegan cooking show and we're proving to the Food Network that there is an audience.

Sign and share the today

Meanwhile, we're working on our Vegan Videos and Vegan Commons websites, launching a Spanish-language version of the FARM website, making plans for a virtual Animal Rights National Conference, and preparing for Vegan Earth Day.

All of this is made possible .

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Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

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Travel alongside journalists and watch the latest news from nature's frontline on?Mongabay's YouTube channel.

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by Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha [03/18/2021]

- Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in eastern Cambodia and is home to some of the country’s last large tracts of old-growth rainforest, as well as endangered wildlife and Indigenous communities.
- Like many of Cambodia’s protected areas, Prey Lang is beset by Illegal logging; satellite data show deforestation, which dropped for two years after Prey Lang was gazetted as a protected area in 2016, has been rising quickly since 2019.
- Sources say timber companies are behind the illegal logging in Prey Lang, and that the situation is being facilitated by government corruption and international complicity.
- Meanwhile, environmental activists say they are being jailed for documenting illegal logging operations in Prey Lang and silenced when speaking out against deforestation.

by Mongabay.com [03/17/2021]

- The giant Indonesian island of Sumatra faces many environmental challenges, but there is also tremendous hope and good progress thanks to the work of educators and activists like those on our podcast this week.
- Farwiza Farhan is the founder of Forest, Nature & Environment Aceh (HAkA) which works to protect the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, by empowering communities in general and women in particular with trainings and opportunities that inspire them to protect their forests.
- Pungky Nanda Pratama also joins the show to describe how through the Jungle Library Project & Sumatra Camera Trap Project he works to open the eyes of kids to the need for protecting their fabulous natural heritage.
- This is the final installment in our special 10 episode podcast series about the astounding natural richness–and huge conservation challenges–of Sumatra.

by Nithin Coca [03/17/2021]

- Since 2000, Indonesia has transformed from a bit player in the global coal industry to a leading exporter and consumer of the fuel.
- While much of the world is shifting away from coal due to its contribution to global warming and water and air pollution, Indonesia’s government is taking steps that further entrench the country’s production and consumption of coal, and that make it difficult for alternative energy sources to gain a foothold.
- Proponents of coal in Indonesia’s government, including politicians who own shares in coal companies, point to the role coal plays in Indonesia’s economy and in promoting energy independence.

by Sarah Sax [03/12/2021]

- The Brazilian savanna contains almost a third of Brazil’s biodiversity but less than 10% is officially protected and its native vegetation is threatened by a rapidly-advancing agricultural frontier.
- Much of the flora and fauna remain unknown to conventional science.
- A network of traditional healers is at the forefront of finding ways to protect, sustainably manage, and document the biodiversity based on their in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants.
- Experts say that finding ways to value the savanna more, such as through recognizing its immense botanical and pharmacological value, could aid in its conservation.

by Karla Mendes [03/12/2021]

- Palm oil, a crop synonymous with deforestation and community conflicts in Southeast Asia, is making inroads in the Brazilian Amazon, where the same issues are playing out.
- Indigenous and traditional communities say the plantations in their midst are polluting their water, poisoning their soil, and driving away fish and game.
- Scientists have found high levels of agrochemical residues in these communities — though still within Brazil’s legal limits — while prosecutors are pursuing legal cases against the companies for allegedly violating Indigenous and traditional communities’ rights and damaging the environment.
- Studies based on satellite imagery also disprove the companies’ claims that they only plant on already deforested land.

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by Malaka Rodrigo [18 Mar 2021]
- The rediscovery of a Sri Lankan legume tree (Crudia zeylanica) in 2019 was rare good news of a species still surviving despite being declared extinct years earlier.
- But that tree is now threatened by a road project, prompting an outcry from conservationists, the general public, and even Buddhist monks, who anointed it in a ritual meant to discourage anyone from cutting it down.
- There’s still hope for the species, however, with botanists finding C. zeylanica specimens in six other locations and managing to germinate its seeds in a lab.
- The botanist responsible for the tree’s rediscovery, Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe, also rediscovered two other plant species declared extinct in Sri Lanka’s 2012 red list; an update to the red list is due in the next few weeks.

by Ashoka Mukpo [17 Mar 2021]
- A new report by Greenpeace says that JBS, Marfrig and Minerva sourced cattle from ranches in the Pantanal where fires were illegally set last year.
- A Denmark-sized area of the Pantanal — 4.5 million hectares — burned between July and December in what researchers described as an “unprecedented disaster.”
- Of 15 ranches where satellite data showed fire activity, 13 were operated by “tier-one” suppliers to the three companies.

by Suzana Camargo [17 Mar 2021]
- The Amazonian Chelonian Program counted 120,000 Arrau turtle hatchlings (Podocnemis expansa) in Cant?o State Park in Brazil’s Tocantins state last year, a 300% increase from just four years earlier.
- But researchers also noticed changes in nesting behavior, including the choice of a new nesting beach, and eggs buried deeper in the sand.
- They suspect nearby fires forced the turtles to find a new nesting site, and warn of a potential gender imbalance in the population if the turtles continue to bury their eggs deeper.
- Other threats to the species include plans to widen the Araguaia and Tocantins rivers for freight ships, and the main problem that has plagued the species for centuries: hunting for human consumption.

by Hyury Potter and Fabio Bispo [17 Mar 2021]
- The Amaz?nia Minada reporting project has revealed 1,265 pending requests to mine in Indigenous territories in Brazil, including restricted lands that are home to isolated tribes.
- Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs, Funai, holds 114 reports of isolated tribes, of which 43 are within Indigenous lands targeted by mining.
- In addition to the spread of diseases such as COVID-19 and malaria, mining activity poses health threats from the mercury used in gold extraction, which contaminates rivers and fish.
- Indigenous groups have filed a lawsuit with Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court against the government, demanding protection for isolated Indigenous peoples.

by Gloria Dickie [16 Mar 2021]
- Arctic sea ice reaches its annual maximum extent in March. But while ice extent is high this year, scientists are far more concerned by the drastic loss of sea ice volume, which continues its steady decline.
- A new study has documented drastic ice loss in both the north and south polar regions; scientists found that the single biggest reduction came from Arctic sea ice — the Earth lost 7.6 trillion metric tons of it in the last three decades.
- Another new study shows that the last bastion of old, thick multiyear ice in the Arctic, north of Greenland and Ellesmere Island, is diminishing as the stability of the Nares ice arches declines — blockages which work like a cork in a bottle to stop multiyear ice from flowing out into the Atlantic.
- Meanwhile, researchers warn about the urgent need for new Arctic monitoring satellites. Currently there is just one in operation, the DMSP-F18 satellite, and it has already been in orbit more than a decade. Its failure could leave researchers blind and disrupt an Arctic ice database continuous back to 1978.

by Hans Nicholas Jong [16 Mar 2021]
- Indonesia’s annual fire season has started again, with hotspots detected in 10 provinces.
- Some of the fires have been detected in protected areas with large swaths of peatland.
- The government says it’s preparing to carry out cloud seeding to induce rainfall in affected areas.
- However, environmentalists have called for more traditional methods of law enforcement to prevent fires breaking out in the first place.

by Jennifer Ann Thomas [16 Mar 2021]
- A controversial project to build a rail line for transporting soybeans and other commodities through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon may get its environmental license as soon as April.
- Prosecutors in the state of Pará, where the line will terminate at the Miritituba river port, have filed a court request for a suspension of the project until prior consultation with the affected Indigenous communities have been carried out.
- The request seeks to challenge the project on its economic viability, with prosecutors arguing that without detailed data on costs and compensation measures, there is no way of knowing how the project will impact on public coffers.
- This is the first time that prosecutors have highlighted a project’s viability to seek its suspension.

by Claire Wordley [16 Mar 2021]
- A recent study in the Journal of Raptor Research collected records of harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) persecution across Central and South America.
- They found 132 documented cases of people killing the birds in 11 of the 18 countries in the species’ range.
- Researchers say that curiosity and a desire to see the birds up close is a major reason that people shoot the birds, followed by fears that they may threaten livestock, hunting of the eagles for meat, and capturing them for the illegal wildlife trade.
- Conservationists have established programs trying to protect the birds in several countries across the harpy’s range, but these projects often suffer from a lack of funds.

