HR Wellborn
@hrwell.bsky.social
Happily married, rage filled feminist from NJ living in HI 🌺. Almost a fully educated scientist. My soap box speeches include 🌏climate change, plastic reduction, conservation, human rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, gun control, and why I hated living in TN.
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A University of Hawaiʻi study reveals that integrating more traditional practices can be an effective way to support health and wellness across the islands.
A study finds public health may be more supported by spearfishing, culturally significant traditions
A University of Hawaiʻi study reveals that integrating more traditional practices can be an effective way to support health and wellness across the islands.
bigislandnow.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A University of Hawaiʻi study reveals that integrating more traditional practices can be an effective way to support health and wellness across the islands.
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“Americans think they’re so special with their orange celebrity president. Well guess what? We have our own celebrity version of Don the Con. Meet Yolk Hogan, the leader of the Literal Party. -Literal Party Press Statement
Photo: Yves Adams
Photo: Yves Adams
April 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Americans think they’re so special with their orange celebrity president. Well guess what? We have our own celebrity version of Don the Con. Meet Yolk Hogan, the leader of the Literal Party. -Literal Party Press Statement
Photo: Yves Adams
Photo: Yves Adams
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Oʻahu is mālama ʻāina
Maui is standing together
Hawaiʻi Island is feeding each other
Everywhere is resistance
April 19th, in person or from wherever you are
Tag @50501hi.bsky.social + use #CommunityIsKue
@indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social
@indivisiblekeaau25.bsky.social
@mauiprotests.bsky.social
Maui is standing together
Hawaiʻi Island is feeding each other
Everywhere is resistance
April 19th, in person or from wherever you are
Tag @50501hi.bsky.social + use #CommunityIsKue
@indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social
@indivisiblekeaau25.bsky.social
@mauiprotests.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I had the honor of meeting Mark Favors while testifying on Capitol Hill about the harms of PFAS. He is one of many principled and committed advocates for the phasing out of forever chemicals and holding polluters and politicians accountable.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I had the honor of meeting Mark Favors while testifying on Capitol Hill about the harms of PFAS. He is one of many principled and committed advocates for the phasing out of forever chemicals and holding polluters and politicians accountable.
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The New York Times: Funding for National Climate Assessment Is Cut www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
Funding for National Climate Assessment Is Cut
The move raises concerns among scientists that the assessment, which is required by Congress, is now in jeopardy.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The New York Times: Funding for National Climate Assessment Is Cut www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
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Now once a month. . .
April 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Now once a month. . .
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A new federal disaster resilience policy is overlooking many Black and Latino or Hispanic communities - Brookings www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...
A new federal disaster resilience policy is overlooking many Black and Latino or Hispanic communities
This report explores the distribution of social vulnerability and racial demographics across CDRZs.
www.brookings.edu
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A new federal disaster resilience policy is overlooking many Black and Latino or Hispanic communities - Brookings www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...
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The United States military is eyeing the environmentally and culturally important Johnston Atoll, located about 860 nautical miles southwest of the Big Island, as a site to land test rockets that would rapidly transport cargo.
Ecologists, cultural practitioners oppose U.S. military landing test rockets at Johnston Atoll
The Department of Defense is planning to test the capability of the rockets to deliver military material and equipment anywhere in the world in hours.
bigislandnow.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The United States military is eyeing the environmentally and culturally important Johnston Atoll, located about 860 nautical miles southwest of the Big Island, as a site to land test rockets that would rapidly transport cargo.
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Change is in the air…The people are fed up and the uprising is coming. We can’t and won’t bend the knee to a bunch of billionaires.
Don’t give them any of your money for starters. Hit them where it hurts…in the only thing they care about …their wallets @theonecalledjai.bsky.social
Don’t give them any of your money for starters. Hit them where it hurts…in the only thing they care about …their wallets @theonecalledjai.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Change is in the air…The people are fed up and the uprising is coming. We can’t and won’t bend the knee to a bunch of billionaires.
Don’t give them any of your money for starters. Hit them where it hurts…in the only thing they care about …their wallets @theonecalledjai.bsky.social
Don’t give them any of your money for starters. Hit them where it hurts…in the only thing they care about …their wallets @theonecalledjai.bsky.social
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Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now
The ruling orders EPA and climate change groups to return to court to argue about the fate of the money.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants — for now - POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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The Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission is offering a new round of grants through the Carbon Smart Land Program to support regenerative land management across the state.
