That's how much I'm in love with nature and Mother Earth.
When you love something/someone you take care of it, you look for it, you protect it. If we truly love nature, let's do what is in our power to preserve it. Without it, we are absolutely nothing. 🌳🌵🌲🌴
This #EarthDay2024 I'd like to introduce you a friend of mine. World, please meet "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" which will look more like a book & less like a binder in a patch of daffodils when it's released by IslandPress in fall 2024!
My #Earthday wishes for this book and you, its possible reader, (with a few spring photos just for the sake of joy) a 🧵about what I tried my hardest to offer as I wrote...
@bethsawin what a beautiful 🧵 on #EarthDay - thank you! I do subscribe and saw your email this morning, but it was your beautiful pictures here that really drew me in (as ever) 😊 💚.
Tagging #ClimateDiary as others there I am sure will also want to read your book
Just a tiny contribution to #earthday. I would like to say that the photo was planned - but it was just pure luck that I got it at this time of the day.
Today, on International Earth Day, I bring you a photo of my favorite Chilean plant. Puya alpestris or chagual, this beautiful plant is slow growing, and can take many years to flower, between 2 and 5 years. Human action has caused the population of these plants to decrease, which is affecting species such as the largest butterfly in Chile, which is now in danger of extinction. You never know how the disappearance of one species could doom another. #Earthday#naturephotohraphy#chile#plants#wildflowers#endemic#nature#takecareofthe planet
As its #EarthDay I've put up the Barn Owl box on the byre roof. It's just high enough, I couldn't safely go any higher. It faces west but I'm hoping it won't get too much sun. (Sun! Up here?) Painting it white should help. That's also Raby Estates colour to blend in with the house. Here's hoping it gets a tenant.
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
Going car-free for #EarthDay shouldn't be a difficult challenge for anyone. Nobody should be forced to drive to meet their daily needs. If you can't #LeaveTheCarAtHome due to your govt's misplaced priorities in #transportation spending, call your mayor and governor about it. It's not just land use and #parking policy that keeps people driving, it's the billions we spend maintaining deadly #stroads.
Inbox: The DOJ proposes a consent decree with Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources for their Christmas Eve 2022 oil spill at Ingleside, TX. Flint Hills will pay $989,212.80 in Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act fines.
In Makame Village in the Hoima region, Uganda, Wandera Wilson manages a nursery that produces an estimated 200,000 seedlings a year. He purchases seeds from the national forest authority as well as private collectors, depending on the type.
“We believe that a good tree is born from a good deed,” he says.
Wilson uses the funds from the sale of his seedlings to support his three kids and buy a sewing machine for his wife. He even helped one of his neighbors buy a motorcycle, an asset that can be shared amongst the entire community.
“That’s where the love begins — from the local man,” he says. “The connection increases the desire to protect them later on.”
On #earthday, read KC Cheng's photo essay of how Ecosia, JGI Uganda, and residents are reforesting the country.
Today is the 54th Earth Day. New Scientist explores the origins of the event and much more in a curated collection of stories. Topics include climate change, life on earth and the origins of life.
New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Earthworks by American artist Meg Webster, 1990s-2020s, whose indoor and outdoor installations incorporate natural materials like soil, moss, and native plants.