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Posts by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien, PhD

So crazy, it just might work!

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Poster about the event on March 28th at 3pm PT.

Poster about the event on March 28th at 3pm PT.

Hey all! You're invited! Join @lesliedavenport.bsky.social, @kevinjamesobrien.bsky.social and I for a free on-line workshop on climate anxiety and resilience. March 28th, 3pm PT. After your local #NoKings rally, come join the conversation! Register with QR code in the poster, or luma.com/7xe4ftjp

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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

So quoting the Bible gets you banned by the FCC now. Check out @jamestalarico.bsky.social's interview on Stephen Colbert... only available on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

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Perhaps our job right now is simply to tell the truth, again, and again, and again.

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An EPA proposal would make it harder for tribes to protect their water - High Country News The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can their enforce treaty rights.

“Tribes have an obligation to care for the rivers and waterways that have sustained their communities since before the existence of the United States." life."

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Want to See Courageous Pluralism? Look to Minnesota Even as civil liberties are threatened in Minneapolis, American values are also vibrantly alive. Americans are showing us – America will be.

Connections, relationships, and real understanding are the antidote to xenophobia.
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A great piece, on a film the religious studies nerd in me is so excited to see. (Now to convince my husband that a film about religious ecstasy and celibacy is going to make the best date night ever.)

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How clean energy can (em)POWER the Northwest’s future | Climate Solutions Electricity demand is on the rise. And it's clear that the best way to have a reliable, affordable electricity system is to speed up deployment of clean energy, transmission infratructure, and grid mo...

A great piece on local solutions to a global challenge. Climate resilience starts with distributed, local resilience. www.climatesolutions.org/article/2026...

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Ella Baron on the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis – cartoon The 37-year-old nurse was shot dead by federal agents on Saturday

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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Roses are red 🌹
We need to scale solar 😎

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Beauty in What's Broken Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and Lessons for Justice Amidst the Fragments

To build a mosaic is to recreate the future, Terry Tempest Williams tells us, based on what we have learned from the past. To gather up the brittle shards left by the blunt force of trauma, and create something new.
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Thanks for the share!

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Defending Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon - Inside Climate News As deforestation and climate change threaten some of Peru’s least-known pollinators, scientists join forces with Indigenous Asháninka communities to protect the insects and their new legal rights.

Pause your doom scrolling and celebrate: Indigenous Peruvians have secured legal rights for their native honey bee: rights to healthy populations in their natural habitat, to habitat restoration, and the right to be defended when their rights are violated. This!
insideclimatenews.org/news/2210202...

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On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket Ewes and lambs coaxed out of store in Burgsinn after about 20 minutes, leaving trail of destruction in drinks section

Nice, warm and full of food www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Just possibly it's the oil? A solar panel is the new peace sign

"It’s going to be hard to figure out how to fight wars over sunshine." @billmckibben.bsky.social gets it right again. Solar panels are the new peace symbols.
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The conservation ledger: What we lost and what we gained in 2025 2025 was a year shaped by both loss and persistence, marked by species formally declared extinct, hundreds of organisms newly described, and uneven conservation outcomes across forests, reefs, and the...

On New Year’s Day, take a moment to be present with those relatives we lost, those relatives we found, and those relatives that we’re learning how to better care for. This is worth a deep mindful breath, of grief and gratitude.

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They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

Appreciating this take by @billmckibben.bsky.social in The Guardian today.
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‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures

Climate change is a global problem. But the solutions are local. When national leaders fail us, local leaders are stepping up.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Tonga Could Soon Become the First Country to Recognize Whale Rights | Atmos Ahead of Tonga’s election, whale and ocean advocates are preparing a bill to grant legal personhood to the island kingdom’s first ancestors.

Care about climate? Support Native self-determination. Indigenous sovereignty includes the right to protect their relatives.
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Love this!

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MSVU unveils new mural to celebrate Mi’kmaq community - Halifax Examiner The mural is a collaborative effort by four artists and will be permanently displayed in Mount Saint Vincent University's library.

MSVU unveils new mural to celebrate Mi’kmaq community

Story by @mmughees.bsky.social who took really fantastic photos!

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/indigenous-n...

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When Protest is a Ceremony, It Changes the World Let's Make Some Magic

After a buoyantly rebellious weekend, it feels right to re-share this article about the power of protest. If you missed it the first time, here's another chance to check it out.
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"A Dagger in the Heart of the Climate Change Religion" What MAGA leaders have right, and wrong, about the climate movement

What's with all this "climate religion" talk? I break it down in my latest post. What MAGA gets right, and wrong, about the climate movement. open.substack.com/pub/suzannec...

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🇦🇫 Thousands of Afghan allies who stood beside U.S. forces are still waiting for the safety they were promised.
🤝 The Enduring Welcome Act (HR 4995) would protect and continue this vital resettlement work.

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Rooted in Care, Growing in Community: CCL's 2025 Inclusion Conference Dedicated to strengthening communities, cultivating connections, and grounding our movements in care to grow resilience and rise together.

Want to get involved in the fight against climate change? @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social's 2025 (on-line) Inclusion Conference starts tomorrow! CCL works across the aisle to get local, regional and national climate-friendly legislation moving forward. www.eventbrite.com/e/rooted-in-...

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Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc...

They shut it down, but it's back on line! The Fifth National Climate Assessment is up at nca5.climate.us That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! While the administration mothballed climate.gov, a volunteer staff is determined to make sure we still have access to the best science. Please support their work.

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Five days out! As we roar towards Sun Day, the official documentary debuts this morning!

Sun day is just five days out! Time to get busy for renewable energy. Check out this great post from @billmckibben.bsky.social about upcoming events and opportunities.
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Climate.us: independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics | Multiplier (Powered by Donorbox) The truth about climate is being erased. Act now to save it.In June 2025, under pressure from political appointees, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid C...

Trump shut down NOAA's site for climate communication, climate.gov. Now, former staffers are building back, with independent, nonpartisan climate.us. But they need funding to get their work up and running. Check it out. No donation is too small. donorbox.org/climate-us-p...

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California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-megawatt pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

“Why disturb land that has sacred value when we could just put the solar panels over a canal and generate more efficient power?”
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