And the Wall Street Journal says:
"The Great Shadow' benefits from Ms. Bauer’s keen sense for the way the bodily experience of disease so readily takes on psychological and spiritual freight..."
A must read. Blocking climate policy was the instigation for the birth of the Supreme Court shadow docket. Let’s be very clear that ‘vote for the climate candidate’ is hollow advice when 1) our courts don’t understand climate science 2) rightwing justices change procedures to prevent climate action
“With a solar-powered laptop on a fold-out desk, Wilson began drafting her demands for Dow, the largest North American chemical manufacturer and the operator of the 4,700-acre complex outside her tent, about two hours southwest of Houston.”
I didn’t know show co founded code pink. This is a great article.
Why do drinking reservoirs ban swimming but allow motor boats? (Macintosh lake in NC.)
Pointing fingers at fossil fuels helps us all
I can’t wait to get this book!!!
Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"
Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.
Wow--it stars tomorrow!
APRIL 8-15, 2026
Excited to learn about LA Climate week being held in April
laclimateweek.com which looks like a great model of local groups collaborating.
Groups Involved:
Collidescope Foundation
Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)
Various UCLA sustainability groups
There's some good news on the climate beat this week thanks to recent hires, expansions, and investments from HEATED to the LA Times to POLITICO and Drilled. legal-planet.org/2026/03/04/w...
Same deal with professional climate denier Ryan Maue: www.desmog.com/ryan-maue/
Word Up!
Geosmin: An earthy scent produced by soil microbes, especially noticeable after rain.
There are many effective solutions to climate change.
And many proposed solutions don't work or pose serious risks.
Want to know the difference? Check out the Drawdown Explorer.
drawdown.org/explorer
I remember reading about this when it was first published and this is good follow up reporting on dark money interests manipulating national policy.
My high schoolers are working right now on reaching out to local news groups to report on their light pollution outreach efforts so I feel like we’re having similar convos. Of course you have actual experts helping your students incl you.
The screening will be followed by a discussion and audience Q & A with DC Bird Alliance President María-Elena Montero and producer Cintia Cabib. Learn more at dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15837812
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The film takes viewers on a visual and aural excursion through an abandoned golf course in Rockville, Maryland, where birders discover more than 160 bird species and mount a grassroots campaign to preserve this avian oasis as a public park and critical bird habitat.
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Bird Event in DC!
Join filmmaker Cintia Cabib and the DC Bird Alliance for a free screening and discussion of “Bird Walk” on Saturday, April 18 at 2 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Auditorium.
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dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15837812
Why are people so gullible on social media? Critical thinking please! My fact based posts on light pollution WITH solutions have never seen this level of retweets or likes. What's frustrating is this is a modern problem we need to solve and posts like this make it seem eternal.
They conclude with a call for health professionals to bring
"urgent attention to this silent but deadly assault on Americans’ health, work with broad coalitions to halt it, and ultimately rebuild the agencies, protections, and shared sense of trust and responsibility ...
... across 7 domains, including:
(1) air pollution regulation;
(2) power plant and energy policy;
(3) climate change;
(4) motor vehicle regulation;
(5) water pollution regulation;
(6) occupational health and safety;
(7) other actions including science policy.
"The Dismantling of Environmental Protections — A Grave Threat to America's Health", was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In the article & the accompany detailed Appendix, scientists describe the Administration's attack on environmental protections...
What an excellent program! Be sure to include a local govt code supervisor. We had one at our event and that person can lay out the nuts and bolts about the challenges they face.
Those are stunning!
I’m so sad that the program that gives my school kids joy and direction, motivation and funding money just lost ITS funding. 😳
This will be the last year the program runs. Seems like the powers that be are determined to cut all ecology programming.
Ocean miracles
I love these shore birds
Enders Island, CT. Yesterday’s fog lifted and I found this v beautiful world.
