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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲
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#ClimateInfluence and #media w/ a #cities focus (incl. bikes #transportation #housing |I host #podcasts, moderate, speak + creatively collaborate | https://linktr.ee/AndreaLearned | LivingChange podcast | 💓 #Seattle + #KEXP music #JoyAsAnActOfResistance
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Dropped some good insight for folks wanting to share their climate values more authentically even in their work lives (please, do this!) - AND how that connects with being a better, likely #podcast guest, in this conversation with @russ.amodernremedy.com andrealearned.substack.com/p/the-planet...
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Tatiana Schlossberg, a young environmental journalist and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, is dying of cancer. She wrote about her treatment, her children, the importance of government-funded medical research and her cousin RFK Jr. It's tough, but try to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Cooking with gas.

Well-oiled machine.

Burning the midnight oil.

Step on the gas.

Too many everyday expressions reek of fossil fuels. Help me come up with cleaner alternatives, please! I'm taking suggestions at Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/watch-your...
Watch your f-ing language
Too many expressions reek of fossil fuels. Let's stop "cooking with gas" and come up with cleaner alternatives.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Influencer has become a dirty word, but really it’s just someone with a platform & credibility who can inspire others to act. And we need more climate influencers! People who can make climate action cool & aspirational.
Check out @andrealearned.bsky.social on this topic: youtu.be/sBjBdK1Cml4?...
Why the Planet Needs You to Become a Better Influencer, with Andrea Learned
YouTube video by A Modern Remedy
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November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Another great starter pack—highly recommended.

It’s worth noting that more of us need to work on multiple important issues simultaneously. Making a city more walkable isn’t just placemaking; it also improves mental health, combats loneliness epidemic, reduces crime, AND helps tackle #climatechange.
ICYMI, this STARTER PACK is my team-up with celebrated climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com, and it’s full of people & organizations that specifically embrace the overlap between better cities and climate action! Please follow them, and help spread the pack around! #ClimateAction #UrbanistShoutOut
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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NEW // How Mayor-elect Katie Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking 🏃‍♀️🚶‍♂️👩‍🦽🚴‍♀️🚌

Op-ed by @sngreenways.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/23/h...
How Mayor-elect Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking » The Urbanist
# Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson’s transportation platform is bold and visionary, and she will need ongoing community support to achieve it. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways shares some ideas on how s...
www.theurbanist.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I love this! Great perspective and suggestions from @sngreenways.bsky.social . I am psyched to watch as each new #lesscar step Mayor Wilson could choose to take will have exponential #ClimateInfluence and create new levels of Seattle neighborhood joy. Let’s GO!
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Reminder: You’ll see people in nice cars at food assistance events. That doesn’t mean they’re doing fine. Jobs can disappear fast. Hours get cut. Families get stuck with large bills.

That’s why better transit and real support matter. And it’s why food assistance and mutual aid are so important.
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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5 Easy, Vegan and Low Stress Thanksgiving recipes (including mains and side dishes)!! 🧡 All prepped in 15 mins or less with NO special kitchen tools required!

Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVa...

#thanksgiving #plantbased #veganrecipe
November 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There's some useful (if not surprising) insight in this point that could be better leveraged:

"The president seems impressed by how adept Mamdani is with dealing with reporters." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'm clearly a #lesscar , more #ebike person, but this #lowtech @slateauto.bsky.social (very reasonably priced) small truck/SUV has my interest. I put my $50 down and would love to find a neighbor to share such a vehicle with. And/or it's just nice to support a manual window roll-up, no radio car.
Sleek from frunk to trunk.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We need an article /resource like this in every city! Might make a good topic for @seattlemet.com.web.brid.gy or @citycastseattle.bsky.social . Even after T-giving, where are the best places to find #vegan / #plantbased options? Too few restaurants here even have a single such entree.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album
Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album
The good news is that an album has just been released by Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn of Gorillaz, The Clash, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer, Pet Shop Boys, Jamiroquai, and Yusuf (previously known as...
www.openculture.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Peter Sellers chases Goldie Hawn with a boom mike on the lot of England's Shepperton Studios during production of the 1970 comedy There's a Girl in My Soup

Happy #BicycleBirthday Goldie Hawn!
Born November 21, 1945
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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If this having taken so long feels crazy to you, just wait until you learn about how US automotive crash test safety standards have never had to include safety considerations for those outside of a vehicle.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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“In my work with cities, one of my messages that resonates most is that the truth about the cities aspirations isn’t found in its plans and visions. It’s found in its budget.

A budget may be the most powerful public policy lever a Council has, and the most authentic one because It reveals so much.”
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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THIRTY YEARS since this process started, the COP still can’t agree about whether to phase out fossil fuels…

Almost all of them are men, which is not unconnected I suspect
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Yes. Deeply resonates.

Look forward to the new book from @anya1anya.bsky.social #EpsteinFiles #MeToo
I want you to understand that the women around you are not okay. They are experiencing low-level ongoing stress and, for many, trauma triggers every day that Epstein is in the news. thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/what-epste...
What Epstein Reveals About Women's Inner Lives
The initiation no one wants, and what could replace it
thegoldenhour.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Must read!!! The roots of my joy in music and understanding of the power of college and community radio come via #KEXP DJs who love UP the whole collective often. Thank you for amplifying the beauty of no-robot music selection, @nathandeuel.bsky.social #MusicMatters
I love college radio and I wrote about my favorite station for The New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Overton Window for the #vegan #plantbased win!

« Under this scenario, due to changing behaviors and cultural influences, ideas that are originally considered to be radical or even unthinkable can progress to becoming acceptable, then sensible and eventually popular enough that they become policy »
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This affirms my theory about the potential for more intentional #leadership social norm-shifting strategies, what I call #ClimateInfluence . Hearing the most aspirational figure in whatever your community/ biz sector say that they’ve changed eating or transportation habits due to climate values wins
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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You gotta pay more for houses with walkability because we don't build nearly enough of them...

Walkability shouldn't be a "perk"

It should be the default
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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@npquarterly.bsky.social this morning, we published an article on the strike being led by @sbworkersunited.org. Workers are seeking a first contract. In 2024, Starbuck's CEO took home $95.8 million, more than 6,000 times the median worker wage. Read more at:
nonprofitquarterly.org/from-buffalo...
From Buffalo to the Red Cup Rebellion: Why Starbucks Workers Are on Strike | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
A four-year worker campaign to get union contracts at over 550 Starbucks stores heats up, as workers walk out of 65 stores with the message that they want a first contract now.
nonprofitquarterly.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Yes, @sentientmedia.org ! As someone who has been #vegan now for 8 years, I know that once you start even veering #plantbased ... you will just keep eating fewer and fewer meals that have dairy, meat/poultry or eggs. Eating plantbased is self-perpetuating.

Also - #ClimateInfluence
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!

For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM