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Yesss, do check it out! Such a beautiful moment watching them all fly from tree to tree on that school campus

Yes! All of that development and cutting down of trees accelerated pushing them out - so sad

That’s so neat! I wonder how much they do travel out and explore when weather is pretty comfortable

Wow! That’s incredible. Yeah it’s sad to see how development and cutting of trees accelerating their move out from the area. Hopefully they come back

A picture of a monk parakeet on the lawn

A picture of a monk parakeet on a tree

So resilient ✨

Saying hello to Chicago’s colony of living green dinosaurs 💚 #MonkParakeets #SouthEastSide

Young piping plovers checking out the South Side.

A sign in front of Sandmeyer’s bookstore that says “it’s a Literary Lollapalooza in here”

Literary Lolla??? Say less 🔥🔥🔥

Check out @climatecentral.org's new interactive tools for monitoring ocean heat around the world: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Using the Ocean CSI system, you can find the influence of human-caused climate change on daily sea surface temperatures and around the paths of tropical cyclones.

🚨🚨🚨🚨

“For every 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, an individual’s relative risk of dementia would increase by 17%”

We’re currently at 97 µg/m³ in Chicago.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

View of the boardwalk on the Wild Mile in Chicago with mallows fully blooming and the water surface around the floating Island covered by duckweed. A view of the city skyline can be seen on the boardwalk

Along the Chicago River, the mallows are in full bloom on the Wild Mile - Chicago’s floating gardens.

A beautiful experience I highly recommend checking out before peak blooming draws to a close 🌺✨

More Gazans starve to death as aid agencies warn airdrops won’t alleviate crisis | CNN More Gazans, including young children, are dying of starvation, and Israel’s plan allowing foreign nations to drop aid into the enclave has been met with skepticism on the ground. Follow for live upda...

Reading this news with such a heavy heart.
Where is the humanity? How is this pro-life?
Devastating crimes against humanity

Flyer on a hybrid event for teachers interested in learning about the benefits of electric school buses on student health and academic success

View of the back of an electric school bus taken at EPA HQ in DC

View of the electric school bus battery taken at EPA HQ in DC

Are you a teacher passionate about healthier learning environments? Join us on July 31st for a hybrid workshop to explore how electric school buses can improve student health & academic success @elpcenter.bsky.social

#EducatorWorkshop #CleanAir
#EnvironmentalHealth
Register: tinyurl.com/4mrn9cjv

Starvation is a horrific reality for children and families in Gaza. Aid at scale must be allowed in urgently.

This is a man-made disaster.

Enough is enough. The United Nations must be allowed to deliver aid of all types at scale to families in Gaza, wherever they are.

Federal Science Workers Say Agencies Are ‘Going in the Wrong Direction’ Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in ...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

A colorful vibrant blooming pollinator garden hugging the City Street.

Monarch butterfly on a purple coneflower

A view of coneflowers next to a car on a street with a pollinator resting on one of the flowers.

What brings me joy each morning when I step outside is witnessing how our landlord’s decision to replace the grass with a pollinator garden attracts many pollinators. This strip has also done an excellent job handling stormwater runoff! Our streets can look like this with investments and care 🌳🐝✨

The Lawrence station at night with a bike blurred going past, with horizontal bars of light at the top

A further out view of the Lawrence station glowing in the dark, with a red car passing underneath

The Argyle CTA station at night, with the Argyle sign illuminated and the station glowing in a variety of colors

An under the station view of the Argyle station, showing the geometric pattern above in closer detail, casting a purple glow onto the brick work below

Forgive me new CTA stations, I wasn't familiar with your game

Receiving an extreme heat watch email from Chicago Public Schools, advising all activities to be indoors, highlights the need for fully funded public schools.

Updating HVAC systems to handle heatwaves requires investments & why we are asking leaders in Springfield to step up @ctulocal1.bsky.social

🎉 Today, CTA made history as it unveiled 4 brand new 100% accessible stations on the Red Line:

✅ Lawrence
✅ Argyle
✅ Berwyn
✅ Bryn Mawr

Yessss! ✨

Photo of journals and books placed on a desk with glass ceiling views taken at The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library

Rainy conditions are the perfect conditions for reading & journaling

A group photo of members of different coalition groups advocating to fully fund public transit in Chicago

A sign using CTA acronym to say, “Chicago, Thrives with, Access” and Fund CTA written bottom of sign

A crowd of attendees marching the street with a person holding a sign that says “CTA keeps the world running”

A sign that says “Chicago deserves fully funded transit for everyone”

Today, we are calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to address the 40% cuts that will impact thousands of CTA, Metra, & Pace riders, including students, elders, & people with disabilities.

We are demanding a special session in Springfield to address the budget crisis and fully fund public services.

Map of Ecosystems of the Conterminous US and Adjacent Areas, v1.0 This layer presents information on the distribution of regional ecosystems for North America using the International Vegetation Classification (IVC) Group level. For v1.0, the US and adjacent areas ha...

Check out the newly published ecosystem range maps 🌳

geohub-natureserve.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/Natures...

+ geohub-natureserve.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/66c1361...

'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.

"I can't live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water," Ms Morris says. "I can't drink the water."

She believes the construction of the centre, which is owned by Meta (the parent company of Facebook), disrupted her private well, causing an excessive build-up of sediment.

In Zion National Park, 'the Smog Is Gone' Now that its traffic-banishing shuttle system has gone electric, Zion Canyon is quieter, cleaner and a more welcoming home for wildlife.

Now that its traffic-banishing shuttle system has gone electric, Zion Canyon is quieter, cleaner and a more welcoming home for wildlife. ❤️❤️❤️

reasonstobecheerful.world/zion-electri...

Imagine how we would react if edu leaders signed multimillion-dollar deals to partner with Exxon & BP to create safeguards to address the climate crisis.

This type of partnership is happening with edu leaders & AI companies.

Where is the public teacher input on this? Students? Community members?

Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.

OK, so... I'm an expert on tech policy (it's my job) and one of the areas that I work on is AI and education. Since I don't work for any of the companies in this deal, I can tell you what I think.

It's very, very bad. A 🧵