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Sammy Herdman

@sammyherdman.bsky.social
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Another outdoorsy Coloradan / Writer / Senior campaigner for climate & food at @mightyearth.org / Opinions are my own.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 14/07/2026
Commentary: The version of the natural world that younger generations consider normal may be worse compared to that of their parents, and significantly worse than that of their grandparents. That could lead to unambitious conservation policies and programs. By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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The experience of climate change captures dangerous shift better than numbers | Colorado Newsline
A potential consequence of climate change is lowered expectations for environmental quality that lead to unambitious conservation programs.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
To understand why 29-year incumbent Rep Diana DeGette (D) was vulnerable to a primary challenge, consider that her key campaign messages are negatives about her opponent and a pitch that she can deliver on her priorities if she only she gets a 16th term in Congress coloradosun.com/2026/06/26/m...
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Melat Kiros may be on the verge of unseating Diana DeGette. Here’s how that came to be.
Kiros has tapped into the national discontent for incumbents among Democratic voters and parlayed her social media savviness into a campaign that has DeGette’s supporters incredibly nervous
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 07/04/2026
Commentary: The meatpacker JBS and its few competitors in the U.S. clearly demonstrate the need for greater regulatory oversight of the meat industry. By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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Reasons for JBS strike were clear, but political reform is needed for real change | Colorado Newsline
Considering the consolidated state of the U.S. meat industry, another meatpacking strike seems inevitable, whether in Greeley, or elsewhere.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 13/01/2026
Commentary: Messaging from political candidates is increasingly focused on affordability, leaving some issues, like climate change, in the dust. Yet political candidates who neglect to include climate change in their policy platforms are making a mistake. By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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Climate issues are kitchen table issues | Colorado Newsline
Political candidates that neglect to include climate change in their messaging and policy platforms are making a mistake.
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Mighty Earth 🌍 @mightyearth.org · 02/12/2025
At Mighty Earth 🌍 we believe that the greatest fight is Never Impossible when we are working together. This #GivingTuesday, join us in moving forward with hope through action. 🌳 mightyearth.org/givingtuesday2025
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 30/09/2025
Commentary: What Colorado communities can learn from the Buc-ee’s saga By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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What Colorado communities can learn from the Buc-ee's saga | Colorado Newsline
In Palmer Lake, the crux of the community's opposition to the development of a Buc-ee's was groundwater scarcity.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates. Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates
In 2020, the world produced more than enough calories to feed the global population, but only half of those calories reached people’s plates due to rising meat and biofuel production
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 12/08/2025
Commentary: A paradigm shift on the Colorado River is the only way to confront the water crisis By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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A paradigm shift on the Colorado River is the only way to confront the water crisis | Colorado Newsline
A paradigm shift and bold policies are needed to preserve the remarkable Colorado River and life in the West.
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Removing vertical barriers protecting bike lanes due to “visual clutter” is bs… bike lanes are supposed to be highly visible, and thus safe. I’m going to start calling cars and off-street parking lots “visual clutter.” www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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Denver spends $200,000 to change protected bike lanes, biking community shares concerns
In recent weeks, changes have been made to some protected bike lanes in downtown Denver.
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Grist @grist.org · 09/06/2025
Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback. Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #LiveStock #USDA #Disease #Greensky
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Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Aaand here Is another reminder to always check who funds scientific research (for those of us who still believe in science) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
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Is Red Meat Bad for Your Heart? It May Depend on Who Funded the Study.
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I find nothing so offensive as a neo-nazi sympathizer opportunistically using anti-semitism to further xenophobia & intolerance. Disgusting on so many levels.
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The negative feedback loop nobody wanted Oilsands extraction -> climate change -> fires -> stopping oilsands extraction
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Simple step for restaurants to cut food waste: leave cards on tables reminding diners. It works. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/study-f...
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Study finds simple restaurant table message cuts food waste - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
With 75% of hospitality food waste avoidable, a low-cost behavioural nudge using table cards significantly reduced restaurant diner leftovers.
