Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

#GardensHour
We have had very good luck attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds with salvias, lavenders, agastache, and hollyhocks.
#PollinatorGardens

"Don’t be pissed at vegans for talking about animal slaughter. Be pissed at those who have brainwashed you so much that you feel the need to argue against those who don’t take part in unnecessary animal slaughter."
Seb Alex
#veganism #vegan #endanimalag #animalrights

Lyla June Johnston, PhD candidate in Indigenous Food Systems discusses the fragilities in the modern industrial food system and reflects on the reciprocal nature of the gift of food from an Indigenous perspective, food landscapes, and the local food movement. The future is Indigenous

#FoodSecurity #IndigenousPodcast #IndigenousKnowledge #decolonisation #LandBack #ClimateAction

https://quillwoodpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1857673/10868788-qp14-indigenous-food-ways-with-lyla-june-johnston

#Sunsets

Sackville, NB is the first in North America to be accredited as a United Nations Ramsar City Wetland Site . . .

The project “encourages cities to highlight + strengthen their positive relationship with #wetlands as valuable #ecosystems that provide multiple benefits to its citizens,” - Jay Aldous, Dep Secretary-General, Convention on Wetlands. It gives cities international recognition and publicity — and possibly a boost in tourism — for protecting their wetlands.

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/sackville-n-b-scores-prestigious-un-wetland-accreditation-in-a-canadian-first/

Hope your new year is filled with birds and bugs and flowers and weird ocean stuff

It wasn’t an accident. Cities and suburbs that prioritized cars over people, and designed exercise and activity out of daily life, were deliberately planned and built.

The better cities that are the solution will need to be deliberately planned and built too.

#HealthyCities #urbanism #cities #design #cars #transportation #PublicHealth #obesity

Here's some New Years perspective to start your 2023.

Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, & Martin Luther King, Jr. were all born in 1929. Yet while we were just with Ms. Walters days ago, those two icons are portrayed as ancient history.

But the ideals they fought for weren't in some distant past—they're a contemporary reality we must continue to fight for today. We control that narrative. Let’s keep fighting for that justice in 2023 & beyond.

Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

@girls_can I gave it a try. My predictive text said, "My new years resolution is to the left side with a camper top of my house in a bit of sensationalism on my phone doesn't get service down to meet up at my place for the next few weeks"

Sounds great. Camping, no phone, sensational!

Like most people who have to engage with the #climatecrisis every day, I am sometimes overwhelmed by grief, despair or dread. As I often say, the best antidote to these feelings is action! But I couldn't really be more active & I'm still affected regularly.
In 2019 I did a thing which really helped, which was to try to practice gratitude in relation to the climate crisis every day, by thanking others who are helping in some way. I am going to try to do this again in 2023. https://twitter.com/crisortunity/status/1080235464509018112?s=20&t=PRSNHHidw1JqMBmuoSzztQ

Presenting the Champlain Ice Scarf: #climate #knitting. The white rows are years when Lake Champlain (#vermont) froze over. The blue rows are years when it did not. Data are from 1800 through 2021. Guess which end is 1820.

Do I know this person? The car and license plate screams “geologist”.

Folks, we are hiring six (!) postdocs as part of our NSF funded collaborative community engaged STEM research. 70k plus research funding to partner with Indigenous communities.

Review of applications will begin Feb. 1, 2023 and close no later than June 1, 2023.
Positions to begin on or before Aug. 15, 2023. All successful applicants will be funded to attend an orientation session in Summer 2023.

Position Details: MSU Job number 835465. https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/513394/research-associatefixed-term

READ: “25 Simple Resolutions You Can Make To Improve Your City!” My article in #FastCompany, one of my favourite that I’ve written. Your #NewYearsResolutions don’t have to just be personal… they can and should be CIVIC! What #Resolutions will you make TONIGHT to help make YOUR city better for everyone? Please share & fuel an important discussion. #HappyNewYear2023 #NewYear #NYE #cities #urbanism

https://www.fastcompany.com/90287193/25-simple-resolutions-you-can-make-to-improve-your-city-in-2019

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
And may the new year suck much less
Than the last three years combined

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow