E Melanie DuPuis (@emelaniedupuis) 's Twitter Profile
E Melanie DuPuis

@emelaniedupuis

Professor of Environmental Studies and Science Dept at Pace University. Exploring sustainable imaginaries and practical policies: urban, rural, and beyond.

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linkhttps://www.pace.edu/profile/e-melanie-dupuis?dyson calendar_today22-01-2012 19:20:12

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Tom Philpott (@tomphilpott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dicamba, an herbicide widely used on genetically modified corn and soybeans, so routinely and reliably drifts off target that it’s literally killing forests throughout the U.S. Midwest. Thoughts, Biden ⁦U.S. EPA⁩? stltoday.com/trees-in-distr…

E Melanie DuPuis (@emelaniedupuis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking forward to @aghvs_org next week. We presented this paper at last year's conference and published it in AFHV journal last week. #altfood, #localfoodsystem

Silvia Secchi (@profsecchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For context, the largest facility size tracked by the ag census is over 100,000 🐔. There are 33 of them in Iowa per the 2022 census, and their average size is 1.8 million chickens, so this is a really big operation. By itself, it is 1.2% of all US laying hens.

Achinthi Vithanage (@profachinthiv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

💭In rural areas that once thrived on milk production, such as upstate NY, abandoned small farms are now overgrown with trees, E Melanie DuPuis observed. “Are we going to end up with fewer farms and more trees because of this latest problem? I can imagine so,” she said.

Pete Sikora (@petesikora1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The climate crisis is accelerating. 😱 Meanwhile, in deep blue New York, Governor Kathy Hochul and Carl E. Heastie NY Assembly Majority block the policies needed to slash pollution, create jobs and save working people money.

E Melanie DuPuis (@emelaniedupuis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Was hearing a story yesterday about a person who flew from DC to Boston, had lunch in the airport, and flew back, just to maintain her high status in a miles program. Meanwhile, other people avoid flying even to see their grown children.

Darryl Young (@darrylwyoung) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great piece on embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power by Dustin Mulvaney Now do one for embodied AI injustice, Nuclear, Fusion, EVs and every other techno-climate solution that we need. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great piece on embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power by <a href="/DustinMulvaney/">Dustin Mulvaney</a>   Now do one for embodied AI injustice, Nuclear, Fusion, EVs and every other techno-climate solution that we need. 
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Kian Goh (@kiangoh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2.25 mile elevated train / $3.34 billion / 6.5 years construction. We need a public procurement revolution. latimes.com/california/sto…

Keston K. Perry (@radical_carib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The roots of today’s ecological crisis lie in racial slavery and colonialism, which established exploitative practices of both people and the environment...” This is what I'm asking in the book: “...We’re still here, so what happens after the disaster?” atmos.earth/for-black-arch…