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Plant enthusiast, insect curious, interested in hydrology and water conservation, tree hugger, meadow lover, keen on green infrastructure and wild gardens,

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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
From a systems&transition design perspective,the real failure is having to fight the same battles in every city,decade after decade.The evidence is clear:bike lanes benefit local businesses;deliver #cobenefits. Why’s progress still so hard?How to change the systems that keep reproducing resistance?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h
Logging took trees the bears called home, so the Haida Nation built them new dens [via @nationalobserver.com]
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Logging took trees the bears called home, so the Haida Nation built them new dens
"it’s got to be just right, just like the Goldilocks."
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Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · 20h
Jonathan Glazer says Israel’s retaliation over NAZA ‘more venal’ than anticipated
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Jonathan Glazer says Israel’s retaliation over NAZA ‘more venal’ than anticipated
Film’s producer shocked over backlash against co-directors and soldiers interviewed for Guardian-produced documentary
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 19h
"If fossil fuels keep burning at present rates, we are headed for apocalyptic civilisational collapse" "Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them" 💚Sally Rooney💚
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
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Orsi Nyárai @orsinyarai.bsky.social · 18h
"Farmers cannot control the wars abroad or the rain overhead or the price of milk. However, they can control their farmland’s #resilience: and that starts with microbial life." #SoilBiodiversity 🪱
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17h
Tranquil Creek, near Tofino, flows too fast and too straight for optimal salmon spawning — a result of damage caused by historic logging. So Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation is installing logjam barriers to slow the river down and recreate the pools, eddies and meandering channels salmon are drawn to.
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The helicopter-powered quest to save salmon in B.C.
An ambitious restoration project in Tla-o-qui-aht territory is using engineered logjams to rebuild salmon habitat in the degraded Tranquil Creek watershed
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If you haven’t watched this yet, please watch and share. If you care about better or worse cities, transportation, bike-lanes, saving lives, calling out liars, and how to completely dismantle dishonest rage-farming politicians, watch it. Watch it to understand what Doug Ford is doing to Toronto.
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The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
@visionzerovancouver.ca
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Knight Street in Vancouver is Not a highway, yet every couple of months we have the exact same accident. What to do? Request lower speed limits? No left turn?
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Every person who takes action adds strength to the call to stop deep sea mining before it starts. I’ve had my say; now it's your turn. act.gp/3TWnlHV
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The Deep Ocean is Not For Sale - Greenpeace International
Every person who takes action adds strength to the call to stop deep sea mining before it starts. I’ve had my say; now it's your turn.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
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Opinion | What Happens When You Can No Longer Fight a Wildfire? (Gift Article)
This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
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Parking Reform Network @parkingreform.org · 13/10/2026
Parking uses land that could also hold housing, a storefront, trees, public space, or more parking. That doesn't make parking bad. It means there are tradeoffs. Good policy gives communities flexibility instead of assuming parking always comes first.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 13/10/2026
Nature is resilient. 🌍 🌲 Forests reduce the impact of wildfires, storms, droughts, and landslides. 🌊 Mangroves shield coastlines from erosion and storm surges. 🌱 Wetlands retain water during droughts mitigate floods. Protecting ecosystems = building resilience. 🏡 #DRRDay #ResiliencePays 🧪
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 13/10/2026
While industry celebrates #GlobalFertiliserDay Europe is drowning in nitrogen. This article explores the truth behind the #FertiliserCrisis and what can be done to help farmers face future crises while building a more circular, resilient, and self-reliant food system tinyurl.com/mwnzkune
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Drowning in nitrogen: Time to kick our fertiliser addiction
Article by Célia Nyssens-James Policy Manager for Agriculture and Food Systems at the European Environmental Bureau
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Margie @margiesanderson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think you should watch this video just to marvel in the impressive video editing skills of our VZV volunteers
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Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Snail bales
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Love this. Vancouver, Canada, has added rain gardens, planted bike routes, small plazas and I see how people are attracted to these spaces.
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Los ricos no juegan al golf porque les guste. Juegan al golf porque jugar al golf es de ricos." Cuantas comida es asi. Me hace pensar en mi reunión de ayer - cuantos escogieron bistec y porque. Buen tema de conversación y refleccion. O dirán todos que es por el sabor?
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Antonio Jordán @gsoil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Las costumbres alimentarias en todo el mundo están profundamente condicionadas por factores ecológicos, geográficos, históricos y socioeconómicos. #soilscience
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Las razones ecológicas detrás de lo que comes
¿Cómo influye el entorno en lo que comemos? Clima, suelo, economía e historia determinan nuestras dietas más de lo que imaginamos.
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The avocado trend, as so many trends, is really marketing magic. I remember when most people thought the green, spreadable avocado was gross. Now, there are few menus (Vancouver) without it.
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Seems like a lot of this is "invisible" to the consumer. The further away things happen, the less we know about it. Farmed sea food, just another ocean cattle industry - may be too easy to close your eyes. The Current with Matt Galloway - www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Antonio Jordán @gsoil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
La alimentación humana no puede entenderse solo desde su valor nutricional, sino que debe analizarse también desde su impacto ecológico. #soilscience
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¿Nutritivo o insostenible? La huella ecológica del menú
Más allá de la nutrición: cómo nuestras elecciones alimentarias impactan el medio ambiente y qué implica producir alimentos de forma sostenible.
