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Imagine a library about the neighborhoods where you live. Books about birds, trees, soil, rivers, cloudscapes -- and the people who have come before, and are with us still.
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JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
THANK YOU Westword, Best of Denver 2025! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👍
March 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
THANK YOU Westword, Best of Denver 2025! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👍
How could we not? After nearly 250 years there’s never been a time when we would have done something different. Why now?
March 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
How could we not? After nearly 250 years there’s never been a time when we would have done something different. Why now?
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Ice is nature's most precise and reliable thermometer. And if you're one of those people who thinks a stable climate is a nice thing, what it's telling us ain't good.
Climate change: World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded
The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Ice is nature's most precise and reliable thermometer. And if you're one of those people who thinks a stable climate is a nice thing, what it's telling us ain't good.
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We sat down with the outgoing director of The Bureau of Land Management, Tracey Stone-Manning, to talk about how she’s helped conserve public lands and what’s next.
Outgoing Bureau of Land Management director optimistic about public lands - High Country News
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses the BLM’s achievements and talks about the future as we enter a new political era.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We sat down with the outgoing director of The Bureau of Land Management, Tracey Stone-Manning, to talk about how she’s helped conserve public lands and what’s next.
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In 2007, I read Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou, and it changed my life. Last year, Karsten died at just 56 years old. I hope you'll read this remembrance I wrote, about his work and what it meant to me and so many others. It's as relevant now as it ever was ❤️ www.hcn.org/articles/the...
The importance of ‘Being Caribou’ - High Country News
Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.
www.hcn.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In 2007, I read Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou, and it changed my life. Last year, Karsten died at just 56 years old. I hope you'll read this remembrance I wrote, about his work and what it meant to me and so many others. It's as relevant now as it ever was ❤️ www.hcn.org/articles/the...
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Those in the UK & beyond watching Trump’s murderous freeze on federal funding streams, please go follow @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for information, resistance, organisation, hope & clarity on this and other matters.
Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.
President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.
January 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Those in the UK & beyond watching Trump’s murderous freeze on federal funding streams, please go follow @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for information, resistance, organisation, hope & clarity on this and other matters.
HABITAT BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚🌱
Habitat Library’s new in-person NATIVE READS BOOK CLUB begins on March 1st, w/ Oscar Hokeah’s novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. “A new voice with ancient music.” — Luis Alberto Urrea.
(For details & how to register for this FREE event: email jeff@habitatlibrary.co.site)
Habitat Library’s new in-person NATIVE READS BOOK CLUB begins on March 1st, w/ Oscar Hokeah’s novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. “A new voice with ancient music.” — Luis Alberto Urrea.
(For details & how to register for this FREE event: email jeff@habitatlibrary.co.site)
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
HABITAT BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚🌱
Habitat Library’s new in-person NATIVE READS BOOK CLUB begins on March 1st, w/ Oscar Hokeah’s novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. “A new voice with ancient music.” — Luis Alberto Urrea.
(For details & how to register for this FREE event: email jeff@habitatlibrary.co.site)
Habitat Library’s new in-person NATIVE READS BOOK CLUB begins on March 1st, w/ Oscar Hokeah’s novel Calling for a Blanket Dance. “A new voice with ancient music.” — Luis Alberto Urrea.
(For details & how to register for this FREE event: email jeff@habitatlibrary.co.site)
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This advance copy just arrived, and I am so grateful and SO EXCITED! You'll be excited too, when you get your own copy. Because this book by award winning writer Christina Rivera @crivera.bsky.social is so important and such a beauty! #myoceans #writing #newbooks #booksky #whales #oceans
January 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Westword’s Patricia Calhoun began her thoughtful tribute to Preservationist/developer Dana Crawford with, “I have never known a Denver without Dana Crawford.” And she ended it this way, “She left Denver an incredible legacy; now it’s our job to preserve it.
She showed us how.”
#denver @westword.com
She showed us how.”
#denver @westword.com
Remembering Dana Crawford, a True Denver Landmark
“As a preservationist, I have to be optimistic and look on the bright side of everything."
