Parke Wilde
@parkewilde.bsky.social
Food policy research and demand-side climate innovation.
https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/parke-wilde
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https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/parke-wilde
flyingless.org
Kim Nicholas in Sweden always has an astute balance of systems-oriented policy action and ethical personal action. See this inspiring collaboration with Project Drawdown. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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✈️ Consumer
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November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Kim Nicholas in Sweden always has an astute balance of systems-oriented policy action and ethical personal action. See this inspiring collaboration with Project Drawdown. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
Colleagues Neelakshi Hudda and John Durant at @tufts.edu find that the highest concentration of ultrafine particles (UPFs) occurred downwind of Hanscom Airfield. thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/tuft...
Tufts University Researcher Reports High Air Pollution in Hanscom-Area Towns - The Bedford Citizen
Neelakshi Hudda presented the findings at a Sept. 30 forum.
thebedfordcitizen.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Colleagues Neelakshi Hudda and John Durant at @tufts.edu find that the highest concentration of ultrafine particles (UPFs) occurred downwind of Hanscom Airfield. thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/tuft...
I support President Trump's call for the "the great patriots at the FBI to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JPMorgan Chase, and many other people and institutions." Do it with transparency and without bias or partisanship.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I support President Trump's call for the "the great patriots at the FBI to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, JPMorgan Chase, and many other people and institutions." Do it with transparency and without bias or partisanship.
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The MA House has moved to weaken established climate law. Our planet is overheating, fuel prices are soaring, and Massachusetts is already experiencing the devastating effects of climate change—we cannot afford to move backward.
Read the press release: www.clf.org/newsroom/ma-...
Read the press release: www.clf.org/newsroom/ma-...
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The MA House has moved to weaken established climate law. Our planet is overheating, fuel prices are soaring, and Massachusetts is already experiencing the devastating effects of climate change—we cannot afford to move backward.
Read the press release: www.clf.org/newsroom/ma-...
Read the press release: www.clf.org/newsroom/ma-...
If you are interested in the math underlying how the Thrifty Food Plan determines the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), this annotated figure is the hors d'oeuvres.
And the Food Policy article is the entree.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And the Food Policy article is the entree.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you are interested in the math underlying how the Thrifty Food Plan determines the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), this annotated figure is the hors d'oeuvres.
And the Food Policy article is the entree.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And the Food Policy article is the entree.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What We Lose as USDA Household Food Security Reporting Ends
A conversation with Norbert Wilson, Emily Engelhard, and Lauren Fiechtner. Nov 20.
duke.is/r/at78
A conversation with Norbert Wilson, Emily Engelhard, and Lauren Fiechtner. Nov 20.
duke.is/r/at78
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What We Lose as USDA Household Food Security Reporting Ends
A conversation with Norbert Wilson, Emily Engelhard, and Lauren Fiechtner. Nov 20.
duke.is/r/at78
A conversation with Norbert Wilson, Emily Engelhard, and Lauren Fiechtner. Nov 20.
duke.is/r/at78
In today's news, there is enormous interest in the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), the official model diet for setting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) maximum benefit. To help understand, here from Tufts is an Updated Thrifty Food Plan Calculator. sites.tufts.edu/tfpcalculator/
Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) Calculator – A spreadsheet tool for understanding a model diet's cost, nutrition characteristics, and similarity to or difference from typical current average consuption.
sites.tufts.edu
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In today's news, there is enormous interest in the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), the official model diet for setting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) maximum benefit. To help understand, here from Tufts is an Updated Thrifty Food Plan Calculator. sites.tufts.edu/tfpcalculator/
Yes, please!
It is cruel to have the only train west from New York pass through Ohio cities in the middle of the night and then bypass Detroit.
I would trade 5 billionaires, with all their fantastical tunnelling machines and rocket schemes, for one humble project of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance.
It is cruel to have the only train west from New York pass through Ohio cities in the middle of the night and then bypass Detroit.
I would trade 5 billionaires, with all their fantastical tunnelling machines and rocket schemes, for one humble project of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance.
Read our proposal for the Great Lakes Limited, a day train between Detroit and New York City via northern Ohio, NW Pennsylvania, and Upstate New York. Here is the link:
www.allaboarderie.net/_files/ugd/b...
www.allaboarderie.net/_files/ugd/b...
www.allaboarderie.net
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yes, please!
It is cruel to have the only train west from New York pass through Ohio cities in the middle of the night and then bypass Detroit.
I would trade 5 billionaires, with all their fantastical tunnelling machines and rocket schemes, for one humble project of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance.
It is cruel to have the only train west from New York pass through Ohio cities in the middle of the night and then bypass Detroit.
I would trade 5 billionaires, with all their fantastical tunnelling machines and rocket schemes, for one humble project of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance.
Washington Post editorials are now an embarrassment of pandering to Bezos, the billionaire owner.
