Melanie Winter
@wuddaworld.bsky.social
autodidact, generalist, synthesist, rabble-rouser, naiad, cassandra. work with nature. smash the patriarchy. founder/director @RiverProjectLA born @ 313ppm
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We've got a new episode of Water Talk on flood risk and insurance with Kathleen Schaefer, an expert on the National Flood Insurance Policy and what she calls feminist floodplains www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Ep 73: Reimagining Flood Risk and Insurance — Water Talk
A conversation with Dr. Kathleen Schaefer about flood risk and new approaches for community-based flood insurance. Released October 10, 2025.
www.watertalkpodcast.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We've got a new episode of Water Talk on flood risk and insurance with Kathleen Schaefer, an expert on the National Flood Insurance Policy and what she calls feminist floodplains www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
This looks amazing!
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🚨 #NYC! From Sept 1–30, join the Climate Experience & City-Wide Scavenger Hunt 🌊
We’re readying, repairing, and reimagining our waterways—one mission at a time.
Here’s how to join 👇
#WaterwaysNYC #ClimateAction #Queens #Brooklyn #Manhatten #Bronx #StatenIsland
🚨 #NYC! From Sept 1–30, join the Climate Experience & City-Wide Scavenger Hunt 🌊
We’re readying, repairing, and reimagining our waterways—one mission at a time.
Here’s how to join 👇
#WaterwaysNYC #ClimateAction #Queens #Brooklyn #Manhatten #Bronx #StatenIsland
September 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This looks amazing!
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Developers ignored warnings from Southern California tribes about how the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers jumped paths. Floods ensued. Here UC Santa Barbara geographers use satellite imagery to discern how rivers channelize. Or don't. #cawater #rivers #watersheds news.ucsb.edu/2025/021948/...
Flood planning could shift with new river discovery
Scientists uncover why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, solving a longstanding quandary in the science of rivers.
news.ucsb.edu
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Developers ignored warnings from Southern California tribes about how the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers jumped paths. Floods ensued. Here UC Santa Barbara geographers use satellite imagery to discern how rivers channelize. Or don't. #cawater #rivers #watersheds news.ucsb.edu/2025/021948/...
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“To truly cool the city down, depaving LA needs to be just as much of a priority as shading LA. We need more of the space that's devoted to steering and storing cars to be busted up for bioswales and pollinator corridors.”
Absolutely. For now, this a fantastic and much-needed project.
Absolutely. For now, this a fantastic and much-needed project.
Trees are essential, but LA streets need cooling now. A new initiative, ShadeLA, is launching today — racing to fill shade gaps ahead of looming megaevents with a neighborhood legacy mindset
Made in the shade
"We're trying to change the way that we as Angelenos think about our neighborhoods, so that we actually look around and say, where can there be more shade — in the same way that many of us have though...
www.torched.la
July 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“To truly cool the city down, depaving LA needs to be just as much of a priority as shading LA. We need more of the space that's devoted to steering and storing cars to be busted up for bioswales and pollinator corridors.”
Absolutely. For now, this a fantastic and much-needed project.
Absolutely. For now, this a fantastic and much-needed project.
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The city of LA should be doing this with vacant box stores in every neighborhood to try to claw its way out of its abysmal 90th out of 100 U.S. cities park ranking
The 2.3-acre site is located at 1000 S. Central Ave.
Shuttered Joann's store in Glendale to become public park
The site of a shuttered Joann’s Fabric and Crafts Store is slated to be transformed into a park, reports the Glendale News-Press.
la.urbanize.city
July 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The city of LA should be doing this with vacant box stores in every neighborhood to try to claw its way out of its abysmal 90th out of 100 U.S. cities park ranking
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We need to make more space for the grief and the disorientation, I think.
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We need to make more space for the grief and the disorientation, I think.
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Chinese automaker BYD debuts an EV that charges up to 250 miles of range in *5 minutes*, nearly eliminating the time difference in filling up a gas vehicle.
You can't get it in the US, though. We keep Chinese cars out so that our dinosaur automakers can keep selling bloated combustion trucks.
You can't get it in the US, though. We keep Chinese cars out so that our dinosaur automakers can keep selling bloated combustion trucks.
BYD’s 5-Minute EV Charging: Why Doesn’t America Have It Yet?
