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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I used to monitor methane emissions at landfills, so I know way more about methane than I would like 😵‍💫

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t give up now because our imperfect activism is working!!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Earlier this year I planted a few raspberry canes as part of my plan to have a food forest in my yard. I fully assumed I wouldn’t get any fruit this year, but I was wrong! I have a tiny crop!

Photo of a handful of red raspberries in a shirt that is acting as a harvest basket

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GOOD NEWS: One of the offshore wind farms that the Trump administration tried to stop construction at has officially built all of its turbines, and it’s expected to generate power at full capacity by the end of the year which will help lower electric bills for residents in New England.

Photo of an offshore wind turbine being constructed with a platform next to it.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What better way to end #ClimateWeekNYC than getting to see progress on a project I’ve been following for years? Thanks for having me, Billion Oyster Project 🦪

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This ad isn’t specifically about greenwashing, but it is about monopolies. Merging these two rail companies would be a horrible idea, and yet they’re trying to gain support for it.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is still hope!! Read more: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-54...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Up next is a fossil fuel major trying to greenwash crude oil as if the Strait of Hormuz or climate change isn’t a thing. I’ll keep adding to this thread when I see more!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was inspired by @ketanjoshi.co to show off some of the greenwashed ads I’m seeing while attending Climate Week NYC. Up first, the AI industry trying to claim utility bills aren’t going up because of them by strategically choosing data that ignores when hyperscale data centers started operations.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mitch McConnell, weirdly enough, looks like the male version of my Appalachian Nana. She is currently experiencing cognitive decline, and so I unfortunately recognize the look on Mitch's face all too well. It's the look of someone who isn't present, and what the Republicans are doing is elder abuse.

Photo of Senator Mitch McConnell looking frail and not all there mentally when he returned to the Senate earlier this week.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s not inevitable so keep fighting 👏

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I saw my first hummingbirds of the migration season while filming this 🥹 goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-52...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So now that the world is aware we’re going to cross the 1.5°C threshold, please remember that it’s not too late to take action.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Let’s bring nuance back to the climate conversation!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A lot of y’all are spreading eco-fascism without realizing it. Resources always linked in my bio to work through your very valid climate emotions and then find ways to take action.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Join me in submitting a public comment to demand the Forest Service NOT repeal the Roadless Rule that has protected over 45 million acres of National Forest from logging and mining at the link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless?m...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s time to move past the climate optimism vs doomism debate and instead just focus on what will convince us to take action!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Quigley got lots of treats for his performance because he was quite confused why we stopped hiking 🐶 Read more in the latest edition of Good Climate News at the link below: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-50...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Issues with solar can be easily regulated, but fossil fuels on the other hand? Those just kill us and our environment.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When scientists say it’s not too late to address the climate crisis, we really mean it. Resources to work through your climate emotions and then get involved in activism are always linked in my bio.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Y'all, I just got an ad for investing in coal due to the AI data center boom on my feed. Whoever set up their ad campaign did a horrible job, because I'm an activist who fights both fossil fuel and data center expansion. It gave me a good chuckle, though, knowing everyone all the comments hates it.

Screenshot of an ad on Instragram for Frontieras that reads "limited time: invest at $9.01/share until 8/6" with "this centuries-old fuel could power the next energy boom" next to a photo of a single lump of coal and then underneath it reads "this company sits at the intersectin of two demands: the race to shore up grid capacity and the even bigger race to power AI"

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s time for another round of Good Climate News, my evidence-based weekly newsletter and video series that looks at recent progress on climate. Read more in the latest edition at the link below. goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-49...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One thing I love about living on the cusp of a temperate rainforest is the wide variety of fungi I can find in my own yard. This is a new one, though! I suspect it’s a Coprinopsis lagopus (hare’s foot ink cap), but fungi identification is something I’m not great at *yet*.

Photo of a whitish-gray somewhat translucent mushroom surrounded by leaves of flowers and ground cover

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Recycling as a whole ISN’T a scam just because plastics recycling is!! So please keep on refusing, reducing, reusing, recycling, and composting your waste!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tech CEOs would like you to believe their version of AI is like the kind you see on Federation starships in Stark Trek, but it's really the kind that the Ferengi use to make as much profit as possible. I mean, have you read the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition? It sounds exactly like our tech CEOS.

Photo of the Ferengi from the Star Trek fictional universe with the faces of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman poorly photoshopped on top of the Ferengi faces

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dry farming or dryland farming is one way that people throughout history have been able to grow food in areas where it’s super hot and dry outside, and it’s currently making a comeback because of climate change!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gute Nachrichten! Clean energy has officially overtaken fossil fuels in the third largest economy in the world! Last year, clean energy outgenerated fossil fuels in Germany for the first time ever with clean energy generating 44% of the total electricity while fossil fuels powered around 43%.

Photo of a wind farm located on a farm in Germany

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

GOOD NEWS: Activists successfully pressured the Bank of England into no longer accepting bonds linked to the coal industry, and their new policy is stricter than most other financial institutions that have restrictions on doing business with the coal industry.

Photo of the Bank of England headquarters building in London with a blue sky in the background and a blurry red double decker bus in the foreground

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

E-bikes, scooters, and mopeds are reducing more demand for oil than electric vehicles! Always wear a helmet and don’t forget to pressure your local government for protected bike lanes!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Liverpool is set to spend £30 million over the next few years to reduce stormwater runoff!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This headline from nearly 20 years ago is making its rounds on social media again, and some are using it to spread climate doom. If James were still alive today, he would be equally horrified at how bad climate change has gotten and how people are using that as an excuse to give up.

Screenshot of a headline from the Guardian from over 18 years ago that reads "James Lovelock: 'Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'"

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A new analysis has shown that New England's offshore wind farms prevented significant strain on the electric grid during the most recent heatwave, and that positive impact would've been much greater if the Trump administration would quit trying to stop construction at new offshore wind farms.

Photo of five offshore wind turbines and a ship the Vineyard offshore wind farm in New England.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We could all use a bit of hope these days! Read more: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-47...

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I 💚 both kinds of IPAs, but I wish the world had more of the Indigenous-led stewardship kind!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Let’s not hate on rural solar farms just because we need to be covering parking lots in solar panels too!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A bridge a little over an hour from me was recently named after Donald Trump, but it keeps getting “vandalized” with posters like this one.

A photo showing a road sign where a bridge in Tennessee was recently named after Donald Trump with a poster on it that says “release the files”

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The highlight of my week was attending a fundraiser for a nearby nature center where I got to watch this black bear go to town on frozen fruits and veggies.

Photo of a black bear eating what appears to be frozen cabbage surrounded by rocks in a nature center enclosure

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Giving up quite literally isn’t an option.

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Italy recently commissioned its largest solar farm to date. It's a 243 MW facility that was built on land impacted by desertification, and the property was restored with over 60,000 native plants aimed at preventing further desertification.

Photo of the Fenix solar farm in Italy that is located in a flat valley with a snow capped mountain off in the distance

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

China began incentivizing the manufacturing and sale of low emission vehicles starting in 2008, and that low vehicle emission adoption is helping save an esimated 262,000 lives a year that would've otherwise died from air pollution caused by fossil fuel-burning vehicles.

Photo showing a major highway in China and how much the smog has improved due to recent adoptions of low emission vehicles

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mangrove forests around the world were destroyed for decades, but after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, things quickly changed. Inspired by how mangroves protect coastlines from storms, the world ramped up conservation efforts to reverse mangrove forest destruction on a global scale by the 2010s.

Photo of a both above and below the water in a mangrove forest and shows a mangrove tree as well as several species of marine life

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Environmental campaigners recently convinced the Sri Lankan government to outright ban the purchase and use of single-use plastic water bottles at all government buildings and events in order to force public servants to practice what they preach in terms of addressing the plastic waste crisis.

Photo of an Asian elephant walking through a field in Sri Lanka filled with plastic waste

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A new study unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya has mapped approximately 165,000 square kilometers (63,000 square miles) of climate resilient coral reefs around the world, and the majority of them can be found in Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. Discover more good news in the replies:

Photo of a coral reef in the Caribbean with a wide variety of coral species as well as two sharks

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I promise there’s still good news out there even in this extreme heat 🫡

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Here’s a little evidence-based message of hope to get y’all through these heatwaves!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There’s a mushroom growing in the pond!

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

These mushrooms popped up overnight under my milkweed plants!

Photo of an unknown species of tan and white fungi in a cluster underneath a plant

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I am allegedly one year away from being able to drive two hours to the nearest passenger rail station, and once that service is restored, the next station to reopen will be just 30 minutes from my house!!!

Photo of a map showing the proposed Amtrak passenger rail route between Roanoke and Christiansburg, Virginia

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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

After more than half a million people signed a petition opposing plans to build a data center right next to the Nashville Zoo, Mayor O'Connell announced they might use eminent domain to take the property so no data center can ever be built there. Let's hope the mayor follows through!

Photo of a stone sign with a fake giraffe behind it that says "Nashville Zoo at Grassmere"

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