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Emerald Green

@gracebatslast.bsky.social
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Reader, gardener, passionate Earth defender. Introvert. Native of the Colorado Rockies now transplanted to the Atlantic coast in New England to live near my children and grandchildren.

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Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world · 14/10/2026
What if the most effective solutions to plastic pollution came from the people who will live longest with its consequences? reasonstobecheerful.world/teenagers…
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Teenagers Worldwide Are Tackling the Plastics Crisis
What if the most effective solutions to plastic pollution came from the people who will live longest with its consequences?
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sure wish our media would tell people that burning fossil fuels is making every storm stronger, drought deeper, heat wave deadlier, etc. But accurately relating the harms of fossil fuels is Partisan
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Rest in peace, poet-sage of our times
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin... That glacier collapse left 99 percent of the ice up there—and there are tens of thousands of glaciers in the region If we’re serious about stopping this, we need all-out climate action now
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The growing rumble
Politics--alas--is what we need
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They coordinate nonpartisan poll monitors, flag voting misinformation, & connect voters with trained legal professionals. Go to @866ourvote.bsky.social to #ProtectTheVote & participate in #ElectionProtection
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As the UN Secy General says, the Euro wildfires are just an opening act to the El Nino bearing down on planet earth. It's time for smart politicians to stop climate hushing and start getting ahead of the heat. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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High Heat, High Drama
Europe is starting to provide some answers about the next step in the climate fight
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...
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An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/02/2026
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
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A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
They have moved the website to here: science.nasa.gov/specials/you... This is one of the things that NASA GSFC brought you, and Trump is trying to destroy GSFC.
Landsat images spelling out “fascists”
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 17/12/2025
🚨BREAKING: We just learned that the court in my lawsuit — Neguse et al. v. ICE — has temporarily stopped the Trump administration from blocking Members of Congress from unannounced oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The rule of law will prevail.
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis Right now we’re just doing oil piracy open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
You are, right now, paying Big Oil's $900 annual pollution tax, in the form of higher home insurance, higher health insurance, and higher electric bills for more air conditioning. These costs disproportionately burden the poor and will keep rising as long as the fossil fuel industry exists.
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Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
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Nature @nature.com · 09/11/2025
Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/49CE3Bt
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
Nature - From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/11/2025
📽️VIDEO: Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. Marc Elias exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook, as well as what voters, lawyers and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. bit.ly/483Fdok
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8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election
Despite major pro-democracy wins in 2025, the fight is far from over. This video exposes the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook — and what voters, lawyers, and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. Marc Elias o...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 08/11/2025
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I wish EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY could see this. I want to throw up.
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
No one paying attention is surprised
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿
Golden yellow lichen growth exploding across a rock face
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fire @branfont.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is what democracy looks like.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur. That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine. But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
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Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say
Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
One of the more gratifying things I get to in my job: share well-made photos of some of the abundant beauty in the world. 'The Colors of October' - 26 images showing foliage, flight, and festivity around the Northern Hemisphere at the peak of autumn. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tough love conclusion published recently in @nature.com: “Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task.” Our only options for saving our climate & our children’s future is a price or cap on heat-trapping pollution. Make polluters pay!
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Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why | Nature
The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed. The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Did they even introduce the coaches and non-starters?! I’m used to seeing that but only saw the lineups… If not, WTF? #BlueJays let’s see ya get rid of the effing #Dodgers ! It’s your turn!
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 17/10/2025
@propublica.org is joining the @coveringclimatenow.org collaboration!
ProPublica Is Joining Covering Climate Now
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One reasonable explanation for spending so much money on AI is that it's the vehicle for the last gasp of fossil fuel expansion billmckibben.substack.com/p/hey-grok-w...
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Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?
AI amidst the climate emergency
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Gawd I’m so sick of the Dodgers. Brewers took a lead on a homer and LA came right back with two.
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Emerald Green @gracebatslast.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@bsky.app I am still (after months, and having tried all your suggested remedies) never seeing many of those I follow in Following. This feels like a major bug. Also, when will you order posts chronologically? Please? Asked for this quite awhile back and was told it was coming...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/09/2025
The barriers to building a career in science keep piling up - they’re certainly not coming down anymore. It’s a brutal time for early-career folks, and I wish I had more constructive advice to offer about entering this field right now.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]
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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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Jeremy Gibson Brown PhD @jeremygibsonbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Amazing coverage as Sun Day weekend starts! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...
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Here Comes the Sun Day
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Yikes! Typhus too? Another serious climate sensitive disease is making a huge comeback in the US. Let's clean up our energy supplies, transportation options, and food systems so we can protect our loved ones and the climate on which all human life depends. @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Typhus, a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S., is on the rise in Texas
Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback.
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NRDC @nrdc.org · 10/09/2025
Trump’s EPA wants to reverse its own scientific conclusion that climate change is real, giving corporations free reign on climate pollution. The EPA is accepting comments to its terrible plan right now. Tell them to put people before polluters: on.nrdc.org/4phfi37
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
If they were making Mad Max now there'd be no need to hijack oil tankers. He could be Chill Max, just relying on his solar panels www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The climate solution both the right and the left can get behind | Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben: We’re beyond Mel Gibson’s Mad Max era. We no longer need oil to make it through the apocalypse
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Definitely the coolest Sun Day video yet! Please watch and share (I promise you'll like it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDn...
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Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines
YouTube video by MinuteEarth
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
1,000+ "Workers Over Billionaires" Protests: Images From All 50 States and DC
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1,000+ "Workers Over Billionaires" Protests: Images From All 50 States and DC
Trump will hate this post, and I’m good with that.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Both men intend it this way, meaning the don’t get into all the Bad News that they could, but this conversation with Bill McKibbin and @chrislhayes.bsky.social really is the most hopeful, optimistic thing I’ve heard in months. Smash the glass and use it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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'Here Comes The Sun' with Bill McKibben
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 08/26/2025 · 54m
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Let me rewatch The Day After Tomorrow to see what to expect.
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I hope people read and react to this idea: what if climate policy focused on flooding the planet with cheap, or free, solar panels? Globalize China and India's panel factories, buying panels by the boatload and just offloading them at every wharf on earth billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
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A Modest Proposal
What if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels?
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350.org @350.org · 27/08/2025
Keeping global heating to 1.5°C is now highly unlikely without radical action. This is not a sign to give up. It’s a sign to step up. Every fraction of a degree matters. No more delays. We #DrawTheLine ——— against climate inaction. Will you join us? 👉 drawtheline.world atmos.earth/new-study-es...
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New Study Estimates How Many Climate Extremes Your Kids Will Face | Atmos
Limiting heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius could spare 613 million of today's youth from
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A thought experiment. What if the world's climate policy for the next few years was: flood the planet with cheap or free solar panels? billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...
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A Modest Proposal
What if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels?
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/08/2025
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
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Whales are dying, but it’s not because of wind farms
Investigating a whale beaching is grueling work, and scientists see the same culprit again and again.
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