Had an incredible time yesterday with the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes and other environmental allies down at the Highwood logging blockade in Kananaskis. Our headwaters need to be protected!!! #ABLeg #ABPoli

GENERAL STRIKE NOW Power to the Workers. Fuck the UCP #ableg #abed #abpoli #yeg #yyc #ucp

We should be able to vote online. We do our taxes online, banking, even getting lab blood test results. Almost everything is done online these days. There's gotta be a way to set up online voting safely and securely.

Most ecological truths can never be proven—not because they’re false, but because life is too tangled, too nonlinear, too ancient and contingent to reduce to clean answers. Often, we don’t even know the right questions to ask.

Water has always been a fundamental force shaping our planet – both in sustaining life across ecosystems and in guiding the organization and survival of human societies. What might change if we had a deeper understanding of global and regional hydrological cycles?

Earth, Memory, and Resistance: An Indigenous Climate Action Panel with SAAG Friday, September 26, 2025 18:00 –20:00 Galt Museum & Archives, Lethbridge www.galtmuseum.com/events/earth...

Men who think that the laws of nature do not apply to them, will eventually find out nature is the only law that matters.

I did this today. How about you? 5 minutes, folks. 5 minutes #UCP #Coal #AbPoli #SaveOurSlopes

saveourslopes.ca/ Tell Dani and her #ucp cronies to stop 🛑 coal mining in our mountains ! #saveourslopes #notocoal #ableg #abpoli

The UCP is fast-tracking plans against the will of the majority of Albertans to allow new coal mining projects in the Eastern Slopes. We need to act now. Send a direct message to Brian Jean, Energy Minister; it only takes 5 minutes. #UCP #Coal #AbPoli #SaveOurSlopes

A fantastic conversation about centering the economy around biodiversity. Assigning more value to an ecosystem than the sum of its parts. Thanks, @natehagens.bsky.social for hosting ecologist, Thomas Crowther 🙏🤝 #biodiversity #economy #value #systems #stewardship #nature youtu.be/LmIzU18Wh5k

Hey tweeps! We appreciate your patience while we navigate all of the foips and put our live shows on hold briefly, but if you need your fix of acerbic commentary, @natepike.bsky.social sat down with @markhamhislop.bsky.social today! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

🚨 The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, despite opposition from the majority of Albertans. www.projectalberta.org/ucp_rolling_...

Last week the AER approved Northback's application for new coal exploration on Grassy Mtn. That approval killed any hope that Northback might have for compensation. On the w/e premier Smith said Northback wd not be able to operate an open pit mine. This revives Northback's compensation claims. 1/2

The premier has official contradicted her own energy minister Brian Jean. Brian claimed that Grassy Mountain was exempt from the open pit ban. Smith is now saying drilling is to confirm an "underground" mine is viable. Right hand not knowing the left? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Great turn out in Blairmore on the long weekend Monday with the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes to continue to fight against this billionaires boondoggle coal mine #SaveOurSlopes #StopGrassyMountain #ProtectAlbertaWater #DefendTheEasternSlopes

No doubt the Australian coal baron will help Alberta dig its way out of industry capture www.desmog.com/2025/02/11/a... www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7458602 www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Another shameful decision from Alberta's Energy Regulator that will have negative consequences for our headwaters. The AER consistently fails to meet its own stated mandate to “provide safe, orderly, and environmentally responsible energy development.” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... #ABLeg #ABPoli

It was a honour to speak to the resistance. Let’s get organized to support the health and regeneration of the headwaters and this beautiful land. Next bioregional organizing assembly Tuesday May 13th, 7pm at the #1 Legion in Calgary. #bioregionalism #bowbioregion #regenerativefutures

A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Mike Judd of Timberwolf Wilderness Society timberwolfwildernesssociety.ca explains what restoration of the Eastern Slopes looks like. #abpoli #ableg #polluterpay #EasternSlopes #water #wilderness #restoration

Either we run out of lithium and the economy falters, or we extract it and the biosphere unravels. Every “solution” accelerates the collapse. grist.org/energy/chile...

Ok....did summer start early? Your calendar says no. Your sunburn disagrees. It's warm and dry this week too. Farmers: planting the seeds now - praying for rain later. This weeks prairie weather outlook at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat... #abwx #skwx #mbwx #gojets

Good: * Poilievre isn't Prime Minister. * Poilevre lost his own seat. Bad: * Everything has shifted substantially rightward. * 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons. * Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right. * Left leaning parties wiped out.

