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Quin
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Forestry and environmental science and stuff 🌲

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It's such a good show. Give Noah Wyle an Emmy.
April 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Big questions for a sleepy Sunday. Lots of learning to be done.

9/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
How do we care for communities that have been exploited by industry, but also have that industry tied to their identity? How do we care for and find justice for those that are victims of environmental racism?

In an incredibly interconnected and complex world, what can I do?

8/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
What does this all mean for how I live my life? How can I develop community? What can I do in my career to create the world I want to see? How can I care for people and land? How do we support labour? How do we build better systems that reflect our ethics, but also provide for our social needs?

7/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I want to live in a society where the currency of exchange is gratitude and the infinitely renewable resource of kindness, which multiplies every time it is shared rather than depreciating with use”.

6/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
a sense of belonging and relationship and purpose and beauty, which can never be commoditized. I want to be part of a system in which wealth means having enough to share, and where the gratification of meeting your family needs is not poisoned by destroying that possibility for someone else.

5/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today I finished reading The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and this passage really hit me, "I cherish the notion of the gift economy, that we might back away from the grinding system, which reduces everything to a commodity and leaves most of us bereft of what we really want:

4/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The lithium in the battery wasn't grown. If we get on a plane for a vacation, or to visit far away friends, to some extent, we support oil. Even when I think about all the processes it took to get me a jar of my favorite peanut butter, extractive land use is weaved in.

3/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If we have a smart phone, to some extent, we support the large scale mining operations that it took to produce that phone. We may not feel direct support for the corporations or practices involved, but at the very least we support the concept of mining with the power of our dollar.

2/9
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I USUALLY BRING YOU BEANS ON TOAST. IT'S A RECURRING BIT.
February 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM