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REST IN PEACE GERRY CONNOLLY, VA’s 11th District. Your unrelenting dedication to your constituents, the environment & climate action will be greatly missed & fondly remembered. You’re a LEGEND💔 10/26/24, CONNOLLY: “The word I really like in this conference is ‘action’…ACTION!” #RIP #GerryConnolly

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✨ What an incredible night at the screening of "Silent Skies"! We were thrilled to have the amazing Remy Oktay join us as we celebrated the piloting of the first-ever fully electric airplane stadium flyover! 🌟 A glimpse into the future of aviation! 🌍💚 #SilentSkies #ElectricAviation #FutureIsHere

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Grand Canyon National Park! 🥰🌿‼️ “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.”👏 -President Theodore Roosevelt #nationalparks #grandcanyon

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The natural world is amazing. Thriving life despite the high heat and little rain. 😯 🌵 ☀️

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🌳HAPPY EARTH DAY! Join the GLOBAL WATCH PARTY! 😃 🎉 Common Ground launches on Amazon Prime WORLDWIDE! Don’t Miss the Youtube Live Q&A at 1 PM ET today www.youtube.com/live/-R0MRRr... Trailer ⬇️ youtu.be/fFIHqbStxpU ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️REVIEW: gallantgoldhillreporter.com/2024/04/16/c... 📸: Big Picture Ranch

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Hey all you AWESOME landscapers in Fairfax, VA and Northern Virginia. This FILM SCREENING is for YOU. 😃👏 DATE: Mon March 31, 2025 TIME: 7:00-9:30 PM LOCATION: Cinema Arts Theatres 9650 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22031 FREE! BOOK SEATS NOW! www.eventbrite.com/e/2-award-wi...

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I'm on the Scientific Organising Committee. Should be some great science and some early CMIP7 results to discuss. It's community driven - so we need you to put forward session proposals that you would like to convene. Looking forward to seeing folk in Japan. Should be a good one. 👇

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So proud to see colleague and fellow neuroscientist (and 🚴 ) Melanie Woodin appointed as U.Toronto’s next President! She is a generous and gifted leader and scientist.

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Take a trip below #UofT's St. George campus to see how Canada's largest urban geoexchange system will use the Earth as a giant, emissions-reducing thermal battery. 🔋 uoft.me/geo

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Just finished giving the Discovery Lecture at @carleton.ca hosted by @saraheverts.bsky.social and @drkimhellemans.bsky.social this evening! We had tons of great questions and I promised to answer the 8 most up-voted ones here. Here we go! 1/10 🧵

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I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

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The cherry tree is progressing and....I'm hopeful this year we can measure a harvest in pounds instead of individual fruit. 🌱

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Our first Eden Climbing Rose opened this week. #Gardening #RoseWednesday #Roses 🌱

submitted 73 days ago • 61 comments

Am beyond excited to be part of a #keepcaliforniabeautiful grant to beautify a section of our campus and now empowered to choose and acquire the native plants for it!🌱

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Garden views of the day 🌱 Today was mostly cleanup day for me, pruning and pulling weeds. False Indigo is popping up and I see one of my Dahlias starting to come back.

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#RoseWednesday 🌱 this is my Apricot drift rose and it's looking healthy so far! First photo is what it currently looks like and second is what the blooms look like.

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📢DON’T MISS THIS FREE event about no-mow lawns! JOIN US & meet the experts. Climate Action NOW Monthly Film Festival (CANMFF) DATE: Mon March 31, 2025 TIME: 7:00-9:30 PM LOCATION: Cinema Arts Theatres 9650 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22031 FREE! BOOK SEATS NOW! www.eventbrite.com/e/2-award-wi...

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ALARMING INSURANCE CRISIS: JOIN US FOR A CRUCIAL FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION Fairfax, VA – In the wake of catastrophic wildfires & hurricanes, our homes are at risk. Join us for a FREE event w experts! TRAILER youtu.be/s0bXnHLY8cc?... Book Seats www.eventbrite.com/e/free-built...

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Some good news ICYMI: Last weekend, Colorado Parks and Wildlife released 15 gray wolves in the historic effort to re-establish a wolf population in Colorado. Wolves belong in Colorado. We're working to keep them there and protect them. More info ➡️ biodiv.us/3Wyjb7b

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Wow — there are now more than 29 MILLION users on Bluesky! Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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Our science program has arrived on Bluesky! If you squint, you can spot me in one of those pictures with our Empowering Global Voices program, a cohort of young scientists from all over the world who Natalie (at the end) is mentoring to write and submit their first peer reviewed article 💚

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JANUARY 20, 2025 😩 Our felon “Drill Baby Drill” president is being sworn in. Today, CO2 is at 426.76 ppm, and is accelerating at an accelerated rate.🔥😡 Scientists worry that Earth will be uninhabitable at 450 ppm. (We were at 280 ppm for 10,000 years, prior to industrial age.) Stay tuned…!!!💨🌪️🔥

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Over the last 50 years the oil & gas industry has made $3 billion in profits every day. $52 trillion in pure profit. 😡 —The Guardian

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Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:

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Good news 🎉: Thanks to a Center petition, the USFWS today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the bleached sandhill skipper — an extremely rare subspecies of butterfly lives in alkali wetlands in far northern Nevada. 📷: by @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social

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📢 Celebrating the Magic of Fungi: Audience Reactions to ‘Fantastic Fungi’’s 5th Anniversary Tour, including lively screening at Cinema Arts Theatres in Fairfax, VA, sponsored by Climate Action Now, the buzz is real! One attendee said, “I will spread the mushroom love!” 🍄❤️ youtu.be/YZHUWigyK7E?...

