🐝Poet/Writer | ⛰Ecotherapist & Inner/Outer Wilderness Guide | 🌿 Founder Wild Nature Heart | 📚Author RE-MEMBERING: POEMS OF EARTH & SOUL
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Thanks to the good folks @sejorg for including my recent essay about #urbanfarming in today's daily headlines roundup
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While @GavinNewsom talks about leading on #COVID19 in front of the cameras, his administration is threatening public health behind the scenes by approving 24 new fracking permits.
Demand that @CAGovernor reverse these permits: bit.ly/3eGOV2C
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Have you ever considered the possibility that Jeff Bezos just works 130 billion times harder than you?
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"I hope to encourage viewers to...not fear the night but to reconnect with it, to be awed by it, to know that if we are patient, we will be able to see through the darkness.“ Photographer Bear Guerra welcomes the night in his photo essay "Dark Skies." emergencemagazine.org/story/…
Wish me luck! I just submitted to the @PalettePoetry Emerging Poet Prize! Publication & $3000 prize. Judged by Ilya Kaminsky! Details here: palettepoetry.com/current-co…
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$33.4 billion. That's how much the wealth of Jeff Bezos and six other billionaires increased last week while millions of Americans were filing for unemployment.
Our society cannot sustain itself when so few have so much, while so many have so little. forbes.com/sites/hayleycucci…
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I have never voted for a candidate in my life.
But I will be voting for Bernie Sanders in the democratic primary and the general election. If I’m doing that, there are probably tens of millions in that same position.
Let me explain why I’m doing this now:
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JUST DROPPED — Issue 07: Trees
Bear witness to wildfire, discover the memories held within the rings of a tree, experience the aromas of trees, visit the church forests of Ethiopia, and honor the difficult histories that trees hold for our communities.
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A man tried to protect a crucial forest reserve for monarch butterflies, and now he's dead.
"“If they can kidnap and kill the people who work for the reserves, who is going to defend the environment in Mexico?”
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“This population has declined by over 99 percent."
As recently as the 1980s, millions of monarch butterflies from the western U.S. fluttered to the California coast to hole up for the winter.
This season, there are only 29,000 left. (@KQEDscience)
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Marveling at worms, fungi, and the pioneering water bear, Jay Griffiths brings our attention to what dwells beneath our feet, inviting us to remember that soil is what turns the Earth’s barren rock into the riotous life we know.
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Unveiling @c40cities #DivestInvest Toolkit, @MayorofLondon & @NYCMayor Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying #FossilFuels for #TheFutureWeWant: commondreams.org/news/2020/0…
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In this instance, Impeachment is you and ya homegirls having all the evidence that ya man is cheating but to break up with him you gotta convince a jury of his frat brothers (who was there with him cheating) that your man is a cheater
“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear. Poetry.”
—Akhmatova
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“The soil is the ground for every harvest, the seedbed for every crop.” Jay Griffiths brings our attention to what dwells beneath our feet, inviting us to remember that soil is what turns the Earth’s barren rock into the riotous life we know.
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Did Trump intentionally pick #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth to center a Eurocentric narrative? Trump approved DAPL KXL pipelines thru treaty land days into office, cut Native programs, ran anti-Native ads & uses our genocide to rip on Warren.
Yah, he knew.
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“It is sacred, stolen land, and I firmly believe it is our moral obligation to return it." - Councilmember Natalie Arroyo, on the city of Eureka taking the unprecedented step of returning 200 acres of land stolen generations ago to the Wiyot Tribe.
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