The Portugeist
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
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Photo taken on this day in 2021, looking over at a lush Ontario Place as the sun set. Today completely denuded of plant and building. Never forget who did this and the local companies & people who made money off helping out.
May 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Photo taken on this day in 2021, looking over at a lush Ontario Place as the sun set. Today completely denuded of plant and building. Never forget who did this and the local companies & people who made money off helping out.
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Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
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While deforestation for agriculture is usually the leading cause of forest loss in the tropics, last year it was fires. Drought in the Amazon and Pantanal biomes led to devastating losses. New numbers from @worldresources.bsky.social & UMD gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...
Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024 | World Resources Institute Research
The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data. Update...
gfr.wri.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
While deforestation for agriculture is usually the leading cause of forest loss in the tropics, last year it was fires. Drought in the Amazon and Pantanal biomes led to devastating losses. New numbers from @worldresources.bsky.social & UMD gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...
“The Rangers you’ll meet don’t go to the armories and play soldier once a week. They live it constantly”
“They hunt, they fish, they survive. They pull bodies out of water. They recover downed aircraft. This is their land.”
#Inuit #rangers #arctic #elbowsup
“They hunt, they fish, they survive. They pull bodies out of water. They recover downed aircraft. This is their land.”
#Inuit #rangers #arctic #elbowsup
Indigenous guides in the Arctic are training Canada’s military: ‘When they talk, I listen’
With the country facing new threats to its sovereignty, the country is looking to reaffirm itself as ‘an Arctic nation’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Mar 15: The silent, long-term effects of COVID, and more... | CBC Radio
On this week's episode: polar bear dens, modern sleep woes, climate change is bad for satellites, and an ancient Australian crater
www.cbc.ca
March 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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9% of Canadian citizens live overseas. I vote religiously (except those years Harper took it away...) and you can too! With so many of us scattered around we need to make our international voices heard.
Did you know:
Most politicians under-estimate how much people care about climate—because they never hear from them.
Voting matters! Federal policies accelerate implementation of climate solutions.
If you're a Canadian abroad, apply to vote by mail as soon as the federal election is announced:
Most politicians under-estimate how much people care about climate—because they never hear from them.
Voting matters! Federal policies accelerate implementation of climate solutions.
If you're a Canadian abroad, apply to vote by mail as soon as the federal election is announced:
Apply to vote by mail
Apply to vote by mail.
www.elections.ca
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
9% of Canadian citizens live overseas. I vote religiously (except those years Harper took it away...) and you can too! With so many of us scattered around we need to make our international voices heard.
Wonderful news for Inuit-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region! www.qia.ca/qia-and-the-...
#nunavut #guardians #Indigenous #inuit #arctic #conservation
#nunavut #guardians #Indigenous #inuit #arctic #conservation
QIA and the Government of Canada sign the SINAA agreement today | QIA
What is SINAA? SINAA, formerly known as the Qikiqtani Project Finance for Permanence SINAA is an agreement between QIA and the Government of Canada, in partnership with PEW Charitable Trust to formall...
www.qia.ca
February 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wonderful news for Inuit-led conservation in the Qikiqtani region! www.qia.ca/qia-and-the-...
#nunavut #guardians #Indigenous #inuit #arctic #conservation
#nunavut #guardians #Indigenous #inuit #arctic #conservation
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Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hi! We're Skype a Scientist! We're a free program that matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&As all about science.
Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
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Get matched with a scientist for a virtual conversation! We have 30+ types of scientist & match weekly.
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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Star Girl: special screening of the award-winning Kayapó short feature film "Nhakpoti: The Star Girl" at Princeton University on February 28th, 4 PM at 219 Aaron Burr Hall. Kayapó filmmaker Pat-I and Chief Kaket will be there to answer questions afterwards
anthropology.princeton.edu/events/film-...
anthropology.princeton.edu/events/film-...
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Star Girl: special screening of the award-winning Kayapó short feature film "Nhakpoti: The Star Girl" at Princeton University on February 28th, 4 PM at 219 Aaron Burr Hall. Kayapó filmmaker Pat-I and Chief Kaket will be there to answer questions afterwards
anthropology.princeton.edu/events/film-...
anthropology.princeton.edu/events/film-...
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Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests.
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
January 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests.
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
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I recommend AGAINST using Meta or Tiktok in the same capacity as you may have been using it prior to yesterday.
Meta and TikTok’s next era will not be the same.
If you continue, proceed with caution and ensure you extra protect your content, mind, $ access vigilantly moving forward and always.
Meta and TikTok’s next era will not be the same.
If you continue, proceed with caution and ensure you extra protect your content, mind, $ access vigilantly moving forward and always.
January 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I recommend AGAINST using Meta or Tiktok in the same capacity as you may have been using it prior to yesterday.
Meta and TikTok’s next era will not be the same.
If you continue, proceed with caution and ensure you extra protect your content, mind, $ access vigilantly moving forward and always.
Meta and TikTok’s next era will not be the same.
If you continue, proceed with caution and ensure you extra protect your content, mind, $ access vigilantly moving forward and always.
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Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
November 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
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The unprecedented flooding in southern Brazil could produce a wave of climate migrants.
Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration
Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground.
www.reuters.com
May 13, 2024 at 7:24 PM
The unprecedented flooding in southern Brazil could produce a wave of climate migrants.
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I haven't been very active here, but i wanted to share a link tree of resources I made on Palestine.
This includes a working book list, oral history projects from AUB & Refugee Chronicles &, the decolonise Palestine website. This will be updated with more resources.
linktr.ee/palestinesou...
This includes a working book list, oral history projects from AUB & Refugee Chronicles &, the decolonise Palestine website. This will be updated with more resources.
linktr.ee/palestinesou...
November 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM
I haven't been very active here, but i wanted to share a link tree of resources I made on Palestine.
This includes a working book list, oral history projects from AUB & Refugee Chronicles &, the decolonise Palestine website. This will be updated with more resources.
linktr.ee/palestinesou...
This includes a working book list, oral history projects from AUB & Refugee Chronicles &, the decolonise Palestine website. This will be updated with more resources.
linktr.ee/palestinesou...
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October 25, 2023 at 8:13 AM
The price of tomatoes this week in Kinngait, Nunavut.
October 25, 2023 at 1:20 PM
The price of tomatoes this week in Kinngait, Nunavut.
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Another cool event this Fri/Sat on clean indoor air.
With airborne heros @dfisman.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social, among others.
www.healthy-interior-design.ca/program
With airborne heros @dfisman.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social, among others.
www.healthy-interior-design.ca/program
October 25, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Another cool event this Fri/Sat on clean indoor air.
With airborne heros @dfisman.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social, among others.
www.healthy-interior-design.ca/program
With airborne heros @dfisman.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social, among others.
www.healthy-interior-design.ca/program
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Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
BlueSky Invites for the Chronic Illness Community
Please fill out this form if you're the chronic illness community and you'd like to either (1) donate invite codes or (2) request an invite.
docs.google.com
September 30, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...