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Cory Booker tops 22 hours in a Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance? New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has pressed his marathon speech against President Donald Trump’s agenda for more than 22 hours and counting.

For more than 22 hours, Cory Booker did something spectacular to show the people that our concerns and fears and needs actually matter. He took action. Let's not let it be for nothing. Tell your reps, tell your senators: It's your turn to do something!

This muggy city keeps cool with minimal AC. Here’s how. Palava City, a 5,000-acre experimental community northeast of Mumbai, hopes to provide a model for adapting to a climate-transformed world.

Cool stuff (pun intended).

How trees, walkable design, rooftop solar, and efficient heat pumps help keep a city cool.

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In front of the Brightside office today.

OneSTL Water Initiative Wants To Change How St. Louis Recycles | St. Louis Magazine A line of canned drinking water wants to change how St. Louisans think about recycling.

Thanks to the good folks at @stlmag.bsky.social for covering this innovative outreach program!
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OneSTL Water Initiative Wants To Change How St. Louis Recycles | St. Louis Magazine A line of canned drinking water wants to change how St. Louisans think about recycling.

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Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.

Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.

I am getting ready to move and just found this gem. Is there a place I can contribute?

I hope to bring that sensibility with me. Thanks for the kind words.

If it's not too big, I can help in the next couple weeks. I'm moving out of town in mid-April though.

yep, the dreaded and invasive callery pear. aka Bradford pear :-(
The good news is that you can get a free native tree if you take that down! I believe MDC is still doing that program.

Avant-garde botanists AMKK illuminate the inner worlds of flowers

The punk florists' latest exhibition immerses visitors in darkness, bathed only in the glow of X-rays and CT scans of plants and flowers.

SLPS School Board Candidate Forum tonight!
Join the 4th Ward Dems at SEIU at 6:30pm

Electronics Recycling Event April 12 8am-11am 1640 S. Kingshighway 63110 MRC professionally recycles almost anythign with a power cord or battery! NOT ACCEPTED: smoke detectors, glass lamps, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes, alkaline batteries, magnetic media, and optical discs Document Shredding will be available! *limit of 2 document boxes* Fees waived for City residents. *ID required* Saint Louis City Recycles Common Seal of the City of St. Louis MRC Midwest Recycling Center

STL City residents: all fees are waived for you! For more details about this event visit: stlcityrecycles.com/electronic-recycling-event/

Root tea of sassafras has long been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments. Science has cast doubt on its efficacy and has shown that safrole, an oil in sassafras, causes cancer in laboratory animals. The FDA banned sassafras tea, roots, and oil in commercially produced foods and drugs. 4/4

Sassafras is the traditional flavoring for root beer and thickening agent (filé) for Creole gumbo. 3/4

The sassafras fruit is eaten by many species of birds, including bobwhite, woodpeckers, mockingbirds and catbirds, flycatchers, and wild turkey. The leaves and twigs are browsed by woodchucks, deer, rabbits, and bears. Rabbits may eat the bark in wintertime. 2/4

Sassafras flowers sprouted from a twig pruned this winter!

Fun facts about sassafras albidum from the MO Dept of Conservation:

Female spicebush swallowtails can "taste" leaves with their forelegs, and when they land on a sassafras leaf, they know they have found a suitable egg-laying site. 1/4

Trump is trying to remake the presidency. Here's why The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

St. Louis, it's time to accept that AFT Local 420 is not to be trusted. They endorsed Teri Powers. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 And Cousins. Who can resurrect that sorry excuse for a union? And, for the good of the city, please do not vote for TP.

Sassafras!
I grabbed a twig and stuck it in water after the tree in our demo garden was pruned this winter. It's about to bloom! And it has baby roots starting!
Who needs a sassafras?

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Y'all! This is amazing for St. Louis: River City Outdoors has a lending library for outdoor gear and educational materials!
Check it out: rivercityoutdoors.myturn.com/lib.../inven...

When I drive instead of riding my bike, I nearly always take a left there. Not my first, won't be my last bad life choice. Ha!

Found Item Abandoned bicycle frame in the demo garden! Please stop by Brightside's office to let us know what the sticker says and claim your bicycle frame! We will donate it after one week.

A bicycle frame was found in Brightside's garden! If this is yours and you would like to claim it, please visit the office and tell what is on the sticker in the post.

Office: 4646 Shenandoah Ave. 63110 M-F 9-4
If you can't make it into the office, please call: 314-772-4646

I don't think we have a choice at this point.

An amazing high school student is organizing that project so they probably just don't understand all of the county/city stuff yet.

That's funny. In 1999 I worked at the Black Dog Cafe and abandoned all the owner's recipes for my own. The customers appreciated that a lot more than the owner did. It even made the paper.

That's so sad. Was this at home or away?

Once in a while these turn out alright.

Good stuff! Please go to the link in the post and put it all in that survey. Let's get these ideas into the right spot!