Grey Gowder @Grey_Gowder

🇬🇧 UK lawyer Paul Powlesland cleaned 200 bags of waste from a polluted river. Fish and dragonflies have returned. Now he faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit. This is modern Britain: punishing people who actually clean up the environment while the bureaucracy strangles common sense. Absolutely insane. Source: @Coinvo / Writer: Oliver x.com/Coinvo/status/…

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@MoundLore I think I know that spot. Is it the old fort on Otter Island?

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/cli…

NYC and every city across the US needs urban bio swales as well. These work in concert with your sewage system by diverting a portion of rainwater into the ground, recharging the aquifer, absorbing carbon, supporting pollinators, and making the city beautiful. More please

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

a month ago

New Yorkers shouldn’t have to worry every time it rains. Ahead of this weekend’s storms, City workers have been out across all five boroughs clearing and inspecting catch basins in flood-prone neighborhoods. Today I joined @NYCWater in Bushwick to clear a catch basin overflowing

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CNN also reports that this settlement also forces the IRS to end any active audits into Trump, his family, and his businesses Not only does it further protect POTUS from accountability, but he's expanding this shield to Don Jr. and Eric and Ivanka and Jared and their interests

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

2 months ago

BREAKING: It's official. The Trump DOJ just confirmed the creation of a $1.776 billion slush fund that can be used to pay Trump allies who claim they've been wrongfully targeted by the Biden admin's ‘weaponization' — including, reportedly, Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

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President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

The bones of hundreds of mid-sized cities in the USA are already there, but we need a nationwide plan to build rail between them, invest in their sustainable future, and liberalize zoning so that millions of families can once again afford to live in their urban cores.

We Are Youngstown @WeAreYoungstown

2 months ago

Downtown Youngstown was looking beautiful this afternoon!

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What Zohran Mamdani is doing is NOT EVEN SOCIALISM. You know what he's doing? He's showing what can be accomplished when the WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES.

All civilisations collapse for basically the same reason: they could have responded to reality but they didn't. Our civilisation is no different as we face the consequences of runaway climate collapse: we can but we won't. “New Orleans is in a terminal condition, and we need to be clear with the patient that it is terminal,” he said. “There is an opportunity for palliative care, we can transition people and the economy. We can get ahead of this.” But, he added, “no politician wants to first give this terminal diagnosis. They will speak about it behind closed doors, but never in public.” theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

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In an effort to enhance the prestige of vocational training, the Danish government is building 3 new Håndværkskollegiet (craft colleges). This one, in Herning, opened last year. It hosts up to 85 people at once, & specialises in masonry, carpentry, plumbing & metal. Stunning!

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My contribution to the solar/farm discourse is that solar panels capture about 100x as much usable energy from the sun as corn grown for ethanol, if you include the energy cost of growing corn. Ethanol corn is 40% of all US corn and is literally just there to capture energy from the sun. We have a way of doing that much more efficiently now!

Trump's Arc de Triomphe would lionize Gen. Robert E. Lee's mansion and obscure the Lincoln Memorial. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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@aufcXylph Fuck ICE

If a million of us each planted one native flower this spring, we'd feed pollinators across hundreds of species, like bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, beetles, and hoverflies. A single milkweed produces up to 300 flowers over a summer and attracts more than 100 insect species. A single mountain mint plant supports over 40 species of native bees. A patch of goldenrod feeds 126 species of butterflies and moths. The numbers stack up fast when you consider an individual plant gets hundreds to thousands of pollinator visits across its bloom period. A million plants would produce hundreds of millions of pollinator visits across a single growing season. Bees feeding their young. Caterpillars completing their life cycles. Migrating monarchs refueling. Hummingbirds fattening up for the trip south. The pollinator collapse we keep reading about is real. It's also reversible, and the reversal doesn't require everyone to be an expert gardener or rip up their lawn. It requires enough yards to have one native flower in them. Plant one this spring. Native milkweed, mountain mint, bee balm, coneflower, goldenrod, aster, sunflower. Whichever fits where you live and what you have room for. Then leave the seed heads up through winter so the birds can pick at them and the next generation of pollinators can overwinter in the stems. The math of habitat doesn't require everyone. It needs enough of us. One plant per yard, multiplied by a million.

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Welp. That’s fucking insane.

Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl

2 months ago

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just bulldozed a 1,000-year-old archaeological site in Arizona. The 200-ft intaglio—an enormous ground carving painstakingly etched into the desert floor over generations—was ripped apart for wall construction. DHS knew exactly

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The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine.

A solar farm in Minnesota planted native wildflowers between its panel rows. Five years later, total insect populations tripled. Native bees increased 20-fold. Not only did insect populations boom, soybean fields next to the solar arrays got twice as many bee visits as fields farther away. Two of the things we usually think of as competing turned out to reinforce each other. One study, published in Environmental Research Letters in late 2024, tracked two utility-scale solar sites built on retired farmland in southern Minnesota, where the developer seeded native prairie species between rows of panels in 2018. By 2022, the sites looked less like industrial energy infrastructure and more like remnant prairie. Goldenrod soldier beetles colonized the goldenrod stands. Bumblebees nested in the soil. Monarch butterflies passed through during migration. The wildflower diversity grew sevenfold; insect diversity grew eightfold. This matters because, like it or not, utility-scale solar is going to take up real space. The US is on track to cover roughly six million acres in panels by 2050. The default approach is turfgrass, gravel, or herbicide-maintained bare ground, which is ecologically dead. The Argonne study shows the alternative isn't more expensive or harder to maintain. It's just a different seed mix.

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Most people have no idea that the U.S. is currently pulling off the largest "plumbing" project in human history right in the Florida Everglades. For nearly a century, we basically tried to kill the Everglades by draining them to build houses and farms. We turned a massive wet swamp into a dry, rotting mess. That dry soil didn't just sit there—it started "bleeding" carbon back into the atmosphere like a massive, invisible leak. Now, there is a massive federal and state mission to literally reverse the flow of water and re-flood the land. They are calling it "Restoration," but it’s really a massive environmental "U-turn." And it’s working. New data shows that putting the water back is doing more for the air than almost any "green" tech we’ve invented: • The Squeeze: The re-flooded land is now sucking 14 million tons of CO2 out of the sky every year. • The Math: That’s like erasing the exhaust of 3 million cars annually. • The Powerhouse: The coastal mangroves are the real MVPs, trapping that carbon in the mud and locking it away for good. We spent billions breaking the planet's natural filter. Now we're spending billions to turn it back on—and the results are staggering. We’ve known how to move water for a century—so why did it take a climate crisis to use it like this?