What kind of world do you want to live in?
Check out the latest podchat with Laura Griffith-Cochrane on your favourite podcasting platform, all available in my bio, to learn more about these awesome creatures and places just under the waves!
#podcast #marine #education #nature #funfacts
Thanks to Ross Reid
@nerdyaboutnature.bsky.social
for including my 2015 book about Forest Ecology, British Columbia's colonial history, and the Resonance of First Nation's Culture from past to present, in such good company. Check out these books and read.
www.nerdyaboutnature.com/books
The Fix Our Forest Act aims to totally f**k our forests.
Take action: oregonwild.org/safeguard-ou...
Blows my mind the type of silly compassionless things people find to complain about on the internet these days 🙄
Mmm I mean, anything in ‘nature’ is bound to be wiggly in some capacity when we try to define things, especially when you’re close to it, but regardless things have been relatively stable for about 10k years which has served humanity very nicely!
Plant Diversity in Japan is pretty dang incredible! But how did it come to be?
A mix of glaciation, geothermal activity, and lots of time!
#science #edu #evolution #nature
Funny to see the BC forestry industry so terrified of the US tariffs hurting business, when they could’ve just embraced the Paradigm Shift introduced by the NDP 4+ years ago and actually been more insulated and resilient to these global shifts…but instead chose to chase short term profits. Classic 😂
Absolutely incredible ideas in this one, one of my faves 🙌
Endless growth on a finite planet is probably the stupidest idea anyone has ever had 🙄
Why can’t people / companies just stay in their lane, stay small, and give back when they are successful instead of trying ti take over the whole dang world?!
Support local, wherever you are🤙
Drove by a McDonalds earlier and got a craving for a McFlurry and fries…but then remembered that the closest the US has ever come to a class consciousness uprising was spoiled by a McDonalds employee who ratted on Luigi, ironically, for the reward money that they weren’t even paid.
I kept driving.
Can we please stop getting hung up on everyone’s shortcomings and just start doing better already…?
Do you ever notice how much our societies have normalized complaining about others for their shortcomings as a way of avoiding or taking responsibility for our own?
#japan #hypocrisy #trash #plastic #cars #whalehunt #oldgrowthforest #logging #dobetter
The Curious Case of how the Pacific Wax Myrtle came to be where it is today…just in case you needed another reminder that us humans are active parts of these ecosystems, not apart from them 🙌
#education #nature #funfacts #thinkdifferently #pnw
Maybe one of the coolest trees I've ever come across 😍
#nature #education #funfacts #inspiration
A deep dive thought experiment into a sensitive subject in the hopes that we can all grow and push ourselves to do better.
Read the whole thing by subscribing to my substack today!
This follows up my last post nicely - renewables may be the future of energy, but O&G is just going to pivot and find a way to take advantage of our plastics addiction.
Is it too bad of a pun to say that they’ve got plastics on their mind…? Cuz it’s literally in all of our brains 😳
Despite the oil-loving rhetoric from trump and the conservatives, the future is renewable. It’s already here in many ways!
Habitat formation for megafauna in the Coast Redwoods is pretty wild, and theres so much of it! Unfortunately, there's not much demand...because we've killed most of the megafauna 🫤
#forest #ecology #howstuffworks #bears #redwoods #america
More carbon stored in complex forests = good
Carbon released from clear cutting forests = bad
It's simple!
Trying to get in the habit of writing more in preparation for a bigger project I’m eyeing up this year; check out the substack to stay in the loop!
Coast Redwoods have two distinct types of leaves - one optimized for gathering sunlight, and one optimized for collecting moisture...but why?
#redwoods #science #education #nature #evolution
Let’s take a look at how ecological forest restoration can help create healthier lands and communities! 🙌🌲
#forest #restoration #ecology #nature #science #logging #education
From this point forward I will only ever refer to ‘Teslas’ as Naziwagons or Nazitrucks.
We need to boycott billionaires, especially the racist ones.
The urge to jump on and respond with 'hot takes' to the past 4 days of enviro and social regulation loss has been overwhelming...instead, I've been trying to take time to stay grounded, think through the visceral emotional reactions to the madness, and move forward constructively. Stay focused🙌
Found some invasive English Ivy in a local Coastal Oldgrowth Forest, so Pintxo & I took it upon ourselves to cut it out to keep the lands we live on healthier for longer!
If the world was in flames, and there was a group of hundreds of people scrambling to grab buckets of water to try and put out the fire, but there was one person standing by, kicking cigarette butts and gasoline into the fire, would you grab a can of gas or bucket of water?
#climate #usa #unfollow
Really kinda feels like the world’s falling apart these days huh? 😳
