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Tony Nuspl
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goodreads bookwyrm, culture muncher, shutterbug (e.g. banner image is my photo, 2025) & cat butler
Following #booksky #filmsky #envhist #opensource #solarenergy
Muting #AIart
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Both Patagonia, Chile and scenes from Iceland feature, among others
#landscapephotography

www.popsci.com/environment/...
22 breathtaking images from the 2025 Landscape Photographer of the Year awards
The vibrant magnificence of Earth.
www.popsci.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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RIP Graham Greene (1952-2025) #lastfourwatched of his portrayals of characters in tv or film 🎥🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix
Graham Greene appearing with other actors, including Kevin Costner and Ethan Hawk, in 3 film stills, with 1 longform tv screen capture mixed in: 1990, 1991, 1995, 2025, arranged in a grid
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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2026 predicted to be year #SMRbubble bursts

Modular nukes wind up 300% to 500% over budget, take 3x longer to build than forecast (12 years on avg), and produce more than 5x the #nuclearwaste per kilowatt

#techbroFAIL
#nuclearrelapse
#prototypehell

beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/12/14/t...
The SMR boom will soon go bust
The hype bubble will burst by 2030 or sooner
beyondnuclearinternational.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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SierraClub recommendations, including:
Here Comes the Sun--A Last Chance For the Climate and a Fresh Chance For Civilization
by Bill McKibben
Norton, 2025

#TwoEyedSeeing
#SolarCharging
#envhist
#EnvironmentalStewardship
#environmentalfiction
#Ecotopia
#BookSky 💙📚

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-mus...
4 Must-Read Books for Winter
These stories invite us to see a world in crisis—and our role in it—differently
www.sierraclub.org
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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img left: Winter Solstice, Hickory Trees at Dawn, Scissortail Ridge, Eastern Oklahoma--from series "Nature Without Her Diadem" (2013-2023)
img right: Ando Hiroshige "Plum Park in Kameido (Koto City, Edo), 11th month of 1857" from "Views of Edo"

©2022TonyNuspl
#FridayForest
#FotoVorschlag
#japonism
diptych (with apologies to Hiroshige) img left: photo of tree trunks and branches in silhouette, taken in Eastern Oklahoma, 12th month of 2022 img right: famous color woodblock print by Hiroshige, 11th month of 1857 The washes in the ore-dawn sky from real-life photograph compared to the unaccountable (unnatural) red sky in the block print. #landscapephotography #poisondata
December 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Don't know why #hempcrete is not featured, as an alternative building material to concrete, rather than "improving concrete production". Industrial hemp does appear as alternative insulation (blown insulation)
#LowCarbon project
#hempfiber #hempbuild #hempitecture
#decarbonize
drawdown.org/explorer
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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spacecraft graveyard: There are already 200 tons of #spacejunk (including bags of human waste) on the surface of the Moon. That's over 187,400 kilograms (413,100 lb) of artificially-introduced objects, forming a lunar garbage dump.

#ThrowawaySociety
Exact opposite of #LeaveNoTrace
#lunarsatellites
A map depicting the locations of all known artificial objects, a.k.a. "space junk", on the Moon from 1959 to 2024. Including crash landings, discarded spacecraft, etc map dated 23 January 2025, via Wikipedia
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Phosphorus runoff from poultry waste applied to land upstream has caused significant injury to the Illinois River, in Oklahoma, including the eutrophication of #LakeTenkillerOK

#WaterPolitics
#PublicRecreationArea
#EnvironmentalRemediation
#envhist
#BigAg

www.oklahomafarmreport.com/okfr/2025/12...
Court Orders Tyson Foods and Poultry Giants to Fund 30-Year Illinois River Watershed Cleanup - Oklahoma Farm Report
In a landmark ruling issued Friday, December 19, 2025, U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell entered a judgment against several major poultry integrators, finding them liable for pollution in the Illin...
www.oklahomafarmreport.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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States" Attorneys defend their states’ economies, energy mix, public health and climate goals.
"Wind is the United States’ largest source of renewable energy, providing about 10% of the electricity generated in the nation." #CleanPower
#altenergy
#RenewableEnergy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects
Federal judge declared January executive order unlawful, ruling in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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King Solomon (?) & Balthasar say MerryXmas
handcrafted traditional wooden figurines at the Chistmas market
on display #Christkindlmarkt
#GermanAmericanSocietyTulsa (GAST)
Steinbach Nutcracker collectibles

photo©TonyNuspl2025
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The New York Times calls it ‘the Yosemite of South America’. But the comparison breaks down: The Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed whereas the Cochamó Valley in Chile had now been saved from being dammed.