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This list is scary and depressing—but the 'black swan' event I wrote about breaks the mold. I’m not being a Pollyanna here. I genuinely believe my prediction has at least as good a chance of being right as any of them, and possibly even more. What do you think?

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🛑 STOP! WATCH! And be AMAZED! FANTASTIC FUNGI! 🎥 🍿 Check out this AWESOME YouTube Audience Reaction to FANTASTIC FUNGI filmed in FAIRFAX VA by FARMER PIG PRODUCTIONS. 🥰👏 You can watch award-winning Fantastic Fungi on Amazon Prime & Apple TV. CLICK HERE👇 youtu.be/YZHUWigyK7E?... 📸: AdobeStock

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Hey EVERYONE, LOOK at all these lichens! 🤯 Lichens are almost unheard of in MOST developed communities, especially in ASHBURN, Virginia the Data Center Capital of the world w all the massive hyperscale behemoths. Old growth forests atop the Blue Ridge Mountains in VA are MIRACULOUSLY surviving!

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Some unsurprising news: California’s #pesticide regulators released preliminary findings today linking the herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife and human health harms, including thyroid disease and birth defects. More info: biodiv.us/3DCWS9S

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RIP, Jimmy Carter. Perhaps the best post-presidency ever—he showed us the sort of person a POTUS is supposed to be.

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President Jimmy Carter led with compassion, integrity, and an heroic determination to lift humanity’s spirit. We will forever be indebted to him for building a more peaceful world. Thank you, Mr. President, for being conscience, caretaker, and commander for the U.S. and our world.

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“98% of Costa Rica's power already comes from #renewables. Half of the land is covered by forest. They're aiming to transform their entire economy to have a zero carbon footprint.” —Mike Hudema, Climate Activist, X, Dec 21, 2024

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One of the great questions starting Jan 21 is how will Elon and Donald communicate? Trump is all phone. Nothing in writing. Elon isn't going to take 10+ calls a day. I wouldn't be surprised if more than half their communications are via posts on Truth Social and X Literally.

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Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars. Urban life can fit. Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

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“When they heard that an atmospheric river was in the forecast, #Vancouver city staff knew their NEW RAINWAY was about to be put to the test. The green stormwater system, the 1st of its kind to be designed by the city, was to be hit with a volume of water that would break records…” Via @thetyee.ca

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“We cannot let the oil companies, the gas companies, and petro states tell us what is permissible.” … “The World Bank is COMPLETELY FAILING!!!” -Al Gore, World Economic Forum

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The Great Blue Hole in Belize is 300 meters wide and an impressive natural phenomenon. Did you know about it? 🌊🌍 #Belize

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We just passed the Social Security Fairness Act to restore Social Security benefits for millions of Americans including 130,000 public servants in Massachusetts.

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“The long-term health benefits didn’t stop there: commuter cycling was also linked to a 24% reduced risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations, a 51% lower risk of dying from cancer, and improved mental health, as measured by fewer prescriptions for anxiety and depression.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

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You can’t judge people only by how they treat you. The true test of character is how they treat those they don't like or need. Even if someone is kind to you, proceed with caution if they’re consistently unkind to others. Selective civility is a sign of deep-seated hostility.

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Let's take the time to also grieve for the harm done, once again, to more-than-human life...

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77% of the TRASH recorded in our beautiful U.S. National Parks is PLASTIC! 😨 #ZeroWaste #PlasticFree

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This past year the Browns celebrated their most significant milestone yet: donating over 1 million pounds of harvested food to fight food insecurity across North Carolina.

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Tragic news: Whale entanglements are at a six year high. NOAA Fisheries has released preliminary data showing that 34 whales have been confirmed entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2024. You can help stop this. ⬇️⬇️

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A busy life is not a symbol of status. It's a symptom of trying to do too much for too many people. A full calendar brings a surplus of stress and a shortage of energy. Reflecting and relaxing should be top priorities. Unscheduled time isn't wasted. It's invested in well-being.

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"Consumption of coal is on track to rise to a new peak of 8.77bn tonnes by the end of year & cd remain at near-record levels until 2027. China consumes 30% more than the rest of the world put together. Its demand is expected to grow by 1% in 2024 to reach 4.9bn t" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.” Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.

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We are one step closer to passing the Social Security Fairness Act to restore benefits for 3 million public servants from firefighters and teachers to VA nurses and Public Health Service workers.

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