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Emily Cassidy
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Science writer and researcher, focused on our home planet 🌏 Washington, DC area. Currently @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, previously NASA, World Resources Institute. Opinions my own.

https://emilyscassidy.github.io/
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And Project Drawdown ran a "Deep Dive" on food loss & waste for investors, philanthropists, and business leaders.

It points to numerous opportunities to scale these crucial climate solutions.

drawdown.org/programs/dra...
Reducing Food Waste
Learn practical tips and strategies for reducing food waste, saving money, and contributing to a more sustainable environment for future generations.
drawdown.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow.
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Heartbreaking essay on Tatiana Schlossberg's terminal cancer diagnosis. During Schlossberg's treatment, she learns one of her chemo drugs, cytarabine, owes its existence to an ocean animal: a sponge that lives in the Caribbean Sea.
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 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Shifting away from fossil fuels & fossil-based materials, to biofuels & biomaterials, means reducing one important source of GHG emissions (fossil fuels) but potentially increasing another (land-use change, driven by increased land demand). It’s essential to account for both sides of this equation.
The chemical industry is a huge source of GHG emissions. Decarbonizing the industry will be hard, but as a UNFCCC technology expert said here, there's no way we can avoid it. COP30 reflected that, with what seemed to be more spotlight on chemicals than past summits. cen.acs.org/environment/...
At COP30, chemical companies push biobased climate solutions
But environmentalists are raising concerns about the ecosystem, food security, and other impacts from the fossil fuel alternative
cen.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Why are forests and farming in Southeast Asia so critical to climate change? If you’re ready to act strategically on climate, read our latest report: “A Drawdown Roadmap for Food, Agriculture, and Land Use in SE Asia”
@jamesgerber.bsky.social @enviroem.bsky.social
Overview 🔗: https://bit.ly/4hXOdir
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
One result from the recent @projectdrawdown.bsky.social report on climate solutions in SE Asia: Protecting 20% of the most carbon-rich peatlands in Sumatra & Borneo can reduce emissions by 390 million tons CO₂‑eq/yr, roughly equivalent to annual emissions of the UK. drawdown.org/insights/why...
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Extra points for the butcher's MacBeth handwashing gestures:
'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red.'
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I need a Project Drawdown mug.
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Why are forests and farming in Southeast Asia so critical to climate change? If you’re ready to act strategically on climate, read our latest report: “A Drawdown Roadmap for Food, Agriculture, and Land Use in SE Asia”
@jamesgerber.bsky.social @enviroem.bsky.social
Overview 🔗: https://bit.ly/4hXOdir
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Why are forests and farming in Southeast Asia so critical to climate change? If you’re ready to act strategically on climate, read our latest report: “A Drawdown Roadmap for Food, Agriculture, and Land Use in SE Asia”
@jamesgerber.bsky.social @enviroem.bsky.social
Overview 🔗: https://bit.ly/4hXOdir
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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National climate plans focus too much on “unrealistic” tree-planting schemes and too little on protecting existing forests, experts warn.
Climate Plans Focus on Planting Trees Over Protecting Forests, Experts Warn
e360.yale.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Not trying to nit-pick but you would think if you wanted to convince people the full record of something is released, you would go for sequential file numbers, no? 🤔 drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Democrats have spent the last nine months wringing their hands about how now one cares about climate or energy policy, blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES were key to Democrats winning in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia. Maybe, uh, people do care?
www.axios.com/2025/11/05/n...
How Spanberger, Sherrill will address high electricity costs after winning elections
Electricity prices played a big role in both New Jersey and Virginia.
www.axios.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Goddard is such an inspiring place, where scientists conduct critical Earth and space science. I worked there for five years and am so sad to see it being dismantled.
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Job alert!! Project Drawdown is hiring for 3 roles:

🌐 Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships (deadline: Nov 7)
🔬 Research Fellow (deadline: Nov 2)
💹 Senior Analyst, Climate Philanthropy & Investing (deadline: Nov 19)

🔗 View the position descriptions here: drawdown.org/careers
#ClimateJobs
https://drawdown.org/caree…
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM