Metalmark Sustainable
@metalmarks.bsky.social
Bringing Indigenous Plants and their Fauna back to our landscapes.
Ecological Landscapes.
Life.
Mosopelea/Ofo/Honniasont/Erie/Seneca/Cayuga/Shawnee/Lenape/Osage Land
USA SW PA Pittsburgh
Ecological Landscapes.
Life.
Mosopelea/Ofo/Honniasont/Erie/Seneca/Cayuga/Shawnee/Lenape/Osage Land
USA SW PA Pittsburgh
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“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give
Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More
www.democracynow.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
Late flowering Helianthus hirsutus-Hairy Sunflower-brings some Halloween cheer to SW PA landscape. BONAP NAPA map shows distribution. Sunflowers are keystone plants for Lepidoptera and Bees. They host at least 36species of specialist bees in E USA (per J Fowler). Have a safe Halloween everyone
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Late flowering Helianthus hirsutus-Hairy Sunflower-brings some Halloween cheer to SW PA landscape. BONAP NAPA map shows distribution. Sunflowers are keystone plants for Lepidoptera and Bees. They host at least 36species of specialist bees in E USA (per J Fowler). Have a safe Halloween everyone
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🔥 Experience a prescribed burn and explore the role of fire in Florida’s ecosystems this Saturday at the Lake Wales Ridge Fire Fest, a day of learning, demonstrations, and community engagement. The festival is free with the $6 entrance fee to Highlands Hammock SP. visitsebring.com/event/fire-f...
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🔥 Experience a prescribed burn and explore the role of fire in Florida’s ecosystems this Saturday at the Lake Wales Ridge Fire Fest, a day of learning, demonstrations, and community engagement. The festival is free with the $6 entrance fee to Highlands Hammock SP. visitsebring.com/event/fire-f...
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Release the Epstein files.
Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project:
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Release the Epstein files.
*sound on* Sorghastrum nutans brings the crackle during Allegheny County PA’s first controlled burn at, and made possible by, Pittsburgh Botanic Garden.
Safe, intentional, beneficial fire has been returned to the landscape after a too long absence. Hooray PBG!
www.alleghenyfront.org/pittsburgh-b...
Safe, intentional, beneficial fire has been returned to the landscape after a too long absence. Hooray PBG!
www.alleghenyfront.org/pittsburgh-b...
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
*sound on* Sorghastrum nutans brings the crackle during Allegheny County PA’s first controlled burn at, and made possible by, Pittsburgh Botanic Garden.
Safe, intentional, beneficial fire has been returned to the landscape after a too long absence. Hooray PBG!
www.alleghenyfront.org/pittsburgh-b...
Safe, intentional, beneficial fire has been returned to the landscape after a too long absence. Hooray PBG!
www.alleghenyfront.org/pittsburgh-b...
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The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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Black and Gold Bumblebees on Field Thistle. About gave myself heatstroke spending way too much time watching the bees today.
#pollinators #bees #nativeplants
#pollinators #bees #nativeplants
August 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Black and Gold Bumblebees on Field Thistle. About gave myself heatstroke spending way too much time watching the bees today.
#pollinators #bees #nativeplants
#pollinators #bees #nativeplants
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Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Trump Rages at ‘Deranged Bum’ Nobel Laureate in Late-Night Meltdown
The president went after economist Paul Krugman in an irate Truth Social post.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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And they said we can’t agree on anything these days!
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
And they said we can’t agree on anything these days!
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"They Poisoned the World": The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, "Forever Chemicals"
“They Poisoned the World”: The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, “Forever Chemicals”
In a major victory for environmental advocates, chemical giant DuPont and its related companies have agreed to pay $2 billion to clean up four industrial sites in New Jersey that are contaminated with...
www.democracynow.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"They Poisoned the World": The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, "Forever Chemicals"
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The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death
Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death, Research Finds
Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute. An...
www.democracynow.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death
Lithospermum parviflorum Marbleseed volunteer in the garden in Pittsburgh PA. These uncommon calciphiles feed threatened Long-Tongued Bumblebees like Bombus fervidus and B pensylvanicus. Extinct Megafauna (and bison) may have moved the seeds. Known from Bridgeville PA. Grow some!
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lithospermum parviflorum Marbleseed volunteer in the garden in Pittsburgh PA. These uncommon calciphiles feed threatened Long-Tongued Bumblebees like Bombus fervidus and B pensylvanicus. Extinct Megafauna (and bison) may have moved the seeds. Known from Bridgeville PA. Grow some!
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“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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I tell everyone I know this
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
propub.li
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I tell everyone I know this
lol
A full-five-course dinner is sponsored by ExxonMobile and course materials will be provided by Tesla. More details and registration: forms.fnps.org/civicrm/even...
April 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
lol
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A full-five-course dinner is sponsored by ExxonMobile and course materials will be provided by Tesla. More details and registration: forms.fnps.org/civicrm/even...
April 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A full-five-course dinner is sponsored by ExxonMobile and course materials will be provided by Tesla. More details and registration: forms.fnps.org/civicrm/even...
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The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
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Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days.
That is beyond unacceptable.
That is beyond unacceptable.
March 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days.
That is beyond unacceptable.
That is beyond unacceptable.
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For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.
March 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.
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Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.
Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000
Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.
www.npr.org
March 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Butterflies of all kinds of species, in all parts of the country, have declined by one to two percent since 2000.
Be brave.
Maintain Function
Maintain Function
March 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Be brave.
Maintain Function
Maintain Function
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See that big pine? You own that tree, and billions of other trees on public lands. The trump kleptocracy will overharvest, mismanage, and steal our forests. Our land needs care from highly trained people, but they are being fired. We have to stop them. We need to force congress to act on our behalf.
March 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
See that big pine? You own that tree, and billions of other trees on public lands. The trump kleptocracy will overharvest, mismanage, and steal our forests. Our land needs care from highly trained people, but they are being fired. We have to stop them. We need to force congress to act on our behalf.
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This was certainly a transformative moment experience for both me and for our backyard :)
Some zebra swallowtails that I raised last year. This would have been impossible without @drlaughingmantis.bsky.social who saw what I thought was impossible in his backyard #PittsburghPawpawPathways #ZebraSwallowtailTrails #zebraswallowtail #pawpaw #asimina #pittsburgh #activerestoration
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This was certainly a transformative moment experience for both me and for our backyard :)