CM 🏳️‍🌈 Lori Droste: "The most dramatic way that we can have an impact on climate change is by building infill housing. We need to build housing near job centers and transit." She says things wildfires and sea-level rise are emergencies that must be addressed with infill. #berkmtg

I hope this “highly anomalous” cyclone aiming an “atmospheric river” of rain at California doesn’t disrupt our KQED panel on climate change and California cities tomorrow...

January was the hottest month ever recorded in Australia—like nothing seen before... smh.com.au/environment/we…

It’s the red cloth in the middle left that absolutely makes this picture. It’s the kind of beautiful, random, telling detail that so often gets left out of manufactured portrayals of cities...

Absolutely haunting. Incarcerated individuals at a federal detention center in Brooklyn are pounding on their windows trying to get people's attention while they're suffering in the cold. We need answers. x.com/CoreyinNYC/sta…

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right: housing & climate crises are our gravest dangers. A #GreenNewDeal can tackle them together w a real housing guarantee: 10 million public, no-carbon homes in 10 years US history & Red Vienna show how Can't fight climate chaos w-out a home jacobinmag.com/2019/02/green-…

Outrageous. We need to literally rebuild the world. The best design work belongs to humanity’s future. Institutions that cede this work to private clients will wither away

Brazil's new environment minister gave a shocking interview last night on TV where he rubbished legendary environmental activist Chico Mendes and said he was planning his first Amazon trip. theguardian.com/world/2019/feb…

The Amazon is in major, major trouble, and that is extremely bad news for everyone on the planet:

Based on what I've been hearing from forest ecologists during recent field work on restoration finance, we need a massive ramp up in landscape-scale interventions - which would also improve carbon storage in the long run

This is great. And while cutting methane emissions from oil & gas operations is *crucial*, I find it odd to describe that as one of the "most ambitious policies around the world". Why not phase out production entirely, as New Zealand & others doing? brad plumer Energy Innovation Policy & Technology

Absolute must read from Naomi Klein parsing the principles,policies, and—most important—the concrete coalitional politics of the Green New Deal fight

"In the 21st century, environmental policy is economic policy. Keeping the two separate isn’t a feat of intellectual discipline. It’s an anachronism." @JedediahSPurdy nails it in the The New York Times nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opi…

Just realized, I wrote something at once v different and similar 1.5 years ago, when the Green New Deal phrase felt like a minimalist and defensive climate program. Now GND talk is about going all in. & it's popular as hell. What a great time to be alive jacobinmag.com/2017/08/the-la…

Research by University of Wageningen in the Netherlands proves that #FSC certifications produce positive environmental impacts, especially on fauna species richness ow.ly/40k830nFld6

I played some classical music to crows perched in trees. They seemed to enjoy it.

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U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter bit.ly/2NNA8Vs via EcoWatch

OFFGRID FOODWAYS with Camp Pup youtu.be/lm2_bftqBkc

An estimated 1.7 million people in Hong Kong – a quarter of the population – defied police orders to stage a peaceful march after a rally in a downtown park. theguardian.com/world/2019/aug…