Natty Geo: Optimism Greets New Round of UN Climate Talks Latest climate summit to begin in Lima, Peru, with big goals.

Here. BBC news on Peru conference here

Some signs of public health evolution / improvement: Less US Smoking, More Labeling of Processed Foods

Calorie count to appear with many prepared foods 

http://www.latinpost.com/articles/26678/20141128/adult-cigarette-smoking-rate-in-the-united-states-hits-all-time-low-according-to-new-cdc-study.htm

INTERPOL Asks Public to Help Nab Environmental Crime Fugitives INTERPOL's new initiatives highlight the seriousness and scope of environmental crime.

Herehttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141124-interpol-timber-trafficking-ivory-rhino-horn/

Pledging the money or stopping the problem?

Here Great for countries to pledge 10 billion dollars to Climate Fund, but why not stop the problem (cheaper) and more effective in the long run now?

"Stunning NASA Visualization Reveals Secret Swirlings of Carbon Dioxide" -- Natty Geo

Hhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141118-nasa-video-carbon-dioxide-global-warming-climate-environment/ere NASA CO2 graphic, for a full year. Very interesting, kind of pretty, and scary too. Wonder what it would look like if they color-coded gas emissions from a leak in someone's house, before they all died. Probably would look similar?

Multiple posts -- Huff Post

Robert Reich -- .01% now own 11% of nations wealth. Most in 100 years, more than before the Great Depression Here And the largest increase in where they're spending their $$$? Politics.
Citizens United + Rich = (see below)

Fossil-fueled Republicanism Here "For each modest step forward on climate stabilization, the latest election ensures that Americans are destined to march several steps backward when it comes to reliance on climate-altering fossil fuels."
"The GOP... should be called the Grand Oil Party."
= destruction of a livable planet; impoverishment and debilitation of the middle and lower class (and the relative legislative input and fairness for the 'masses') 

But we fight back, in the tradition of oppression.
Francis Beinecke on 5 reasons Keystone XL is a patently stupid and dangerous idea: Here

Al Franken on net neutrality Here

Multiple posts

Cali gets more water from Owens Valley... how exactly? Minimizing dust bowl blow-off that we caused with some other methods, so we don't have to flood the dry lake bed to keep the dust down (largest particulate problem of its kind in the country). ? Here. Saving billions of gallons. ?

Battle over a dirt Laurel Canyon road... Paving it creates more development, land and erosion unstable there. The city council rolled over, why? Here

Inequality getting WORSE in the US... Here But the GOP is ready to tackle taxation... and will make it even WORSE. Here

Great Net neutrality points from techies -- Computerworld

Here Smart folk. Needing to keep the internet fair with even speed, without excessive regulation and/or taxes.

Matt Vespa: A Mixed Bag: SCE's Proposed Replacement for SONGS

A Mixed Bag: Southern California Edison's Proposed Replacement for San Onofre Nuclear Plant - The Planet 

And good storage news here