Alison Reintjes

Pesticides and Activism: A Conversation With Our Next Generation of Leaders Podcast Episode · All Creatures Podcast · 07/30/2025 · 47m

I’m amazed by my children. Here Lauris is interviewed on his favorite podcast:

Passionate, engaged young people are the best!

Thank you for your continuing support and journalism on the horrors being inflicted on Palestinians.

🧪 FINDINGS: we live on a Highly Sensitive Planet.

As someone diagnosed as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP and it’s a personality trait not a disorder), I can attest that screaming “you’re too sensitive!” doesn’t help but removing triggering stimuli does.

Decarbonize now.

Also why so few reposts? 👇

Color planning in preparation for glazing 🌈

Give me color!

8 weeks in from a broken wrist— can’t wait till I can get back into the studio and finish glazing this table and a few others that are just waiting for me to heal up.

Exploring ideas with watercolor sketches ahead of CAD/3D printed model making.

Lauris meticulously hand-painted 499 monarch butterflies. They’re up at Confluence Center one last week. The monarchs are a fundraiser for his 1-year Rotary exchange to Spain ($9/each).

Revealed: the US government-funded ‘private social network’ attacking pesticide critics Network includes derogatory profiles of figures such as UN experts and food writer Michael Pollan, and is part of an effort to downplay pesticide dangers, records suggest

⚠️Revealed: A US government-funded 'private social network' has been profiling and attacking critics of pesticides and genetically modified crops, using public funding to undermine public health advocates and downplay the dangers of toxic chemicals.

Definitely confusing learning a new platform!

Saegertown residents told to shelter in place SAEGERTOWN, PA (WJET/WFXP) — Residents in Crawford County are being told to shelter in place because of an emergency at LORD Corporation in Saegertown. People in the area received an emergency aler…

A fire at a Pennsylvania petrochemical plant sent nine people to the hospital and forced residents to shelter in place. A chemical incident occurs every two days in the US. A stark reminder: we must move #BeyondPetrochemicals.

Love you!

Healthy Environment: A Human Right and Customary International Law By Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the UN, i...

In the historic International Court of Justice climate proceedings, human rights arguments have been at the forefront.

🤓READ @srenvironment.bsky.social's timely article on the role of the UN’s highest court in ensuring the right #HealthyEnvironmentForAll everywhere 👇👇
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