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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

This trend was largely driven by an irruptive species, meaning one with extremely high abundance in some years the California tortoiseshell. The California tortoiseshell butterfly can look like wood when its wings are closed, but theyre a soft orange on the other side. The Karner blue is an example. But those laws could be changed.

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Listen Now to Learn How We Can Ensure Our Oceans Continue Sustaining Life!

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Hear from Julie Packard, Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and recipient of the Audubon Medal for Conservation, the Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the California Coastal Commission’s Coastal Hero Award as she shares why our environment is a crucial point in history, where conversation standards need to (..)

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Tesla owners in California asked to reduce charging because of a heatwave

The Verge

Some Tesla owners in California are being asked to charge their cars less — both at home and with the company’s Superchargers — to help conserve energy during an extreme heatwave. Pictures of the in-car notice surfaced on Reddit yesterday, and The Verge confirmed multiple Tesla owners in California received it. California Gov.

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas. It stops it.

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10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Special Olympics of Northern California. The Nature Conservancy. sonc.mobi. World Wildlife Fund. www.wwf.mobi. Dolphin Communication Project. m.dolphincommunicationproject.org. National Geographic. m.nationalgeographic.com. Sharp HealthCare. www.sharp.com/m. Harvard Business Review. m.hbr.org. National Wildlife Federation.

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22 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nature Conservancy :: m.nature.org. Special Olympics of Northern California :: sonc.mobi. Harvard Business Review :: m.hbr.org. Jimmy Fund :: m.jimmyfund.org. Metropolitan Opera :: m.metoperafamily.org. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art :: nelson-atkins.org/mobileguide. National Public Radio :: m.npr.org. Oceana :: m.oceana.org.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

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Today’s funder list focuses on nonprofits supporting the environment and conservation efforts. Funding Priority: The Environment and Conservation Efforts. The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation. Alaska Conservation Foundation. The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation. The Green Climate Fund.