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Hannah Harder

@hannahharder.bsky.social
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Biologist and Environmental Scientist. Substack @hannahharder Permaculturist. Author of A Woman in the Wilderness: A Foray in Poetry AND A Lexicon of Love. Poet. Writer. Nature Photography and Naturalist. Allergy & chronic illness advocacy. 🌱🌎💙💚

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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
CRITICAL Please share widely and comment open.substack.com/pub/morethan... #🌎
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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'Extremely Dangerous for Humanity': Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapons Testing | Common Dreams
"By foolishly announcing his intention resume nuclear testing," said one expert, "Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction."
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This needs to be trending and testing stopped! abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
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What does Trump mean by 'nuclear testing?'
Experts say Trump's direction for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing is dangerous to populations and would open a door for adversaries to sharpen their weapons.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How far coral research has come since 2018 when just one or two labs were doing this work to now fifty to sixty globally is really hopeful! Coral supports over 25% of ocean species so this couldn’t come at a more critical time! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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The Humble Microbe Could Help Us Understand Life Itself
Podcast Episode · Science Friday · 09/23/2025 · 13m
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It’s pretty terrifying water impacts data centers already have and the expansions that are coming—all with way too little oversight, regulations, or even responsibility for taxes. What organizations in the upper midwest are aggressively defending our water?‼️ urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/03/d...
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Data Centers Could Threaten Wisconsin Water, Report Warns
Could withdraw some 150 billion gallons of water nationally over next 5 years.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
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We demand legal representation for ALL immigrants!
Just days ago, three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 canc...
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Then and now. . .
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
ALL THIS
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A federal judge ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired under Musk’s government-cutting initiative. Judge William J. Alsup ruled the firings unlawful, carried out unilaterally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“God’s love is like soil— it sustains us, absorbs all the waste we put into it, transforms us, anchors us, and integrates us into the matrix of other living things.” #lent #environmental substack.com/@hannahharde...
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Dirty Little Miracles, Day 8 Let it Grow Lenten Series
The Power of Compost
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Remembering Bob Waldrop and how permaculture, civil service, and grower independence are interrelated. substack.com/@hannahharde...
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Be a Salty Saint, Day 7 Let it Grow Lenten Series
Doing Good while being good
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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The Journey to The Wilderness. Day 6 Let it Grow Lenten series
An invitation
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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What if? Day 5 Lenten Let it Grow Series
Guest post by Michael Brecke
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A place for ESSENTIAL advocacy. 14 days left for public comment‼️⚠️Thank you Jim Pattiz. #🌎 Disgusting overthrowing of one of the most important environmental frameworks that also has huge implications for #publichealth open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
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Over 50 Years of Environmental Protections — Gone Overnight
This Administration Doesn't Want You To Know or Care About NEPA
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Faith for the Forests, Day 4 Lenten Let it Grow Series
Facing the dangers to forests and seeking faith in action
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Seed planters... are the ones with the foresight to look towards tomorrow. We are the hopers...We believe in a quiet resistance, but one strong enough to crack rocks with its roots." hannahharder.substack.com/p/village-of... #lent
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Village of Seed Planters, Day 3 Let it Grow Lenten series
Re-envisioning Nazareth and beyond
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"It is a truth easily forgotten by most, but plants too are guides, and these guides were certainly much more prominent in past times." hannahharder.substack.com/p/wilderness...
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"...consider what it really means to be just one voice amongst the many of your local wilderness. Consider what it means to 'be a voice howling in the desert.' " open.substack.com/pub/hannahha...
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Get Thee to a Wilderness (part 1), Day 1 Lenten Series Let it Grow
Day 1 of Lenten Reflections in a Let it Grow Series with Israeli biodiversity
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Acts of Intercession
Advocacy beyond battle, alongside photos of sunflowers
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Calling all Oceanography & Atmospheric Sci. professors! Let's teach our students the many & varied ways that the services that NOAA provides impacts their lives. This is a teaching & LEARNING moment to help Americans understand how federal agencies impact them directly www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...
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Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA
The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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7 Things Your Chronic/Under-diagnosed/Rare/Not-so-rare?/Invisible & Visible Illness Friends Would Like You to Know
P.S. YOU and your differently-abled, wacky body friends are worth celebrating on Rare Diseases Day, February 28th, and everyday!
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“Remember, gardening, no matter how solitary, is never just solo. It is a movement back towards connectivity. It is extending a hand in care. We grow together or we never fully grow at all.” open.substack.com/pub/hannahha...
