Ha! I work with amazing colleagues! Here's an essay I wrote about living in place during the poly-crisis. I hope it provides a way to manifest Keith Basso's statement that "Wisdom sits in Places."

Kierkegaard

WOW!

"A comprehensive 2023 review by New York public health groups found 2,500 papers with evidence that #fracking had negative impacts on human health." Our Compendium linked in this @thehill.com & @pulitzercenter.bsky.social piece on #OilandGas in the Permian Basin. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Industry is finally telling the truth: carbon capture and storage is a scheme to use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery--getting the last drop of oil out of near-depleted wells.

47 pulled the regulations for CO2 pipelines--the ones that explode and carry quantities of CO2 that can kill you. We have opinions about this and fortunately the press is reporting on the threats posed by carbon capture and storage in the absence of strong regulations.

Ooh, standing ovation to climate journalist Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle on your @selc_org Reed Environmental Writing Award for your outstanding book GASLIGHT! To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.

Useful commentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgh...

It appears that 47 and Musk are following the basic business precept: "if you break it, you own it."

Elon Musk is the malware in the software of democracy. We all know who the hacker is.

My volunteer work is migrant defense. With the new president, the hardest part is sorting fact from rumor and fiction. When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate. Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.

Oh man, the beauty of a chess metaphor well-played.

While we’re debating whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute (twice), ICE has already arrested 538 people.

Check this out: our SEHN newsletter on plastics with the incomparable team of Sandra Steingraber, Rebecca Altman and Ted Schettler. Writers and scientists all.

What a pathetic, cruel administration. My DACA friends are being terrorized. Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed. Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?) I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.

Shoutout Mexico www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

We could write a biography of the US through its most notable fires. The Shirtwaist factory fire in Lowell Mass that changed labor law, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the fact that Aldo Leopold died fighting a grass fire, Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire" documenting the Mann Gulch fire.

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

Not only is ADM’s CO2 storage project in central IL (where I grew up) leaking near the drinking water source for 1 million ppl, it turns out this project captures just a tiny wisp of ADM’s total CO2 emissions. #CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting: cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...

This is our friendly reminder that standing up to the fossil fuel industry is necessary, effective and usually more fun than doing other stuff like, oh, doom scrolling.

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

This poem!

This is the best overview I’ve seen of Summit’s proposed carbon capture and storage scheme—the weird politics, the unusual public health threats and the twisted ethics. And yeah, I am quoted!

This is a useful analysis of what we need to do in the face of our newly elected autocrat.

Industry made the meme — “cover the Earth”— in oil, then paint & plastics — then they made it reality— now, as scientists document their reach, the planetary boundaries breached — they say: it’s bad waste management, it’s hyperbole; when max production, endless growth was the point. #plasticstreaty

I have to say that being able to use two sticks and a piece of string to make whole cloth is still one of those miraculous things.

For sure.

Yesterday I saw an eagle fly by my Iowa window and thought "there is evidence that our environmental work can help the Earth." We brought eagles back from the DDT brink by stopping the use of DDT. Here's another win. Small, but a win.

At the root of so many scourges you will find fossil fuels. Exhibit Q or R or S or T: Plastic causing more greenhouse gas emissions than flying.

Hey scientist friends, we are seeking scientists to sign on to this letter to Governor Newsom to shut down the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility. Are you in?

For those wanting to look at the data, my shop, Science and Environmental Health Network has compiled a clearinghouse of vetted science on the sham that is carbon capture and storage. www.carboncapturefacts.org/use-overview

We did this report on Enhanced Oil Recovery, the fossil fuel industry's kamikaze process of taking CO2 and using it to extract more oil out of nearly depleted wells. Check it out.

Check out our website on carbon capture and storage. This is some of what I do in my day job.

In January we will have three branches of government: Fox News, the fossil fuel industry and the Musky conglomerate.

If you need hope, read this. If you are an artist, read this. Stay the course in the dark times. Stay the course. Stay in community. www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...

Trump might be spending all his time with the Tesla guy, but he plans to rule by Fiat

“My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” Adrienne Rich

hey you guys, should that doomsday clock just be spinning like that

Based on documents work carried out by @rebeccajohn.bsky.social -- "The newly unearthed documents come from the Caltech archives, the US National Archives, the U of California at San Diego, the State U of New York Buffalo archives and Los Angeles newspapers from the 1950s." @dharna.bsky.social

Today's Singing in Dark Times: Holly Near's "Singing for Our Lives." We are a gentle and angry people and we are singing for our lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBw...

It will be important in this period to remember that kindness is a strength. It might also be one way we identify who is in the opposition.

Matt Cartoons:

I keep thinking about this quote from George Saunders on the tension between two disparate views of the USA, as seen through Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

We are organizing Singing in Dark Times listening groups modeled after book groups. We have a potluck, a participant introduces a musician known for resistance or community-building music. Then listen to 4-5 pieces from that musician. Can also feature music from great protest movements.

Folk music legend Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) Born Okemah, OK. Age 7: Sister dies in a fire. Age 14: Mother institutionalized for dementia (secondary to Huntington's) He lived through the OK oil boom, Great Depression and Dust Bowl. He knew tragedy & want. This Machine Kills Fascists.

We need all the anti-fascist music we can get.