Hannah Harder
@hannahharder.bsky.social
Biologist and Environmental Scientist.
Substack @hannahharder
Permaculturist. Author of A Woman in the Wilderness: A Foray in Poetry AND A Lexicon of Love.
Poet. Writer. Nature Photography and Naturalist. Allergy & chronic illness advocacy. 🌱🌎💙💚
Substack @hannahharder
Permaculturist. Author of A Woman in the Wilderness: A Foray in Poetry AND A Lexicon of Love.
Poet. Writer. Nature Photography and Naturalist. Allergy & chronic illness advocacy. 🌱🌎💙💚
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Hannah Harder
@hannahharder.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Hello From An Eco-Science Writer And Allergy Disease Advocate
Hi!
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Where I am focusing my non-fiction writing. 🌱🌎
P.S. I am also engaged in a middle grade children’s novel.
Where I am focusing my non-fiction writing. 🌱🌎
P.S. I am also engaged in a middle grade children’s novel.
How far coral research has come since 2018 when just one or two labs were doing this work to now fifty to sixty globally is really hopeful! Coral supports over 25% of ocean species so this couldn’t come at a more critical time!
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The Humble Microbe Could Help Us Understand Life Itself
Podcast Episode · Science Friday · 09/23/2025 · 13m
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September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
How far coral research has come since 2018 when just one or two labs were doing this work to now fifty to sixty globally is really hopeful! Coral supports over 25% of ocean species so this couldn’t come at a more critical time!
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It’s pretty terrifying water impacts data centers already have and the expansions that are coming—all with way too little oversight, regulations, or even responsibility for taxes.
What organizations in the upper midwest are aggressively defending our water?‼️
urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/03/d...
What organizations in the upper midwest are aggressively defending our water?‼️
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Data Centers Could Threaten Wisconsin Water, Report Warns
Could withdraw some 150 billion gallons of water nationally over next 5 years.
urbanmilwaukee.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s pretty terrifying water impacts data centers already have and the expansions that are coming—all with way too little oversight, regulations, or even responsibility for taxes.
What organizations in the upper midwest are aggressively defending our water?‼️
urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/03/d...
What organizations in the upper midwest are aggressively defending our water?‼️
urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/03/d...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
We demand legal representation for ALL immigrants!
Just days ago, three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 canc...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
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Then and now. . .
March 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Then and now. . .
ALL THIS
For every $1 spent on climate resilience and preparedness, communities save $13 in damages and cleanup costs.
NOAA saves lives AND billions of dollars.
Trump and Musk's dismantling of NOAA has nothing to do with "fraud" or "waste" — it's just mindless destruction that will make us all worse off.
NOAA saves lives AND billions of dollars.
Trump and Musk's dismantling of NOAA has nothing to do with "fraud" or "waste" — it's just mindless destruction that will make us all worse off.
The True Cost of Trump's Cuts to NOAA and NASA
Environmentalists warn that the Earth is running a fever and, with the latest NOAA firings, we’ve begun sacking the doctors.
time.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
ALL THIS
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A federal judge ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired under Musk’s government-cutting initiative. Judge William J. Alsup ruled the firings unlawful, carried out unilaterally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A federal judge ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired under Musk’s government-cutting initiative. Judge William J. Alsup ruled the firings unlawful, carried out unilaterally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
“God’s love is like soil— it sustains us, absorbs all the waste we put into it, transforms us, anchors us, and integrates us into the matrix of other living things.” #lent #environmental
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Dirty Little Miracles, Day 8 Let it Grow Lenten Series
The Power of Compost
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March 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“God’s love is like soil— it sustains us, absorbs all the waste we put into it, transforms us, anchors us, and integrates us into the matrix of other living things.” #lent #environmental
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Remembering Bob Waldrop and how permaculture, civil service, and grower independence are interrelated. substack.com/@hannahharde...
Be a Salty Saint, Day 7 Let it Grow Lenten Series
Doing Good while being good
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March 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Remembering Bob Waldrop and how permaculture, civil service, and grower independence are interrelated. substack.com/@hannahharde...
