Grid of ten labelled spring wildflowers with photos and names (e.g., snowdrop, daffodil, bluebell, primrose).

Spring flower spotter!

The Transition Accelerator and Clean Prosperity just released “A Canadian Advantage,” showing how Canada can outcompete the U.S. for low-carbon investments by leveraging our stability and commitment to clean energy.

🔗 Read the full report for key insights: https://ow.ly/bttl50YuMGG

La construction du réseau électrique qui alimentera l’économie future du Canada sera un projet collectif, et coordonner ces actions ne sera pas une mince affaire.

GuideRéseau simplifie la planification en définissant des voies d’action stratégique claires et crédibles.

guidereseau.ca

Exporting the Future Economy: A Canadian Trade Diversification Strategy Investing in clean energy supply chains is a trade diversification strategy: one that also advances climate action, increases our geopolitical resilience, and secures economic prosperity.

Canada needs a trade diversification strategy that builds on our strengths and positions us to compete in the future economy. By investing in clean energy supply chains, we can diversify trade while advancing climate action, increasing geopolitical resilience, and securing economic prosperity.

We've long said that climate policy is industrial policy. Our President Moe Kabbara and VP, Future Economy @bentleyallan.bsky.social dig into what that means and how it's reflected in Budget 2025's shift in Canada's approach to climate policy.

Read it here: transitionaccelerator.ca/blog/budget-...

Right on!

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters. We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

We’ll need to do more than "touch grass" to revive them.

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#Climate #Language #Words #Dictionary #Environment #Culture #Librarians

Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first | CBC News How would you like to lower your electricity bill and help power your home using an abundant renewable energy source — the sun? There is an affordable, do-it-yourself solution for people who own house...

@canrea.bsky.social's Phil McKay recently spoke to CBC News about the growing interest in plug-in balcony solar panels. These affordable plug-and-play units are exploding in popularity in Europe, but murky regulations are hindering uptake in Canada. 🏡 Read the full article here: ow.ly/rtOv50WQxgp

Happy International Owl Awareness Day! #internationalowlawarenessday #owl

King: see, this sort of thing always happens when people vacation in the woods
Barker: couldn't be me
Barker: if the isolation of the woods started to make me lose my grip on reality, i would simply leave the woods
Griffin: oh you would, would you, smart guy?

Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:

Pollinator planting for the win! #Monarchbutterflies #Milkweed

Arriving in Ottawa for meetings on climate change with smoke from wildfires hanging in the air caused by climate change @climateinstitute.bsky.social

AP editor: You get a photo of Chris Martin for the Astronomer CEO story?
AP photog: Sure did boss, real lens flare that makes him look like Jafar getting sucked back into the lamp at the end of Aladdin just like you asked.
AP editor: what

Happy solstice everyone, and may you know that the tilt of the Earth and not the distance from the Sun is the reason for the seasons.

Yikes

So much fabric!

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

I'm A United States Governor, and I Don't Understand Why Canadians Have Stopped Visiting Us YouTube video by Clare Blackwood

I'm A United States Governor, and I Don't Understand Why Canadians Have Stopped Visiting Us

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbA...

This is shocking and horrifying

the pulitzer prize implies the existence of the pushitzer prize

Sorry, but if you call my password weak I'm not going to tell you where the traffic lights are

forgive me

they were better

than mine

Pear tree blossoms about to pop

Here comes the rhu.

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.

Canada's own Neil Young.
Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
#handsoff #elbowsup

More than $200K raised for Quebec-Vermont library following U.S. decision to restrict cross-border access www.montrealgazette.com/news/article852811.html

A photo of the massive lower trunk and buttressing roots of the huge Birnam sycamore being admired by two men who look tiny in comparison. A leafy green woodland backdrop. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

The Birnam Sycamore, Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with humans for scale.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This magnificent ‘Scots plane’, as sycamore was called historically here, is just along from the more famous Birnam Oak, on the bank of the River Tay at Birnam. My best guess at the sycamore’s age is 17th century planting.