"While the main goal of the food hub is to help hunger-relief organizations store food and coordinate their efforts, it has become clear that the food hub could help Black and Brown farmers grow their businesses as well."
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ADHD bookhoarder 
writing about culture, climate justice, and the solidarity economy 
obsessed with the #JustTransition 
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Call for sources:
Advocacy & Solutions Journalists, have you ever had an editor reject a pitch with "conflict of interest" concerns because you were involved in your community through organizing/activism?
I'd love to talk to you. My DMs are open.
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In the final piece of our Cities + Solutions series, writer chronicles the origins and efforts of the community oversight board guiding Seattle’s Green New Deal.
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How Activists Are Trying to Change the Way Banking Gets Done
A public bank is on the agenda in New York. By for .
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Thank the LORD.
Bolsonaro got OUSTED.
Brazil has a leftist president again.
The Amazon has a fucking Chance!!
Done fast enough, with a decentralized approach that allows for large scale change, this has a chance of keeping us below catastrophic warming levels.
The hardest part of this approach, though, is getting people who are overworked and communities who are underfunded involved
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My personal recommendation is getting involved in comprehensive planning for a just transition, and then implement them
That means building community solar cooperatives, expanding urban agriculture, creating EV car shares in places without public transit, and similar efforts
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For me what was missing from the sunflower-soup incident was a call to action afterwards.
For those now awakened, what should they do?
One popular action is voter mobilization. But we need more than that
Ppl need ways to be involved every day transforming their communities
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Think you can do better than throwing soup onto a painting? Please do.
Seriously, I am begging you.
We need the movement to be huge. PLEASE help build a movement and design actions according to your vision.
I hope they will be tremendously successful.
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In the region near St Louis, the Mississippi river is lower than it's been in decades.
Friendly reminder that less than 3 months ago, on July 26th, St Louis also saw more single-day rain than ever before in the history of the city
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Volunteering on a farm in Seattle taught me that urban gardens provide more than food. They foster healthy communities and teach us to love, respect, and uplift each other so we might bring lasting change.
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White environmentalists need to STOP pushing the narrative that everyone is equally responsible for the climate crisis.
Don't blame colonized people for this shit.
We're in this mess because colonialism, imperialism and capitalism never stop expanding and consuming. That's it.
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Who would've guessed that at 27, my bedtime leisure read would be Aristotle's Poetics.
I'm not sure what that says about me. But there it is.
Here's the thing:
There's a thousand reasons to be terrified about the climate crisis. It doesn't take any effort to strike fear into people's hearts.
What's harder is finding and sharing the reasons to hold onto hope. And while it takes more effort, it's far more rewarding
This whole thing is a trip.
Especially because solar farms can be paired with agriculture quite well for growing shade-tolerant crops
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So we don't want solar farms cluttering our fields, but we're definitely cool with bijoux shale gas sites potentially contaminating the water supply, have I got this right?
Restoring ecosystems is essential to climate action and often include things reintroducing the animals that we often view as antagonistic to human society: wolves, bears, big cats, roving herds of bison and elephants.
To heal nature, we need to reimagine our relationships to it
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Bringing back just 20 large mammals — bison, wild horses, jaguars, and others — to areas where they were lost could help restore nature and fight climate change worldwide.
Rewilding, scientists say, “should become a global imperative in the decade ahead.”
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We need to celebrate the wins we get but keep pushing for bigger action because these politicians continue to make concessions and double-dealings that we can't afford right now
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Also, even with all this great news about the Senate's climate deal, don't forget that the Biden Administration is still considering authorizing a MASSIVE oil drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic
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Also, even with all this great news about the Senate's climate deal, don't forget that the Biden Administration is still considering authorizing a MASSIVE oil drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic
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Stoked about this climate deal that just got agreed to, but for fuck's sake, we need to *stop* fossil fuel expansion, not *mandate* new leases for oil drilling...
Just came across this doozy in the same article: "we explore the relationship between 'redlining' ... with present-day summertime land surface temperature anomalies."
Like...I speak Academese but damn that sentence is gnarly.
Can someone please teach academics how to write.
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In an article about redlining and heat in Black communities I came across this:
"Lacking ... are insights into ... the role of historical housing policies in cauterizing current exposure to climate inequities..."
I don't think cauterize was the word they wanted...
What word do you think they wanted to use? 🤔
This was the second sentence, and I'm having a hard time reading more bc I'm stuck trying to figure out what word they wanted to use.
Codifying?
(the article is by academics so I don't expect quality writing but still)
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In an article about redlining and heat in Black communities I came across this:
"Lacking ... are insights into ... the role of historical housing policies in cauterizing current exposure to climate inequities..."
I don't think cauterize was the word they wanted...
In an article about redlining and heat in Black communities I came across this:
"Lacking ... are insights into ... the role of historical housing policies in cauterizing current exposure to climate inequities..."
I don't think cauterize was the word they wanted...
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I just finished Otessa Moshfegh's "Death in Her Hands."
It's going to take me at least 72 hours and two-and-a-half therapy appointments to recover.
10/10, would recommend.
Nothing quite like having a broken phone screen but still being able to get texts.
Your phone's just sitting there. Buzzing. And you have no idea who it is or what they want. 🙃
I guess I'll find out on Thursday when I get the parts I need to repair my phone...Stay Tuned.
Let's GO!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Give me that Clean Energy BABY 😍😍😍
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#Solar is now "cheapest electricity in history", confirms #IEA
“For projects with low-cost financing that tap high-quality resources, solar PV is now the cheapest source of #electricity in history”
#EnergyTransition
@mzjacobson @ChristianOnRE @BrianVad
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Made the mistake of sleeping with my window open last night. My allergies have been kicking my ass all day.
I want to die.
"with everything I aim achieve, it’s time to shed the weight – like Rock Lee against Gaara –, so I can reach my full potential."
"I share my status as a high achiever (forgive the pun) not as some weird flex, but to lay my struggles bare, so I can be free from the hidden shame of substance abuse."
"before the People can change America, or the world, the People must change themselves: I must change myself, and you must change yourself, as must the rest of us. Such is the way of the world."
a changing of the guard does nothing to change what’s guarded.
The reality is, until you and I demand change from ourselves, we cannot expect the world around us to change. If society changes before we do, it will only be superficial.
What can you do to *Be* the change?
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But I know that to accomplish what I want to going forward, I can’t continue to be weighed down in this way.
That’s why I’m committing to this major change in my life.
This is how I aim to Be the change.
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Despite being high all the time, I still graduated with honors, earned awards, and scooped up scholarships.
I was the definition of a high achiever -- 🥁
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For 7 years and 7 months, I’ve been addicted to weed.
I’ve smoked day and night and walked through life in a drug-filled haze.
And I’ve resisted quitting because I was a functional stoner.
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That’s why, a week ago, I made the commitment to change myself in the biggest way I’ve been resisting.
I’m quitting weed and going sober.
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I’ve been running from change.
Because change is hard. It’s uncomfortable.
But it’s the only way we can grow.
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“To change America, we must cease to react, respond, and even feel as Americans.” -Julius Lester
Until we change ourselves, nothing around us can change. Some of us know this. Some of us don’t.
But even those of us who know this, resist changing ourselves
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When we’re told Gandhi’s saying “be the change you wish to see in the world,” we often feel that this is some feel-good saying meant to respond to remind us of our agency.
It’s not. It’s a demand.
You must *Be* the change🧵
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