Agreed!

Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine (Bloomberg) -- US health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Most Read fro...

OH, HOLY HELL
This administration may cut funding for an updated Avian Flu vaccine.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...

I hope it was worth it for Sen. Cassidy.

Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate Earth’s plants and soils reached peak carbon dioxide sequestration in 2008 but proportion absorbed has been declining since, study finds

"Our planet is losing its appetite for mopping up carbon dioxide. (...) Earth’s plants and soils reached peak CO2 sequestration in 2008 and absorption has been declining ever since. Passing this tipping point increases the chances of runaway climate breakdown."
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Oh, I love this!

"The Appalachian Rekindling Project... wants to rewild the site with bison and native flora and fauna, open it to intertribal gatherings, and, it hopes, stop the prison. The environmental justice organization worked with a coalition of local nonprofits" to purchase the land.

Trump Admin Orders Deletion of Information About Climate Change From Government Websites Recent moves within the federal government have scrubbed all mention of climate change on critical agency websites.

Sure, Trump can delete any mention of climate change across all government websites, but the thing is that climate change doesn't really care if you believe in it or not

Brace Yourself Collapse Is Coming What you do in the next 4 years will save you

Brace Yourself Collapse Is Coming. Here's how to survive - create and maintain a community of local, like-minded souls you can rely on. weathered.pub/brace-yourse...

The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.

Have you seen this? Trans friends and married women who have taken their husband's name, pay special attention to this.

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Rebecca and Steve, bundled up and smiling inside their new greenhouse.

It's greenhouse erection day! We're preparing for seed starting on Imbolc. It's so warm in here! 🥰

Trump signed a withdraw from the Paris agreement

- Reports suggest that all government agency websites may soon be stripped of content related to climate change.

Update 2:
Here is a list of the revoked orders and actions:
1. Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
2. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The Blessing of Snow How snow prepares us for spring, even as climate change challenges our gardens

Please read my latest article on my new Substack publication called, Hotter Planet Gardening! This one dives into all the good things snow does for our gardens.

Happy snow day!

How to engage rural Americans in the clean energy transition | Trellis Developers and officials need to counter the abundance of misinformation about wind and solar farms on social media, in national media outlets and from local leaders.

"The more specific clean energy supporters can be in connecting the benefits to local issues that people care about — preserving families’ farms, protecting water quality, investing in local infrastructure — the better."

Great insight from the Rural Climate Partnership.

Screenshot of text from article linked in originating post reading: "Other persuasive messages tested with focus groups that could be effective for communicating with rural audiences include: Benefits that protect family farms Renewable energy gives family farmers a valuable new income source, which means more family farmers can stay on their farms instead of selling to big developers or corporate landowners. Increased diversification and reliability of energy New solar and wind farms will help make sure the power stays on if other energy sources fail. When Texas and North Carolina had massive storms in recent years, many gas plants failed but solar/wind provided a consistent lifeline” that kept working. Financial benefits to the local community Renewable energy means real benefits for local communities. New revenue means modernizing schools, better roads and lower property taxes for local residents. After participants were exposed to these messages, researchers saw double-digit shifts in rural residents’ perceptions about the benefits of clean energy."

It is critically important to bring rural folks *into* the energy transition conversation by understanding their concerns. As essay notes, 83% of clean energy projects are on agricultural lands. That creates opportunity to build trust w/rural communities and counter misinformation + disinformation.

California Wildfire Relief for Pets & Wildlife: A Resource Guide Watching wildfires devastate Southern California, many of us are at home wondering how we can help.

There are so many animal victims of the California wildfires. 😰 Here's a list of resources to help the survivors and the humans caring for them.

open.substack.com/pub/barkacad...

As a climate fiction author myself, I'm excited to read this book. My series (unpublished) is called The Great Collapse. While Nick's book is called The Great Transition. I just listened to the Kindle sample and now I'm going to use one of my credits to get the whole book.

Karma.

This is awful. These (Meta decision makers) are awful people.

Absolutely. The changes have been occurring for quite a while now. Finally, they're getting bad enough more people are waking to the fact we're already in a climate polycrisis. A bunch of consequences are already baked into the system, but it's not too late to stem the worst of what's still to come.

Thanks! Yes, I'm doing well. Out of town doing my side gig for a couple days. It's fun because I get to act in scenario based training to help social workers stay safe in the field.

Yes, mitigation and adaptation would be far more effective than thoughts and prayers.

Alright, I need to break my FB addiction and start coming here. Enough is enough!

So how are you? What's been happening in your day?

Editing for Readability: How to Make Your AI Content Accessible Learn how readability metrics and tools like Hemingway can make your AI-generated content more effective and audience-friendly.

🖋️ Writing for clarity is a superpower. If you're using AI to generate content, don't forget to edit for readability!
Learn how to revise your words to reach and resonate with your ideal audience in my latest article: youraicopyeditor.substack.com/p/editing-for-readabilit...

The Art of Humanizing AI Content Master the skill of editing AI drafts into authentic, human-optimized content that connects

I've just launched my first Substack newsletter on how to edit & humanize AI content: Your AI Copyeditor. I blend my enthusiasm for genAI with my passion for emotional intelligence, storytelling, and relationships, plus my expertise as an editor. Please check out my first post!

This is why I'm expanding my garden for 2025. I usually only grow strawberries, blueberries, and figs, but that's usually enough for me and the other diabetic in this house. But the tariffs are going to hit vegetable produce hard, too, and THAT is the bulk of what I grow.

Metal garden bed from the side, next to a cattle panel trellis

Metal garden bed from the short end

Metal garden bed from one corner, angle shot

Expanding our garden in anticipation of higher grocery store prices due to coming deportations of farm workers. To avoid paying more for imported materials after the new administration imposes higher tariffs, we bought 4 new garden beds sooner than we'd planned.

Here's the first one, an 8x2.