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Educator, Lover of the Outdoors, Owner of ETR, Creator of Nature's Window, Fly Fisherman

Allen, TX
Joined January 2016
"Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished." — Rachel Carson It is such a robust ecological community we are part of. What a joy we are caretakers and partners in this family! 💓
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Looking for a good read? Come read #EOWilson's #HalfEarth with us! half-earthproject.org/half-e… Dig into the science May 15, 2pm, with Half-Earth Scientific Chair Dr. Walter Jetz via Facebook Livestream or Zoom. Then join us for a book club event on June 10! half-earthproject.org/half-e…
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The world is ready to take the evidence-based guidelines for Nature-Based Solutions to scale. The #HalfEarth Project proudly joins 20 organizations signing a letter to the President of COP26 outlining guidelines critical to success. #TogetherWithNature half-earthproject.org/and-al…
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"‘You don’t understand,’ [Thomas Merton] said. ‘If you know the world could end at any minute, you know there’s no need to hurry. You take your time and do the best work you possibly can.’ That was important to me. I’ve repeated it many times.” orionmagazine.org/article/to…
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“Speaking from personal experience, the more I know and trust my colleagues, the better I work with them.” These strategies can help build a positive staff culture. edutopia.org/article/buildin…
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8 questions to ask before creating a makerspace 👉 bit.ly/2VzK1KN. #EducatorPD #MakerSpace
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Congratulations Greta
.@GretaThunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY ti.me/2sZRidd
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"My happy place isn't really a specific physical location, but rather an idea, or perhaps an ideal intrinsic to all those places that remain wild and untamed." -@jess.wandering Photo: @everchanginghorizon
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For a long time, the biggest categories in @YaleClimateComm's Six Americas of Global Warming were Cautious and Concerned. Today, that is no longer true.
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"XI. Our overdone appreciation of wildness and wilderness has involved a little-noticed depreciation of true domesticity, which is to say homemaking, homelife, and home economy." From Wendell Berry's "Wild and Domestic." Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/y7slrlmt
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“Even if you flip the chart upside-down it’s still going up!!” Thank you @ronnychieng for giving voice to what every climate scientist is thinking but is too polite to say.
Trump doesn’t understand climate change and @ronnychieng is sick of explaining this s**t. on.cc.com/2Wy9BRk
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Did you know wetlands an important landscape that helps to filter water, protect against storms, protect native flora and fauna, and more? #WorldWetlandsDay #KeepWetlands
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Good questioning may be the most basic tenet of lifelong learning and independent thinking that school offers students @Kschwart @RightQuestion owl.li/ZN1Z30nxaio #edchat #curiosity #inquiryed #motivation
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Western monarch numbers are plummeting. Conservationists say we may be running out of time to save them. #monarchs #butterflies earthisland.org/journal/inde…
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A garden is a peaceful, patient place where many things can grow — perhaps, most of all, our hearts.
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