Raed Mansour
@raedmansour.com
Public health environmentalist, Metropolitan Planning Council Senior Fellow, Openlands Board, River Park Natural Area Community Steward, Chicago Dept. of Public Health Past Director of Environmental Innovation. #OneHealth ⓥ
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"Agricultural, chemical and mining industry groups celebrated the EPA’s push to curb federal water regulations"
Of course they celebrated—their business model depends on polluting our water.
story by @juanpab.bsky.social www.wbez.org/environment/...
Of course they celebrated—their business model depends on polluting our water.
story by @juanpab.bsky.social www.wbez.org/environment/...
Trump administration to strip protections for wetlands and streams, leaving Illinois habitat at risk
At the heart of the proposal announced earlier this week is a new, stricter definition to the long-debated legal term, “Waters of the United States."
www.wbez.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Agricultural, chemical and mining industry groups celebrated the EPA’s push to curb federal water regulations"
Of course they celebrated—their business model depends on polluting our water.
story by @juanpab.bsky.social www.wbez.org/environment/...
Of course they celebrated—their business model depends on polluting our water.
story by @juanpab.bsky.social www.wbez.org/environment/...
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Yesterday, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social, Ald. Taliaferro, and Chicago's First Lady joined CDOT, DSS, DOE, and community partners to celebrate the Our Roots Chicago program's milestone of 68,000 trees planted, which gets us closer to our goal of 75,000 trees and a more equitable tree canopy.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Yesterday, @mayorofchicago.bsky.social, Ald. Taliaferro, and Chicago's First Lady joined CDOT, DSS, DOE, and community partners to celebrate the Our Roots Chicago program's milestone of 68,000 trees planted, which gets us closer to our goal of 75,000 trees and a more equitable tree canopy.
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 18, 2025 ~ Net infinity and beyond!
"heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Damned if we do but completely stuffed if we don’t’: heatwaves will worsen longer net zero is delayed
A new study suggests heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least 1,000 years after emissions target reached
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 18, 2025 ~ Net infinity and beyond!
"heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Before winter closes in, do one last thing for all the trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden: Make sure they have a cozy layer of mulch over their roots.
Make sure plants are cozy in mulch before winter sets in
Before winter closes in, do one last thing for all the trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden: Make sure they have a cozy layer of mulch over their roots. “Spread it flat and even, like a bl…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Before winter closes in, do one last thing for all the trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden: Make sure they have a cozy layer of mulch over their roots.
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Hear about tree equity this Saturday, 11/15, at #CityCivicsDay! DOE's Lindy Wordlaw will talk w/ Naomi Davis (Blacks In Green), Trinity Pierce (@mortonarboretum.bsky.social's Chicago Region Trees Initiative), & Caroline Williams (Chicago Muslims Green Team). Register at Chicago.gov/CityCivicsDay!
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hear about tree equity this Saturday, 11/15, at #CityCivicsDay! DOE's Lindy Wordlaw will talk w/ Naomi Davis (Blacks In Green), Trinity Pierce (@mortonarboretum.bsky.social's Chicago Region Trees Initiative), & Caroline Williams (Chicago Muslims Green Team). Register at Chicago.gov/CityCivicsDay!
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What's better than a new playground? A new playground that helps reduce flooding! 🛝 We were thrilled to join our
Space to Grow partners to unveil FOUR new, flood-resilient schoolyards last week at Till, Ryder, Farmer, & Mollison schools. See the highlights in the photos below!
Space to Grow partners to unveil FOUR new, flood-resilient schoolyards last week at Till, Ryder, Farmer, & Mollison schools. See the highlights in the photos below!
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What's better than a new playground? A new playground that helps reduce flooding! 🛝 We were thrilled to join our
Space to Grow partners to unveil FOUR new, flood-resilient schoolyards last week at Till, Ryder, Farmer, & Mollison schools. See the highlights in the photos below!
Space to Grow partners to unveil FOUR new, flood-resilient schoolyards last week at Till, Ryder, Farmer, & Mollison schools. See the highlights in the photos below!
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"93,546 ha of forest, or ~4.7% of forest area, were damaged in w OR & WA by extreme heat event in June 2021. Western redcedar, western hemlock & Sitka spruce were most sensitive to heat damage, including in old-growth stands where they are canopy dominants." 🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Extreme Heatwave Causes Immediate, Widespread Mortality of Forest Canopy Foliage, Highlighting Modes of Forest Sensitivity to Extreme Heat
Map of heat-killed (scorched) foliage in western Oregon and Washington states, USA. Green areas indicate unaffected forest, black areas indicate non-forest, and the colors in the legend show the perc...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"93,546 ha of forest, or ~4.7% of forest area, were damaged in w OR & WA by extreme heat event in June 2021. Western redcedar, western hemlock & Sitka spruce were most sensitive to heat damage, including in old-growth stands where they are canopy dominants." 🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Extreme weather fueled by climate change Is adding to bird declines -- Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat." 🌏 therevelator.org/climate-chan...
