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[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Yesterday, I joined MPP Bobbi Ann Brady and @drew_spoelstra, President of @OntarioFarms, in Hamilton to present a farmer-led vision for protecting farmland in Ontario.

We’re losing the farmland that feeds us at an unsustainable rate. The bill MPP Brady and I put forward would permanently protect our farmland to ensure that hundreds of years from now Ontarians can still rely on Ontario food and farmers to feed us.

Food security is national security. Now is the time to protect our farmland.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump and Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives — and they used that power to make life more expensive for you.

[cherie @imherenow1]

This is the only way were going to stop Ford and his clapping seals! As @corruptario has said repeatly, "nobody's coming to save us! No police force is going to come in and do their job" This is 💯accurate
We need to band together and fix this problem ourselves. #GeneralStrike

[Stop Ecocide International @EcocideLaw]

The #DRC is taking bold action on #EcocideLaw.

The country has backed a formal #ecocide proposal at @IntlCrimCourt & is now advocating for it through a motion at #AMCEN.

Learn more 🔗 https://t.co/thA19kfvtu

#StopEcocide @Presidence_RDC @PrimatureRDC @MinEnvRDC @EVE_BAZAIBA

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

2022: "emissions must peak immediately (before 2025) to avoid 2-3°C"

2025: "emissions have not peaked"

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink.

If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait.

#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #natureneedshalf #biodiversity

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Ford's addiction to fossil fuels is taking Ontario down the wrong path.

The rest of the world's investors are moving towards low-cost renewable energy, but Ford wants to take us down a path of climate chaos by committing to a west-east pipeline.

Ontario could be a world leader in renewable energy, creating jobs and prosperity to benefit Ontario, instead Ford is committing us to climate chaos.

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we may need "universal high income" to distribute the productivity gains AI will generate.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Why A Green Roof Could Protect You Against Microplastics From The Atmosphere
Green roofs removed over 97.5 percent of deposited microplastics from the surrounding air.

https://t.co/KAqalKWLXG

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Scotland is aiming to be the world's first rewilded country. It's looking to rewild 30% of the country by 2030.

We have the solutions. Replenishing and protecting nature is one of them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

Every life form on Earth is set to become progressively poorer as our collective ecological inheritance is dismantled piece by piece and sold off to the capital markets before they too, shoot themselves in the head.
https://t.co/j08wuBnvSb

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” invests over $50 BILLION per year for vouchers that let private schools pick and choose which students to educate.

The American people do not want to privatize public education, they want to strengthen it.

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

Fenugreek and okra can remove up to 89% of microplastics from water. These everyday food plants outperformed the synthetic chemicals currently used in water treatment facilities.

It's increasingly evident that microplastics are everywhere. These tiny plastic fragments contaminate our drinking water, oceans, groundwater and even our agricultural soils and crops. They accumulate toxins and work their way up the food chain. Current removal methods rely on synthetic chemicals that create their own environmental problems.

Researchers extracted natural polymers from fenugreek seeds and okra fruits, then tested them on real water samples from wells, rivers, and the ocean. The plants' long molecular chains physically capture microplastic particles, causing them to clump together and settle out.

The results varied by water type. Fenugreek excelled at cleaning groundwater with 89% removal efficiency. A fenugreek-okra combination worked best for river water at 77%. For ocean water, okra alone achieved 80% removal. All at just 1 gram per liter of water.

What makes this significant? These plant-based flocculants are biodegradable, non-toxic, and come from renewable sources. They work within 30-60 minutes. Most importantly, they performed better than polyacrylamide, the industry standard synthetic flocculant.

The mechanism is elegantly simple. The plants' polysaccharide chains create bridges between microplastic particles. No complex chemistry, no harmful byproducts. Just the same natural polymers that make okra slimy and give fenugreek its thickening properties.

Instead of fighting plastic pollution with more synthetic chemicals, we can harness the properties of plants humans have safely consumed for thousands of years.

Nature truly is healing.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: https://t.co/ySpLXLM4cx

It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is now law.

It rips health care away from 17 MILLION people and raises grocery costs for 40 MILLION people, just to pay for tax handouts for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

Here's where we go next.

[John Bowker @bowker_john]

The “confusion” was that he clearly & explicitly asked the federal government to deny First Nations the right to clean water, and continues to do so. First Nations have rejected the insincere & disrespectful non-apology, and continue to call for his resignation #onpoli #cdnpoli

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Every HOUR, the Greenland ice sheet melts enough ice to form an ice cube the size of 13 Empire State Buildings. That water is contributing to rising seas, putting coastal cities and low-lying islands under the deadly threat of permanent flooding.

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

It's true.