Jeff Opperman

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Sunrise over the Potomac River

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With nearly two feet of snow on the ground and temperatures in single digits, it certainly feels like winter...these photos of sycamores and maples along the Chagrin River are from one month ago when Fall was lingering well into November...

Steven Kwan is helping me compile a list of suspects of who pulled down the map in my office. The first name he suggested was the dog.

The Amazon: Both Forest And River Are Critical To Climate Solutions The health of the Amazon forest and river are intertwined. By storing carbon, the forest can be a key part of climate solutions but plans for expanding hydropower could undermine that climate solution...

New blog post on Forbes on why both Amazons--forest and river--are crucial for climate solutions.

www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

Stakeholders that represent the willow, the people

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View of the Tanaro River from the window of a medieval tower in Barbaresco, Italy

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“Water for the mill, wine for the stomach”

Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.

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One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).

I’ve been using images of the “vertical forest” towers in Milan in my power points for a long time. Nice to finally see them.

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floodplain forest at sunset along the Ticino River, a major tributary to the Po

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Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground.

The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.

First #WaterYear photo dedicated to water in the form of fog.

Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful

I’ve got to see that!!!

NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️

Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.

Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
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Rowers on the Po River in Turin

Reason To Believe: Springsteen’s Lessons For Conservation As revealed in the film Deliver Me From Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen provides two lessons for those working in nature conservation, one for the head and one for the heart.

My new post in Forbes about how, as revealed in the new film Deliver Me From Nowhere, @brucespringsteen.net provides two lessons for those who work in nature conservation, one for the head and one for the heart

www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

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The Pesa River in Tuscany from the vineyards of Molino di Grace near Panzano in Chianti.

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In Rome, Paola in front of her eponymous fountain

I took these photos of the Arthur Anderson in 2010 in Huron, Ohio on Lake Erie. Launched in 1952, she is still in active service.

🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.

Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors

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A postage stamp sized riparian forest along the Tevere/Tiber

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Just landed in Rome and walking around the city at sunset, crossing the Tiber/Tevere

Slowed down my typing…

...with the love of her life. A heartsick Canadian in southern California — disoriented by how it stays green even as “they’re putting up reindeer” — she longs for a river. Not to wash away her sorrow, not to float home, but — being a girl from Alberta — a frozen one that she could “skate away on.”

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell - River (Official Music Video)

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Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell, whose song "River" is just so beautiful..

On first listen, you may be lulled into thinking this beautiful ballad is a Christmas song. But listen closer and you’ll hear a woman lamenting that she’s torched the relationship...

youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I?...

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Comedians in Gars Getting Coffee

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In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish

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for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..

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No room on my lap for my laptop.

#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek

and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.

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