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Father, runner, Monarch butterfly guy, Master composter, Citizen Forester growing trees for the 22nd century. Re-oaking Chatham and SW Ontario.🇨🇦
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Much like newer solar panels being highly recyclable¹ ≈ 90% ♻️

¹ glass and metals are most easily recycled components
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Charity buys former resort lands in Niagara Escarpment to protect site from development #Ontario #Conservation

Bruce Trail Conservancy has purchased former Talisman Mountain Resort lands in Ontario's Beaver Valley

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Charity buys former resort lands in Niagara Escarpment to protect site from development | CBC News
A charitable organization has bought a property in Ontario's Beaver Valley to protect the site within the Niagara Escarpment from development.
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Hey everyone! I just learned that Muricans have a version of thanksgiving too.
They do it six weeks late and in the middle of the week. Weird.
I wonder if it’s anything like real thanksgiving?
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Forests are more than just wood and are important for the water balance. The groundwater beneath a forest is clean, oxygen-rich and excellent for producing drinking water. That is why forests are particularly often also water protection areas. 💚🌿☘️🌱🌲🌳🍀💚
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Canadian Organic Growers have some ideas on how to boost agriculture revenues by up to 117% per acre while making farmer better for the environment and reducing imports.
cog.ca/policy/organ...
Organic Task Force - Canadian Organic Growers
The Organic Task Force, convened by Canadian Organic Growers, brought together farmers, researchers, and policy experts to identify the impacts, costs, and returns of expanding organic farming in Cana...
cog.ca
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...
‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land.
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I don't know who created this, but thanks!
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A new report shows how local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains.

Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.

grist.org/solutions/ne...

#Activist #Activism #Climate #Environment #Politics #Policy
A new report shows how local climate activism leads to 'remarkable' gains
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
grist.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
August 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful!

Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:
August 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Great turnout in the UK for Canada day!
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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NEW: The Vatican announces that on Thursday July 3, the Mass for “The Care of Creation” will be released, and added to the Roman Missal under Masses “for various needs.” Cardinal Czerny will lead press conference.
June 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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🌱 “There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” —Dr. Charles E. Kellogg
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal.

It’s a bookstore.

Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.
June 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Donny, show us the evidence that you “obliterated” the nukes. We showed you the evidence that you lost the 2020 election.
June 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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This story consistently gets praise from people who've never read climate fiction before. 🥰

The Long In-Between

A father's effort to honor his daughter’s memory through a rewilding project collides with his neighbor’s conventional farming practices.

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#SciFi #CliFi #Books
The Long In-Between
From the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: A father's effort to honor his daughter’s memory through a rewilding project collides with his neighbor’s conventional farming practices.
grist.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The governor of Maine is here on the east coast trying to woo Canadians back. We didn't stop coming because of a bad PR problem. Trump is literally insane and had threatened our country over and over with annexation and has also gone after our ally Greenland (we share the longest maritime border).
June 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.
June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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He never tells us what the plan is on anything because there is no plan. But two things we know for sure:

1. Whatever happens that is good news will always be a result of the master plan we were not told about.

2. Whatever happens that is bad news will be Biden’s fault.
June 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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June 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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When Teslas matter more than lives.
June 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM