Claire Whitcomb
greenishpastures.bsky.social
Claire Whitcomb
@greenishpastures.bsky.social
Writer, editor, environmental advocate. #AuthorsGuild, clairewhitcomb.com, friendsofthedrewforest.com
We're going to Trenton for the Climate Superfund Rally. @billmckibben.bsky.social is speaking, @foodandwater.bsky.social is doing heroic organizing. Time to get climate bills through the legislature before the year runs out. #climateaction @thirdactorg.bsky.social
NJ: Climate Superfund Day of Action in Trenton! · Food & Water Watch
**Amidst unprecedented federal attacks on funding for climate action, clean water, critical infrastructure, disaster response and more, our legislators must stand up to Trump by passing the NJ Climate...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thrilled to see Elizabeth Hilborn, bee vet and writers group companion, in @us.theguardian.com! Honey bee news has not been good; wild bees aren't doing well either. #naturewriting #honeybees #beekeeping #authorsguild @elizabee.bsky.social
I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US
Every bee is precious, and as the weather gets more erratic I’m growing concerned about the effect it is having on their wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The book #Meta doesn't want you to read and the story of what happened when the #WashingtonPost decided to review it. #booksky #censorship #Facebook #carelesspeople #books
Book Club: A Nobel Prize winner offers a compassionate view of the world
s2.washingtonpost.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Come meet @paulawhyman.bsky.social on Thurs. March 13 in Madison NJ and hear about her meadow restoration. The talk is co-sponsored by our amazing environmental bookstore: thenatureofreading.com/badnaturalist. #nativeplants #bookshop #nativeplantsociety #museumofearlytrade&crafts #greenmadisonnj
March 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by Claire Whitcomb
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March 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#EVs circa 1910 included luxury cars marketed to women, per Wikipedia. Fitzgerald seems to concur: "Armory caught sight of his mother waiting in her electric on the graveled station drive. It was an ancient electric, one of the early types, and painted gray."
February 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We switched to @amalgamatedbank.bsky.social, a B Corp.
February 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sharing the USAid video moment:
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how US Aid says they would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"To be a writer is to want the world to care, and the first task is getting someone to print your words." --Justin Nobel in Harper's
A Good Company, by Justin Nobel
Searching for my publisher’s radioactive oil waste
harpers.org
February 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Orbital" is a stunningly look at the claustrophobia and fragility of space travel: "When they get back, how will they begin to say what happened to them, who and what they were?" Thanks to the Nature of Reading Bookshop for putting this slender, elegiac novel in my hands. #orbital #bookerprize2024
January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Once upon a time, almost everything in school cafeterias was reusable. Now, it's news.
Most U.S. schoolchildren toss their lunch trays every day. Here’s a better way.
A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Congrats to @carriej.bsky.social for graduating from NYU's journalism program and placing this important story w/ @insideclimatenews.org.
New Mexico Lawmakers to Decide Whether Oil and Gas Wastewater Could Be Reused on Wide Scale - Inside Climate News
If new rules are approved, treated “produced water” could be used for agriculture, growing trees and manufacturing.
insideclimatenews.org
January 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is why we need journalists.When 250,000 subscribers canceled the Washington Post, I thought they should have cancelled Amazon instead. #washingtonpost #supportjournalism #cancelamazon
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Upcycled envelopes for holiday cards: my kids' old sheet music, a #Marimekko brochure, #NewYorker covers. Squirreled away and going out into the world. #upcycle #reducerecyclereuse #makingstuffhappen
December 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Hello Bluesky! Some good climate news: A new bill in MA makes it easier to build renewables, limits gas expansion, & allows gas utilities to use geothermal energy — instead of fossil fuels — to heat & cool homes. I wrote about it for @canarymediainc.bsky.social:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...
Massachusetts passes bill to speed clean energy and slow gas expansion
The long-awaited legislation comes as advocates say more state-level climate policy is needed. Governor Maura Healey is expected to sign it into law.
www.canarymedia.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM