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• The Tennessee Valley Authority Produced a Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks. Top Researchers Call it ‘Dishonest.’  | tldr the TVA is telling its customers coal ash is as harmless as garden soil 🤢

  And I saw this on the same day I saw this article about conspiracy theories around the increasing number and range of ticks - because ticks are getting more common and more widespread because of climate change, but if you’re a loyal conservative, and you believe climate change is a hoax because all the people you trust are telling you it’s a hoax, there must be some evil conspiracy spreading those ticks, right? And I’m thinking about how the fucking capitalists (because the TVA is a federally...

• don't be afraid of impossible dreams. a tree will never reach the sun but it grows towards it anyway

  don't be afraid of impossible dreams. a tree will never reach the sun but it grows towards it anyway

• The standard for change isn’t “is my doing this going to change the world?” The standard is “is my doing this part of the shift I want to see my community make?” And if the answer is yes, I do my best

  I love that analogy. No, you’re not going to personally save the world by reducing your carbon footprint. But you know what you are going to be? One leaf on a tree in a forest, making that little bit more oxygen that helps collectively make the world a better place. And that’s worth doing. Especially if you can encourage other people to be leaves too.

• Thank you, Comrade Trump | The Strait of Epstein crisis is going to do more to accelerate permanent, unidirectional migration away from fossil fuels to cleantech than decades of environmental activism

• you can rage against injustice tomorrow. put your hands in garden dirt today

• The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working? | tldr: no

  Sltldr: “They’re just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die.” The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn’t sustainable without continued big government funding. Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.

• Tools for growing the commons | a diverse set of tools—economic and financial, legal and governance, social and cultural—that help communities build resilient systems designed to last and thrive