Jean Grows
@jeangrows.bsky.social
Working for a brighter future. Sometimes traveling, probably with my dogs. Local politics are very important.
For more than 22 hours, Cory Booker did something spectacular to show the people that our concerns and fears and needs actually matter. He took action. Let's not let it be for nothing. Tell your reps, tell your senators: It's your turn to do something!
Cory Booker tops 22 hours in a Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has pressed his marathon speech against President Donald Trump’s agenda for more than 22 hours and counting.
apnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
For more than 22 hours, Cory Booker did something spectacular to show the people that our concerns and fears and needs actually matter. He took action. Let's not let it be for nothing. Tell your reps, tell your senators: It's your turn to do something!
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Cool stuff (pun intended).
How trees, walkable design, rooftop solar, and efficient heat pumps help keep a city cool.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
How trees, walkable design, rooftop solar, and efficient heat pumps help keep a city cool.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
This muggy city keeps cool with minimal AC. Here’s how.
Palava City, a 5,000-acre experimental community northeast of Mumbai, hopes to provide a model for adapting to a climate-transformed world.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Cool stuff (pun intended).
How trees, walkable design, rooftop solar, and efficient heat pumps help keep a city cool.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
How trees, walkable design, rooftop solar, and efficient heat pumps help keep a city cool.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
In front of the Brightside office today.
March 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In front of the Brightside office today.
Thanks to the good folks at @stlmag.bsky.social for covering this innovative outreach program!
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www.stlmag.com/.../onestl-w...
OneSTL Water Initiative Wants To Change How St. Louis Recycles | St. Louis Magazine
A line of canned drinking water wants to change how St. Louisans think about recycling.
www.stlmag.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thanks to the good folks at @stlmag.bsky.social for covering this innovative outreach program!
www.stlmag.com/.../onestl-w...
www.stlmag.com/.../onestl-w...
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Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.
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The punk florists' latest exhibition immerses visitors in darkness, bathed only in the glow of X-rays and CT scans of plants and flowers.
Avant-garde botanists AMKK illuminate the inner worlds of flowers
www.japantimes.co.jp
March 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The punk florists' latest exhibition immerses visitors in darkness, bathed only in the glow of X-rays and CT scans of plants and flowers.
SLPS School Board Candidate Forum tonight!
Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm
Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
SLPS School Board Candidate Forum tonight!
Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm
Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm
STL City residents: all fees are waived for you! For more details about this event visit: stlcityrecycles.com/electronic-recycling-event/
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
STL City residents: all fees are waived for you! For more details about this event visit: stlcityrecycles.com/electronic-recycling-event/
Sassafras flowers sprouted from a twig pruned this winter!
Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation:
Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4
Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation:
Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4
March 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sassafras flowers sprouted from a twig pruned this winter!
Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation:
Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4
Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation:
Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4
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The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.
Trump is trying to remake the presidency. Here's why
The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.
St. Louis, it's time to accept that AFT Local 420 is not to be trusted. They endorsed Teri Powers. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 And Cousins. Who can resurrect that sorry excuse for a union? And, for the good of the city, please do not vote for TP.
March 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
St. Louis, it's time to accept that AFT Local 420 is not to be trusted. They endorsed Teri Powers. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 And Cousins. Who can resurrect that sorry excuse for a union? And, for the good of the city, please do not vote for TP.
Sassafras!
I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting!
Who needs a sassafras?
I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting!
Who needs a sassafras?
March 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sassafras!
I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting!
Who needs a sassafras?
I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting!
Who needs a sassafras?
Y'all! This is amazing for St. Louis: River City Outdoors has a lending library for outdoor gear and educational materials!
Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...
Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...
rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Y'all! This is amazing for St. Louis: River City Outdoors has a lending library for outdoor gear and educational materials!
Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...
Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...
A bicycle frame was found in Brightside's garden! If this is yours and you would like to claim it, please visit the office and tell what is on the sticker in the post.
Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4
If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646
Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4
If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
A bicycle frame was found in Brightside's garden! If this is yours and you would like to claim it, please visit the office and tell what is on the sticker in the post.
Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4
If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646
Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4
If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646
Once in a while these turn out alright.
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Once in a while these turn out alright.
This is for all who work and live in St. Louis City. Let us know what is most important to you. Please share your thoughts about how STL City can reduce harmful pollutants and become more resilient to our changing climate: tinyurl.com/stlscp-survey
Please share with your neighbors and friends!
Please share with your neighbors and friends!
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is for all who work and live in St. Louis City. Let us know what is most important to you. Please share your thoughts about how STL City can reduce harmful pollutants and become more resilient to our changing climate: tinyurl.com/stlscp-survey
Please share with your neighbors and friends!
Please share with your neighbors and friends!
Daffodils in the snow, spring is on the way.
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Daffodils in the snow, spring is on the way.
It's a Jarmusch on 35mm kind of night.
February 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It's a Jarmusch on 35mm kind of night.
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McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.
Linda McMahon led WWE and the SBA. The U.S. Education Dept. may be next
McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.
www.npr.org
February 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve.
Kdhx is officially dead. 💔
January 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Kdhx is officially dead. 💔
Goose attracts a lot of attention with his antics. Our newest neighbor saw him playing with his old deflated soccer balls and decided to get him a new and improved giant football! It's bigger than her yorkie!
January 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Goose attracts a lot of attention with his antics. Our newest neighbor saw him playing with his old deflated soccer balls and decided to get him a new and improved giant football! It's bigger than her yorkie!
When you ride your bike to work but the bike racks are still covered in snow and ice.
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When you ride your bike to work but the bike racks are still covered in snow and ice.
Saturday's sunrise finally brought warmth to melt the ice!
January 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Saturday's sunrise finally brought warmth to melt the ice!