by Steve Trent [15 Mar 2021]
- Amid skyrocketing deforestation and destruction of Brazil’s natural environment, the Bolsonaro government is weakening climate commitments and rolling back domestic environmental protections, driving Brazil’s people and the planet ‘off a cliff.’
- This destruction threatens Indigenous communities, wildlife and the global climate, and it is also unpopular in Brazil, as it threatens the country’s economic standing, with reports emerging that rampant deforestation is blocking Brazil’s accession to the OECD.
- Urgent solutions to this existential threat for irreplaceable biomes include stronger climate targets, restoration of effective environmental legislation, and international pressure on the Bolsonaro government.
- This article is a commentary and the views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.

by Andrew Willner [15 Mar 2021]
- If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth-largest carbon emitter, releasing more CO2 annually than Germany. International shipping accounts for about 2.2% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.N. International Maritime Organization.
- But change is on the way. Wind, solar electric, and hydrogen-powered ships offer innovative low- or no-carbon alternatives to fossil fuel-powered cargo vessels, with wind about to make a huge comeback in shipping, say experts. New experimental sail designs include hard sails, rotating vertical cylinders, and even kites.
- Today, startup companies like Fair Transport (with its retrofitted wooden vessels Tres Hombres and Nordlys); modest sized proof-of-concept firms, with purpose-built vessels like Grain de Sail; and large cargo ship retrofits and purpose-built vessels like Neoline’s new large cargo vessels, are starting to address CO2 emissions.
- Through the late 1940s, huge steel sailing ships carried cargos on some ocean routes. By 2030 — less than 100 years since the end of the last great era of sail — fossil fuel-powered cargo vessels may give way to high- and (s)low-tech sailing ships thanks to a revolution in energy technology, that reduces shipping costs with less emissions.

by Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, Thomas Worsdell [15 Mar 2021]
- Thailand’s legal frameworks for biodiversity conservation and international climate commitments omit the important role that its Indigenous Peoples play as stewards of the environment.
- A militarized conservation approach has seen Indigenous communities evicted from their ancestral lands, prosecuted for enacting traditional practices, and even assaulted and killed.
- At the heart of the problem is lack of legal recognition of Indigenous groups, and therefore a refusal to grant them tenure rights.
- This article is a commentary and the views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.

by Hans Nicholas Jong [15 Mar 2021]
- Efforts to resolve land conflicts between palm oil companies and local communities in western Indonesian Borneo have largely failed, with many disputes festering for more than a decade, a new study shows.
- Of 32 conflicts analyzed, 66% haven’t been resolved, even though 72% have been mediated by local governments, lawmakers and police.
- The researchers say the authorities tend to not enforce the law on companies and have instead tended to take a harder line on community members protesting against the companies.
- The study also found that other avenues of redress for the community, such as filing a complaint with certification bodies like the RSPO, remain underutilized because of complicated procedures and a lack of trust in institutions.

by John C. Cannon [15 Mar 2021]
- New research from a tropical forest in Malaysia reveals that wild pigs, better known for their destructive tendencies on farms and in ecosystems, may actually help encourage tree diversity in forests.
- Expectant mother pigs will build nests amid clumps of saplings, which are usually from a set of tree species common to the forest.
- When the sow kills these saplings for the nest, she’s effectively providing a check on any one species becoming dominant in the forest.
- The research demonstrates the benefits that pigs can bring to forest health, but they also note that pig populations that grow too numerous could — and do, in places — keep the forest from regenerating.

by Rob McWilliam [12 Mar 2021]
- In this commentary, Earthworm Foundation’s Rob McWilliam argues that palm oil mills are playing a large role in driving the palm oil industry’s destruction of the world’s rainforests, and that this role is often ignored.
- McWilliam writes that new research shows how to end the damage palm oil mills are causing.
- This article is a commentary and the views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.

by Mike Gaworecki [12 Mar 2021]
- Restoring forests in areas where they once stood is an important step toward halting climate change.
- Across the 48 states of the continental U.S., there is enough land to plant forests that could sequester the equivalent of about 5% of the greenhouse gases the country emitted in 2019.
- But to take advantage of just half of that carbon sequestration potential over the next couple decades, the country’s tree nurseries will need to more than double production in order to supply an additional 1.7 billion seedlings every year, a recent study found.
- The study also highlighted the need to develop a workforce capable of producing and planting 30 billion trees over the next two decades, something the authors say could be built into post-pandemic economic recovery measures.