Toronto artist, Dara Vandor, has been building and placing speculative plaques at points throughout the city, which she hopes will serve as a dark warning while inspiring people to contemplate on the fragility of nationhood. #cdnpoli #canada #art www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The chickadee outside my window this morning: “ITS SPRING!” ok, I agree, that’s great, but it will also be spring two hours from now when it’s not FIVE THIRTY AM.

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

A friend of mine just shared this photo at the Port of Seattle... empty as China stops trading with the United States. What are the implications for global systems collapse? And how might this lead to bioregional alternatives to nation states?

Note to Gina Rinehart. Stand for office in a free and fair election. See how you get on. Otherwise, STFU.

85+ Canadian and Indigenous organizations have signed an open letter calling on federal parties and candidates to prioritize water protection in #Election2025. #cdnpoli www.keepersofthewater.ca/news/reecnyw...

Tomorrow I am giving a webinar on flow funding for bioregional regeneration in the Design School... here's a taste of what we'll talk about.

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs. Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

#YYC it’s so windy tonight. Driving home I am sad watching plastic fly through the air & all over Foothills Industrial Park! We need to see businesses and people held accountable for garbage and litter. How do you create pride in your community? How do you stop people from littering?

Chevron made 8bn profit off Australian gas last year- $17bn in the last 3y. In that time it’s paid $0 in petroleum resources rent tax. We let multinationals sell our gas overseas for free while we struggle with a cost-of-living crisis. I’ll keep pushing for fair tax reform.

Paris has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.” Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) levels decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels decreased 50 percent. Airparif attributed this to regulations and public policies. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

8. This is a hell of a mess, and, let's face it, it might not be soluble. But if it is, the answers will lie in a combination of science/tech and political change. They include: A. Far more investment in soil science and understanding of the relationships between plants and microbes

From the DM's... Smith was again asked if she stop the Grassy Mountain mine. She answered by contradicting Energy Minister, Brian Jean saying that Northback was not exempt, that they're drilling for other minerals & to see if they can mine without open pits. #abpoli #cdnpoli

A small sample of Bohemian Waxwings that filled the sky. This was approximately 170 of the few thousand that were in the sky. #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #canon #photography

Imagine if this was a map of places where people are organizing around the regeneration of their local place -- and not a largely ineffective protest against the dying capitalist system.

If you haven’t watched this yet, you’re seriously missing out. An informative, potted history and backgrounder on Keith RUPERT MURDOCH. @thc-podcast.bsky.social

Holy shite! I guess we expected it (2023 was a record wildfire year in Canada), but wow - the latest National GHG Inventory is out and it's wild to see how Canada's Managed Forests became an EXPONENTIALLY larger net source of CO2 in 2023:

14 conservation groups have outlined 7 principles the federal government should follow to ensure that tariff relief doesn’t harm Canada’s forests. www.wcel.org/publication/... @wcelaw.bsky.social

Breaking. Justice Gosse has granted the MD of Ranchland permission to appeal 4 questions of law relating to Minister Jean’s cancellation of the AB coal moratorium (and related AER decisions) in January 2025. Citation is 2025 ABCA 105 but not yet posted to CanLII #ableg #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social

Putting two streams together here. First a wonderful piece by Field/McIntyre in the Herald, & 2nd an imp recent Federal Court decision on the protection of critical habitat for a listed species (eg cutthroat trout). Kebaowek FN v Canada decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi... #ableg #abpoli

Did you know that 6 #coal companies since January have been allowed to resume their project applications in the Eastern Slopes? Unfortunately, you can't easily find this info in one spot. AWA's Kennedy Halvorson saved you some time and compiled it for you. Let's take a look➡️ 🧵 #MountainsNotMines

For the lecture on ocean circulation, I show my students this sea surface temperature simulation from NOAA/GFDL, where scientists were fired recently. You see the major surface current systems, like the Agulhas current, Brazil current, Gulf Stream, Pacific Equatorial current, and Kuroshio current.

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. Credit: NASA Goddard

An excellent breakdown of the current coal corruption occurring within the UCP government, led by Brian Jean. Brian is claiming he is attempting to mitigate against $15 billion lawsuits while legal analysts say the Energy Minister is responsible for limit the losses… 1/2 elc.ab.ca/squeezing-di...

We are living into this narrative strategy with more people and growing our capacities to fund the regenerative revolution. Come play with us! youtu.be/EO8K585QNiY