Mike DiGirolamo
@mikedigirolamo.bsky.social
Audio journalist @Mongabay. Runner. He/him. Born at 350ppm. 📍Gadigal Land. Fan of birds.
My thoughts: https://mike-digirolamo.ghost.io
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Can confirm, hail stones fell here in Sydney on my location.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Can confirm, hail stones fell here in Sydney on my location.
Ah. Didn't see this. I just put down a vote for the Regent Honeyeater.
October 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Ah. Didn't see this. I just put down a vote for the Regent Honeyeater.
Natalie Kyriacou has written my personal favorite book of the year, 'Nature's Last Dance,' which connects the dots on what exactly nature is, how we depend on it, and most importantly how we can all save it. This meticulously researched book is full of heart, science, and unflinching honesty. (4/4)
The honesty, humor and wonder of ‘Nature’s Last Dance,’ from Natalie Kyriacou
I recently received an advance copy of Natalie Kyriacou’s widely praised new book, Nature’s Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction, and found myself agreeing with its many high-profile fa...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Natalie Kyriacou has written my personal favorite book of the year, 'Nature's Last Dance,' which connects the dots on what exactly nature is, how we depend on it, and most importantly how we can all save it. This meticulously researched book is full of heart, science, and unflinching honesty. (4/4)
Alan Weisman's 'Hope Dies Last' is not fiction, and that's what makes it so compelling: stories of those, as Weisman puts it, 'not waiting around for miracles but out there trying to make them.' While there are no glimpses of utopia in this volume, there's plenty of real inspiration. (3/4).
In ‘Hope Dies Last,’ author Alan Weisman chronicles the people fighting for the planet
I bought Alan Weisman’s Hope Dies Last in a bookstore despite knowing nothing about it and based purely on the title. Four hundred pages later, I sat down with the author to talk about the miraculous ...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Alan Weisman's 'Hope Dies Last' is not fiction, and that's what makes it so compelling: stories of those, as Weisman puts it, 'not waiting around for miracles but out there trying to make them.' While there are no glimpses of utopia in this volume, there's plenty of real inspiration. (3/4).
I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry for the Future' for the very fact that the novel gives you a cognitive map of what might play out in a scenario where international cooperation takes shape to combat the polycrisis. It's not a perfect vision, but the point is how we get there.
(2/4)
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Kim Stanley Robinson on how his novel ‘Ministry for the Future’ holds lessons for the present
Roughly five years since Kim Stanley Robinson’s groundbreaking climate fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, hit shelves and The New York Times bestseller list, there’s little he says he’d chang...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry for the Future' for the very fact that the novel gives you a cognitive map of what might play out in a scenario where international cooperation takes shape to combat the polycrisis. It's not a perfect vision, but the point is how we get there.
(2/4)
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For those who might want to point out that Australia is one of only a few countries surveyed that plans to reduce oil and gas production, yes, that's true. So, why then is coal mining not just on the table, but being ramped up when coal is quite literally the dirtiest form of energy available?
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For those who might want to point out that Australia is one of only a few countries surveyed that plans to reduce oil and gas production, yes, that's true. So, why then is coal mining not just on the table, but being ramped up when coal is quite literally the dirtiest form of energy available?