Lego landscapes 🌎

Happy tears for the last 3 days. An honor to teach thoughtful & caring 117 AP Environmental Science seniors this year. Excited to see them continue protecting people & our planet 🌎✨

Meet my lunch buddy, the campus kestrel 🦅✨ This little Chicago raptor announces itself everyday at lunch - super proud of its meal [warning: animal blood]

Facetiming my parents to see their reaction about Chicago’s 1st bald eagle nest sighting in over a century ✨ My baba loves birds. And I'm grateful to live in an era where it's accessible and quick to watch a video together through screen sharing and enjoy local Chicago nature news 💚

Chicago’s 1st eaglet in over a century! Exciting local environmental news. I love our city 🦅✨

Fighting for life on a livable planet means protecting people and our planet. On May Day, I want to honor all workers and communities on the front lines helping secure better, healthier working conditions. Whether it's safer, healthier classrooms or making sure we have no lead in our water. 🌎✊🏽🍎

Views from the desk. Our campus Kestrel 🪽

The perfect weather to spend half the day on a flower & food farm in Kankakee 👩🏻‍🌾 Hundreds of species together on 10 acres, hugging Black Oak Savannah ecosystem. Beautiful to see the thoughtful intercropping process 🌳✨

Bike bus tracker is now live! bikebustracker.net/bikegridnow This is to check to see when our bike Marshalls will be leading the bike bus to Douglas Park near you 🌎🚲💫

And wrapping up Earth Day at school with a prairie litter pick-up! Shoutout to our incredible green team students leading both morning & after-school student Earth Day programming 🌎💚✊🏽

We had over 20 students outside our school at 7am, ready to do Earth Day chalk art. So grateful to see many joining us this morning for collective art action & our green team students leading the way 💫 Happy Earth Day 🌎✨

Earth Day Prep 🌎 Wishing everyone organizing, hosting, facilitating any Earth week activity much love & support 💚

Sharing a wonderful paid opportunity for students and teachers in Chicago interested in an immersive two week program learning about climate & environmental justice 🌳

🌍🚲 Pedal for the Planet Bike Ride 🚲🌍 Join us for our 4th annual community ride next week to celebrate Earth Week and connect with neighbors, educators, and community leaders who care about green schools & bike-friendly infrastructure. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/cbgn-...

Sharing a wonderful paid opportunity for students and teachers in Chicago interested in an immersive two week program learning about climate & environmental justice 🌳

We are now in year 4 of the Environmental Justice Freedom School. Join us this summer for a 2-week paid immersive experience learning about climate & environmental justice while connecting with local env. leaders and community members. Application due by Earth Day 🌎✨ www.ctuf.org/ej-freedom-s...

No need to travel all the way to DC to see these beautiful Cherry blossom trees 🌸 Photo taken at Jackson Park, Chicago, today

Our home is beautiful. We must protect it 🌎💚 The latest image of our planet just dropped: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Students learning greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and global warming 🌎🌡️ Important concepts for protecting all life on a livable planet for all 5 AP Env. Science sections this week

This stormy weather is ideal for indoor reading ☔📚 Check out Half-Earth and support our public library programming by joining us for a community climate conversation this weekend, in-person or online, to discuss climate change and conservation efforts 🌎✨ chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/69691...

As a Chicago Public School teacher, many of us fund essentials like paper towels or Kleenex out of our own pockets & navigate working with a yearly budget of $300 for supplies for 5 classes vs. the $ investment for AI education here. I wish public schools were given this much love & priority

Despite headwinds, the U.S. produced record levels of solar and wind energy in 2025. buff.ly/txLkK4k #ClimateMatters via @climatecentral.org

Iran's Ministry of Education says that at least 243 students and teachers have been killed, including around 170 killed in the Minab school strike. At least 3,300 people have been killed in Iran since the U.S. and Israel began strikes nearly a month ago, U.S.-based human rights organization HRANA.

“The number of data centers in the eight Great Lakes states is expanding rapidly, with 368 currently operating and another 738 that have either been announced or are under construction, according to data from Aterio, a Vancouver-based company that tracks the growth of the data center industry.”

An A+ on my Afghan sweet roti + cream rolls from mama & baba is all that I need to bring back their childhood memories of their parents entertaining guests with chai & qawah Eid & Nowruz Mubarak. Happy first day of spring 🌷

Eid Mubarak to family & friends celebrating ✨🌙✨

And more from Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.

The fruit tree give-away event is @brianlampert.bsky.social’s event 🌳 Friends, if you want to hang out with baby trees and walk away with a free native fruit and nut tree, swing by

"This is for everybody. It’s not just for one section of society. What we are trying to show is that it will not only work best for you now... but will be there for you for the rest of your life. You don’t need to make an appointment with nature.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The aerial view of the mass grave for the girls’ primary school in Iran feels heavy today My heart feels heavy seeing ongoing destruction and disregard for human life, children, all the living and nonliving Wishing for a better world for us all

Analyzing our air strips in AP Environmental Science today! Students exploring particulate matter within the building, such as dust, pollen, fiber, hair, etc, and the importance of using air filters.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Look at this stunning beauty! Polar Adventure Days at Big Marsh Park, Chicago ❄️

Chicago love 💙

Even in Feb, 60° in Chicago always signals beach weather 😎

Rooted in peace, moved by art, nourished with love. Grateful. Check out the beautiful orchid show at the Chicago Botanic Garden

I can not help but think of the environmental cost of microtrends - such as everyone using AI right now Imagine if the trend were paying local artists to make a portrait. I would love to see this happen & support local artists

We began Saturday morning at our Chicago Public Library, reading together this beautifully illustrated nature “spell book” to connect & reflect on lost nature words - words that the recent Oxford junior dictionary has dropped Join us next month for Climate Conversations @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Chicago families looking for free public programming that supports our local public libraries, check this out Join us next weekend for an intergenerational conversation about nature words and climate change ✨

What happens when nature words disappear from children’s vocabulary? Join us for a family-friendly conversation, inspired by The Lost Words, written by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & illustrated by Jackie Morris, discussing nature words & climate change. chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/69653...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

There's always time to speak up, support neighbors, and create a world that loves people and our environment

What happens when nature words disappear from children’s vocabulary? Join us for a family-friendly conversation, inspired by The Lost Words, written by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & illustrated by Jackie Morris, discussing nature words & climate change. chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/69653...

Can you spot the 4 coyotes hanging out by our prairie? A beautiful way to wrap up a busy school day ✨ Yes, these are coyotes living amongst us in Chicago. Why native habitats & wildlife corridors are so important

ID’ing our trees without leaves is a challenge. Wrapping up the first week back from winter break with Chicago winter tree identification 🌳🌲❄️

Highly recommend visiting Yoko Ono’s Music of the Mind at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In times defined by power struggles and oil wars, this work gently insists on growth, care, and collective responsibility on this earth.

Chicago wolf moon view ✨

New preprint out! 🌱 Discover how moss can monitor urban air quality. It's incredible to witness years of collective work come to fruition. I am grateful for the years of collaboration with scientists at the Field Museum Check out our work: preprints.arphahub.com/article/1837...

Green Guardians: Mosses as Potential Low-Cost Biomonitors of Air Pollution in Urban Chicago: doi.org/10.3897/arph... @henkinj.bsky.social @ayeshaqazilampert.bsky.social @bioriskjournal.bsky.social