Studies: Extreme Weather Fueled by Climate Change Is Adding to Bird Declines • The Revelator
Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations worldwide, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"Extreme weather fueled by climate change Is adding to bird declines -- Scientists have typically pointed to habitat loss as the key factor behind the worldwide drop in bird populations, but climate change poses a second, closely linked threat." 🌏 therevelator.org/climate-chan...
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#ResistanceRoots
It’s National Bison Day! Let’s take a moment to celebrate this iconic species and efforts to conserve and restore this majestic creature to its rightful place on the North American Plains. /1
It’s National Bison Day! Let’s take a moment to celebrate this iconic species and efforts to conserve and restore this majestic creature to its rightful place on the North American Plains. /1
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#ResistanceRoots
It’s National Bison Day! Let’s take a moment to celebrate this iconic species and efforts to conserve and restore this majestic creature to its rightful place on the North American Plains. /1
It’s National Bison Day! Let’s take a moment to celebrate this iconic species and efforts to conserve and restore this majestic creature to its rightful place on the North American Plains. /1
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Heat waves, disease, drought and air pollution are some of the climate-related health risks that are getting more deadly, according to the latest report from global researchers focused on rising temperatures and global health.
‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels - Inside Climate News
Heat waves, extreme drought and deadly wildfire smoke are just some of the climate-related health hazards that have reached record levels of harm, according to the latest report from a global collabor...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Heat waves, disease, drought and air pollution are some of the climate-related health risks that are getting more deadly, according to the latest report from global researchers focused on rising temperatures and global health.
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The former top soybean lobbyist who fought to keep the tree-wrecking pesticide dicamba on the market now runs EPA pesticide policy
and the agency just proposed re-approving dicamba with even fewer restrictions than before.
Gotta have dicamba to grow the soybeans we can’t sell.
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and the agency just proposed re-approving dicamba with even fewer restrictions than before.
Gotta have dicamba to grow the soybeans we can’t sell.
Gift Article:
From Industry to E.P.A.: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The former top soybean lobbyist who fought to keep the tree-wrecking pesticide dicamba on the market now runs EPA pesticide policy
and the agency just proposed re-approving dicamba with even fewer restrictions than before.
Gotta have dicamba to grow the soybeans we can’t sell.
Gift Article:
and the agency just proposed re-approving dicamba with even fewer restrictions than before.
Gotta have dicamba to grow the soybeans we can’t sell.
Gift Article:
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Human exceptionalism began when we stopped seeing ourselves as part of the food web.
Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.
Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.
Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Human exceptionalism is at the root of the ecological crisis, claims evolutionary biologist
In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness.
phys.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Human exceptionalism began when we stopped seeing ourselves as part of the food web.
Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.
Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Agriculture gave us control, then the illusion of superiority.
Every species that outruns its limits believes it’s invincible—until it’s not.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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President Trump’s weakening of air pollution regulations doesn't generate the same headlines as masked immigration agents tear-gassing protesters. But it's shaping how Chicagoans, especially those in communities of color, will live and die for decades.
Trump rollbacks likely to increase health disparities in Chicago’s Black and brown neighborhoods
For Englewood residents, proximity to vehicle traffic exposes them to pollutants linked to higher rates of asthma and mortality.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
President Trump’s weakening of air pollution regulations doesn't generate the same headlines as masked immigration agents tear-gassing protesters. But it's shaping how Chicagoans, especially those in communities of color, will live and die for decades.
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A follow to this story I wrote earlier in October: States are now suing Trump for pulling solar funding. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...
Trump pulls plug on expanding solar program that cuts Illinois electric bills
Gov. Pritzker’s administration says $130 million in federal funding promised to Illinois for expansion of affordable rooftop solar was illegally halted.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A follow to this story I wrote earlier in October: States are now suing Trump for pulling solar funding. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...
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Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez says he’ll attempt to block the demolition of a former coal plant in Pilsen until more is released about the potential environmental impact, as well as the long-term plan for the site. Community members are concerned about harmful dust.
Alderman says he’ll block demolition permit for Pilsen coal plant
Ald. Sigcho-Lopez wants to know the long-term plan for an idled coal plant that sits along the river. Community members are concerned about harmful dust.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez says he’ll attempt to block the demolition of a former coal plant in Pilsen until more is released about the potential environmental impact, as well as the long-term plan for the site. Community members are concerned about harmful dust.
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Following Oct. 6, 2023, and Sep. 25, 2025, BirdCast had it's 3rd billion-birds night on Oct. 8, 2025.
1.25 billion birds flew that night, making it the biggest night of migration yet recorded.