#philanthropy
#ecologicalcorridor
#NationalParks
#envhist

www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
Heart of Cochamó in Chilean Patagonia to Be Protected After Historic Purchase
After a period of local and international fundraising, Conserva Puchegüín announces next steps in creating a 328,000-plus-acre protected area in Chile.
www.nature.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"The Færdselsstyrelsen (Danish Road Traffic Authority) will be replacing both the Windows operating system and Microsoft's suite of applications (Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook) with #opensource alternatives."

DitchMicrosoft club gains yet another country member
#FOSS

itsfoss.com/news/denmark...
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
itsfoss.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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This #authorinterview misses the opportunity to tout successes achieved in land conservation, wildlife habitat preservation, created out of Patagonia profits

#booksky 💙📚
#philanthropy
#nonprofitorganizations
#ethicalfashion
#sustainableapparel
#textileexchange
#envhist

youtu.be/Fv0ScPxo94A?...
New book ‘Dirtbag Billionaire’ tells story of Patagonia’s unconventional founder
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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RIP Rob Reiner (1947 - 2025) #lastfourwatched of his films
🎥🎬 #filmsky #moviesky #letterboxd #GridArt #gridmix
Rob Reiner, director: 4 film posters, 1984, 1989, 1995, 2014
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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matthill.co Matt Hill @matthill.co · 15d
Next year I'm starting a side project about old-school book illustrators. Does anyone know if there's an online database where I can search for all the books a person has illustrated? I've looked in archive.org, worldcat.org with limited results. Thanks! #books #booksky #illustration #illustrator
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Nickname #PineappleExpress used for an atmospheric river that forms over the tropics near Hawaii and ends at Pacific Northwest coast. But this week’s storm pulled moisture from as far as western Pacific near the Philippines.
#PugetSound 
#Cascadia
#FraserValley

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Atmospheric rivers – what to know about the storms inundating the Pacific north-west
This week’s weather system dumped 5tn gallons of rain on Washington state – and another one is threatening Canada
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Historic flood levels. Peaked at 37.7 ft on Friday. The Cascade mountains provide huge surface area for the Pineapple Express and the watershed concentrates it all in one valley almost 50 mi long.

Not only the Skagit River to the south, but the Nooksack River to the north.
madgreek2024.bsky.social MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 17d
Good Morning Bluesky Friends. Weather report coming from WA is today, no rain. Sadly this will not last. Starting on Sunday the AR / “Pineapple Express” will continue to bring hard rain to our area causing more flooding. It's very dangerous to be out there on the roads, so please stay put.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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News segment perhaps raises more questions than it does provide answers. But the exposure (insolation?) is welcome
#backyardSolar #PlugInSolar #BalconySolar
#solargarten #solargarden #solarpower
#DIY #solarpanels #solarPV #photovoltaic
#BrightGreenEnvironmentalism
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVO9...
Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
m.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Tony Nuspl
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Looks like it will be a yet more #SilentSpring in 2026

e.g. Grassland and arid-land birds in the U.S. are among fastest declining groups, since 1970 (Cornell Lab)

#habitatloss
#environmentaldegradation
#pesticides
#NationalAudubonSociety

State of America’s birds: Population declines continue
graph: songbird decline since 1970
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#Christkindlmarkt
#GermanAmericanSociety
#brassmusic
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Earth Rover Program, soilsmology : ”to build #opensource hardware and software cheap enough to be of use to farmers everywhere; and to create, with farmers, a global, self-improving database"

#EnvironmentalSeismology
#EarthSciences
#soilscience
#SoilSeismology

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Elk
Bobcat
Black bear
Great Lakes Boreal Wolf (Canis lupus x Canis lycaon)
Osprey
markstoll.bsky.social Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social · Nov 29
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Humpback whale
Grizzly
Bighorn sheep
Sambar
Pine marten
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Resplendent quetzal
Ohlone tiger beetle
Blue whale
Northern elephant seal
Southern sea otter 🦦
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Hazardous sites in coastal U.S. at risk of flooding: toxic waste dumps, refineries, agricultural hazards like #CAFOs, abandoned military sites, and operating nuclear power plants in CT, FL, LA, MD, NC, NH, NJ, TX & VA from Cat4&5 hurricanes

#RiskDistribution
#envhist
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States - Nature Communications
Socially marginalized communities in the U.S. are at higher risk of contaminant releases due to sea level rise-related flooding of hazardous sites. By 2100, 5500 facilities are at risk of a 100-year f...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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"Emissions of nitrous oxide —a greenhouse gas nearly 300x more potent than carbon dioxide— have soared in America’s #CornBelt"

"Solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."

#DysfunctionalCorn vs #SolarFarms
#TheEthanolLobby vs #Covercrops
#carbonfootprint
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM