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Jul 23, 2020

Regenerativeresources.co We transform degraded landscapes into productive ecologies. Our systems create circular, rural economies while sequestering carbon, increasing freshwater resources, increasing biodiversity, and producing high-quality foods & other goods.

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Death in the marshes: environmental calamity hits Iraq’s unique wetlands

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Death in the marshes: environmental calamity hits Iraq’s unique wetlands | Iraq | The Guardian This was inevitable once Turkey started damming the rivers. Another manifestation of the horrors of desertification.

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Rivers and lakes that have nurtured communities since civilisation’s dawn are drying up, as drought leads to hunger, displacement and simmering conflict

Zeke Hausfather

@hausfath

Jan 25

Case in point of why the media needs to be careful when publishing sensational stories about material demand for clean energy. The

@guardian

runs a story that US vehicles require 300 million tons of lithium. Than realizes they messed up the units and corrects it to be 300k tons!

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Lauren Gifford

@LaurenGifford

Jan 25

Is defending REDD+ really the hill you want to die on in 2023?

Solarchitect | Sunbeam carpenter

Jan 24

Transitions and edges are where a lot of beauty happens

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@Solarchitects

Jan 24

Good Doors are gateways between realms.

Jan 23

Water and soil underpin every human activity. Water and soil are maintained by ecosystems, which function via biodiversity.

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Laura Michie

@LauraAMichie

Jan 23

A great graphic showing why species #extinction matters to us all Note sure who the credit goes to for this infographic

Jan 21

This is the kind of efficiency ag needs to move toward; poly cropping is more resilient, more productive, and requires fewer inputs.

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Sam Knowlton

@samdknowlton

Jan 20

A polyculture of wheat grown with walnut trees produces ~ 40% higher yields. 1 hectare of wheat/walnut mix yields the same as 1.4 hectares of each crop grown separately. This is an example of overyielding.

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Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis...

Jan 20

theguardian.com/environment/20 How disappointing for those of us actually restoring and protecting vital ecosystems.

@PachamaInc

and

@VerraStandards

could have lead the whole industry to greater credibility and trustworthiness, and instead have done the opposite.

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Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating

Jan 19

The article illustrates an industry rife with problems, but the cream will rise to the top. Unsurprisingly, adverse incentives coupled with a general unwillingness to invest in high quality removal projects has lead to a great deal of fraud.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley

@GlobalEcoGuy

Jan 18

This is something everyone working on climate change should read… We need to have a bigger debate about the use of offsets. source-material.org/vercompanies-c

Meat substitutes contain ‘antinutrients’ that inhibit absorption of iron and zinc: 'The industry...

Jan 17

foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/1 Who could have possibly predicted that bioavailability would be an issue with this industry?

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New research out of Sweden has found that while many meat substitutes are high in micronutrients like iron they are often found in a form that cannot be absorbed by the body.

Jan 16

At Abu Dhabi’s sustainability week listening to reps from AGRA, Eat Lancet, and a nitrogen fertilizer producer talk about the future of food…

What the Mangrove Alliance at COP27 could mean for Mumbai’s mangroves

MangroveActionProject

@MangroveProject

Jan 15

For every 1% increase in mangrove loss, 200 million tonnes of #carbon get released into the air and are not trapped by #mangroves

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The Mangrove Protection Coalition, formed at COP27 negotiations, could have long term impact on vast conservation efforts.

Jan 11

The Everglades are a crucial ecosystem for the health of the gulf and the Atlantic—this is encouraging.

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The Florida Standard

@theflstandard

Jan 10

EXCLUSIVE: Today, @GovRonDeSantis will sign an Executive Order on environmental conservation securing $3.5 billion for Everglades restoration and water resources over the next 4 years ($6.8 billion total in 8 years)

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Ben Abbott

@thermokarst

Jan 9

There have been some questions and critiques of our Great Salt Lake emergency briefing. I appreciate the feedback and conversations. Here are some thoughts about timelines, risks, and whether it's time to pack up and leave the state. benabbo.blogspot.com/2023/01/though

The amount of corruption in America’s food system is depressing

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Calley Means

@calleymeans

Jan 2

Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist

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Justin Mares

@jwmares

Jan 6

1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20% 2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20% Not to mention an explosion in chronic disease, cancer, ADHD, inflammation... Something has to change. And that something is our broken food system.

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Ben Abbott

@thermokarst

Jan 5

Breaking report: Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse We call on all Utahns to support

@GovCox

and the #utleg in establishing a minimum flow of 2.5 MAF/yr.

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Sam Knowlton

@samdknowlton

Jan 5

In the last 100 yrs, California's Central Valley has overdrawn the aquifer (extracted more water than has been replenished with rain or snow) by more than 122 million acre-feet, or 45 trillion gallons As much as 80% of this water goes to agriculture

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New Label Law Has Unintended Effect: Sesame in More Foods

Adam Minter

@AdamMinter

Jan 3

Food companies are adding sesame - an allergen - to foods because it's cheaper than certifying their foods as sesame-free, as required by a new law.

foodmanufacturing.com

"Companies are intentionally adding the allergen.”

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Bayt Al Fann

@BaytAlFann

Jan 3

Indigenous Architecture can change the way we live on Earth. Architects are embracing regionalism & traditional buildings, as these structures have proven to be energy efficient & sustainable. A thread on traditional & indigenous inspired architecture across the Muslim world…

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'The brink of disaster': 2023 is a critical year for the Colorado River as reservoirs sink toward...

Ian.K. NaturEconomist

@EconNature

Dec 31, 2022

"Deep uncertainty looms over the Colorado River and the 40 million people who depend on it for their water supply as the basin enters a critical year that could determine its future stability"

cnn.com

Deep uncertainty looms over the Colorado River and the 40 million people who depend on it for their water supply as the basin enters a critical year that could determine its future stability.

