“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs

Pollinators of all sorts enjoying Devils Walking Stick (Aralia Spinosa). After flowering migrating birds feast on the berries.

Discovered a bumble bee nest under a leaf bag. Possibly brown-belted bumble bees?

Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca

Found a Song Sparrow nest at Lakeside today just before Paul Preston, who’s doing a Song Sparrow study this summer arrived to facilitate an urban bird workshop. If you find one let Paul know, he’s looking for 100. #ygk kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/nests-in-the....

Fisher’s story reminds us: winter exists to slow our greed. We must reject the lie of human centrality, remember our stories, and honor the balance of all life. Put down your tobacco, keep your promises. Radical change begins in relationship. www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...

From that lily in your yard, the bees that buzz around it, to the clownfish on TV, you don't need to look far to find examples of how nature breaks expectations. @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.

Big shoutout to newly minted Dr. Gazing Wolf for leading this article published today— thankful to be part of it! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plz check out Gabriella Hirst's work on the intersection between war & ornamental cultivars An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses: gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G... Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars: www.battlefield.garden/about/

"for every dollar of aid the Global South receives, it loses fourteen through profit repatriation, tax avoidance, debt servicing, and trade mispricing. In total, over $2.2 trillion flows annually from the South to the North" www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Ducks in the pond! Fingers crossed they’ll nest again this year.

"The wildest places out there are urban landscapes. They are the steep embankments where no humans ever go or the spaces between highways. These places are very much the new frontier." Claudia West wonderground.press/people/claud...

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

Enjoying the beauty of Red Willow Mskobiimwish (Red Osier Dogwood) coated in ice, feeling grateful for last weekend's teachings by Elder Deb St. Amant of Mskobiimwish (Red Willow)'s gifts, including use as Asemaa

Air is Kin: "Air has a dynamic ecology... The microbiome of the air (the aerobiome) is primarily 'fed' by the soil & vegetation... We inhale the exhalations of plants & diverse microorganisms as they inhale ours––the most magnificent occurrence of unconscious reciprocity." www.thecentriclab.com/aik

"Those that tend the garden via 'conservation' and strange fragmented phrases like 'applied ecologies' of our natural world do so not for the garden, not for the rose, but for the gardeners alone. And what lonely gardens we create." justinthomas.substack.com/p/no-gardene...

"Considering the role of humans in modern landscapes... [it means] sitting, listening, and observing... asking living systems what they need... ...being different people than we are now because we know it doesn’t get fixed until we fix ourselves." Justin Thomas mdc.mo.gov/sites/defaul...

"Does the Land have a Spirit? Do we show Land Respect? Do we have Knowledge? Do we have Wisdom? Do we Heal? Harm? Do we foster Community? Ego? Is breaking virgin Land Progress?" prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...

Do you need a nice activity for your lunch break? Check out this overview of nighttime pollination by @emtomology.bsky.social youtu.be/JSrAthMPjyc?...

So, you found a #BumbleBee nest – now what? Read the #conservation importance of studying wild nests & data collection guidance in our newest #RESInsectConsDiv paper on a US federally endangered species🐝 #OpenAccess🔽 buff.ly/geI0AfD @johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

TINY BEES #tinybees

"this middle space where language, fact, art, and meaning mingle is where we find the most agency and purpose... we need more members of this chorus making beautiful art of fact and instilling more fact into our art."

Incredible: New proof that #bumblebee queens destroy leafs (probably helping to found new colonies)! This again can accelerate flowering :) From researchers @ethzurich.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Forgot the reference The Landscape Laboratory Concept in Scandinavia Beyond the mainstream in landscape planning and design: www.skogur.is/static/files...

"The story of the shit fence" - string a perching wire & birds deposit their gifts. Would need some editing to remove unwanted plants

Chickadees enjoying late season snacks in the Staghorn Sumac

the perils of birdscaping with non-native plants "birds of many species loved the fruits and built their nests in the thick shrubbery [of plants we now consider invasive]; they also spread the digested seeds far and wide, creating even more bird food. I" www.nativeplanttrust.org/feeding-bird...

interesting to see role of chemical companies like Monsanto in war on invasive species >let’s "seek to understand what their presence in a landscape can teach us... Our own long-term survival may depend on reconstructing novel, biodiverse ecosystems on reclaimed land." jccwmg.org/wordpress/a-...

Inviting participants for PhD dissertation research on human-tree communication. 16 weeks, several Zoom mtgs. "...to discover ways of engaging with trees that invite deeper connection with trees & possibly with the larger Earth Community" Starts May 2025. kevinfilocamo.substack.com/p/dissertati...

"It’s up to us to decenter the human and co-create ways of being, doing, working, designing relating, organizing, etc. that serve the lives of all species." sympoiesisworld.substack.com/p/reworlding...

"Like the mycelium that runs below our feet, stories are everywhere, threading and reshaping our reality, even if we don’t see them... we need to tell stories that enliven, provide solace, and inspire collective action." www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/dsa...

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

"Could verb-based languages instead help us understand the world through its complex, entangled, changing relationships?" nowthenmagazine.com/articles/ver...

Some Sunday reading for you, if you like the Southern Reach series. A piece that came out when Absolution was published in October, but that you may have missed amid the stunning and amazing press blitz. atmos.earth/jeff-vanderm...

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

"Let us imagine Rewilding as an engagement of energies that invite Nature (capital N) into our quickly-approaching, post-carbon society. Rewilding is then a manner of reparations, a veering away from simplification and a full-on investment in diversity..." coyoteandthunder.com/f/thinking-l...

rethinking urban landscapes centred on the land: (eco-)cathedral/seven generation thinking; (eco-)acupuncturist design igniting small interventions;(eco-)cracy multispecies decision-making www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12...

Environmental policies, legislation & approach to biodiversity need a paradigm shift Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

article link wolfwillow.substack.com/p/is-systems... "You can do a lifetime of inner work practices and still display a startlingly bovine incuriosity when faced with anomalous data and complex phenomena that lie outside the boundaries of your existing worldview."

the problem with systems adjacent approaches: "What we call systems are not just stories about webs of relationships; they are also stories about boundaries and where we decide to draw them."

just stumbled across Citizen Bird, a wonderful book from 1923 designed to help children fall in love with birds at a time of crisis www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31728#p... getting reprinted this spring www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/citizen-bird...

"the horseshit problem wasn't made irrelevant by a 'better' question — but by the speculative emergence of radically innovative alternative paradigm" emergentfutureslab.com/blog/radical... Image: F.W. Geels, Multi-Level Analysis of the Transition Pathway from Horse-Drawn Carriages to Automobiles

"Other ways of being alive exist where trees & mountains are humans. Other 'worlds' exist where chairs & tables are animate. Other worlds abound. And with each what it means for us to be a human radically changes." emergentfutureslab.com/blog/what-be...

I've been a recovering human-centred designer since leaving the world of software. Community-centred design is one alternative: "How utilities can achieve equity through community-centered design." www.esource.com/blog/001231l...

How might we design a highrise that considers the needs of more-than-humans? By "reframing the questions we ask throughout the design process, we can circumvent the current system, which centres humans rather than Country." architectureau.com/articles/a-c...

Wild Designing: "Ecological restoration is a practice of designing. Thinking critically about design in restoration prompts & supports conversations about the role of people in living systems, whether designed, novel, wild, disturbed or otherwise." www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Riverhood - enlivening rivers in all their senses - four interrelated ontologies: ‘river-as-ecosociety’, ‘river-as-territory’, ‘river-as-subject’, and ‘river-as-movement’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....