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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not much parsley left for this Black Swallowtail caterpillar. 🌱🐛🦋

Caterpillar with black and white bands circling the length of it. Thicker black bands have yellow spots. Caterpillar hangs on leafless parsley branches.

Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Close up of what may be Ageratina altissima, White Snaketoot (formerly Eupatorium rugosum) with unidentified insect enjoying some nectar. 🌱🐝

Bright white mini flowers with insect on top .

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yesterday, a beautiful orange/yellow Sassafras leaf posed for a photo. 🌱🌳

On a sunny day in the woods, a bright yellow/orange sassafras leaf stands out among all other green leaves. The leaf hangs with three-lobes pointing down.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 🌱 caught my eye on today's trail. What a beautiful day!

Close up of New England Aster on a sunny day with its bright yellow center and 30-40 purple rays growing out from the center. A small unopened bud sits just to the left and underneath of the showy flower.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thrilled to share my evening with these amazing plants. Solidago spp. & Vernonia spp.

Bright yellow goldenrod flowers beginning to open up next to bright purple ironweed flowers. Green grass in background.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

2026 garden 🌱 issues 🤔 - and Potential solutions for next year: A 🧵.

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Chris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Milwaukee Public Schools cancelled day two of the school year for heat. 66,000 students. ~25% of classrooms have AC. Wisconsin's own heat vulnerability index couldn't include air conditioning as a variable. The data didn't exist. 91% students of color. 83% economically disadvantaged.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 24/08/2026

Current global sea-surface temperatures are 6.08 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean, or about 1-in-1,700,000,000 (1-in-1.7 billion), assuming a normal distribution and no climate change. The "new normal" means there is "no normal" anymore.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If human creativity weren't a threat to capital then capital wouldn't be threatening human creativity. If mutual care and cooperation weren't a threat to systems of domination, then systems of domination wouldn't be trying to undermine our relationships with each other.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Mushrooms 🍄 enjoying a moist forest floor.

Three images: Top-collection of orange mushrooms growing out of similar position on forest floor; Middle-solitary white mushroom among stones with lichen and moss; Bottom-solitary light brown mushroom among dried up leaves.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Utah's Red Castle reflecting all her splendor at sunset. What a gift!

A large brownish-red rocky mountain positioned under puffy white and gray clouds in a blue sky; all reflected in the still water of a lake. Pine trees line the distant shore of the lake and are also reflected in the water. A few colorful tents are visible to the right.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Whatever form it would take in a less carceral system, a just society would save its harshest sanctions for the antisocial behavior of the capitalist class

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 07/07/2026

🌊🌡📈 🚨Highest daily Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly in over 29 months and this Super El Niño is only just materialising.. The climate we grew up in doesn't exist anymore!

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I cherish moments outside, surrounded by nature. I love the Earth. That is the context for today's post that is a bit different from my typical postings of pictures from the garden or a trail. Thoughts from today's 5 mile walk 🧵

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Tending the edge of a woodline 🌱today and had a strong urge to read Braiding Sweetgrass ... again (for the 3rd time 🙂). If you have not read Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass, you need to! #books www.robinwallkimmerer.com/books

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Books — Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A dead end system is not going to teach you how to spot its successor.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

So happy garlic survived to harvest!

Freshly dug garlic bulbs laying in wheelbarrow above image of garlic tied up in bunches of 4 or 5, hanging upside-down in garage.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Re-posting with correct name of this beautiful plant, Rhododendron maximum. Always learning! 🥰🌱

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A 🧵 from today's hike. Nature is beautiful. A day in the forest, ending injury free, is always a good day.

Dappled sunlight on light brown path through forest. Ahead, ferns on either side of path.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) 🌱 If only I could add the smell 👃.

Round balls of light/dark pinkish flowers that appear to be floating on broad flat green leaves in garden on sunny day.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The science is fascinating. Truly remarkable. Thank you @drjamesehansen.bsky.social

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Beginning and ending my day with this 🧵.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Amianthium muscaetoxicum 🌱 I 🤔 think.

White flowers in cylindrical cluster on upright stalk with cluster of slender basil leaves.

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Garden update: Sad my beautiful onions I germinated from seed likely fell victim to the onion root or seedcorn maggot. Thankfully garlic is doing well and undamaged.

Two images. Top with young onion on dark soil with outer skin pulled back. Small brown maggot between layers of skin. A few roots in dark soil. Bottom with young damaged onion just pulled out of wet soil.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🧵 BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY 🌎 While writing my book, Becoming Earth, I read — and have continued to read — *a lot* of books about our extraordinary planet. Here are a few of my personal favorites, old and new, with a particular focus on Earth as a dynamic, interconnected, evolving system 🧪 📚💙

Collage of nine book covers:
Strata by Laura Poppick
The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything by Peter Brannen
A New History of Life by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink
Revolutions That Made the Earth by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock
The Cosmic Oasis by Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz
Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis
Here on Earth by Tim Flannery
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What if the web of life is always here, waiting for us to get in sync, like kids jumping back in to the spinning jump rope?

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A garden diary 🧵 Yesterday's plants 🌱 ... and, of course, they look different today 🙂

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I am gathering my supplies to mend a pair of pants during a community meeting this evening and let me count the ways that this is a tiny disruption to patterns that would have you believe they are the natural, unstoppable order of things....

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Today's collection of native plants. 🌱

Collection of tan, light brown, and dark brown winter seed heads with some small green needled branches interspersed and one lonely thin whitish/purple vine arching up and to the right. Arrangement casts its shadow on a light tan wall and includes the following (my best guess):
Broom Sedge - Andropogon virginicus
Mexican sunflower - Tithonia rotundifolia
Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum virginianum
Black Eyed Susan - Rudbeckia hirta
Eastern Redcedar - Juniperus virginiana
Goldenrod - Solidago ?
Black Raspberry - Rubus occidentalis

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Volatility "is far riskier than a steady decline."

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/01/2026

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thank you @ peterbrannen.bsky.social. As a former Earth Science teacher and forever fan of paleontology and geomorphology, your work grounds me. Just finished The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything (2025) and want to re-read The Ends of the World (2017). 💚🌍!

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Peter Brannen (@peterbrannen.bsky.social)

Mammal. new📘CO2 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-story-of-co2-is-the-story-of-everything-peter-brannen?variant=42382167638050 last📘Mass extinctions https://www.harpercollins.com/products/th...

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Spinach (brought inside late fall) and lettuce (germinated recently) in small indoor greenhouse. Love caring for and adding to my winter meals. 🌱

Bright light green young lettuce leaves in front of vivid dark green spinach leaves. White mini blinds in back.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June, according to energy think tank Ember” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy

Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

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Susan Shannon @susanshannon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Great 🧵! So many ways to tame the "overwhelm." Reduce, reuse (create from cast-offs), compost to heal/enrich soil, grow fresh produce to nurture your soul and share with others, monitor consumption, value renewable energy and community, connect with and learn from all, etc. etc.

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