I'm really delighted to see CNN reviewing electric leaf blowers! www.cnn.com/cnn-undersco...

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4... Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Virginia Farm to School week. (First week of October!) www.doe.virginia.gov/programs-ser...

High school student develops inexpensive way to remove microplastics from drinking water A Virginia student designed a ferrofluid-based water filter that removed nearly 96% of microplastics, earning an international science fair award. www.thebrighterside.news/post/high-sc...

Subscribed and watching. Please share!

A lot of the companies involved in the dot-com bubble weren't physically all that large. I wonder what happens when a company is forced to rapidly abandon a giant parcel of land & its recently constructed buildings

Protect your health by reading the labels.

Horticultural Best Management Practices loudouncountymastergardeners.org/gardening-ad... 1. Test the soil to learn the pH & nutrients already present 2. Group plants with similar needs (water, fertilizer, sun…) for easier maintenance

Greening The Cloud: How AI is Reshaping Data Center Power Demands earth911.com/eco-tech/gre...

A groundbreaking study published in the journal Science this month has uncovered a significant connection between air pollution and Lewy Body Dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. www.libd.org/air-pollutio...

Protestors tried to wake us up in 2019 about our heating planet, and look how it was covered. (Of course, traffic was barely blocked, but they had to malign the folks who care.) www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/13/m...

PSA from National Park Service

“The company cited [Chinese competition and] the uncertainties “regarding the future promotion of renewable energies” in both the US and Europe for its demise.” 😢

My favorite National Park sign. If you have a favorite handy, drop it into the comments.

❤️this -- combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.

Oh my. I'm seeing the ants in my kitchen in a new way. 🐜

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1 in 6 species was far too hot in 2024! Read below.

I don’t normally celebrate finishing a book, but the new Chernow *Mark Twain* bio took me FIVE months to get thru. I have so many many thoughts. (Not quite 1033 which is the page count.) I’d love to find other people who have finished it.

I'm running off right now to give a presentation about native plants and the astonishing food web we take for granted at a church. Wish me luck!

This is a great program, so if you know a Virginia student, pass it along. Deadline is October 2. vaswcd.org/ycli/?utm_ca...

🧵Founded in 1925, Abernethy & Spencer is a greenhouse & garden center in Loudoun County which is having a grand opening weekend. 1.

📣 New research, including @savebutterflies.bsky.social #citizenscience data, shows winners & losers across >1200 insect species in Britain since 1990. Urbanisation identified as major driver of decline for moths, ladybirds & hoverflies www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍 🦋🐞🦗🪲🐝

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

🌱 Nature/enviro/education folks—please consider giving me a follow back! With my follow/follower ratio my stats are starting to look like a bot, so I think I'll need to trim soon. Yet it's a dilemma because you're all in my field.

9 Plants not to cut in the fall.

Connecting the Garden to the Classroom kidsgardening.org/resources/cr...

Job Opening at Blandy. ☎️ The University of Virginia's Blandy Experimental Farm seeks a part-time, seasonal Environmental Educator to work with our preK-12 education program team. blandy.virginia.edu/job-opportun...

📷 Ready Set Click. "PEC's 2025 Photo Contest" All photos must be taken within PEC's nine county region: Albemarle (and Charlottesville), Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Loudoun, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That is a great idea! We will share and encourage your idea along with Sandy, but he is very much an analog cat, so getting him to do anything virtual will require some serious persuasion.

www.technologynetworks.com/applied-scie... Can Grapevines Help Slow the Plastic Waste Problem? Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that is stronger than traditional plastic.

More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵

Huge thank you to @andrewdessler.com for all his work. Until Dr. Genevieve Guenther (‪@doctorvive.bsky.social)‬ explained your role, I didn't know who was the coordinating effort behind the document. These things don't magically come into being.

More than 85 scientists have issued a rebuttal to a recent Department of Energy report on climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresentations. The Trump administration cited the DOE report in its proposal to roll back rules regulating climate pollution. More here ⬇️ on @npr.org

This is a program for Virginia High School students. vaswcd.org/ycli/?utm_ca... 1. 🧵

@fieldguidespod.bsky.social Hoping you can pass along the idea to Sandy Geffner to do his “nature science religion” class virtually for adults through earth spirits. Then you two can finally take the class as well!

Ocean Guardian School The Ocean Guardian School Program is managed by NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries with funding coordinated by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/oc...

Monarch Watch Kids' Zone. This website has everyone a little one (or an adult) would want to know plus games to play. monarchwatch.my.canva.site/kidszone

Everything You Need to Know to Help Monarch Butterflies www.nwf.org/Native-Plant...

Monarch Rearing: Concerns and Beneficial Alternatives Learn why raising monarchs in captivity could do more harm than good and discover fun and beneficial conservation alternatives! www.nwf.org/Native-Plant...

TEACHING TOOLS ABOUT MONARCHS www.worldwildlife.org/teaching-res...

Have you put in time to make a native habitat? Certify it! You have choices. (Or you can apply to both groups listed below.) 1-- National Wildlife Federation certifiedwildlifehabitat.nwf.org?campaignid=W... --OR--

player.captivate.fm/episode/7cec... Raising Children Who Love the Environment

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS: GARDEN-BASED SEL LESSONS biggreen.org/resources/ra...

An underestimated resource for mending our fractured world are state focused magazines like Virginia Living. (Which is posting on X but isn't here yet.) virginialiving.com/outdoors/vir... 1.

Black American History 🇺🇸 Construction has begun at the site of the first arrival of Africans (from Angola) to Virginia in 1619. Taken from a Portuguese ship in Jamaica by the English

Oh wow. I have some photographer Virginians in my followers and I hope they see this. www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

I finally made it to Walden Pond -- a life long dream! As you know this is where Henry David Thoreau lived while he wrote WALDEN. 🧵1.

Multi-sensory experiences like gardening can significantly benefit children's development and capacity for sensory integration and processing. kidsgardening.org/resources/di...