Richard Waite

@waiterich.bsky.social

42K followers 2K following 13K posts

Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Oct 21

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands

How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 5h

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The Sound of dial-up Internet

YouTube video by William Termini

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

thus taking up a significant portion of my household’s 10 hours/month internet plan, which is actually the maximum amount of healthy time per family to be on the internet

ffffff @jazzpomegranate.com · 8h

making everyone in my house stay off the phone so i can spend 15 minutes uploading this skeet

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

I simply click “Accept all cookies” every time that button appears. #lifehack

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

Ok but as that article also notes, a lot of the corn and soy grown in those states is used as feed for animals we eat (~95% of Americans eat at least some meat). Which is food. It’s not an efficient way to produce food! But it’s food.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for the motion sickness GIF

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 7h

there is so much Gamma in the ballpark, specifically Tropicana Field among all possible ballparks, due to it being the home stadium of the Tampa Bay Rays

am I doing this right

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8h

oh whoops you said “billionaire” my bad I must have misread. my kingdom* for an edit button**

* wait I don’t have one of those either
** mastodon actually has an edit button, and, well,,,

bad.my

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8h

wow man next time just @ me

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve seen stats saying CA produces 1/3 or more of the country’s *produce* (fruits, veg, nuts) but that’s not quite the same as 1/3 of the *food* Americans eat.

(To be clear I’m not agreeing with the red map guy, but as long as we’re doing fact checking, just trying to follow the data.)

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8h

Out of curiosity, what’s your link/source for the California / one-third of food America eats stat?

For instance I found this from USDA saying CA accounts for 11% of agricultural sales value in the U.S. www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...

U.S. agricultural production occurs in each of the 50 States | Economic Research Service

The United States produces and sells a wide variety of agricultural products across the Nation. In terms of sales value, California leads the country as the largest producer of agricultural products (...

www.ers.usda.gov

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ffffff @jazzpomegranate.com · 8h

making everyone in my house stay off the phone so i can spend 15 minutes uploading this skeet

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard Waite, Jason A. Heppler

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 9h

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

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Brendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 9h

Another one today

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 13h

First wintry day of the fall, first frost coming tonight, and this tree is still hanging on to its bright red leaves

A tall tree with very bright red leaves with partly cloudy skies behind it

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14h

note that when someone talks about food aversion, or a caregiver of someone with food aversion talks about it, your common sense advice (make your own! Fake it with packaging! Buy this other brand!) isn't going to be helpful. It's not our first day. We've thought of it.

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Wikipedia Picture of the Day @wiki-potd.bsky.social · 18h

Buddha's hand (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis), also known as the fingered citron, is a citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections, resembling those seen on representations of the Buddha.

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 20h

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop.

🌅Good morning!

Wishing you the best Monday and a wonderful week! 💗

#ColorADay #PinkMon
#MacroMonday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

#augustflowers

A close-up of pink gaura, also known as Lindheimer's beeblossom or wandflower. More flowers and greenery are in the background, out of focus.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

August 2025. From a neighbor's front yard.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, the Zeke the Plumber episode of Salute Your Shorts was WAY scarier for kids in the early 90s

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Brendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 1d

Just now

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s mostly just that we call it corn here

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Earliest sunset here will be 4:46 pm Dec 3, so not that much worse. But sunrise getting later and later until January will get old.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

“what day is it”

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Sunset at 4:59pm today feels unnecessarily aggressive

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

You can't hurry leaves
No, you'll just have to rake
Just trust in a clean lawn
No matter how long it takes
And now rake!
Now leaves, leaves
They keep on falling
And I keep on raking
My hands are shaking

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Ok well now you’ll need to read this one bsky.app/profile/wait...

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8d

🎶 You can’t hurry leaves
No, you’ll just have to rake
Shred them up on your lawn now
Or compost them for goodness’ sake 🎵

A solid layer of red, orange, and brown leaves in the yard (more continue to fall).

Reposted by Richard Waite

Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 1d

I said reason
is gonna make you a Cartesian
your Northern star:
think, therefore you are

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

I’d thought that Chris was Ruth’s son or something

Reposted by Richard Waite, Michael Kevane

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

Newsweek page with article and lyrics superimposed with passages linked.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 1d

Trees grow naturally in the forest and chainsaws are also not a hoax"...Dr. Marshall Shepherd

One of my "go to" responses to the woefully simplistic retort that climate changes naturally only.

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