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Sarah Wynter talks about "Mothers Demand Action", why people should get involved & more. http://huff.to/2op4p4H via The Huffington Post

AJ talks about spreading positivity through his song "TONGUE", being a teen ambassador for DoSomething, & more! http://huff.to/2hRJXq1 via The Huffington Post

Then comes my Read to Write time of the day. This is a time set for reads that directly discuss writing itself. Or publishing. Or editing. Or.... Things like that. The purely non-fiction side of it all for sure. Reading to write is a huge tool in the writer's top box. I see so many writers who want to make a career of writing but don't do the leg work. Which is in most need, actual writing. But learning is always a part of it and as a full time writer a variety of reading is a large part. I'm always learning or refreshing or going over something. These days writers have to have a "platform" so there is reading about how to on a wide range of subject here. Much of my reading is from various online sources and I have a gazillion reads on my Nook and Prime. But I also have a cabinet full of books in my "tool box". Blogging is something I've dabbled in, inconsistently, since 2001. As a writer I have certain reasons to do this but I also really enjoy it. It's such an outlet. But it's a forever learning curve. Good thing I love learning. #howto better to learn from than someone who has made blogging an empire? @ariannahuff with @huffingtonpost_ the complete guide to #blogging #thehuffingtonpost #thehuffingtonpostcompleteguidetoblogging #guide #guideline #blog #blogs #howto #writing #writer #onwriting #write #platform #voice #learn #readtowrite #writers #toolsforwriters #writerstoolbox #ariannahuffington #advice #writingablog #writinglife #writerworking #writeablog #beheard #writerplatform #writingplatform #socialmediamarketing #blogwriter https://www.instagram.com/p/B7mFcokACHF/?igshid=1l33m2og5p9cq

“We face a lot of pain, and it’s true that life is pain, but there is also beauty and kindness. We have to remember that we can make a change. Today I saw an article about brine shrimp and how they affect the currents of the oceans. Each brine shrimp is insignificant and tiny, but together their movement is so strong it affects the currents. That’s how we can be. Do your part, little shrimp. Keep on. We are changing the tides. Goodbye, Dr. Yin. Thank you for everything.” I cannot get this article on Doctor Yin out of my head, it touches places too deep.. ♥️ RIP amazing human i wish i knew of your work years ago ♥️ #TheLegacyandTragedyoftheLifeofDrSophiaYin #AnnaJaneGrossman #thehuffingtonpost #Hero https://www.instagram.com/p/BxexDcWAM65/?igshid=gp9kl8n9645c

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America's favorite destination is the coast. Every year, millions of Americans visit the coast to enjoy our nation's beautiful beaches and nearshore waters. Ocean tourism and recreation are the top economic drivers in our coastal communities, worth an estimated $100 billion in GDP annually nationwide and $40 billion in GDP in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states per year. Our coasts are also very busy and continue to get busier every year with competing interests that include increased coastal development, offshore energy projects and increased shipping. How do we allow for these new uses while protecting important habitats and existing uses such as ocean recreation, fishing and tourism? The solution is better planning. Regional ocean planning is a new approach to balance the many competing uses of the ocean. The planning process is essential to ensure continued growth and protection of coastal tourism and recreation, which depend on a clean and healthy ocean ecosystem to thrive. After years of hard work, collaboration and input from thousands of ocean and coastal stakeholders, the first regional ocean plans in the nation have been approved. This marks a major achievement in the protection of our ocean and coasts. The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regional ocean plans will guide the management of our valuable coastlines and ocean resources for future generations. Based on the bipartisan recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, regional ocean planning addresses issues such as water quality, ocean pollution, coastal flooding, and offshore renewable energy. Each regional strategy is implemented through an Ocean Planning Body that is comprised of state representatives, federal agencies, and tribal nations, to advance stewardship of our coasts through improved collaboration across all levels of government. In regions such as the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, West Coast, and Pacific Islands, significant progress is being made through ocean planning to protect the coastal ecosystems we all use and enjoy. Organizations, such as the Surfrider Foundation, have led studies to map recreational activities and collect economic data on coastal tourism and recreation to ensure this vital industry is incorporated into the official decision-making processes for the ocean plans. Including the information in official data portals provides a rare opportunity to contribute to the proactive regional planning process and ensure that the economics of coastal recreation are integrated into the protection of the nation's coastlines. With the approval of the ocean plans in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, the next wave of ocean management will establish best practices, new ways of collaborating and communicating, and ensure that the interests of all ocean users are holistically included. The ocean planning process gives beachgoers, surfers and ocean users a voice in the decision-making process, which enables each of us to share our vision for coastal communities and for the future of our ocean. So next time you hit the surf, relax on the beach, or take a walk with your family, know that coastal recreation is critical to protecting our coasts and ocean. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.

Exxon Mobil Corp. promised nine years ago to stop donating to groups that spread misinformation about climate change. Yet between 2008 and 2015, the oil giant’s charitable arm gave over $6.5 million to groups that deny that burning fossil fuels is causing global warming, a new analysis shows. The analysis, which the advocacy nonprofit NextGen Climate put together and The Huffington Post independently verified, includes donations to industry associations, which tend toward skepticism on environmental concerns, and research organizations that openly oppose the scientific consensus on climate change. The Exxon Mobil Foundation donations are disclosed in publicly available documents, but they cast fresh doubt on the supposed shift on climate change that outgoing CEO Rex Tillerson oversaw in his decade leading the company. Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, will likely face scrutiny for his stance on global warming in two Senate confirmation hearings scheduled for Wednesday. The analysis does not include data from 2016, but still represents a conservative estimate. A broader analysis by the Climate Investigations Center, which included Exxon’s contributions to trade groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, pegged the company’s donations to climate science deniers at $9.9 million between 2008 and 2015. Exxon Mobil donated a total of $800,000 to the National Black Chamber of Commerce between 2008 and 2015. Harry Alford, the association’s chief executive, once suggested in a statement on the group’s website that global warming is a “superstition” pushed by advocates using “scare tactics.” During that same period, Exxon Mobil channeled at least $485,000 to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative policy group so notorious for its opposition to environmental regulations that energy giants Shell and BP have cut ties with it. Exxon Mobil, for its part, has organized two sessions at ALEC meetings to brief state lawmakers on its support for a tax on carbon, Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers said. “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial,” Jeffers told HuffPost in an email, calling the donation list “attack propaganda” and “a McCarthyism-era blacklist.” “This is nonsense. Your readers deserve better.” Yet the company also lavished money on groups that took more radical stances against climate science. The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, which has called global warming “nothing more than an educated guess,” received at least $120,000 in $15,000 annual installments between 2008 and 2015. The Mountain States Legal Fund, which once described itself as the “litigation arm” of an “anti-environmental” movement, got $70,000 over the same period. The Washington Legal Foundation, which has repeatedly battled the Environmental Protection Agency over clean air and water rules, received at least $320,000 from Exxon Mobil between 2008 and 2015 in $40,000 donations. The nonprofit once cited in an amicus brief the cringe-worthy claim that water vapor was somehow a “far more powerful” greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. To be sure, Exxon Mobil did tweak its public messaging on climate change during Tillerson’s reign. Despite donating to anti-climate groups and politicians who deny climate science, the company backed the historic Paris climate agreement and has publicly supported a carbon tax. The firm already sets aside $60 per metric ton of carbon pollution as part of an internal pricing scheme. Yet the oil giant has never fully owned up to the years it spent undermining public knowledge about climate science with a Big Tobacco-style disinformation campaign. In October, reports from InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times revealed that the company understood global warming decades ago and covered up the evidence anyway. The exposés prompted a group of state attorneys general to begin investigating corporations for fraud for allegedly misleading the public on climate change. “On Rex Tillerson’s watch, Exxon is accused of misleading the public about what it knew of the threat from climate change, for which it’s now under investigation by multiple State’s Attorney Generals,” said Corinna Gilfillan, head of the U.S. office for the British anti-corruption nonprofit Global Witness. “At the same time it has systematically struck backroom deals with tyrannical regimes and been at the forefront of Big Oil’s efforts to gut laws that would reduce corruption in the oil, gas and mining sector. For all these reasons, he shouldn’t become our top diplomat or global representative on climate.” type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related... + articlesList=585d6ca1e4b0eb5864863a13,586d0b1fe4b0eb58648b521b,586d8dd7e4b0c4be0af2e042,586d7f2ce4b0c56eb4b7005a,584f70ede4b0bd9c3dfe7991 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.