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I have two modes when reading a book. I'm either enthralled by the first third, with the rest being a slog, or I'm bored in the first two chapters and left entirely enriched by the rest.

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Some beekeepers are foregoing insecticides and opting instead to breed bees with mite-resistant behaviors.

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Last week, a federal court ruling cleared the way for the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against John Deere. The FTC alleges Deere’s monopoly over repair has led to multi-billion-dollar profits for the company while burdening farmers with extortionate costs. barnraisingmedia.com/john-deere-m...

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A common misconception is that fertilizers negatively impact soil carbon. In this post, I explore the origins of this claim and dissect the data behind the story

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I bring a certain aggressive stimming and vacant stare the dance floor hates to see

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#NoKings #DesMoines

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Love this. A community college telling local employers they will not continue certain training programs unless wages are raised under an ethos of "we will not graduate students into poverty"

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Oh, to be a milkmaid squirting milk into a cat's mouth

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Mixed up some terrarium soil today

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I found this handsome lad in an old ecology textbook

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While the Great Plains are now more known for reactionary politics, this wasn't always so. I take solace in these stories of solidarity and hope that America's heartland can rediscover their power

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The world's clean-energy investments are now twice as large as those in fossil fuels, the latest IEA data shows

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Does anyone else have an author that took you a while to get into, but now adore? I first came to John McPhee seeking straightforward, informative nonfiction about the environment. It took me a long time to appreciate the role of biography and travelogue in his work. I now cherish his writing.

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A brief return to the Driftless

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Urbanism requires the sharing of spaces among residents. Unfortunately, the structures we have to coordinate such sharing all too often encroach on the autonomy of individuals. In this piece, I call for the reform of Homeowners Associations in pursuit of freer models for urban governance

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“Let’s remind ourselves that good people are fighting against cruelty and injustice every day, and are winning!”

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📈 After years of decline, agricultural ammonia emissions are on the rise—up ~2.8% annually since 2015, driven by livestock manure & fertiliser use. What’s behind the trend? Explore the latest Agri-Environmental Indicators report🔗 www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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The “minne” in Minneapolis & Minnesota comes from the Dakota word for water, mni. We are truly a city of water. Flowing through Minneapolis are 22 lakes, one of the largest rivers in the world, a creek that traverses the entire southern part of the city, and a 53-foot waterfall. 💚💧💚

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A mediation on the organic emergence of spiritual practice

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This years World Food Prize laureate is Dr. Mariangela Hungria of Brazil. Her pioneering work on legume rhizobia inoculation has helped to increase the availability of protein in the tropics while reducing fertilizer use. A well-deserved selection!

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Agriculture text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest SNAP (nutrition assistance, formerly food stamps) cuts in history. It would severely worsen food insecurity in America.

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In this era of technological exhaustion, I think there are some valuable lessons we can learn from the Amish approach to new innovations, which is much more nuanced than generally understood (🧵).

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I am excited to share this piece titled 'Growing Better Community Gardens', which I contributed to the Decolonize the Garden newsletter

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Woke up to this view this morning

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from here on out, if you're from chicago, i'll believe you when you say you're on a mission from god

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I'm undecided on whether a higher power does in fact guide the conclave, but I KNOW no God is present in the heart of university administration

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Interest in agroforestry has surged in recent years. It's heartbreaking to think the spread of these innovative practices is one of many victims of the federal bloodletting

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This is a general thought, not a subtweet, but I increasingly feel like there's a lot of unintentional revisionism about US public opinion during the pandemic. Views obviously shifted, but early on there was remarkably broad support for a wide range of mitigation tactics

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Quietly, over several decades, practioners in international development have implemented a host of changes to improve the effectiveness programming. In this post, I detail how this process proceeded.

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I strongly believe that the tinned fish craze largely comes down to a general lack of beautiful packaging, leading consumers to jump on a product category that offers that

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You have got to be kidding me

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Farm trade wars are wild because we've already done similar things in the past, and it did NOT work out for the US farmers in question. Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.

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