Golf courses are often the only remaining large areas of green space/natural soil left in cities. Housing, sure, but also rewild the rest - with trails and bike paths.

Each time we refuse, we make it easier for others (and ourselves) to refuse again. We can also make positive statements about what we value: authenticity, accountability, human connection, and credit where credit is due (e.g. to artists for their work). >>

"Then something striking appears in the fossil record. After forests disappear, ferns suddenly become common... Their rise tells us that ecosystems were damaged, but not empty."

Climate Adaptation Centers do some of the most relevant research, AND communicate it well. Their loss is already being felt here in the Northeast. #scicomm

Squid fingers! I'm celebrating #invertefest this year by sharing some invert stories from the archives. I was just telling a writer friend about this one yesterday. seagrant.umaine.edu/2014/08/15/s...

Read for a first glimpse of the forthcoming TREES OF ACADIA - and what may have been my favorite chapter to write. friendsofacadia.org/acadia-stori...

“What were once bedrock aspects of daily life & spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or vague environmental concern. Our lived relationship w/ rivers has, in a quiet but profound way, been deleted.” — @andrewrypel.bsky.social tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...

This preying on authors is getting annoying. Veg Society of DC Vegan Meetup should be paying me a "participation fee," not the other way around.

These are my people! For my part, I did co-author, edit, and manage production of the Maine's Climate Future reports (2009-2020)...

Good set of #AGU25 talks this AM on establishing trust in an age of mistrust. Among the tips: Be transparent Be ethical Acknowledge failures Open data & methods to scrutiny Separate assessments from policy "Work must be visible, relatable & accessible to the people it serves" - Janice Lachance

welp, time may be up for my 2015 era MacBook Pro. Now what?

have some sea smoke.

Its already polluted. My last few search results (via Kagi on Firefox) were bizarre...

Some afternoon sunset #Sky for the #BlueSkyArtShow Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Wabanaki Territory

can something that is already crumbs crumble?

I might add Defending the Master Race, Jonathan Spiro, on the connections between eugenics amd conservation - see also escholarship.org/uc/item/3sx1...

The Devil's Cormorant by Richard King!

no shopping, please opting outside today into the trees out of the fray

Beginning next year, a new outdoor education initiative will allow every 8th grade student in the St. John Valley to participate in a three-night canoe expedition on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway:

and parks and urban forests and gardens. kids need to touch (chemical-free) grass, and leaves and bark and berries and feathers...

Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.

I once spent a night hanging around the elver fishermen, trying to get some samples (for science!) from a guy who was later arrested for illegal wildlife tracking. Oh, the stories eels can tell!

it is truly one of the treasures of nature that they look so elegant from every angle except this one

Its hard for Wabanaki tribal members to practice their sustenance fishing rights in Maine rivers. Fish are scarce and toxic, the result of dams and pollution -- but state policies are also to blame, says a new report. www.islandinstitute.org/working-wate...

Its hard for Wabanaki tribal members to practice their sustenance fishing rights in Maine rivers. Fish are scarce and toxic, the result of dams and pollution -- but state policies are also to blame, says a new report. www.islandinstitute.org/working-wate...

Amazing. Here are some using Pro mode on a Samsung. Cant quite get the speed slow enough.

"The new owner of the mountain was Mark Zuckerberg." still a rumor but either way is not good. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

#Bright as a birch in the spruce-fir forest of Acadia National Park. #BlueSkyArtShow

Using asbestos as a metaphor for the current industry-driven AI push is genius.

Reminds me of this story I wrote on lake stratification (and mixing) - I think some parts of the ocean are experieincing similar changes... maineboats.com/print/issue-...

It is a bubble.

[Good news] Native Plant Trust has now banked 10 million seeds of native New England plants, including rare & endangered ones 🌱 And they got $1.5 million more funding to continue this work 💪 When the present seems so unstable, it's good to think about a native plant-i-ful future

When I was a lonely Native on the east coast I tried 2 find Cherokees where I lived. I googled Baltimore Cherokee. The results were Jeep dealerships. Jeep stopped using Cherokee after a request frm the tribe post-2020. It's popular to be racist again & the Jeep Cherokee is back.

You had me at mealy peaches.

You thought you were too punk for Sufjan Stevens. Now you hear a song of his in the car and sob uncontrollably, thinking: Sufjan, you may be young enough to have been a Comp 101 student of mine back when I was adjuncting in the ’90s, but you’re still the only one who understands me.

This is the distraction I didnt know I needed. #snailposting

Saturday reading suggestion: an essay on the gutting of the #NPS from Trail Crew Stories, a project to share the stories, methods, writings, and art of the community of trail workers. www.trailcrewstories.com/stories/the-... #trailcrew

yes.

Last evening at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, rain incoming #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom

Bangor, Maine: www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/04/b...

I strongly suggest thanking your heroes if you can. It's good for you, it's good for them.

Here is my latest piece about how badly national media - both left and right - have fumbled their reporting on Graham Platner and why so many of us here in Maine really like the guy. open.substack.com/pub/andyobri...

"In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?"

Thank you to @insideclimatenews.org and all those who interviewed for my story on cranberry restoration projects in Massachusetts. Once again, I am leaving a story inspired by all the work conservationists are doing.

This guy definitely lives in rural Maine. "Here’s the thing, though: you’ll do it all again next week. You’ll get home from work exhausted, too late to make anything for the family. You’ll ask your kids what they want, and they’ll predictably say “pizza” because they don’t know any better."

When environmental educator Mona Shomali submitted this essay about the misuse of "survival of the fittest" to us at @therevelator.org, I couldn't wait to share it with our readers... Capitalism Loves Competition. Nature Has Other Ideas. therevelator.org/social-darwi...

I feel this - even in low-level conversations.