I’m building a list for an “ecostudy” reading group in RVA that will begin in late Feb/ early March. List already includes The Mushroom at the End of the World; Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology; A Natural History of Empty Lots; The Serviceberry; Plastic Matters. What else should I add?

i prefer “performance art” rather than “crying in the grocery store”

Once again I am seeing people pick a random day for a general strike and posting that date on Bluesky like a prayer to an absent god. Once again I am begging you, that is not how this works.
A general strike is a fantastic idea. You can’t start with bluesky. You have to start with unions.

I’m a landscape designer at a firm that works closely with federal agencies & depends on grant-funded infrastructure projects, some of which might be called “green new deal social engineering” (though I don’t really know what that means). Coastal resiliency? Stormwater management? Rail bridges? 👋🏻

Short-form text-based social mediums (i.e. pithy hot takes) aren’t my strong suit. Livejournal and Xanga were it for me before Instagram came along. Maybe this is my Substack moment?