your community needs you. your books are waiting for you. the woods and streams wonder where you’ve been. log off. unplug.

“You can’t have an economy without a society, and a society needs somewhere to live.”

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LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.

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📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!

➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.

🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582

Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of violence and threats #Climate

“With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seagrasses sequester up to 18 percent of carbon stored in the ocean, capturing it 35 times faster than tropical rainforests. But the natural meadows of eelgrass—the most common type of seagrass found along the East Coast of the U.S.—are vanishing.

Why does a #plasticstreaty matter? @carbonbrief.org breaks it down for us.

YOU can make a difference. #subnationalclimateaction matters. 🌇🎆2025 could be the year you run!

check out @runonclimate.bsky.social for more resources and upcoming training opportunities.

New starter pack! Practitioners + researchers in both mental health & societal well-being, addressing the individual and collective anxiety & grief we feel in response to the climate crisis, as well as understanding + overcoming societal & psychological barriers to climate action.

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Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost, the air & noise pollution, the huge space difference, etc… @theconversation.bsky.social
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🥬🫐🍏When we include emissions from the land sector, packaging, transport, food waste, and beyond, food systems drive about 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 of all emissions! (That’s more than any other sector.) Still, solutions abound — and many bring benefits for water, wildlife, and air, too. Read more ⬇️

“Sometimes the bravest thing we can do when facing an existential crisis is to joyously imagine life on the other side: What if we get it right?” - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Want some hopeful Indigenous climate news? Muscogee elders are preserving a peach in Oklahoma with deep cultural significance.

My latest from Grist.

“Recognizing ‘enoughness’ is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer, in her new book The Serviceberry. #booksyoushouldread #climatewise

Think the Cop29 climate summit doesn’t matter? Here’s five things you should know