Richard Waite

@waiterich.bsky.social

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Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Oct 21

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands

How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore

By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 2h

*Butterfly meme*

Is this sentience?

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

the text 'RUNNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED' on the lcd screen of my treadmill at the gym. The full thing was 'HOLDING THE HEARTBEAT SENSORS WHILE RUNNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED' and it was scrolling and i got it at the right time lol

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of a CD player I had 20+ years ago, which sometimes would mysteriously stop working and display “no” in the simple digital screen that normally displayed the track number

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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 4h

📋 #COP30 closed with mixed results. There was some movement on adaptation finance, climate and trade, and nature, but no agreement on fossil fuel or deforestation plans. Major gaps remain for global climate ambition.

Full analysis 👉 bit.ly/4ipD75Z

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Varun Shankar @byvarunshankar.bsky.social · 12h

Dispatch from the Wizards streak-snapping win over the Atlanta Hawks

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

CJ McCollum’s Wizards crush the Hawks to snap their 14-game skid

www.washingtonpost.com

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

This thread 😱

Rubberband Girl @rbrbndgrl.bsky.social · 1d

My aunt dropped the gravy while preparing to bring it out to the dining room and she sopped it up with paper towels and squeezed it back into the gravy boat.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Depends on how many pies

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly. I will eat all the pies. Especially for breakfast all weekend.

Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13h

Apple pie, made with a good crust and good apples, is very very good. So is cherry pie. If you don't like them, more for me.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13h

Apple pie, made with a good crust and good apples, is very very good. So is cherry pie. If you don't like them, more for me.

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Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · 13h

Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 17h

Big fan of whole cranberry sauce here. Below are some more interesting options:

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17h

hello skyline.

I like (fresh) cranberries a lot. I am however bored of Cranberry Sauce

give unto me your Interesting/Experimental Cranberry Recipes.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17h

hello skyline.

I like (fresh) cranberries a lot. I am however bored of Cranberry Sauce

give unto me your Interesting/Experimental Cranberry Recipes.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 22h

If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Better than usual 😫

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

This is about as good as it gets these days, other than when there’s aurora or World Series Game 7

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

My feed is currently 1/3 Thanksgiving merriment, 1/3 US politics angst, 1/3 environmental angst

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 1d

Red at morning, sailors take warning

This morning's red sky sunrise over the bay & shoreline.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

when you and your co-authors try to find that one (1) footnote you definitely saw the other day

painting of St Catharine confounding the learned men who are confusedly flipping through books

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Not this year

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking my contribution to the great annual cranberry sauce discourse this year is:

1. We’re almost 11/12 of the way through 2025 (but who’s counting)

2. If people enjoy whole berry sauce, fine

3. If people enjoy sliced canned sauce, fine

4. If people would rather not have any sauce, fine

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

Not that you asked, but here's a thread of intriguing (real!) food facts to amuse/bore your friends and family.

Great for gatherings when you need to change the subject!

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I’ve wondered is how climatic changes in the rainy season are showing up in the data. When I lived there (2003-05), every farmer told me the timing of the rainy season wasn’t reliable anymore. Crop failures could happen if there was a drought shortly after planting/onset of rainy season.

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Watching your 2 maps with my eye on where I lived in western Cameroon where the rule was “rainy season from March 15 to November 15” and it checks out pretty well

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 1d

I'll follow with this, EVI (vegetation greenness index) for the same months. Tracks precipitation closely south and just north of the Sahara, more related to temperature farther north in Europe. Modis data. Precip is ECMWF/ERA5/MONTHLY via Google Earth Engine. Created in Google Colab.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 1d

Monthly rainfall in northern Africa and around the Mediterranean (just rediscovered that I made this to talk about the monsoons and Mediterranean climates, lecture topic tomorrow). Yes, should add a scale, but more blue is more rain and it's the spatial and temporal patterns that matter anyway.

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Rubberband Girl @rbrbndgrl.bsky.social · 1d

My aunt dropped the gravy while preparing to bring it out to the dining room and she sopped it up with paper towels and squeezed it back into the gravy boat.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page

As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...

autisticadvocacy.org

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

And even then, the damage would have been limited had we stayed below 20 hours per month or whatever of internet per household. Here's people complaining about being rolled onto a $19.95/month unlimited AOL plan in 1996: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Jul 22

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

AND YOU'RE SURPRISED??? well, I guess I am, just a little

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