Val-pacas 🌎
@val-pacas.bsky.social
Biologist. 'Earth is my goverment'. In Canada. Permaculture. Mom to 🐈🐈🐈🐈 and 🐕 - previously alpacas owner too.
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“the combination of wind and solar provided 15.1% more electricity than coal during the first nine months of this year… Capacity additions by solar, wind, and battery storage continue to dramatically outpace gas, coal and nuclear.” #CleanIsCheaper
www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...
www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...
Solar output beats wind power for third straight month in US
The latest "Electric Power Monthly" report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that solar grew by 29.9% in September 2025 compared
www.solarpowerworldonline.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“the combination of wind and solar provided 15.1% more electricity than coal during the first nine months of this year… Capacity additions by solar, wind, and battery storage continue to dramatically outpace gas, coal and nuclear.” #CleanIsCheaper
www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...
www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...
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Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
www.foodtechbiz.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.
www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
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🚨🐺 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just announced it will not create a nationwide recovery plan for #GrayWolves, but they're still struggling to return in the West Coast, southern Rockies, and Northeast.
We have fought every single rollback for 20 years, and we won’t stop now ➡️ bit.ly/48FJZJt
We have fought every single rollback for 20 years, and we won’t stop now ➡️ bit.ly/48FJZJt
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first.
open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...
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Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first.
We’re joining a nationwide Cyber Monday boycott. Here’s why we’re skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and what to do instead.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Are you shopping Amazon, Target, or Home Depot today? Read this first.
open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...
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🚨🐺 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just announced it will not create a nationwide recovery plan for #GrayWolves, but they're still struggling to return in the West Coast, southern Rockies, and Northeast.
We have fought every single rollback for 20 years, and we won’t stop now ➡️ bit.ly/48FJZJt
We have fought every single rollback for 20 years, and we won’t stop now ➡️ bit.ly/48FJZJt
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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I ❤️ NM! Sacred land!
I ❤️ NM! Sacred land!
A new documentary, The Land of Sacrifice: The Burden of New Mexico's Oil and Gas Extraction, explores the oil and gas crisis in NM and its damage to the health of frontline and Indigenous communities and degraded the ecosystem.
The Land of Sacrifice is free for anyone to watch ➡️ bit.ly/4okDhgq
The Land of Sacrifice is free for anyone to watch ➡️ bit.ly/4okDhgq
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I ❤️ NM! Sacred land!
I ❤️ NM! Sacred land!
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“As Pierre Poilievre’s favourability nears rock bottom, we remind you that the CPC leader voted against the Canadian Dental Care Plan, $10-a-day child care, the National School Food Program and the Canada Child Benefit — all while whining about the affordability crisis.”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“As Pierre Poilievre’s favourability nears rock bottom, we remind you that the CPC leader voted against the Canadian Dental Care Plan, $10-a-day child care, the National School Food Program and the Canada Child Benefit — all while whining about the affordability crisis.”
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Only 3 weeks until the days start getting longer again ⛅
Hang in there, SAD people ❤️
Hang in there, SAD people ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Only 3 weeks until the days start getting longer again ⛅
Hang in there, SAD people ❤️
Hang in there, SAD people ❤️
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It's December. The goal is to find MELIA a home for Christmas. We can do this. Over 810 days waiting. Poor baby. A quiet adult only home, no dogs, cats are ok. 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs. Come on New York!
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's December. The goal is to find MELIA a home for Christmas. We can do this. Over 810 days waiting. Poor baby. A quiet adult only home, no dogs, cats are ok. 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs. Come on New York!
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
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November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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The Modfather stands up against the ongoing genocide.
He remembers the role artists played in boycotting the vicious Apartheid regime.
He remembers the role artists played in boycotting the vicious Apartheid regime.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Alex Lawson was last seen just over three years ago near his apartment in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
His family has now turned to the public again in hopes of getting any answers to what could have happened.
His family has now turned to the public again in hopes of getting any answers to what could have happened.
Family reaches out for public’s help finding father who has been missing for three years | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Alex Lawson was last seen just over three years ago near his apartment in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
His family has now turned to the public again in hopes of getting any answers to what could have happened.
His family has now turned to the public again in hopes of getting any answers to what could have happened.
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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
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Earlier this month, the ITK denounced the federal government for not renewing funding to eliminate the disease in Inuit
TB outbreak hits Labrador weeks after ITK decried funding loss
Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have declared an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) within the...
www.aptnnews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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A lawyer representing First Nations in a 2019 lawsuit against the federal government says his clients may take legal action to force Ottawa to reintroduce legislation to give them clean drinking water.
Further court action by First Nations could be coming as they grow impatient with the federal government over safe water legislation. Indigenous Services Canada has promised to reintroduce it in the fall session which ends in less than two weeks.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=280372
www.aptnnews.ca?p=280372
First Nations considering court action to get feds to move on clean water
A lawyer in a 2019 lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients are considering legal action to force it to get moving on cleaning drinking water.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A lawyer representing First Nations in a 2019 lawsuit against the federal government says his clients may take legal action to force Ottawa to reintroduce legislation to give them clean drinking water.
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#WeAintBuyingIt — we’re building better.
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Discover Black Owned Businesses
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November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#WeAintBuyingIt — we’re building better.
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
Thurs: Family = 0 spending
Fri: Blackout Black Friday
Sat: Shop Black, Immigrant, POC, local
Sun: Mutual aid, circulate care
Mon: Cyber shutdown — log out, opt out
Our dollars. Our power. Our future. social.demcast.com/s/EneXn5xO
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A candlelight vigil was held near the Alberta legislature in honour of Natanis Merasty, the missing 24-year-old from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: November 24, 2025—Family of missing Natanis Merasty remain hopeful she'll be found
Our lead story: a candlelight vigil near the Alberta legislature is held in honour of Natanis Merasty, the missing 24-year-old from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, last seen in Edmonton this past May.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A candlelight vigil was held near the Alberta legislature in honour of Natanis Merasty, the missing 24-year-old from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation.
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
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Many of you have asked a lot of great questions about MELIA. I don't work for the shelter. I've been just sharing for awhile now. below is her bio and shelter information. From the bottom of my heart thank you for sharing 💞 hopefully soon she'll find a home 🤞🤞
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Details: 51416338
My name is Melia.I am a female, black and white Terrier mix....
24petconnect.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Many of you have asked a lot of great questions about MELIA. I don't work for the shelter. I've been just sharing for awhile now. below is her bio and shelter information. From the bottom of my heart thank you for sharing 💞 hopefully soon she'll find a home 🤞🤞
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.