#Grants #Agroforestry #NativeReforestation #SoilHealth
#Grants #Agroforestry #NativeReforestation #SoilHealth
Hawaiʻi Carbon Smart Land Program expands funding for regenerative land management
The Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission is offering a new round of grants through the Carbon Smart Land Program to support regenerative land management across the state.
mauinow.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission is offering a new round of grants through the Carbon Smart Land Program to support regenerative land management across the state.
#Grants #Agroforestry #NativeReforestation #SoilHealth
#Grants #Agroforestry #NativeReforestation #SoilHealth
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EPA administrator Zeldin calls climate change a religion: the endangerment finding, he says, is "the holy grail of the climate change religion"
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
www.epa.gov
March 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
EPA administrator Zeldin calls climate change a religion: the endangerment finding, he says, is "the holy grail of the climate change religion"
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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SpaceX should be fined $100 billion every time one of their rockets explode and falls in the territory of a foreign country, to be held in escrow for lawsuits from foreign governments who sue for environmental cleanup.
This isn't China. We should have better engineering.
This isn't China. We should have better engineering.
March 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
SpaceX should be fined $100 billion every time one of their rockets explode and falls in the territory of a foreign country, to be held in escrow for lawsuits from foreign governments who sue for environmental cleanup.
This isn't China. We should have better engineering.
This isn't China. We should have better engineering.
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The Trump Administration is attacking National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Scientists are fighting back.
Scientists are fighting back.
February 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Trump Administration is attacking National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Scientists are fighting back.
Scientists are fighting back.
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"...This administration cannot hide the reality of climate change. Undoing the Endangerment Finding is such an extremist anti-science endeavor, it is hard to imagine how it could succeed.
But we live in a country today where many previously unimaginable things are happening."
But we live in a country today where many previously unimaginable things are happening."
The Endangerment Finding Is in Danger. Will EPA's Zeldin Uphold Climate Science?
Gutting the Endangerment Finding would be a gift to the fossil fuel industry.
blog.ucsusa.org
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"...This administration cannot hide the reality of climate change. Undoing the Endangerment Finding is such an extremist anti-science endeavor, it is hard to imagine how it could succeed.
But we live in a country today where many previously unimaginable things are happening."
But we live in a country today where many previously unimaginable things are happening."
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#BlackHistoryMonth: It's time for this "Dumping in Dixie" (title of a book I wrote in 1990) to end and we bury #environmentalracism forever! PFAS burden: Wisconsin ships toxic foam to Alabama Black Belt wisconsinwatch.org/2023/10/wisc... @wisconsinwatch @BullardCenter
PFAS burden: Wisconsin ships toxic foam to Alabama Black Belt
Wisconsin is trucking more than 38,500 gallons of toxic, PFAS-containing firefighting foam to a low-income, Black-majority Alabama town.
wisconsinwatch.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth: It's time for this "Dumping in Dixie" (title of a book I wrote in 1990) to end and we bury #environmentalracism forever! PFAS burden: Wisconsin ships toxic foam to Alabama Black Belt wisconsinwatch.org/2023/10/wisc... @wisconsinwatch @BullardCenter
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Honolulu, Hawaii taking a stand!!!
umm Minnesota, Montana and Chicago, don't look..go back to the fireplace and warm up...just don't look
#CourageIsContagious
#FiftyFiftyOne
umm Minnesota, Montana and Chicago, don't look..go back to the fireplace and warm up...just don't look
#CourageIsContagious
#FiftyFiftyOne
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Honolulu, Hawaii taking a stand!!!
umm Minnesota, Montana and Chicago, don't look..go back to the fireplace and warm up...just don't look
#CourageIsContagious
#FiftyFiftyOne
umm Minnesota, Montana and Chicago, don't look..go back to the fireplace and warm up...just don't look
#CourageIsContagious
#FiftyFiftyOne
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DYK Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump
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Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump
Researchers have published data on corporate pollution and emissions since 2004. Now the data is at risk under Trump.
truthout.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
DYK Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988. Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump
| Truthout truthout.org/articles/dat...
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Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
Trans Women of Color Are the Past and Future of LGBTQ Liberation
www.thenation.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list!
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
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YouTube video by Science Moms
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February 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list!
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...
Warning: do not watch without a tissue
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...