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January 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Westword’s Patricia Calhoun began her thoughtful tribute to Preservationist/developer Dana Crawford with, “I have never known a Denver without Dana Crawford.” And she ended it this way, “She left Denver an incredible legacy; now it’s our job to preserve it.
She showed us how.”
#denver @westword.com
She showed us how.”
#denver @westword.com
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Fantastic Ryan Warner interview with Auden Schendler about "Terrible Beauty", which gets real and gets big on climate change. Auden will be speaking in Paonia Wednesday January 15, at 5 pm at KVNF. Books for sale at Paonia Books.
You should sue ExxonMobil for climate change, says retiring ski executive Auden Schendler. The appendix to his new book offers a blueprint.
One of the most “aha”-filled chats I’ve had about corporate sustainability, climate change and saving what we love most:
w/ @sambrasch.bsky.social
One of the most “aha”-filled chats I’ve had about corporate sustainability, climate change and saving what we love most:
w/ @sambrasch.bsky.social
Why this longtime Aspen ski executive thinks corporate sustainability is a scam
In “Terrible Beauty,” former sustainability director for Aspen’s ski resorts Auden Schendler pens an ode to all that climate change threatens.
www.cpr.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Fantastic Ryan Warner interview with Auden Schendler about "Terrible Beauty", which gets real and gets big on climate change. Auden will be speaking in Paonia Wednesday January 15, at 5 pm at KVNF. Books for sale at Paonia Books.
As the National Western Stock Show gets underway in Denver, here’s a few good books on Ranching across the Americas…
January 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
As the National Western Stock Show gets underway in Denver, here’s a few good books on Ranching across the Americas…
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A longtime Colorado Matters producer retires today. I barely know what my worklife will look like without Michelle P. Fulcher.
Here's our audio adieu to her... complete with a bovine hairball:
Here's our audio adieu to her... complete with a bovine hairball:
A first-class journalist embarks on her next journey | Colorado Public Radio
After a newspaper career that landed her a Pulitzer Prize, Michelle P. Fulcher joined Colorado Matters as a producer in 2007. She has brought hard-hitting political interviews to the air, and delights...
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January 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A longtime Colorado Matters producer retires today. I barely know what my worklife will look like without Michelle P. Fulcher.
Here's our audio adieu to her... complete with a bovine hairball:
Here's our audio adieu to her... complete with a bovine hairball:
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🍑 "These are peaches that make you feel alive."
Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true!
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...
Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true!
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...
Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit
How one family turned their peach orchard into a rallying cry for saving heirloom flavors and building community.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
🍑 "These are peaches that make you feel alive."
Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true!
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...
Great article about the Masumoto Family Farm, a 4th gen Japanese American farm in CA. I had these peaches and it's absolutely true!
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ins...
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Barry Lopez, who would've been 79 today, on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life
Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life
“Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the t…
www.themarginalian.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Barry Lopez, who would've been 79 today, on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life
“Clouds are as old as the earth itself…”
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A wonderful book for all ages, Something About the Sky rescues a long-forgotten piece by Rachel Carson — her invitation to “read the language of the sky.”
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Cloud spotters will love Nikki McClure’s illustrations! ⛅️ ⛅️
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A wonderful book for all ages, Something About the Sky rescues a long-forgotten piece by Rachel Carson — her invitation to “read the language of the sky.”
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Cloud spotters will love Nikki McClure’s illustrations! ⛅️ ⛅️
January 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“Clouds are as old as the earth itself…”
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A wonderful book for all ages, Something About the Sky rescues a long-forgotten piece by Rachel Carson — her invitation to “read the language of the sky.”
.
Cloud spotters will love Nikki McClure’s illustrations! ⛅️ ⛅️
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A wonderful book for all ages, Something About the Sky rescues a long-forgotten piece by Rachel Carson — her invitation to “read the language of the sky.”
.
Cloud spotters will love Nikki McClure’s illustrations! ⛅️ ⛅️
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#nature #naturewriting #naturejournaling #science #observation #seeing www.adirondackalmanack.com/2024/12/john...
