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US Climate #law & #policy. Loves old #trees, old buildings, and a good plan. Ride your #bike. A lawyer, but not that kind. #library stan. Posting about #climate #resilience, #landuse, #phenology, #orchids, #birding, #urbanag, #housing, #gardening in #Area51 and #knitting. Med. Resv. Corp. volunteer. Forced to like cicadas.

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IcooIey, to random
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IcooIey, to animals
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Fish is tired from too much holidaying.

IcooIey, to random
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I find cultural eddies fascinating. A seasonal example is people who put on elaborate light displays. Why do they do it???

Illuminated reindeer decoration surrounded by colorful outdoor Christmas lights at night.
A nighttime scene of a house and driveway adorned with colorful Christmas decorations and lights, including illuminated reindeer, Santa Claus, and snowman figures.

IcooIey, to Orchids
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Took a walk this morning through campus past the teaching greenhouse. It was open! for a Boxing Day Botanical Adventure.

Will start with the .

An orange orchid flower with fused petals and three long extensions, one above and two below. The flower extends from the plans on a long thin green stem. The pot and other orchids is on a black plastic plant bench.

IcooIey,
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In the temperate house, Protea are blooming. This one was larger than my hand and it took a lot of willpower not to touch its fuzzy pink cuteness.

IcooIey,
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Like succulents? UConn has a huge collection from South Africa. Very diverse and unusual.

A plant bench filled with clay pots with Lithops specimens. These plants look like small stones and blend in with the ground. They also kind of look like little butts according to my kids.

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In the tropical house, many things are blooming including a pinkball, red tree hibiscus, begonias, a bird of paradise.

Bright red flower with gently twisted petals and a red pistil emerging from the end.
Egg yolk yellow flowers clustered above green oval highly textured begonia leaves. In a clay pot on a bench with other begonias nearby.
Orange and indigo bird of paradise flowers. They look like the orange petals are emerging from the back of a green canoe in a fan and the indigo part points ahead towards the bow. Large green paddle shaped leaves fan out overhead.

IcooIey,
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For @futurebird an ant plant. The green house has a big collection of ant plants, but sadly, no ants! The research specimen collection however does have a fantastic collection of army ants and their associated guests.

IcooIey, to Plants
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Just got an email from a local greenhouse that fuel costs are too high so they are giving away all their remaining houseplants this weekend and shutting down for two months.

Do I need more plants? Do I??

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@shekinahcancook we are in good shape in that regard.

IcooIey,
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@shekinahcancook and Orchid World is doing well! I started rescuing orchids at the beginning of the pandemic and at least for the Phalaenopsis, have figured out a good regimen to keep them healthy and blooming.

IcooIey, to Bloomscrolling
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The passionflower I pulled in for the winter is thriving in the bathroom.

IcooIey, to random
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Wafflehenge for the

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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A few people are making more money, most people aren't. With wages basically stagnant and housing costs continuing to rise, really not surprising about the growing number of unhoused people.

And yet somehow, it will be spun that those of us that fall through the cracks are at fault and not the two issues I just mentioned.

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@Adam_Cadmon1 had a convo with an acquaintance who has worked with and for religious orgs supporting the unhoused for a decade. He said he believes the root cause of homelessness is the decline in marriage and children in single parent households. I said, don’t you think poverty is the root cause? High housing costs and wages that haven’t kept pace? Inequity? You know, like data from the past few years clearly shows?

Nope. It’s decline of marriage.

Ugh.

IcooIey,
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@KatM @Adam_Cadmon1 Yes! This! Rosa DeLauro from CT’s 3rd district has been pushing for the child tax credit for years and even this modest payment during 2021 dropped the child poverty rate significantly (and of course it climbed right back up when Congress let the credit lapse). For once we have a fairly simple solution to a complex problem. Just give people more money->see significant positive societal change.

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The snow plow just went past. It’s not snowing. We’ve had over 2.5in rain in last ten hours + strong winds. School canceled and power outages around town. So many branches down, using snow plow to clear roads. Our second story windows under 6 ft eaves rain covered. Up much of the night as branches hit the roof in continual thuds. It’s 60 °F on December 18,2023 in Connecticut, US.

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I'm usually not such a big fan of Christmas time and I have been trying to mostly ignore big holidays since 3 years.

But, for some reason, this year I'm into it. I decorated early AND I got myself a Christmas gift AND I wrapped it! :awesome:​🎁​✨

There will be no surprise
for me when I unwrap it but:

Can YOU guess what it is? 👀

*Christmas tree for scale 🎄

IcooIey,
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@Em0nM4stodon beautiful bow!

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Hello Middle-aged, but very attractive woman who is exuding absolute authority and pose, may I join whatever Superhero/Supervillain Team you're putting together? I have "skillz" if you know what I mean.

IcooIey,
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@RickiTarr Right. You’re in. You’re in charge of social engagement. I’m in charge of bail money and stocking the snack cabinet and we do whatever Janelle Monáe needs done.

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I the kinda person when someone ask
' Jaden how are you? '
' yeah all good '
When really I got like 100 problems thrashing around in my brain and I am not fkg good!
But yeah i smile and say ' I good thanks '
Yall like this?
Why don't we admit we feel like shit?

IcooIey,
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@Jaden2 I think we don’t want to burden others. But you just found a way to share with us all that you are going through things with this post. That’s good. You didn’t hand me your burden to carry myself, you shared a load so I can help you carry it.

Drew_Lab, to random
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Trying to have a productive day. Run, writing group, then taking a prospective student out to lunch with some current lab members. What are y’all up to today?

IcooIey,
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@Drew_Lab Reading, laundry, just returned from a frosty walk on campus, now coffee, breakfast and editing for training video we want to go live today, then more editing for support documents. Really grateful to feel past the writing slump of the past few weeks. Looking forward to enjoying the holiday feeling accomplished rather than worried I haven’t done enough.

IcooIey, to random
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Goodnight all! 🔥🔥

video/mp4

IcooIey, to random
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CIRCA, where I work, is a university institute that also helps towns in CT assess their climate vulnerabilities and access funding for climate resilience. Other nonprofits like the HVA in this story are helping to close the gaps between recognizing the need and paying for actions to address it. But, we need more: more expertise, capacity, and funding to adapt. A story repeated throughout the world right now.

https://ctmirror.org/2023/11/17/ct-flooding-climate-change/?utm_source=Connecticut+Mirror+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=3f8fb045f7-CT+Mirror+Morning+Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_571d22f8e4-3f8fb045f7-68294490&mc_cid=3f8fb045f7&mc_eid=ec6f06e5a6

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    IcooIey,
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    @design_law Congratulations!

    IcooIey, to random
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    This semester we placed four law students at state agencies, one in-house and one at an NGO for around 15 hrs/week. All had flexible hybrid but largely remote schedules. While they liked the flexibility, they found it really hard as the new person to make connections and build relationships. Has led to interesting discussions about what they might expect entering the job market.

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