A place for ESSENTIAL advocacy. 14 days left for public comment‼️⚠️Thank you Jim Pattiz. #🌎
Disgusting overthrowing of one of the most important environmental frameworks that also has huge implications for #publichealth
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Disgusting overthrowing of one of the most important environmental frameworks that also has huge implications for #publichealth
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Over 50 Years of Environmental Protections — Gone Overnight
This Administration Doesn't Want You To Know or Care About NEPA
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March 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A place for ESSENTIAL advocacy. 14 days left for public comment‼️⚠️Thank you Jim Pattiz. #🌎
Disgusting overthrowing of one of the most important environmental frameworks that also has huge implications for #publichealth
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
Disgusting overthrowing of one of the most important environmental frameworks that also has huge implications for #publichealth
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
"Seed planters... are the ones with the foresight to look towards tomorrow. We are the hopers...We believe in a quiet resistance, but one strong enough to crack rocks with its roots."
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#lent
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#lent
Village of Seed Planters, Day 3 Let it Grow Lenten series
Re-envisioning Nazareth and beyond
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March 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Seed planters... are the ones with the foresight to look towards tomorrow. We are the hopers...We believe in a quiet resistance, but one strong enough to crack rocks with its roots."
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#lent
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#lent
"It is a truth easily forgotten by most, but plants too are guides, and these guides were certainly much more prominent in past times."
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March 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"It is a truth easily forgotten by most, but plants too are guides, and these guides were certainly much more prominent in past times."
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"...consider what it really means to be just one voice amongst the many of your local wilderness. Consider what it means to 'be a voice howling in the desert.' "
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Get Thee to a Wilderness (part 1), Day 1 Lenten Series Let it Grow
Day 1 of Lenten Reflections in a Let it Grow Series with Israeli biodiversity
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March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"...consider what it really means to be just one voice amongst the many of your local wilderness. Consider what it means to 'be a voice howling in the desert.' "
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Calling all Oceanography & Atmospheric Sci. professors! Let's teach our students the many & varied ways that the services that NOAA provides impacts their lives. This is a teaching & LEARNING moment to help Americans understand how federal agencies impact them directly www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...
Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA
The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.
www.axios.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Calling all Oceanography & Atmospheric Sci. professors! Let's teach our students the many & varied ways that the services that NOAA provides impacts their lives. This is a teaching & LEARNING moment to help Americans understand how federal agencies impact them directly www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...
“Remember, gardening, no matter how solitary, is never just solo. It is a movement back towards connectivity. It is extending a hand in care. We grow together or we never fully grow at all.”
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The New Victory
Resistance is growing
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February 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Remember, gardening, no matter how solitary, is never just solo. It is a movement back towards connectivity. It is extending a hand in care. We grow together or we never fully grow at all.”
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To USFWS employees who were illegal fired by Trump
David Klinger, a retired Assistant Regional Director for External Affairs has asked that Agency victims of The Current Regime contact him at fwsretirees.org
David is a standup guy who is a guru when it comes to dealing w/hostile Administrations
David Klinger, a retired Assistant Regional Director for External Affairs has asked that Agency victims of The Current Regime contact him at fwsretirees.org
David is a standup guy who is a guru when it comes to dealing w/hostile Administrations
February 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Excellent summary of GLRI and EPA in the Great Lakes. We have to look at both the environmental impacts AND the economic impacts....invasive species threaten the $7bil/year fisheries industry in the GL....this funding helps protect that! Environmentalism is not always a fight against economics! 🧪🌎
"But funding can’t protect the #GreatLakes if there’s nobody to direct it."
Recent staffing cuts could cost the EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office approximately 200 employees - one-fifth of its workforce.
www.wbez.org/2025/02/14/a...
Recent staffing cuts could cost the EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office approximately 200 employees - one-fifth of its workforce.
www.wbez.org/2025/02/14/a...
A Great Lakes restoration project may lose funding as Trump targets climate programs
As senator, Vice President JD Vance voted to increase funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Advocates hope he still supports it.
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February 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Excellent summary of GLRI and EPA in the Great Lakes. We have to look at both the environmental impacts AND the economic impacts....invasive species threaten the $7bil/year fisheries industry in the GL....this funding helps protect that! Environmentalism is not always a fight against economics! 🧪🌎
In which, I gush about and show off mosses unapologetically!
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Mosses, Mediators in Forests
A photo essay and appreciation for mosses during Moss Week
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February 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In which, I gush about and show off mosses unapologetically!
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“I have never really been the owner of these forests, nor could I be.”
The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest
Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“I have never really been the owner of these forests, nor could I be.”
The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...