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The New Victory
Resistance is growing
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Excellent summary of GLRI and EPA in the Great Lakes. We have to look at both the environmental impacts AND the economic impacts....invasive species threaten the $7bil/year fisheries industry in the GL....this funding helps protect that! Environmentalism is not always a fight against economics! 🧪🌎
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
In which, I gush about and show off mosses unapologetically! substack.com/@hannahharde... 🌎🌱
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Mosses, Mediators in Forests
A photo essay and appreciation for mosses during Moss Week
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“I have never really been the owner of these forests, nor could I be.” The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest
Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/hannahha... And if you want more love letters, some unconventional points of connection between the earth and each other, that is what my second book of poems, A Lexicon of Love, is all about. Available on Amazon.
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Love Letters
A Photo Essay from the Earth
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Small Steps
Gardening and permaculture suggestions for those with chronic health challenges
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In which I use the word gobsmacking and reflect on my time in Ghana...
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
OAF
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
12/20 Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. A life-changing balm of a book. I highly recommend the audio read by Kimmerer herself. I read it 3 consecutive times #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge 📚
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
11/20 Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. A poignant and timely reminder that we need more stillness to make more waves. 📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
10/20 Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. @elizkolbert.bsky.social An expansive and sobering exploration of large scale proposals for the planets ills. 📚 #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 05/02/2025
A decade after the Center and allies petitioned to protect monarchs under the Endangered Species Act, the USFWS has *finally* proposed the iconic butterflies for protection as a threatened species. Join us in urging the Service to finalize protections ➡️ biodiv.us/4aOYERV
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Whoa. So chilling. So calculated. So continuing. This seems really really important. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Some essential workers bringing some essential levity…
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 05/02/2025
Water scarcity isn’t just a Western U.S. issue. In 2024, NYC and Boston urged water cuts, Philly faced saltwater threats, and wildfires spread. Experts warn #climatechange is reshaping U.S. water security: buff.ly/40Ocuz4 #Drought 🌎#climatesky
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Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran dry got water use under control
Cities across the normally wet Northeast scrambled to reduce water use amid a 2024 drought. It was a reminder that drought isn’t a problem only in the West.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Permaculture as Resistance
Or subverting the emperors
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
9/20 Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge @margaretrenkl.bsky.social A balm of a backyard ecology book. Short vignettes good for the soul about the south. 📚
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
SANCTUARY matters In WORSHIP In SCHOOLS In HEALTHCARE ‼️
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hold onto your hats. Tariffs are supposed to start tomorrow. The effects on agricultural products and food imports is going to be enormous too. open.substack.com/pub/hannahha...
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Strawberries: A Sticky Jam For Our Times
How social, political, and climate catastrophes are encroaching on our fresh food and why strawberries are where you should start
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 31/01/2025
Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sign the pledge to stand strong against immigration raids and the racial profiling of our friends & neighbors. Targeting and deporting hard-working essential workers who have been struggling for a path to legalization for decades is just wrong. ufw.org/immigrationr... #WeFeedYou
Text overlay on top saying sign the pledge to stay strong against immigration rates with a photo of a person's hand holding up a UFW red card with the words: I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the United States Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights. These cards are available to citizens and non citizens alike.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Endangered Species Act: We Can't Afford to Clip its Wings open.substack.com/pub/hannahha... #conservation #endangeredspecies #protect #resist 🌎
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Endangered Species Act: We Can't Afford to Clip its Wings
#conservation #endangered species #protect
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/01/2025
Right now, Congress is considering a bill that would cut critical federal funds for communities in over two dozen states deemed “sanctuaries," forcing these states to aid Trump's mass deportation agenda. Text SANCTUARY to 82623 to contact your representatives.
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Let’s hope! ❤️
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. A love letter about OUR shared lands…NPS hiring freeze means -7,500 employees this summer 🌎 #nps #saveournationalparks #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ICE complaining about ACLU’s “Know Your Rights” education means it’s working. Everyone in the USA has due process rights. Keep sharing those ACLU red cards which list Constitutional rights. ICE: get a warrant. A REAL warrant signed by a judge #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Hannah Harder @hannahharder.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Extremely serious. NIH, NSF, IRA bill also let’s not forget EPA which awards over $4B to everything from clean air monitoring to invasive species, to homeless camp waste, to brownfields, to water ed, to environmental justice. P.S. NPS gets ZERO summer employees. These funds are already appropriated!
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