by Elizabeth Claire Alberts [12 Mar 2021]
- A new study evaluated soundscape saturation in a tropical forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, before, during and after selective logging activities.
- It found that animal sounds promptly dropped after selective logging, but that the soundscape would recover after about a year. But two or three years after logging, soundscape saturation diminished again.
- Insects appeared to be less affected by selective logging than birds, the study found.
- Another expert not involved in the study says more realistic findings would have been obtained by recording the sounds from random locations in the forest instead of at the specific logging sites.

by Yvette Sierra Praeli [12 Mar 2021]
- Two melanistic jaguars have been documented by camera traps in Panama’s Mamoní Valley.
- Researcher Kimberly Craighead with the Kaminando—Habitat Connectivity Initiative working there says they have identified 15 individual jaguars in the area, which is covered in primary and secondary forest.
- In addition to the two melanistic animals there, the team knows of three others elsewhere in Panama.
- Melanism is thought to be caused by habitat characteristics, particularly humidity: studies indicate that it occurs more frequently in humid forests.

by Johan Augustin [12 Mar 2021]
- By 2002, the Iberian lynx was extinct in its native Portugal and down to fewer than 100 animals in Spain, well on track to becoming the first cat species to go extinct since the saber-toothed tiger 12,000 years ago.
- But a battery of conservation measures targeting the wide range of threats to the species has seen it bounce back from the brink, with a wild population today of around 1,000.
- Reintroduction of captive-bred lynx has been complemented by rewilding of historical lynx ranges, along with boosting of prey species and the creation of wildlife corridors and highway tunnels to reduce deaths from road collisions.
- The species is one of a handful highlighted in a study showing how targeted conservation solutions can save species from going extinct, although threats still remain, including climate change.

by Criselda Yabes, Leilani Chavez [12 Mar 2021]
- The Philippine province of Palawan is set to decide on a law that will divide the province into three: Palawan del Norte, Palawan Oriental and Palawan del Sur.
- Palawan stands on the Philippines’ western border and is the country’s sentinel in the maritime dispute in the South China Sea.
- Anti-division groups have raised concerns that the split will weaken the implementation and management of environmental programs Palawan has been known for, and in the process, endanger the province’s already threatened ecology.
- Palawan’s marine ecosystems have been under constant threat from illegal fishing and poaching by foreign vessels encroaching on its waters.

by Malaka Rodrigo [11 Mar 2021]
- iNaturalist, a global citizen science platform where users collaborate to identify uploaded photos of fauna and flora, saw its observations from Sri Lanka hit the 50,000 mark, the second-highest in South Asia and 14th in Asia.
- Sri Lanka’s first observation was uploaded in 2011, but it was only in the past two years that a significant increase in observations were recorded, with more young naturalists getting involved in the global initiative.
- The country’s iNaturalist observations have already led to the identification of a range of overlooked species, proving the tool’s successful use in processing field observations.

by Malavika Vyawahare [11 Mar 2021]
- A new study shows that high-income countries place enormous demands on developing countries’ by importing crops that rely heavily on pollinators.
- The researchers apply the principle of Virtual Water, where goods are seen not just as movements of things but also of raw materials and services, in this case of pollinators.
- A growing demand in places like the U.S. and Europe for healthier diets, rich in fruits and beans, is also putting pressure on scarce pollination services.
- Pollination services may be free, but there are hidden costs to maintaining them, and it is communities in developing countries who pay them, the study suggests.

by Basten Gokkon [11 Mar 2021]
- The Indonesian government has taken fly ash and bottom ash from coal burning out of its list of hazardous waste.
- The distinction is crucial as the handling of “hazardous” waste is subject to different and far more stringent regulations than non-hazardous waste.
- The delisting comes in response to lobbying efforts by industry groups, which want to be allowed to sell coal ash to the construction industry.
- Indonesia is one of the world’s top coal producers, and the fossil fuel accounts for the majority of the country’s power generation.

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The $ value of bats & sea stars. The fate of bats hangs in the balance & very real consequences for us | PBS NewsHour

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$3.7 BILLION+ for farmers JUST in the US, is the current cost of most bats being killed off, already.

