Exploring a new patch of College Park’s urban forest - City Planning & Community Development just acquired this lot and we’ll work with them on community engagement, ecosystem services assessment, restoration/maintenance plan and get to bring in a few UMD capstone groups too!

Jefferies is telling clients to double down on clean energy stocks despite the current surge in oil and gas prices, citing the prospect of a new wave of investment in renewables. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Recent press piece on our new study looking into farmer and other stakeholder knowledge, attitudes and practices towards #agrivoltaics - We held a series of focus groups and found that while AgPV may have many benefits, most practitioners see it as an unproven practice in the mid-Atlantic.

JOB OPENING! If you want to work as a reporter with Nature's US news team, this is a VERY RARE opportunity. The beat is physical sciences/energy & environment/technology. DC or NYC location. Deadline 3/27. Join our awesome team! #journojobs springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/es/SpringerN...

Thank you to the donors and supporters that have helped me reach 50% of my goal! Help me get to 100% #GivingDayUMD: givingday.umd.edu/s/meixnerpro...

I am fundraising for the Tom Meixner Maryland Promise Scholarship during Giving Day on March 4! Check out my page here givingday.umd.edu/s/meixnerpro... to honor Tom’s legacy and to donate and share!

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

5 months ago

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

Trump just said what it is all about. The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

It is NOT too late to stop the worst impacts of climate change. At Project Drawdown, we’re never giving up. Neither should you.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years. We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved. www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

The evil that men do lives after them

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

It will also kill a lot of people.

if you doubt the anger of scientists...read and circulate this piece. eos.org/opinions/sen...

The most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with … what we eat what we drive what we wear or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint. Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world. That’s why …

Wrapping up the semester in "Science, fiction, and our environmental future" with a discussion of the hope/solar punk of Becky Chambers and some synthesis on their thoughts on the next 10-20 years.

“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”

Another garbage, unconstitutional executive order from the President. Now he claims that states can't set their own environmental laws, like California's carbon trading program, which by the way, has existed since... 2006. www.latimes.com/environment/...

10/10 Onion headline

BREAKING NEWS: DIRE SEA CUCUMBER OFFICIALLY DE-EXTINCTED! These incredible predators were once feared throughout the Pleistocene landscape by even the mightiest of slowly falling marine detritus particles

Sotomayor says the Trump DOJ's position is that it can ship off citizens and immigrants alike to El Salvador then detain them indefinitely without judicial review. "History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise."

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.

The 2024 US annual national security threat assessment from the Office of the Director of National Security mentions #climate threats ~20 times. Trump's 2025 report? Not once. The 2024 assessment mentions Greenland zero times. The 2025 Trump report? 4 times. www.dni.gov

We need to find a better word than "benefits". I paid in to SS for 53 years and I won't live long enough to get even half what I paid in back. That's fine - it's how SS should work, but I'm sick of aholes like Elmo calling them "benefits" as if he's giving me something.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Rebellions are built on hope.

Congestion pricing works.

Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Here’s a campaign to send Trunp postcards at the White House on March 15 - here comes the Ides of Trunp cc4democracy.com/2025-cards/c...

Today is #givingday at UMD - I’ll be giving to the Tom Meixner Promise Scholarship fund - will you give too? Tom was an alum of our program and a promise scholarship is a great was to honor his legacy and memory givingday.umd.edu/campaigns/pr...

🏳️‍⚧️ Yay! It’s the absolute minimum from Ds but we’ll take it 🏳️‍⚧️

You can be trained to be a worker drone - but critical thought, context, complex thinking… on your own 🙄

I just took action on "Support the Maryland Bottle Bill to Reduce Litter and Plastic Pollution, and Increase Recycling" -- will you join me? t.co/320dAc0fi8

They could try "I don't have the authority to mass fire these workers without cause and neither do you"

They have the votes to impeach and convict him So they are not helpless They are complicit

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Ursula K. Le Guin, obvs child of academics with nuggets like, “There’ll be a bar here, Senior Faculty rooms always have a liquor cabinet.”

The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...