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...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Then and now. . .

ALL THIS

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).

“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...

Remembering Bob Waldrop and how permaculture, civil service, and grower independence are interrelated. substack.com/@hannahharde...

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...

"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

"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...

"...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...

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...

“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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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! 🧪🌎

In which, I gush about and show off mosses unapologetically! substack.com/@hannahharde... 🌎🌱

“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/...

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.

In which I use the word gobsmacking and reflect on my time in Ghana...

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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 📚

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

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

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

Whoa. So chilling. So calculated. So continuing. This seems really really important. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

Some essential workers bringing some essential levity…

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: https://buff.ly/40Ocuz4 #Drought 🌎#climatesky

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. 📚

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...

SANCTUARY matters In WORSHIP In SCHOOLS In HEALTHCARE ‼️

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...

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... 🧵

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

Endangered Species Act: We Can't Afford to Clip its Wings open.substack.com/pub/hannahha... #conservation #endangeredspecies #protect #resist 🌎

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.

Let’s hope! ❤️

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

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

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!

Every year, around 9 million people die from pollution-related causes, making it one of the biggest environmental health risks to humanity. But solutions do exist. Discover how we can #BeatPollution: www.unep.org/interactives...

Let’s also demand that all funding and research around the EPA and Inflation Reduction Act gets reinstated too!!

7/20 Eco book challenge: Post eco or nature book by living author daily for 20 days, any genre. Tag author or site. Very appreciative of work Louv has done to connect kids and all back to nature. ❤️🌎🌱 #booksky #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge #ecobookchallenge

With federal agencies in chaos, CIDRAP is a good resource to follow about the state of infectious diseases…