How to read the live bird migration map: birdcast.info/migration-to.... (More in alt text.) #birds
1.25 billion birds flew that night, making it the biggest night of migration yet recorded.
How to read the live bird migration map: birdcast.info/migration-to.... (More in alt text.) #birds
October 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Following Oct. 6, 2023, and Sep. 25, 2025, BirdCast had it's 3rd billion-birds night on Oct. 8, 2025.
1.25 billion birds flew that night, making it the biggest night of migration yet recorded.
How to read the live bird migration map: birdcast.info/migration-to.... (More in alt text.) #birds
1.25 billion birds flew that night, making it the biggest night of migration yet recorded.
How to read the live bird migration map: birdcast.info/migration-to.... (More in alt text.) #birds
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It’s World Migratory Bird Day! 🦜
Migratory birds face challenges in urban landscapes. Under “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities and Communities," discover ways you can help create a world where both birds and people can thrive.
In English, Spanish or French: mailchi.mp/a892589a3f78...
Migratory birds face challenges in urban landscapes. Under “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities and Communities," discover ways you can help create a world where both birds and people can thrive.
In English, Spanish or French: mailchi.mp/a892589a3f78...
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
It’s World Migratory Bird Day! 🦜
Migratory birds face challenges in urban landscapes. Under “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities and Communities," discover ways you can help create a world where both birds and people can thrive.
In English, Spanish or French: mailchi.mp/a892589a3f78...
Migratory birds face challenges in urban landscapes. Under “Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities and Communities," discover ways you can help create a world where both birds and people can thrive.
In English, Spanish or French: mailchi.mp/a892589a3f78...
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Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, known for her social-justice work including the Folded Map Project, has been named a MacArthur Fellow.
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’
The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artists and scientists.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, known for her social-justice work including the Folded Map Project, has been named a MacArthur Fellow.
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Me in a new @insideclimatenews.org article talking about our new @ewgofficial.bsky.social report: "Nitrous oxide is powerful. It lasts a long time. But it’s also something that these types of conservation practices can really have an impact on reducing." insideclimatenews.org/news/0810202...
Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To. - Inside Climate News
Corn monocropping emits higher levels of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas which traps heat in the atmosphere more than 300 times as effectively as carbon dioxide. Simple interventions could drastically...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Me in a new @insideclimatenews.org article talking about our new @ewgofficial.bsky.social report: "Nitrous oxide is powerful. It lasts a long time. But it’s also something that these types of conservation practices can really have an impact on reducing." insideclimatenews.org/news/0810202...
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BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.
While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row
Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.
www.choosechicago.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.
While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
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Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.
The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.
The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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The rights of nature is one of the fastest-growing movements on the planet. Now, scientists are increasingly signing on, working with Indigenous communities and others to advance laws and philosophies on behalf of the more-than-human world.
The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights - Inside Climate News
A growing number of scientists are backing laws recognizing that nature has inherent rights and intrinsic value. A group of wetlands scientists wants the critical ecosystems they study to be next.
insideclimatenews.org
October 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The rights of nature is one of the fastest-growing movements on the planet. Now, scientists are increasingly signing on, working with Indigenous communities and others to advance laws and philosophies on behalf of the more-than-human world.
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The city of Chicago has halted the demolition of the historic Damen Silos due to “excessive dust,” according to Ald. Julia Ramirez.
Damen Silos demolition is halted by Chicago city officials due to 'excessive dust'
Ald. Julia Ramirez says community members have complained about the work being done around the massive structures.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The city of Chicago has halted the demolition of the historic Damen Silos due to “excessive dust,” according to Ald. Julia Ramirez.
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A plan to help energy companies, local governments and others pay for programs to reduce harmful methane and other gas emissions was canceled by President Donald Trump’s administration this week.
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Plans to contain harmful gases, improve electric grid in Illinois nixed by Trump
Almost $600 million in promised grants to businesses, local governments rescinded. Moves are politically motivated, say Duckworth, Pritzker.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A plan to help energy companies, local governments and others pay for programs to reduce harmful methane and other gas emissions was canceled by President Donald Trump’s administration this week.
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We work on heat for this very reason. Record fall heat may be fine for most, but it's a high risk for hospitalization & death for others. Check on family and neighbors, especially if they are >65, live alone, have chronic disease, and/or no AC.
#climatechange #extremeheat @buffett.northwestern.edu
#climatechange #extremeheat @buffett.northwestern.edu
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We work on heat for this very reason. Record fall heat may be fine for most, but it's a high risk for hospitalization & death for others. Check on family and neighbors, especially if they are >65, live alone, have chronic disease, and/or no AC.
#climatechange #extremeheat @buffett.northwestern.edu
#climatechange #extremeheat @buffett.northwestern.edu