I am gathering my supplies to mend a pair of pants during a community meeting this evening and let me count the ways that this is a tiny disruption to patterns that would have you believe they are the natural, unstoppable order of things....

Today's collection of native plants. 🌱

Volatility "is far riskier than a steady decline."

Good news

Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth

Thank you @ peterbrannen.bsky.social. As a former Earth Science teacher and forever fan of paleontology and geomorphology, your work grounds me. Just finished The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything (2025) and want to re-read The Ends of the World (2017). 💚🌍!

Spinach (brought inside late fall) and lettuce (germinated recently) in small indoor greenhouse. Love caring for and adding to my winter meals. 🌱

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Among Western democracies, the US is basically in a league of its own. No other comparable democracy has climate denial so deeply embedded in a major political party, its media ecosystem, and parts of government. It remains the largest contributor to the 425.78 ppm CO2 currently in the atmosphere.

“This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June, according to energy think tank Ember” www.science.org/content/arti...

Nature is beautiful!

Great 🧵! So many ways to tame the "overwhelm." Reduce, reuse (create from cast-offs), compost to heal/enrich soil, grow fresh produce to nurture your soul and share with others, monitor consumption, value renewable energy and community, connect with and learn from all, etc. etc.

Don't Look Up was a documentary.

Kudos to those who chose to leave their leaves this fall. May your yard have an abundance of fireflies next summer. ✨

This is your weather on fossil fuel pollution. And it's costing you much more than you realize. @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:

👻BOO‼️ I can't think of anything scarier than this. The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.

Our current Healthcare SYSTEM... An Analogy: Patients are pinballs in a pinball MACHINE played by a high scoring teenage pinball wizard of the 1970s. At least that is how it feels to me as a new patient.

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Brilliance, beauty, innovation, love, faith, joy, COMMUNITY have lived on this continent for millennia. We hold each other up today and celebrate the divinity of our existence, the infinite expressions of Creator’s love that our lives represent. Happy Indigenous People’s Day, beloveds. 🪶❤️

Considering the possibility of human transformation on the same level as a monarch's complete metamorphosis. 🌱

Growing and preserving food is a lot of work, and access to land and time to do so isn't (yet) distributed fairly. But in the pockets where it is possible it's an act of connection, of divestment, of re-investment, and sometimes, healing.

Thankful for the opportunity to listen and learn..

Have you visited nature (a garden) lately? How about today?

"The small stuff is the big stuff." Full thread🧵👍

The sun gives us 10,000 times more energy than we use. A few weeks of sun is more energy than all known reserves of oil, gas, and coal. The sun's energy is free. Solar power was invented in the 1800s. But yeah, let's keep burning the stuff that is quite literally burning down our world.💡

Fascinating fungus, corn smut, on first ear of corn. 🌱

The sun gives us 10,000 times more energy than we use. A few weeks of sun is more energy than all known reserves of oil, gas, and coal. The sun's energy is free. Solar power was invented in the 1800s. But yeah, let's keep burning the stuff making it so hot you'll die if your AC fails.💡

Today's garden pictures. Beyond grateful for time, space, and ability to exist in just one of Earth's diverse ecosystems. 🌱

Watching a double flower bud bloom. Looks like fun! 🥳🌱 Will try to remember to post future pic.

"Strength is a collective power we draw from one another" 💚

Thankful for a friend who corrected me on the naming of this beautiful flower, Nemophila menziesii (Baby Blue-eyes)! 🌱 Wondering what name it has given me..."lurker" or "picture-taker" 🤭. I love learning! 🥰

Growing Jacob's Ladder from seed for 1st time. Love watching Polemonium reptans flowering and welcoming pollinators. 🌱

Speaking truth is courageous. Full respect and admiration for this woman.

Brilliant, must watch! youtu.be/Y9f16OTL1Lg?...

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

It’s 11:00 PM, and students have once again formed a chain around the Gaza solidarity encampment at Yale and have begun singing “We shall not moved.” Earlier, organizers affirmed their commitment to staying the night despite the risk of arrest.

Found a delicate, 6 petal, white ephemeral in grass today. Looks like a Spring Beauty, but I think they only have 5 petals...🌱

Took a short walk in the woods and saw beautiful Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) enjoying the day as well🌱.

Great information at this link for people who want to support bees in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc...

I mean, seriously, how cute is this mushroom? Thankful for small moments in nature!

#NationalNativePlantMonth resource today is on sedges! This is the best write-up and adapted PDF chart I've ever seen to some of the most common sedges that you may find in the nursery trade or to purchase seed. Sedges ARE the north American hosta as far as utility www.izelplants.com/blog/about-s...

Celebration of culture is important and an act of resistance. Indigenous joy is powerful and keeps us going in the hard times. We are still here and we are still strong.

Today's options: *Be kind *Care for the Earth Think I'll try to multitask. ✌️🌏

Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was famous for saying "Give me liberty, or give me death!". Patrick Henry was also a slave owner for his entire adult life. At the time of his death, he held 67 enslaved human beings in captivity and forced labour.

"...and changing myself, educating myself, extracting tiny but not insignificant traces of empire-indoctrination from my own mind." Yeah. This 👆 part of🧵 is good work for us all.

Wondering how seedlings 🌱 will survive from now until they are transplanted outside. 🤔 Guessing I will need to re-pot them. Don't think I can bear to thin them!

Onions are 41 days old and not only are they still alive, but they actually look like they are doing well. 🌱 They got a few hours of real sunshine 🌞 this afternoon, along with some newly germinated leeks.

Today is World Wildlife Day - reminder that we live in a web of life and that all of this breathtaking and astoundingly good creation rises and falls together. #NativePlants #Permaculture #Nature #Insects 🌱

#BlackHistoryMonth: Check out Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali's new article. Malcolm X: 60 Years Later, the Fire Still Burns - Word In Black wordinblack.com/2025/02/malc...