John Muir Laws to offer Jan. 23 Zoom webinar "The art and science of keeping a nature journal" -
Open the door to rich discovery, better memory, and more fun in nature by attending a free Zoom webinar hosted by John Muir Laws on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. The webinar, “This is Your Brain On Paper: The art...
www.adirondackalmanack.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Thank you, Mr. President, for reminding us what it means to serve a nation. So many of us are so frightened now, for the Earth, for those we love, for our freedoms to speak, live, learn. To drop our guard and remember human decency is a profoundly moving thing. barackobama.medium.com/our-statemen...
Our Statement on the Passing of President Carter
For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia on some Sunday mornings and see hundreds of tourists from…
barackobama.medium.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Thank you, Mr. President, for reminding us what it means to serve a nation. So many of us are so frightened now, for the Earth, for those we love, for our freedoms to speak, live, learn. To drop our guard and remember human decency is a profoundly moving thing. barackobama.medium.com/our-statemen...
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When in doubt, look up.
December 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM
When in doubt, look up.
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In May of 1978, President Jimmy Carter visited South Table Mountain in Colorado to mark “Sun Day,” a new holiday celebrating the dawn of a solar age.
(Back then NREL was known as SERI— the Solar Energy Research Institute.)
Source: www.nrel.gov/about/histor...
(Back then NREL was known as SERI— the Solar Energy Research Institute.)
Source: www.nrel.gov/about/histor...
December 29, 2024 at 10:31 PM
In May of 1978, President Jimmy Carter visited South Table Mountain in Colorado to mark “Sun Day,” a new holiday celebrating the dawn of a solar age.
(Back then NREL was known as SERI— the Solar Energy Research Institute.)
Source: www.nrel.gov/about/histor...
(Back then NREL was known as SERI— the Solar Energy Research Institute.)
Source: www.nrel.gov/about/histor...
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New poem in today's @irishtimes.bsky.social inspired by visit to farmer for nature Pádraic Ó Flaithearta on Árainn last September. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Poem of the Week: On Árainn
A new work by Jane Clarke
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December 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
New poem in today's @irishtimes.bsky.social inspired by visit to farmer for nature Pádraic Ó Flaithearta on Árainn last September. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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I'm still super proud of this anthology, published in the spring: what a line up! And perfect for Christmas, without it being a puppy or anything. From bookshops, big and small, and the Little Toller website.
December 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I'm still super proud of this anthology, published in the spring: what a line up! And perfect for Christmas, without it being a puppy or anything. From bookshops, big and small, and the Little Toller website.
HABITAT BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚📚
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John & Mildred Teal’s Life & Death of the Salt Marsh was published in 1969, and just so happens to be the 1st nature book we read — and it’s still one of our favorites.
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THANKS to the Buzzard Bay Coalition for this new hardcover edition!
www.savebuzzardsbay.org
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John & Mildred Teal’s Life & Death of the Salt Marsh was published in 1969, and just so happens to be the 1st nature book we read — and it’s still one of our favorites.
.
THANKS to the Buzzard Bay Coalition for this new hardcover edition!
www.savebuzzardsbay.org
December 18, 2024 at 10:45 PM
HABITAT BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚📚
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John & Mildred Teal’s Life & Death of the Salt Marsh was published in 1969, and just so happens to be the 1st nature book we read — and it’s still one of our favorites.
.
THANKS to the Buzzard Bay Coalition for this new hardcover edition!
www.savebuzzardsbay.org
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John & Mildred Teal’s Life & Death of the Salt Marsh was published in 1969, and just so happens to be the 1st nature book we read — and it’s still one of our favorites.
.
THANKS to the Buzzard Bay Coalition for this new hardcover edition!
www.savebuzzardsbay.org
THE AFRICAN ANCESTORS GARDEN: Charleston’s International African American Museum was built on Gadsden’s Wharf, the spot where nearly half of all Africans arrived. MacArthur fellow Walter Hood created the surrounding “memory” garden — meant to cast light on repressed memories of the slave trade…
December 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM
THE AFRICAN ANCESTORS GARDEN: Charleston’s International African American Museum was built on Gadsden’s Wharf, the spot where nearly half of all Africans arrived. MacArthur fellow Walter Hood created the surrounding “memory” garden — meant to cast light on repressed memories of the slave trade…