#WaterYear HAPPY WORLD WETLANDS DAY 💧🙌 Canoeing with the family through Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. #WorldWetlandDay

Frozen #WaterYear Small stretch of flowing water on otherwise frozen Chagrin River, while snowshoeing.

Frozen #WaterYear Snowshoeing on the frozen Chagrin River

Right, okay, so, Springsteen and Morello playing Ghost of Tom Joad at First Avenue in Minneapolis at a concert for the resistance. Just saying. You got time for this right?

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

#WaterYear The falls of the Chagrin in Chagrin Falls are nearly frozen

Someone needed to write this…Powerful, angry and moving words from Springsteen.

River need greater protection, but to date our methods for tracking protection status have been limited. In this post I describe a new method from @oldenfish.bsky.social @americanrivers.bsky.social and Conservation Science Partners - the Protected River Index www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

#WaterYear A swan in a small area of open water in a pond mostly covered by thin film of ice. Pond is in the park behind the Karlsruher Schloss (Karlsruhe Palace) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Record heat is the new normal, says WWF's @stephanieroe.bsky.social, as 2025 ranks among the three hottest years ever. The good news? Climate solutions are breaking records too. Rapid emissions cuts are possible. More here: t.co/Ph4h3mU6i8

#WaterYear I love the boardwalk at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in SW Florida. Such a great way to experience a range of wetland habitats and to see wildlife close up

“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” - Gandalf (Tolkien)

#WaterYear White ibis at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp near Naples, Florida. Took the photo with iPhone lined up with binoculars.

National assessment of river protection in the U.S. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Policy Brief: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Rivers Explorer: map.myriver.americanrivers.org Collaboration b/t American Rivers, Conservation Science Partners, Univ WA @americanrivers.bsky.social Thread 👇 | DM for PDF

#WaterYear Alligator and Great Blue Heron at @audubon.org Corkscrew Swamp near Naples, Florida

#WaterYear The Pillar of History statue along the Miami River

Looks like no white Christmas so we’ll settle for a white-ish December 23

New album just dropped

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Waiting for Santa

Well, well, well…how the turn tables

#WaterYear at the Watergate Sunrise over the Potomac River

#WaterYear With nearly two feet of snow on the ground and temperatures in single digits, it certainly feels like winter...these photos of sycamores and maples along the Chagrin River are from one month ago when Fall was lingering well into November...

Steven Kwan is helping me compile a list of suspects of who pulled down the map in my office. The first name he suggested was the dog.

New blog post on Forbes on why both Amazons--forest and river--are crucial for climate solutions. www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

#WaterYear View of the Tanaro River from the window of a medieval tower in Barbaresco, Italy

#WaterYear “Water for the mill, wine for the stomach” Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.

#WaterYear One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).

I’ve been using images of the “vertical forest” towers in Milan in my power points for a long time. Nice to finally see them.

#WaterYear floodplain forest at sunset along the Ticino River, a major tributary to the Po

#WaterYear Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground. The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.

First #WaterYear photo dedicated to water in the form of fog. Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful

NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️ Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025. Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈 https://loom.ly/tlCvBso

#WaterYear Rowers on the Po River in Turin

My new post in Forbes about how, as revealed in the new film Deliver Me From Nowhere, @brucespringsteen.net provides two lessons for those who work in nature conservation, one for the head and one for the heart www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

#WaterYear The Pesa River in Tuscany from the vineyards of Molino di Grace near Panzano in Chianti.

#WaterYear In Rome, Paola in front of her eponymous fountain

🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶 The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board. Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors #WaterYear

#WaterYear Just landed in Rome and walking around the city at sunset, crossing the Tiber/Tevere

Slowed down my typing…

#WaterYear Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell, whose song "River" is just so beautiful.. On first listen, you may be lulled into thinking this beautiful ballad is a Christmas song. But listen closer and you’ll hear a woman lamenting that she’s torched the relationship... youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I?...

#GarWeek Comedians in Gars Getting Coffee @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social #WaterYear

In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish #GarWeek #WaterYear @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social

#WaterYear for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live.. @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social

No room on my lap for my laptop.

#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly. @garlab.bsky.social

#WaterYear After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week. Fall and flows along Chagrin River.