Generalissimo? 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics?
It is like a Trump cabinet meeting, abandoning all shame or personal pride to flatter the boss.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Generalissimo? 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics?
It is like a Trump cabinet meeting, abandoning all shame or personal pride to flatter the boss.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Zohran Mamdani drops the mask
The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Washington Post editorials are now an embarrassment of pandering to Bezos, the billionaire owner.
Generalissimo? 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics?
It is like a Trump cabinet meeting, abandoning all shame or personal pride to flatter the boss.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Generalissimo? 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics?
It is like a Trump cabinet meeting, abandoning all shame or personal pride to flatter the boss.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
After election results strengthened the hand of Democrats, pundits say Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
Senator Jeanne Shaheen just threw the minority leader under the bus.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
After election results strengthened the hand of Democrats, pundits say Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
"Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical."
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical."
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
The compostable cup on a private jet taken by a friend of a friend of a friend recently.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The compostable cup on a private jet taken by a friend of a friend of a friend recently.
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Take it from an airport employee, things are not going well for our frontline staff, even the paid employees. Trains might be a better bet.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Take it from an airport employee, things are not going well for our frontline staff, even the paid employees. Trains might be a better bet.
Thinking locally and globally. The @thebedfordcitizen.bsky.social summarizes the misleading use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as an excuse for expanding private jet infrastructure, drawing on research from @chuck77.bsky.social at @ips-dc.org .
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
Groups Fight Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Hanscom Field Hangar Expansion - The Bedford Citizen
Rally took place at the State House in Boston.
thebedfordcitizen.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thinking locally and globally. The @thebedfordcitizen.bsky.social summarizes the misleading use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as an excuse for expanding private jet infrastructure, drawing on research from @chuck77.bsky.social at @ips-dc.org .
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
The climate action path for aviation involves humane planned reduction in demand over time.
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
Trump Officials to Cut Air Traffic at 40 Major Airports if Shutdown Continues
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The climate action path for aviation involves humane planned reduction in demand over time.
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
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Cutting poor people’s food assistance turns out to be bad politics. Who knew?
One caller on NJ 101.5 FM said he was a 25 year R voter, stood in the booth intending to vote for Citarelli, and couldn't. Because SNAP loss affected him. The shutdown got him screwed up, and he said he couldn't do it. Voted Sherrill.
I think this repeated in a lot of booths.
I think this repeated in a lot of booths.
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Cutting poor people’s food assistance turns out to be bad politics. Who knew?
Oh no! So wrong. Such a loss for journalism that reaches young people with courage and purpose and public-minded ambition.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Oh no! So wrong. Such a loss for journalism that reaches young people with courage and purpose and public-minded ambition.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
Right. And your "can" and "should" are upbeat claims.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.
This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Right. And your "can" and "should" are upbeat claims.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
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‼️ On SNAP, very significant here:
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
‼️ On SNAP, very significant here:
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
My colleague @willmasters.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation with Norbert Wilson at @dukewfpc.bsky.social about least cost diets in the United States and internationally, with implications for understanding SNAP in the US and world hunger. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/how...
E286: How 'least cost diet' models fuel food security policy - World Food Policy Center
Governments use something called a ‘least cost diet’ to monitor food access, inform policy discussions, and target interventions to improve food security and nutrition. So, what is the least cost diet...
wfpc.sanford.duke.edu
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My colleague @willmasters.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation with Norbert Wilson at @dukewfpc.bsky.social about least cost diets in the United States and internationally, with implications for understanding SNAP in the US and world hunger. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/how...
Annalies Winny at Global Health Now (a publication of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social) today covers the end of the federal government's food security survey, just at a time when SNAP benefits are being cut and more Americans will be going hungry. globalhealthnow.org/2025-10/us-c...
The U.S. Is Choosing to Fly Blind on Hunger
Discontinuing American hunger reports dismantles a key measure of how American households are faring.
globalhealthnow.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Annalies Winny at Global Health Now (a publication of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social) today covers the end of the federal government's food security survey, just at a time when SNAP benefits are being cut and more Americans will be going hungry. globalhealthnow.org/2025-10/us-c...
I'm an economist. I LIKE banks in general. Yet, friends with @xrboston.bsky.social and I had to visit JPMorgan Chase in Downtown Boston yesterday to ask why it leads the world in financing fossil fuels and the war machine in Israel and Gaza. Climate destruction is wrong.
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
XR Boston Risks Arrest at Chase Bank in Downtown Boston!
Activists demand that "Monster Banks" including Chase and Bank of America immediately divest from fossil fuels and genocide.
xrboston.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm an economist. I LIKE banks in general. Yet, friends with @xrboston.bsky.social and I had to visit JPMorgan Chase in Downtown Boston yesterday to ask why it leads the world in financing fossil fuels and the war machine in Israel and Gaza. Climate destruction is wrong.
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...