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Ken Cousins, PhD

@kencousins.bsky.social

Ecological Economist, valuing nature-based solutions. I believe that sustainability—broadly realized—is a necessity for healthy, just, and vibrant societies. I have been active in the sustainability movement for over 35 years. My views are my own.

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Every @IslandPress ebook is $6.99! Don’t miss your chance to support this nonprofit while building up your library. Sale ends 12/19. www.islandpress.org or wherever you buy ebooks.

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Nature takes the stage at global climate negotiations Natural Capital Project scientists offered up holistic development solutions at the 30th UN climate conference, where there was growing recognition of nature’s role.
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ArcGIS Dashboards ArcGIS Dashboards

Projects funded by Washington state's Climate Commitment Act

02.12.2025 10:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Global microplastic pollution at levels harmful to marine life - Environmental Science and Pollution Research Poor waste management has resulted in marine plastic litter increasing worldwide, and microplastics (MP) are now detected in all marine habitats. To better understand the distribution and ecological i...
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Econoclast — Filmmakers Collaborative SF

Your support could help to document the life of ecological economist Herman Daly.

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A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
24.11.2025 08:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two The search for a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
19.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Social Cost of Plastic to the United States Plastic products are everywhere in daily life in the United States. Yet the economic, environmental and health costs of plastic to society reach up to $1.1 trillion per year—and that’s likely an under...
17.11.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
14.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Title page of the paper "Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate action"

Title page of the paper "Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate action"

🚨Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions

In a new preprint, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social & I examine techno-optimism among 9,199 scientists and how it relates to their civic engagement and lifestyle choices🧵

🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/hh94huzv

14.11.2025 09:20 — 👍 74    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 6
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Crossing the Line: How the Border Lands Conservation Act Threatens Parks and Refuges Nationwide At Big Bend National Park in Texas, the Rio Grande cuts through canyons where black bears, bats, and migratory birds move between river a
05.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.

The natural environment is the foundation of human existence, and its quality is a strong influence on our individual and collective wellbeing. The idea that "the environment" or "climate change" should only be taught as stand-alone courses is absurd on its face.

05.11.2025 17:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Looks like science, lies like propaganda. Inside a new wave of climate misinformation An AI analysis shows that climate deniers increasingly use charts, data visuals, and academic design to appear trustworthy. Researchers warn that fact-checking alone can’t counter the power of these d...
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

Oh no! Not our beloved fossil fuel company doing something shitty.

03.11.2025 06:31 — 👍 460    🔁 181    💬 16    📌 9
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America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
30.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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When architecture becomes carbon accounting Researchers calculated how much carbon is locked up in city buildings—and then started thinking about how to keep it there
29.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Smoke screen: the growing PHEV emissions scandal New analysis finds long-range plug-in hybrids and extended-range electric vehicles are a diversion on the road to zero emissions.

Oof.

27.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Flight shame is dead’: concern grows over climate impact of tourism boom Post-Covid hunger for travel is taking a heavy toll on the environment amid race to net zero, say experts
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U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.
27.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal links between one of the least known dimensions of wellbeing—hope—and long-term outcomes in a range of life arenas. Hope has agentic properties w...
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Nueva Esperanza Municipality Establishes Río Negro, a New Protected Area in the Northern Bolivian Amazon - Andes Amazon Fund The area encompasses over 517,156 acres (209,286 hectares) of tropical forests, seasonally flooded savannas, alluvial plains, the meandering Negro River, and ancient geological formations of the Preca...
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Out-of-state senators vote on forest ‘fix’ for places like Lane County A U.S. Senate committee has advanced the Fix Our Forests Act — a sweeping forest-management bill that could reshape logging and wildfire policy in heavily forested areas like Lane County.
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“Government by the people for the people.” They don’t believe in that, they don’t care about us.

They can only win when they cheat.

#SaveOurDemocracy
#Pinks
#NCPolitics
#Congress

23.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 1164    🔁 823    💬 39    📌 87
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Climate change’s effect on local areas | Climate Central Get information, data, and shareable graphics about how climate change is affecting over 200 U.S. cities and all 50 U.S. states, by location.
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The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in. After Trump threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future.
23.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all...
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He needs a place to host junior proms.

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Negative Electric Vehicle Emissions: Vehicle-to-Grid Can Incentivize Enough Wind and Solar Investment to Reverse EV Charging Emissions Consequential emission analyses of power system interventions typically overlook induced structural changes. We estimate the consequential power system emission effects of plug-in electric vehicle (PE...
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