Claire Whitcomb

NJ: Climate Superfund Day of Action in Trenton! · Food & Water Watch **Amidst unprecedented federal attacks on funding for climate action, clean water, critical infrastructure, disaster response and more, our legislators must stand up to Trump by passing the NJ Climate...

We're going to Trenton for the Climate Superfund Rally. @billmckibben.bsky.social is speaking, @foodandwater.bsky.social is doing heroic organizing. Time to get climate bills through the legislature before the year runs out. #climateaction @thirdactorg.bsky.social

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...

This is crazy. I love history and revered National Parks. #handsoffparks #censorship #gaslighting #americanhistory

I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US Every bee is precious, and as the weather gets more erratic I’m growing concerned about the effect it is having on their wellbeing

Thrilled to see Elizabeth Hilborn, bee vet and writers group companion, in @us.theguardian.com! Honey bee news has not been good; wild bees aren't doing well either. #naturewriting #honeybees #beekeeping #authorsguild @elizabee.bsky.social

Book Club: A Nobel Prize winner offers a compassionate view of the world

The book #Meta doesn't want you to read and the story of what happened when the #WashingtonPost decided to review it. #booksky #censorship #Facebook #carelesspeople #books

Come meet @paulawhyman.bsky.social on Thurs. March 13 in Madison NJ and hear about her meadow restoration. The talk is co-sponsored by our amazing environmental bookstore: thenatureofreading.com/badnaturalist. #nativeplants #bookshop #nativeplantsociety #museumofearlytrade&crafts #greenmadisonnj

The Authors Guild Censorship Tracker: Monitoring Threats to Free Speech and Authors’ Rights

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, published in 1920 the he was 23.

#EVs circa 1910 included luxury cars marketed to women, per Wikipedia. Fitzgerald seems to concur: "Armory caught sight of his mother waiting in her electric on the graveled station drive. It was an ancient electric, one of the early types, and painted gray."

a biodiverse habitat has to be a goal, along with solar generation.

We switched to @amalgamatedbank.bsky.social, a B Corp.

Sharing the USAid video moment:
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how US Aid says they would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world

A Good Company, by Justin Nobel Searching for my publisher’s radioactive oil waste

"To be a writer is to want the world to care, and the first task is getting someone to print your words." --Justin Nobel in Harper's

"Orbital" is a stunningly look at the claustrophobia and fragility of space travel: "When they get back, how will they begin to say what happened to them, who and what they were?" Thanks to the Nature of Reading Bookshop for putting this slender, elegiac novel in my hands. #orbital #bookerprize2024

Most U.S. schoolchildren toss their lunch trays every day. Here’s a better way. A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.

Once upon a time, almost everything in school cafeterias was reusable. Now, it's news.

New Mexico Lawmakers to Decide Whether Oil and Gas Wastewater Could Be Reused on Wide Scale - Inside Climate News If new rules are approved, treated “produced water” could be used for agriculture, growing trees and manufacturing.

Congrats to @carriej.bsky.social for graduating from NYU's journalism program and placing this important story w/ @insideclimatenews.org.

From Gas to Geo It’s time to modernize our energy infrastructure to meet the needs of our future. Networked geothermal systems, run at a utility scale, can bring us all cleaner air and affordable heating and cooling–without fossil fuels.

Great to see this video by @carriej.bsky.social featured in an excellent article from @insideclimatenews.org about utility-scale geo thermal grids in Massachusetts. insideclimatenews.org/news/21122024/boston-suburb-taps-geothermal-energy/
#HEET #gastogeo #geothermal @zeynebmagavi.bsky.social

More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

This is why we need journalists.When 250,000 subscribers canceled the Washington Post, I thought they should have cancelled Amazon instead. #washingtonpost #supportjournalism #cancelamazon

Upcycled envelopes for holiday cards: my kids' old sheet music, a #Marimekko brochure, #NewYorker covers. Squirreled away and going out into the world. #upcycle #reducerecyclereuse #makingstuffhappen

Massachusetts passes bill to speed clean energy and slow gas expansion The long-awaited legislation comes as advocates say more state-level climate policy is needed. Governor Maura Healey is expected to sign it into law.

Hello Bluesky! Some good climate news: A new bill in MA makes it easier to build renewables, limits gas expansion, & allows gas utilities to use geothermal energy — instead of fossil fuels — to heat & cool homes. I wrote about it for @canarymediainc.bsky.social:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...