Jonesingforthetruth

@RiverRaccoon

Dec 31, 2022

Iowa has 4.5% of the watershed area in the Mississippi basin, contributes 29% of nitrate to the Gulf of Mexico driving the dead zone.

In Memphis, the Phonics Movement Comes to High School

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

Dec 28, 2022

This is pretty striking: after abandoning phonics-based reading instruction for years, many districts are now finding that students are so behind in reading (exacerbated by pandemic school closures) that they're deploying basic phonics even in high school:

nytimes.com

Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology.

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In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Mongabay

@mongabay

Dec 29, 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

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APYTEREWA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Deep in the Apyterewa reserve, Tye Parakanã waves a hand toward the lush rainforest flanking his village. In the distance, a faint cloud of smoke rises above...

Anthony Gustin

@dranthonygustin

Dec 29, 2022

Not to say anything of BLOCKING THE SUN, I asked a climate tech investor in this company "But what happens to all the stuff you spray in the atmosphere?" "Oh it's great, it dissipates so you have to keep spraying it up there... Repeat revenue." Yeah... "dissipates" huh?

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PeterSweden

@PeterSweden7

Dec 28, 2022

Do you think we should spray chemicals in the atmosphere to BLOCK THE SUN in order to "stop climate change"?

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REGENETARIANISM

@REGENETARIANISM

Dec 27, 2022

Tree vs Grass carbon storage

Twitter 2.0 and the revolt of the public | Fred Skulthorp | The Critic Magazine

Martin Gurri

@mgurri

Dec 27, 2022

Very interesting piece - worth reading to the end. (Am struggling with my own interpretation of the Twitter madness at the moment...)

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“Elon Musk is a far right activist,” declared Atlantic Staff Writer Charlie Worzel in a recently published article. Earlier that day, Musk’s Mein Kampf had taken the form of a five word tweet: “My…

Dec 25, 2022

This is depressing

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Akshat Rathi

@AkshatRathi

Dec 25, 2022

I know this is not the main point, but this startup pumping sulfur into the atmosphere is selling carbon offsets tied to something they know they cannot measure or verify. AND THERE ARE PEOPLE BUYING IT. technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/106

Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and...

Ramnath

@rmnth

Dec 22, 2022

Fantastic insight from

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via

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“In a polarization spiral or a culture war, the harder you hit your enemy, the stronger they get. And so you don’t win by punching them really hard.”

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Interview with Jonathan Haidt on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

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‘Stanford Hates Fun’: Students Revolt After Tree Mascot Suspension

Dec 23, 2022

“We’ll hire more administrators to fix the problem” yeah that’s what we need

@Stanford

. #FreetheTree

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The mascot unfurled a banner calling Stanford dull, drawing support from students who say campus rules stifle social life

Sam Knowlton

@samdknowlton

Dec 21, 2022

California’s almond-growing region covers over 1 million acres and is where ~80% of the world’s almonds are produced, valued at more than $10 billion. The entire industry relies on imported bees for pollination, without which there would be no almonds.

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We need facial privacy laws

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Kevin Buist

@KevinBuist

Dec 20, 2022

Extremely dark stuff. A mom was taking her daughter to Madison Square Garden and she wasn't allowed in because facial recognition identified that she worked for a law firm that's suing MSG's parent company. The mom isn't involved in the case. nbcnewyork.com/investigations

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Half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn’t put to use, research shows

Levi

@Levijameshere

Dec 21, 2022

Still on a refreshing Twitter break, but this just happened yesterday, and I need to write this out while it is fresh. My worst nightmare became real. One of our investors got hit by wire fraud when sending an equity wire to us. Here is how it went down:

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news.mongabay.com/2022/12/half-o An important article for those of us dealing w/ deforestation / reforestation

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Agriculture is gradually killing forests, and yet up to half of tropical forestland in Africa, Latin America and Asia cleared for agriculture remains idle, according to research published in the...

Dec 20, 2022

Just a reminder that alfalfa uses 2/3 of the entire river. Mesquite agroforestry could replace that system and reduce water usage by 30-50% across the whole watershed, depending on management.

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Conrad Swanson

@Conrad_Swanson

Dec 19, 2022

- You've probably heard that the Colorado River is drying and that it's a problem for 40+ million people. You're probably overwhelmed by the amount of information out there. But I've got six stories here to get you up to speed quickly.

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Dec 17, 2022

The result of leaning into political tribalism

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Paul Graham

@paulg

Dec 17, 2022

I used to think <person> was smart. Then I discovered that he disagrees with me about <political issue>, and I realized he couldn't be, because no one who disagrees with me about <political issue> could be smart.

Dec 16, 2022

You have no idea about all sorts of things if you don’t have kids yet

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Sean O'Dowd

@SeanODowd15

Dec 16, 2022

If you don't have kids yet, you have NO idea on how much free time you have Make it count while you can

Green Finance Platform

@GGKP_Finance

Dec 16, 2022

Finance flows to #NatureBasedSolutions are currently less than half of the investment needed by 2025.

@UNEP

@ELD_Initiative

@VividEconomics

present the second edition of the State of Finance for Nature report. 👉ggkp.org/ZG3

This young man staring death in the face…

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Karim Sadjadpour

@ksadjadpour

Dec 15, 2022

23-year-old Iranian protestor Majidreza Rahnavard's dying wishes--before being hanged--reflect the living wishes of so many young Iranians living under theocratic tyranny. "Don't cry, don't read the Koran, don't pray" "Be joyful. Play happy music"

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