Join me tomorrow (Wed, April 1st) at 2pm & 7pm Eastern for some songs from my home to yours, streaming from Facebook & Instagram. Thank you @SofaBurnRecords for setting it up. And thank you all for tuning in !
people are trashing this but I think a complete failure of municipal power followed by everybody just making do with little rent-to-own gadgets made with chinese slave labor is a pretty apt metaphor
The poorest 50% of the world - those hit hardest by #ClimateBreakdown - are responsible for 10% of carbon emissions
The richest 10% are responsible for 50%
This is about consumption and lifestyle
We need #climatejustice now
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"The stereotype of rural people as inferior and separate has also allowed Americans to take the effects of climate change in this area less seriously, to let the devastation slip by unnoticed," writes @silasdhouse. https://t.co/do496QpxT4
Just so we're clear here, a team of economists at THE WORLD'S LARGEST FUNDER OF FOSSIL FUELS is warning that "we cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened."
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Sometimes emptiness
becomes a vision. You wake
suddenly at night
and it almost glows
like an annunciation,
an angel’s visit
to a vast cosmos
impossible to compass
yet perfectly real,
where things might be born.
The Appalachian Trail, which is hiked by more than a million people each year, is at the center of a Supreme Court case involving a proposed gas pipeline. Environmental groups are challenging the legality of a permit that would allow the pipeline.
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These haunting medium format slides with images of an unknown woman walking into the sea were found in a Virginia thrift store by photographer Meagan Abell in 2015.
"If there is going to be a new green economy in Appalachia, this is how it will happen: one relationship at a time — between people, between people and land.” @GabrielPopkin https://t.co/nyjpQdmPvY
We called a county gov't today to tell them we're going to file an Open Records Act request.
County official, after a pause: "I doubt we have that information."
Us: "What information?"
County official, after a pause: "Whatever information you're wanting." ^JC
Tuesday evening I photographed these two beautiful, ancient saguaros wrapped in a century-old embrace.
Wednesday morning I returned to find them gone. Flattened. Plowed to bits.
These saguaros were likely older than the border itself.
We have no right to do such things.
Have you considered the fact that Bernie is angry because he is representing working people who are rationing their insulin and Pete is polite because he is representing the CEO of a dog-walking app
If you have health insurance, I'm asking you to fight for those who don't.
If you're native-born, I'm asking you to fight for the undocumented.
If you can afford an education, I'm asking you to fight for those who can't.
The only way we defeat Trump is with human solidarity.
hey pete i paid $18k last year for health care. with full insurance coverage. from BCBS michigan who you worked for. anyway if my taxes go up by $1,000 and my health care costs go down by $18k is that good? just wondering
Global insect biomass is falling at exactly the same rate that global GDP is growing. Turns out GDP is an accidental indicator of how quickly we are unraveling the web of life. Perhaps we should replace GDP with insect biomass as our primary indicator of progress.
"Perhaps there are just too many photos now, too many bloody troughs of suffering in too many God-forsaken places, to focus for long on any one tragedy," writes @MargaretRenkl https://t.co/gAhsJ6tUgR
A heartfelt congrats to @bensollee & @danielmmoore's Dear Companion, which turns 10 years old this week! One of our absolute favorites.
Listen at https://t.co/sQbRbgpvhb
Before it became bound up in class and manners, ‘kind’, related to ‘kin’, meant our innate character and the natural order of life. It’s in us to be kind.