UrbanForests

Grassroots organization promoting tree protection and urban forests

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Looks interesting. Check it out!

[Peter Wilf @RadioGondwana]

Just a reminder that the 2009 Leaf Manual is available open access ! Use it and enjoy the leaves. 🍃🌿🍂
https://t.co/SlPSa0wIJl

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

#VoteHarrisWalzToSaveDemocracy #VoteBlueToEndTheHate #NotGoingBack #VoteKamala #HarrisWaltz2024

[🌻Justice⚖Now 🌟🇺🇸 @ChrisJustice01]

@TeamTrump Trump is a danger to society. Justice is late
#HarrisWalz2024 #BlueWave #VoteBlue
Consequences #Jan6 #Insurrection

[Trees for Streets @TreesforStreets]

This junction has been transformed 🪄by widening the pavement and planting a tree🌳 It never needed to be so wide📏 but now offers a safer place to cross and a shady-haven just outside a local school🧑‍🎓

#Streettrees🌳are an integral element in healthier more human focused streets

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Los Angeles voted 12-0 to ban new drilling and to close all 5,000 existing oil and gas wells in the city. This is a historic victory by @STAND_LA and all citizens over the oil industry and environmental racism.

IT CAN BE DONE! Who's next?

#ActOnClimate #climate

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

44 scientists have issued a stark warning about the threat of a major ocean circulation change, causing a detrimental disruption of climate patterns lasting for centuries to come.
Check out this short video explaining what this is all about.

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

The idea that humanity has a “purpose” while all other life forms simply exist, is a product of absurd, highly dangerous human supremacist rhetoric. 

Our vain, desperate, futile and obsessive search for our elusive “higher purpose” has become a threat to all biological existence on Earth, including us.  Purpose has been a dangerous concept, one easily corrupted and weaponised to support dogmatic views and the agendas of the necrosystem which have nothing to do with “purpose”, and everything to do with greed.

Yet although we may not have a purpose, we do have a destiny.  As with every biological organism, humanity’s destiny is to simply coexist with, and be part of, this already wondrous and complex tapestry of life forms.  We call it the “the ecosystem”, using this cold, mechanistic terminology to describe “it” in order to both detach ourselves from the rest of the creation, as well as denigrate its own sentience.

Our existential tragedy is that we failed to see ourselves as part of this tapestry, and to consider our balanced existence within it as our actual “purpose”.  Such a purpose of simple coexistence seems too easy and simple for an obsessively greedy species and fails to satisfy the human supremacy narrative: that we are more than the ecosystem, that we are supposed to race past it, leave it all behind and venture into the unknown.

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

It is the closest primary election in Washington state history. Democrat Dave Upthegrove is up by 51 votes over 3rd place finisher in the Public Lands Commissioner race. The ballots will now undergo a mandatory paper ballot recount. https://t.co/CcqhgUFvYF

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping."

-- Hubert Reeves

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Vote Dave Upthegrove for Public Lands Commissioner in WA Primary ballot due Tuesday August 6, 2024. Thanks.

[TreePAC.org @TreepacO]

Deadline to vote is Tuesday August 6th. Ballots must be postmarked Tuesday August 6th or put in a Dropbox by 8 PM. This is a crowded race with 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans and low voter turnout. Help Dave move on to the November ballot. Thanks.

[TreePAC.org @TreepacO]

Help save the last remaining mature trees on WA Dept of Natural Resources lands Vote Dave Upthegrove Tuesday August 6th. It is a low turnout election so a few votes can mean the difference between winning and losing .https://t.co/X91fFMnHWJ

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

It's getter hotter year after year. Tipping Point coming?

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

The more unliveable this planet gets, the more hostage humans will become to an oppressive system which will charge them for the last remaining water, food, and habitable conditions. Poverty feeds totalitarianism, and this planet is on its way to a grim ecological bankruptcy none of us are even able to imagine

#necrocapitalism #ClimateCrisis #heatwave #fascism

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Think closing your eyes will make it go away. I don't think so. The impacts are real and it only gets worse. #ClimateChange

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The Greenland ice cap is losing around 30 MILLION tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis - 20% MORE than what scientists originally thought.

No time to waste. Stopfossifuels. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #go100re

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Replant your lawn with native shrubs and plants to complete the web of life. Grass is a dead end for most insects. Birds need insects to feed their young.

[Marian Hill @hill_marian]

Before cutting your lawn and treating it with weedkiller, consider how many creatures love living in long grass. Let grass grow lusciously long and help wildlife thrive. #nomowmay #nomow #urbannature #buzzandscuttle

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Might be very different if you gave the animals the same weapons and ability to defend themselves.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Why does the world still allow trophy hunting? We've done so much harm already. RT if you think there should be a worldwide ban on this barbaric practice.

Nature is amazing. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #climate #TrophyHunting #nature #rewilding #GreenNewDeal #biodiversity

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Planting native trees is important as they are adapted to better survive. Climate resiliency is also a factor to consider.

[Climate Alliance for Justice (CAJ)🌱 @Climate_Allies]

Superabundance of non eco-friendly trees in Dhaka city: Study https://t.co/qSj6AS7NnA

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

A very thought provoking diagram - helping to understand our human situation.

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

Here in our new paper, we consider the causes of and solutions to multiple converging and interwoven crises on Earth, including climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socio-economic inequality. https://t.co/ZBQujv0R3k

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Urban trees and urban forests are vital components of healthy living in our cities. Tree help create healthy livable neighborhoods where people live and work,

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

From supporting #biodiversity to improving human health, trees benefit people and our planet. 🌍

🌱🏢🌴🏡🌲🏛🌳🏨🎋

@fao shows that trees and urban forests are critical for adapting to #ClimateChange in cities.

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Totally agree!

[Trees for Streets @TreesforStreets]

The better the walk to school. The more you walk to school.

One simple way to encourage more walking🚶‍♂️ AND less use of cars🚗 for short journeys, is to make our streets more welcoming🌞

Let’s fill ALL our streets with trees 🌳🌳🌳
👉https://t.co/XnVelvEfIy

[UrbanForests @ForestsUrban]

Maintaining and growing Seattle's tree canopy is important for a healthy city, climate resilience and environmental equity. https://t.co/iCMy3nWmMv