2025 Reading Challenge: 47/50 🔸 Cooking with Grandma (Emma Every Day) by C.L. Reid 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Picture Window Books, 2024. 🔸 #wearereading #book #bookstagram #childrensliterature #librarybook #emmaeveryday

2025 Reading Challenge: 46/50 🔸 A Magical Parade (Afro Unicorn) by April Showers, illustrated by Anthony Conley 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Random House, 2024 🔸 #wearereading #childrensliterature #afrounicorn #paperback #librarybook #boosky

2025 Reading Challenge: 45/50 🔸 Hunting by Stars (The Marrow Thieves #2) by Cherie Dimaline 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Penguin Teen Canada 2021. 🔸 #amreading #book #bookstagram #librarybook #yalit #indigenousliterature #canadianliterature #dystopian #paperback #sciencefiction

September magic in the backyard.

If you look back into the @nichecanada.bsky.social & @activehist.bsky.social archive 10-15 years there used to be a strong culture of comment and discussion on the posts, which no longer exists. Wish we would start that up again. #envhist #cdnhist

Our most read articles published in July! Links in the thread below. #envhist #cdnhist

"'Trust Me' Legislation: Carney’s Bill C-5 Could be a Disaster for the Environment" by @drlorileeoates.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/04/t... #envhist #cdnpoli #cdnhist

4) "Ordinance in the Orchard: The History of the Meaford Tank Range" by Bram Fookes - niche-canada.org/2025/07/03/t... #envhist #cdnhist #warhistory

3) "Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog" by @malentendre.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/s... #envhum #medieval #theatre #wildfires #smoke

2) "Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures" by @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w... #envhist #parkhistory #publiclands #wilderness #outdoors

"The worst person to ask about what socialism is is a Republican, who doesn’t know what socialism means, and will tell you that everything is socialism. The second worst...is a leftist college professor, who...will tell you that nothing qualifies" wrecked www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

August in BeReals.

2025 Reading Challenge: 44/50 🔸 The Last Argument of Kings (The First Law #3) by Joe Abercrombie 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Gollancz 2008. 🔸 #amreading #book #booksky #fantasy #paperback #thefirstlaw

Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading and watching from August 2025! niche-canada.org/2025/09/08/e... #envhist

This month I feature @historians.org, @fatimabsyed.bsky.social, @thenarwhal.ca, @democracynow.org, and more! #envhist

Thrilled to publish this new article highlighting the global history of psychedelic medicine! Read Nader Wahba's "Between East and West: Rediscovering Egypt’s Forgotten Psychedelic Psychiatry (1950s-1970s)" on @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles. chacruna.net/between-east... #histmed #psychiatry

Our editor-in-chief @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from August! niche-canada.org/2025/09/08/e... #envhist

Would love to publish a version of this post on our website! We always publicize the Joan Mitchell Travel Award, and it is great to hear how it is used! (And support your project!) Here's a post from the first one awarded to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social in 2014! niche-canada.org/2014/06/18/l...

Would love to a publish #envhist response to this research on @nichecanada.bsky.social. DM me if interested. "In the research published in the journal Earth, Richardson also identified the disappearance of natural words from books between 1800 and 2020, which peaked at a 60.6% decline in 1990."

2025 Reading Challenge: 43/50 🔸 Hello Hello Colors by Brendan Wenzel 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Chronicles Books, 2024. 🔸 #wearereading #book #boardbook #librarybook #childrensliterature

Lead poisoning & climate change have much in common, including the mining industry & poor monitoring & regulation. And both processes are cumulative, progressive,inexorable & ultimately fatal if not treated in time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

2025 Reading Challenge: 42/50 🔸 Wuthering Heights: A Weather Primer by Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 BabyLit Books 2013. 🔸 #wearereading #book #bookstagram #envhum #environmentalhumanities #wutheringheights #boardbook

Tonight’s Recipe: Creamy Pumpkin Pasta 🔸 Rating: Good 🔸 Recipe by Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit 🔸 epicurious.com/recipes/food... 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #cooking #food #pasta #pumpkin #pumpkinpasta

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Job - Policy Advisor – Clean Energy Canada SFU Centre for Dialogue Location: ideally based in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver or Victoria. Some travel may be required. Applications will be accepted until Sept 9, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/09/02/p... #energy #energystudies #envhist #cleanenergy

After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit

Some moments from August.

2025 Reading Challenge: 41/50 🔸 Penguin and Pumpkin by Salina Yoon 🔸 ⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2014 🔸 #wearereading #book #booksky #childrensliterature #boardbook

My reading stats for August! I’m on StoryGraph @ jmariedewitt

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has a rundown of our most read pieces published in June! Examining Carney’s decarbon rhetoric and the colonial legacy of modern, post-war exploration in northern Canada topped the list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8lH...

2025 Reading Challenge: 40/50 🔸 How to Do a Science Experiment by Jean Teagan, illustrated by Lee Wildish 🔸 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔸 Review on StoryGraph 🔸 #wearereading #book #bookstagram #librarybook #childrensliterature #science #kidscience

Today’s Recipe: Pumpernickel Bread 🔸 Rating: Good (if you smother it in jam) 🔸 Recipe from HEALING FOODS: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn’s and IBS by Sandra Ramacher 🔸 #cookingwithdewitt #baking #food #foodgram #glutenfreerecipes #pumpernickel #bread

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

Your periodic reminder that people who blame “mental illness” for every mass shooting want to make it easier for people to get guns and harder for people to get mental healthcare.

"The margins are, for queer eels and for queer folk, safe places – places of liberation and pleasure." - Taylor Coyne niche-canada.org/2022/06/27/q... #queerecology #envhist #wetlands

I get why independent musicians are using AI to design album covers (it’s rough out there for independent artists), BUT it is one of my least favourite AI developments. Immediately makes your work, in its entirety, suspect; plus now I have to do the extra step to see if they are actually human.

Some August magic in the yard.

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Companion read, "Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures" with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w... #envhist #wilderness #outdoorrecreation #publiclands