I am a little bat crazy! I loved watching the pm fly above me at sunset time in the Venezuelan rainforest every night.? And, in Mexico, they’d come out sunset time, as well.? I also enjoy watching the adorable fruit bat rescue volunteers in Australia on documentaries & think about volunteering with them.?

Bats are so cute!? It pathetic to have to put a value on them and cost of losing any animals but that is how most humans seem to get motivated to care and take action, pass laws to protect them, etc.

Watch till the end to see many other species shown.

The fate of bats is hanging in the balance. That could have very real consequences for us | PBS NewsHour

Vegan’s funny, urologists’s name is funniest! Jimmy Kimmel:

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These are names which match people’s jobs.?

Just 2 minutes long. Enjoy.

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Cold Nose, Warm Heart

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“Cold Nose, Warm Heart” is such a sweet episode of Gomer Pyle, especially for all dog lovers out there!? Even in 1966, the dog was adopted from a family, not bought from a breeder. The puppy is sure the star of the episode!

In my business, I hear many horrible stories of men pressuring or trying to bribe women to give up their dogs for them.? I always advise, keep the dog and dump the guy! ?

One client came to me for date coaching too late, after she gave up the dogs, got married, then predictably divorced.? Of course, she regretted giving up her dogs. I told her any guy who’d ask that of her obviously wasn’t her match!? Sadly, she learned the lesson too late.

This is a really sweet and quite funny episode, with the cutest puppy and a beautiful sheepdog.? As you’ll see, the sergeant is a real schmuck!

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Need to candy coat your B12? Chocolate covered vegan B12 bites!

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So, do you need an excuse to eat a few pieces?of chocolate?! These candies, which look like peanut MM's?( no nuts though) are vegan and contain?more B12? in 2 pieces than one might need in a week!? I ordered them via a coupon from VegNews, but the package says if you tag them on Instagram??@Trysourse, they'll send?a discount. Not inexpensive, and not organic, but fun!!!

. They are SF-based, ship directly?to you,? and also have a plant-based collagen supplement?candy, which I haven't?tried.

Shelley

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Shelley M. Samuels, MS, LPCC

Thank you, Mutt Guardians!

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How cute Wilbur and Acorn?? Please donate and become a Guardian, if you can. You can give as little as $10/month.

See new video from last night’s thank you party, which is less than 2 minutes!

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??Judith Gottesman, MSW??
Matchmaker and Dating Coach
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Love is at the root of everything; love, or the lack of it. - Mr. Rogers

Until people extend their circles of compassion to include all living beings,
they will not find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s my dad, Man of the Year, in the parade.

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2004, he was given the honor for all of his volunteer work as a chaplain. I was in Berkeley so couldn’t go.? My mom, Elaine, and sister, Ziva, are there, along with her best friend, Dan Galant. An official in Ireland sent him a letter congratulating him and that, along with the plaque, hangs on his wall, still.

My dad was a huge animal lover. ? The last time I saw him, the week before he died, unexpectedly, he looked at our angel dog, Tovah, laying by his wheelchair, and said “a dog is God’s love manifested.” I am the vegan animal rights activist I am because of him.? He taught me to love all of God’s creatures (and how all had value and none were “ugly”) and to pursue justice for them.? My favorite t-shirt he wore when I was a kid said “I’m OK, God doesn’t make junk”. ?

Don’t know if St. Patrick did anything to help animals, but maybe someone does.

ANGELS FOR MINIS: Volunteers help save lives of miniature horses and find forever homes - ABC7 San Francisco

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ANGELS FOR MINIS: Volunteers help save lives of miniature horses and find forever homes - ABC7 San Francisco

Join UCSF study on vaccine

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$300 for 3 blood draws in UCSF.? Better to have studies using humans!

Interesting they want to consider sleep and emotional well being on antibodies.

New Study Will Examine How Robustly Individuals Respond to COVID-19 Vaccination | UC San Francisco

‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being | UC San Francisco

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‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being | UC San Francisco

Adopt, don’t buy! Happy birthday Buffy Sainte-Marie - Hey Little Rockabye

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??Judith Gottesman, MSW??
Matchmaker and Dating Coach
Soul Mates Unlimited?

510.418.8813
Here's what clients say about me:

Love is at the root of everything; love, or the lack of it. - Mr. Rogers

Until people extend their circles of compassion to include all living beings,
they will not find peace. - Albert Schweitzer