Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition

Wildlife depends on trees and forests. Trees provide nesting sites, food, habitat and shelter for a wide variety of animals. From the smallest insects to large predators, everything is represented. We need the protection of existing forests and reforestation worldwide.💚 🌲🌳🍀💚

A closeup of a bee visiting the purple bloom of common selfheal, in a yard.

our yard has a lot of common selfheal, moss, and wild strawberries mixed in, and the pollinators love it.

Photo of an elderly white woman facing left in an interior space, next to a window tbrough which is a green garden, in the act of painting

Mollie Silver, an artist from Cornwall, UK who is celebrating her 107th birthday today. She said being yourself is the key to a happy life #WomensArt #MondayMotivaton
(Via BBC)

"Big Ugly Bill” is a Climate Disaster - New York League of Conservation Voters On July 4th, President Trump signed the “Big Ugly Bill,” gutting core climate policies through cutting clean energy tax credits, EV incentives, raising energy costs, and jeopardizing over a million jo...

Big Ugly Bill” is a Climate Disaster
By Emma Dezenzo
@nylcv.bsky.social
www.nylcv.org/news/big-ugl...

The day the climate changed The world’s top court has delivered a damning verdict on society’s use of fossil fuels. What comes next could redefine the energy transition.

The world’s top court has delivered a damning verdict on society’s use of fossil fuels.

What comes next could redefine the energy transition.

Moet ik toch weer aan onze overheid denken.

Key Facts on Health Coverage of Immigrants | KFF This fact sheet provides an overview of health coverage for immigrants based on data from the 2023 KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants, the largest nationally representative survey focused on immigrants...

Key Facts on Health Coverage of Immigrants
•Federal Ineligibility: Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federally funded programs like Medicaid, CHIP, or Medicare, nor can they purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces.

A lot to answer for.

Election Officials Have Been Under Attack For Years. Now The DOJ Wants to Criminally Charge Them Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ele...

Appeals court finds Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwid...

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide.

Padre Marcelo’s Last March | Peter Canby For decades, an activist priest from Chiapas campaigned for the state's indigenous poor and against the violence of its cartels. Last year, he himself was assassinated.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

No More Deaths on Canal: Emergency Rally and Vigil · Transportation Alternatives This past weekend, two New Yorkers were horrifically killed by a speeding driver exiting the Manhattan Bridge. On Wednesday, we will stand together to demand safer streets and an end to traffic death...

www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...

Neighbors May Kwok & Kevin Crukshank were tragically killed by a speeding driver exiting the Manhattan Bridge.
@transalt.org
Is hosting rally & vigil tomorrow to honor them and call for urgent street safety reforms.

Manhattan Bridge Colonnade Plaza (Canal & Chrystie)
Tuesday, July 23
6pm

NYC Council bills pushing for more public bathrooms, drinking fountains become law A law that mandates Narcan training for jail guards will also go into effect.

NYC Council bills pushing for more public bathrooms, drinking fountains become law gothamist.com/news/nyc-cou... via @gothamist.com
And the funding to care for these vital new additions?
@nycparks.bsky.social @ny4p.bsky.social NYCCouncil NYCMayor

Heat wave forecast for NYC this week with 100-degree heat index, weather service says https://gothamist.com/news/heat-wave-forecast-for-nyc-this-week-with-100-degree-heat-index-weather-service-says

NYC unveils a 20-year plan to make Hart Island more accessible and resilient https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-unveils-a-20-year-plan-to-make-hart-island-more-accessible-and-resilient

Seeing More Fireflies in New York City This Year? You’re Not Alone. Hot and humid weather is perfect for the blinking bugs.

Seeing More Fireflies in New York City This Year? You’re Not Alone.
Hot and humid weather is perfect for the blinking bugs.

Ignoring (or using) the Climate emergency to save someone's view or to prevent the construction of affordable housing or any number of excuses.
We have clear-eyed decisions to make.
Or not.

Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?

Smoke from climate-fueled wildfires contributed to thousands of US deaths over 15 years, study says A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars i...

The paper … found that from 2006 to 2020, climate change contributed to about 15,000 deaths from exposure to small particulate matter from wildfires and cost about $160 billion. The annual range of deaths was 130 to 5,100, the study showed, with the highest in states such as Oregon and California.

Treatment Not Trauma is Making Chicago Safer.
One of the major programs providing resources to our city is Treatment Not Trauma, which both reopens shuttered mental health facilities and provides emergency mental health professionals to respond to crises...

Read more: bit.ly/33wfCrimeDown

Self-inflicted wound FTW. 🤡

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At least, technically, it went to state coffers...but yes. Not great.

"Japanese and Taiwanese scientists successfully paddled a replica Paleolithic canoe 140 miles across the East China Sea"
-from Aaron Parnas

"Underwater wind turbines in Scotland's MayGen project have set a new industry record" - Aaron Parnas

Just what NYC needed, another way for people who can't afford it to lose money to make someone else richer.

A shared heritage - Mary MacSwiney, a very brave and remarkable Irish woman who visited prisoners in #Frongoch and stood her ground in a railway carriage in #Holyhead trying to protect the body of her brother who had died on hunger strike #IrelandWales #Revolution #Empire #Ireland #Wales #Anglesey