Be sure to read this major investigation by Robert Lopez. capitalandmain.com/californias-...

Policy Brief by Blue Community Ambassador Rosario Sánchez together with Ivonne Cruz: Binational Governance of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States. blue-community.net/2...

The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago

"52 percent of renters living in Austin and the surrounding counties spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs, which include rent and utilities"

Story here insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...

#education #forestschool #homeschool #edusky #ecology #unschool #nature #foraging #environmentaleducation #deepadaptation Picture is Tricia Pilkington processing acorns with kids during one of my Explorations in Ecology Meetups.

Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet. “Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”

"Green Revolution [...] wasn’t just about using synthetic chemicals and high-yield seeds to produce more food, it was also withdrawing more groundwater [...] Today, exhausted soils and collapsing aquifers are twin legacies of that mid-century surge." climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-big-gr...

1 Hegel of a question/koan: how do we fight for/toward a partnership society?

A few folks I know are joining this call on Permaculture education for urban High Schoolers later today at 6pm CST: workspace.oregonstate.edu/maximizing-i...

City regions may turn to urban agriculture to solve a variety of problems. How can we ensure this action centers justice alongside production?🧪

We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead. These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities. Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data

My manuscript is entitled “Collectively-Conserved Land: An alternative economies approach to conservation land tenure” and is the first from my upcoming dissertation of the same name.

In 30 minutes the ecohana.org Book Club & Beyond group will be watching 'Greenwashed' by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa - youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4 - feel free to join us! Seems like an interesting video revisiting topics of consumer choice advocacy, mineral energy, and the tricky topic of human population.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Huh, never thought about polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in refrigerants...

Because plants move so slowly relative to human time scales, Darwin developed a diagrammatic system to make their movements more easily perspicuous to us. Below is a cartoon of the apparatus, and one of Darwin’s diagrams. 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio. deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...

"Empathy is easy to promise during crisis, but difficult to sustain when the algorithms demand constant novelty and the news cycle moves on."

NEW: The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached the Texas Department of Public Safety, raising fears of widespread racial profiling. In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents. www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...

Interesting thread on dislike alternatives, though the dislike button could be a stepping stone to handle a cultural issue bluesky has when someone wants to go f-u-why-didnt-you-X responses to complex topics and humble mistakes.

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands

This: "In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy."

We're witnessing in real time the convergence of Big Oil and Big Tech, two of the most dangerous forces in the world today.

The Eaton/Altadena Fire, nine months later: a personal and historical thread: Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.

From the Central Texas Food Bank: "We are currently experiencing a 35% increase in reliance on services. Should SNAP go away, that would be a $44.5 million shortfall per month. We need community support now more than ever." Donate here:

In my latest for @columjournreview.bsky.social, I dug into Brendan Carr's efforts to deregulate the local television business. If he gets his way, one company called Nexstar — of Jimmy Kimmel boycott fame — will be able to reach over 80% of American households: www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...

Imagine sophisticated social media feed algorithms - but built with users' and communities' wellbeing in mind. There's now an ambitious team trying to make that reality. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

Today is the LAST day to signup for a vote-by-mail application in Texas if you have a situation that warrants needing it - you have to print out the form, fill it out, optionally email a copy, and put it in the mail (post office by 5pm). Local libraries typically only have registration forms.

We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X. At least we can share it freely here. Please do. More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...

Egads, we are headed for an era of everyone polluting non-stop with on-site fossil fuel generators running 24/7 because Elon did it first :( www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that the US political crisis is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess […]

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is out: How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction global-tipping-points.org

📢 New Paper in the Journal of Agrarian Change 🍾 The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri-Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in India. (with Enid Still) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #feminist #research #geosky

Arianna Tozzi and Enid Still's ethnography of Natural Farming is a brilliant reminder that, even in the most complex agroecological systems, ideas of purity always creep in. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Random status update of Controlled Environment Agriculture companies: - Eden Green (TX): Shutting down? see below - Iron Ox (CA/TX): Now Inevitable Tech / inevitablyhomegrown.com (open in San Marcos) - Village Farms Intl. (West TX, etc.): recently went private www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

everything is falling leaves, water, the nation why are the crows so silent?

Jenn Budd had really insightful posts and made a mistake the other night in sharing an AI video which triggered a swarm of someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet-mob of responses, and semingly deleted (not deactivated) her account. Not the first time I've seen this pattern on here, let's be nice.

It is October 2025, the assault on what is left of American democracy is escalating, and one of the New York Times’ most influential formats insists on presenting one of the Trumpist regime’s leaders as a devout “small government” conservative with a great work ethic.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @ericagies.bsky.social on how changes in air moisture are related to climate change and a discrepancy in dryland regions: for some areas, models do not adequately capture decreases in humidity; linkages with fires and ecosystem services; and the need for realistic models.

BREAKING: A Chicago federal judge has partially blocked President Donald Trump’s deployment of Texas troops in Illinois More details forthcoming. #txlege www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

Study of Greenland Iceberg by Robert Longo, 2020 (ink and charcoal on vellum) #robertlongo #art #contemporaryart #drawing #climatechange

Never to return The fairy tree of Silver Lake, has since been destroyed. Ilford FP4+, Mamiya RZ67 @ilfordphoto.com #fridayfavourites #fallfilm #bnw #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #photography #canada

I’m quoted here on data centers and water use. My 2 cents: Data centers are just one among many large water users. Illinois law is totally unprepared to properly regulate water use, ensure water goes to its highest & best use, or enable serious challenges to wasteful, extractive uses.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Fun personal fact: around 13-14 years ago I almost drove into a wild boar going like 70-80mph somewhere on a small West Texas highway early in the morning heading towards Big Bend, and there was much fear.

Hey, there @texasexes.org! 🤠 Sign the petition below to protect UT and demand President Davis refuse to sign the Trump administration’s “compact” for higher education, an attack on UTAustin’s integrity and independence! alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

UT-Austin alumni: Here's a letter you can sign expressing opposition to this destruction of our alma mater. www.change.org/p/alumni-urg...

Im 30 minutes ecohana.org is hosting a 'Dirty Fingernails Campfire' zoom call hosted by an internet friend and water cycle restoration practitioner I've known for years. Welcome to join if you just want to casually talk with folks about what you're working on or wanting to do.