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5-🇯🇵 Isao Tomita - Arabesque No. 1 (Claude Debussy cover)

"Keep looking up!" - Jack Horkheimer

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Door open to the first 70 degree weekend in 5ish months…some kind of calm before the next 6-8wk riot of spring headlong into inferno szn 🔥🌫️

Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.

In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.

Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Socialism!

Can We Refill the Great Salt Lake? The Great Salt Lake has dropped 22 feet since the 1980s. Water leasing reform and cloud seeding innovation may help restore it.

Interesting, if oddly written, summary of the nascent efforts to refill Utah's Great Salt Lake before Salt Lake City gets overwhelmed by the toxic dust on its floor.

Uncanny-hybrid rich text of hallucinatory vignettes on near term pedestrian climate future in the SW, from rather straightforward extrapolation and pattern literacy—🥴

This winter is such a great example of shifting baselines. As someone in the east, it was cold this winter. Full stop. But it "felt" even more frigid because we haven't had such cold recently.

It was cold but not historically so. But good heavens look at that record-breaking heat out West. 🔥

Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma from Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. This tiny slime mold makes its spores on little stalks, giving it a distinctive appearance. My favorite feature of these are the glass-like stems.

Olympus OM-1 / 90mm macro lens / MC20 2x teleconverter

What percent of general pop are still holding it down as cultural creatives these days? Some significant pivoting to cultural hospice care it seems.

ART IS THE PROJECTION OF THAT IN US WHICH DOES GO ON RESPONDING

Adrienne Rich (all caps mine)

New pet rock (XXL) 🦦

WOULdst thou like to live deciduously 🍁

(crashing hard for a dirt nap in the fall, respawning each spring 🌱)

Would fire feel kinder if it moved measurably, like water, or is that alacrity its way of saying you got this fleeting instant… sup!

Flexing hard, what a Baddy!

I want to do more to help people switch tracks toward serving the biosphere and enjoying greater autonomy and intimacies thereby.

Help ME by opening convos around what that means, how it works, and who can benefit…? Take 5, give it a try!!

Yearning for the Apocalypse As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy:
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Exceptionally concise, coherent playbill and context setting on the crime wave du jour et du siècle.

One for posterity of a personal mentor and eccentric earthworker, Skip, tending flame on his way deeper into the mystery. Ojai, CA

Andy Goldsworthy = Every piece is Several Small Rocks, respectable, in tune with nature, humble, democratic.

Michael Heizer = Every piece is One Gigantic Rock, foul, polluting, self-absorbed, tyrannical.

Michael Heizer, Bedroom Megalith #1 (1998)

This condor couple may be tending to first egg in Northern California in a century Two condors in far northwestern California appear to be caring for a recently laid egg, a historic moment in an effort to bring the massive raptors back to the Yurok Tribe's historic homeland.

“This is a big step, and a necessary step, to seeing (condor) recovery on the North Coast.” - Yurok Wildlife Department Director Tiana Williams-Claussen
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Important to distinguish means and ends, and recognize both must be resolved and reconciled from different angles. Aims should be widely agreed, pathways and priorities more narrowly defined from proximity, insight, and investment in outcomes.

NBC's top climate reporter quits In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.

Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose

The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week

Here's our interview:

Here is the latest snow water equivalent as a percent of normal by basin. This includes reporting stations all across the western U.S. It is clear we are struggling across the region.

What if our fourth walls smashed together, oh, what then 🫦

🌱🚀 New One Million Voices release is live! Cleaner UI, immersive map experience 🗺️, new Gallery page 🖼️, improved detail layouts, and more reliable media handling. onemillionvoices.agroecologymap.org 🌍🤝

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I like organic vegetables but I’m not presently an agriculturalist as it is damn hard dirty thankless and precarious work. However I am succeeding at conserving and enhancing outstanding local ecological integrity via arduous practices most conservationists would decry!

Bluntly; can you be a conservationist in this present circumstance without adopting a mindset, rigor, strategy, and alliances that achieve said objectives?

Wonder what’s an example of a country or society that fully embraces the opposite? The idea of collective power is geared toward consistent alignment, but the reality may mean something more dynamic.