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The answer to this conundrum is inherent in the author’s stats: To feed humans, ag production must expand by 50% by 2050. Currently, 3/4 of the world’s ag land supports livestock. Replace the livestock land with plant proteins! Emissions & land use will decrease, available calories will increase.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 03/06/2025
Commentary: As the Trump administration proudly rolls back federal regulations intended to protect people from air pollution and climate change, it’s imperative that local governments pass policies to fill the void. By @sammyherdman.bsky.social coloradonewsline.com
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Less signaling, more doing is needed on the environment in Denver | Colorado Newsline
So far in 2025, Denver’s City Council has done more to signal its disapproval of poor air quality than actually tackle it.
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Signaling disapproval of air pollution, Denver City Council rejected an asphalt contract w/ Suncor. Yet in 2025 they passed harsh regulations on micromobility & are potentially widening Pena Blvd — both bad for air. Read more in my @coloradonewsline.com piece. coloradonewsline.com/2025/06/03/l...
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Less signaling, more doing is needed on the environment in Denver | Colorado Newsline
So far in 2025, Denver’s City Council has done more to signal its disapproval of poor air quality than actually tackle it.
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Mighty Earth 🌍 @mightyearth.org · 23/05/2025
BREAKING: #JBS shareholders approve plans for NYSE listing “JBS shareholders should hang their heads in shame for voting through this New York Stock Exchange listing & handing the scandal-hit Batista brothers near complete control of the company” - Mighty Earth CEO Glenn Hurowitz
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JBS shareholders ignore governance concerns to approve NYSE listing - Mighty Earth
At the Brazilian meat giant’s EGM in São Paulo, shareholders voted in favor of the listing, giving near complete control to the Batistas and approving a corporate move to the Netherlands
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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Yes, sidewalk scooter riding in downtown Denver is bad. But the street infrastructure, even with welcome additions of protected lanes, still soooo heavily favors motor vehicles, it makes no sense to discourage micromobility without equal effort to build safe access for it.
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"Scooter ordinance" passes unanimously in Denver City Council, getting scooters off sidewalks
Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds, said new technology will be in place to make sure e-bike and scooter riders stay off the sidewalks and don't finish their ride until they can park in a corral.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/04/2025
People to whom President Donald Trump has granted clemency keep ending up back in trouble with the law, @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. So much for his promise to bring “law and order” back to America.
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The Pardon-to-Prison Pipeline
Trump granted clemency to people who keep ending up back in trouble with the law.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 01/04/2025
Where Trump administration cut local food support, Colorado should step in By @sammyherdman.bsky.social
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Where Trump administration cut local food support, Colorado should step in • Colorado Newsline
Impacts from the Trump administration’s funding cuts are trickling down to Coloradans. Just look at local food purchasing programs.
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Grist @grist.org · 21/03/2025
Farmers and small business owners were promised financial help for energy upgrades. They’ve been left holding the bill. A quick thread 🧵... #Farms #Farmers #IRA #DOGE #Agriculture
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
full preprint of this microplastics study now available www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
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Elevated Micro- and Nanoplastics Detected in Preterm Human Placentae
Recent analytical advancements have uncovered increasing micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in environmental, dietary, and biological domains, raising concerns about their health impacts. Preterm birth (P...
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Sammy Herdman @sammyherdman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The levels of PFAS in Colorado's biosolids, which are spread on agricultural land across the state, are NOT safe for farmers or people reliant on farm products -- according to an EPA draft risk analysis released last week. Urgent action by state leaders needed! coloradonewsline.com/2025/01/23/f...
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More 'forever chemical' protections needed for Colorado farmlands and food • Colorado Newsline
New information published by the Environmental Protection Agency this month revealed that dangerous amounts of the toxic chemical PFOS are spread across Colorado lands as fertilizer. The EPA’s new dra...
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