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/8 🚨 NEW: We found a network of 30+ pro-oil front groups coordinating, tracking progress, and reporting back to their funders about how they are shaping energy conversations in Canada. It looks like that was supposed to stay under the radar, except they left their platform completely public 👇
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 08/10/2026
David Eby’s modest proposal for the highest-earning British Coluimbians to pay slightly more in taxes raises an important question for voters: which side are you on? It could define this election. @pwillcocks.bsky.social writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Which Side Are You On? Eby’s Election Moment | The Tyee
Taxing the rich could be the defining issue of this campaign.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 08/10/2026
Alberta’s government paid land rent for some 480 delinquent oil and gas companies in 2025. @brettmckay.bsky.social reports for the Investigative Journalism Foundation. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent | The Tyee
Taxpayers covered lease payments for hundreds of oil and gas companies in 2025.
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good grief!
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 07/10/2026
Read the @ipbes.net Assessment Report on #LandDegradation and Restoration:
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Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration | IPBES secretariat
The assessment of land degradation and restoration covers the global status of and trends in land degradation, by region and land cover type; the effect of degradation on biodiversity values, ecosystem services and human well-being; and the state of knowledge, by region and land cover type, of ecosy...
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 07/10/2026
A widespread lack of awareness regarding the scale and consequences of land degradation remains a major barrier to action. Because drivers are often distant and impacts localized, degradation is frequently overlooked as an unintended consequence of development.
Graphic from IPBES Land Degradation Assessment. Title: "AN OFTEN-UNSEEN PROBLEM". Text: "Widespread lack of awareness of land degradation as a problem is a major barrier to action." Background photo: two hands embracing a large tree trunk in a dimly lit forest. IPBES logo: "Science and Policy for People and Nature."
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pass me the screaming pillow, dear. www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-gend...
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Female AI agents ‘paid’ less than males, study finds
Gender pay gap extends to artificial intelligence agents as female bots paid 10 per cent less than male counterparts
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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CleanUpYourMess.ca just launched our new website! It features stories from ordinary Albertans affected by the oil & gas cleanup crisis, and actions YOU can take right now to stop tens of billions in industry's cleanup costs from being pushed onto the public! #ABPoli #ABLeg @cuym-alberta.bsky.social
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Home | Clean Up Your Mess
Alberta landowners & allies fighting for an industry cleanup of oil and gas wells.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously, watch and share this.
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a South facing home - I wonder if it not only helps with electricity costs, but also protects walls and homes from heating up?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026
“This is one of the most immediate, concrete, tangible, real, and affordable things that we can do to start to get control of our high energy costs, but also save our planet."
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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants
It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.
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Agricology @agricology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👚This #InnovativeFarmers field lab final report & webinar summarises a 3-year field trial in Scotland evaluating the growth, yield & processing potential of fibre #flax for sustainable textile production.🌿 Full webinar & report summary: ow.ly/BYGX50ZUsEp Soil Association Scotland
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢 10k farmers and citizens demanded stronger #pesticide rules and an end to the export of banned pesticides + accountability for water & soil pollution at the #Syngenta factory in Normandy 🇫🇷. A 2nd protest took place in🇨🇭. #StopPesticides
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, oil producers benefit and citizens take risk and worsen planetary situation. A sad win/lose :-(
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Holy cow "government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 per cent of a $40-billion pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – ....." What kind of a deal is that? esp cuz we're subsidizing the past world of energy markets www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?
Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost
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The Drip @therealdrip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
James Talarico Threatens To Improve Texans' Lives
James Talarico campaigning with a bulllhorn
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Unifor @unifor.org · 06/10/2026
Airport privatization is a terrible idea brought back from the dead by this government at a time of crisis. Hear Unifor Aviation Council Chair Tammy Moore tell us why selling off our airports will cost you more. #canlab #notforsale
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EcoInventos @ecoinventos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Carmen 🌳🐛🐝🐜🇨🇦 @carmenschan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
[Front Burner] Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times' podcastaddict.com/front-burner... via @PodcastAddict A great discussion on how Carney is taking Canada in the wrong direction. Is he really protecting our sovereignty? Our best interests? Our environment?
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Front Burner - Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times'
Listen to Front Burner - Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times' by CBC on Podcast Addict. Celebrated author Naomi Klein joins the show to talk about how Mark Carney's response to Trump's trade war echoes themes in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We also discuss her latest work "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 05/10/2026
🌳🌴 🌳 Trees and urban forests can make our cities cooler, greener, healthier and happier places to live. They even act as air filters, improving air quality for city dwellers! #WorldHabitatDay #GreenCities
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 05/10/2026
Soil sealing prevents cities from cooling naturally and increases flood risks. Soil sealing: easy to do, hard to undo. Healthy soils absorb water, help reduce flooding and build resilience to climate extremes. #SoilHealth #GreenCities #ElNiño #WorldHabitatDay
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Antonio Jordán @gsoil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Descubre cómo la cubierta vegetal protege el suelo frente a la erosión, regula su temperatura y mejora su salud, y cómo gestionarla en agricultura. #soilscience
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La importancia de los hierbajos y los jaramagos (2)
Descubre cómo la cubierta vegetal protege el suelo frente a la erosión, regula su temperatura y mejora su salud, y cómo gestionarla en agricultura.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 02/10/2026
📊 Explore the complete @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment:
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Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control | IPBES secretariat
Access the full #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report in English, watch the Summary Video and the
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 02/10/2026
Read more:
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Invasive species are an evolving threat: how we respond is crucial
As climate change and other factors intensify the threats from invasive species, researchers are finding smarter, more connected ways to protect ecosystems
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 02/10/2026
"Invasive species had been a major factor in 60% of recorded global animal and plant extinctions," @theguardian.com reports, citing @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment. How biological invasions are addressed is key for protecting biodiversity.
Man wearing a hat walking through a fiel of fresh ground at sunrise.
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