We explain the barriers to ultra-fast EV charging in the U.S., from batteries to charging plugs and beyond.
insideevs.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Chinese automaker BYD debuts an EV that charges up to 250 miles of range in *5 minutes*, nearly eliminating the time difference in filling up a gas vehicle.
You can't get it in the US, though. We keep Chinese cars out so that our dinosaur automakers can keep selling bloated combustion trucks.
You can't get it in the US, though. We keep Chinese cars out so that our dinosaur automakers can keep selling bloated combustion trucks.
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Diversity, complexity, love, friendship, art, creativity, nuance will persist because that is how the life force moves. Don't take it from me. Just look around with a long, wide view.
February 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Diversity, complexity, love, friendship, art, creativity, nuance will persist because that is how the life force moves. Don't take it from me. Just look around with a long, wide view.
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There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it.
Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.
Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.
January 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it.
Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.
Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.
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"The major environmental, social & economic crises facing the world today are inextricably interlinked, & tackling them together has many benefits. Focusing on 1 issue alone can make the other crises worse." Someone ought to write a book about this. www.newscientist.com...
Unified approach could improve nature, climate and health all at once
The biodiversity, climate, health, water and food crises need to be addressed together rather than regarded as separate issues, urges a major report
www.newscientist.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
"The major environmental, social & economic crises facing the world today are inextricably interlinked, & tackling them together has many benefits. Focusing on 1 issue alone can make the other crises worse." Someone ought to write a book about this. www.newscientist.com...
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The longer we talk about prices rising/falling to reflect risk as a problem of consumer costs — rather than part of a deeper crisis of climate chaos/brittleness and a resulting loss of insurability — the more certain we are to lock in greater future losses.
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
‘Never experienced anything like this:’ The new reality of insuring a Texas home
Texas homeowners are struggling to keep their homes insured, paying more for less coverage as climate change wreaks havoc on providers.
www.houstonchronicle.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
The longer we talk about prices rising/falling to reflect risk as a problem of consumer costs — rather than part of a deeper crisis of climate chaos/brittleness and a resulting loss of insurability — the more certain we are to lock in greater future losses.
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
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People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
November 27, 2024 at 9:11 PM
People who think “the markets” will save us from climate change do not understand that capitalism created climate change.
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When I was a freshly minted "sustainability professional" I once said loudly in a room of my elders, "we need a whole new paradigm." And a woman, a feminist, a freedom fighter from Central America said, "We don't need a new paradigm we need to listen to the people who already occupy it."
November 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM
When I was a freshly minted "sustainability professional" I once said loudly in a room of my elders, "we need a whole new paradigm." And a woman, a feminist, a freedom fighter from Central America said, "We don't need a new paradigm we need to listen to the people who already occupy it."
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When various billionaires say that we will miss climate goals anyway so we might as well give AI vast amounts of energy and trust it "solve the problem" I really want to know what conditions for nature, people, and human rights they include in the goal statement. www.itpro.com/techno...
‘We're not going to hit the climate goals anyway’: Eric Schmidt has a plan to drive sustainable data center and AI development – and it involves more AI
The former Google CEO said AI will solve its own problems when it comes to pushing sustainability
www.itpro.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:40 PM
When various billionaires say that we will miss climate goals anyway so we might as well give AI vast amounts of energy and trust it "solve the problem" I really want to know what conditions for nature, people, and human rights they include in the goal statement. www.itpro.com/techno...
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> What LA, as a region, needs the most ahead of 2028 are simpler solutions like sidewalks, bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, urban greening, shade trees — things that don't necessarily require federal funding, just better leadership.
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How will Trump: Part Deux affect federal transportation funding for LA's megaevents and beyond? I asked a few very smart people for the latest issue of Torched
www.torched.la/service-disr...
www.torched.la/service-disr...
Service disruptions
"The immediate-term outcome is that the discretionary grants from the federal government are going to be oriented away from urban areas, communities of color, and pedestrian, bike and transit projects...
www.torched.la
November 22, 2024 at 4:57 PM
> What LA, as a region, needs the most ahead of 2028 are simpler solutions like sidewalks, bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, urban greening, shade trees — things that don't necessarily require federal funding, just better leadership.
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Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:
STAND OUT
“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."
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More than 7 million Californians—1 in 5 residents—live in areas at risk of flooding.
Flood risk is the most widespread natural hazard in the state—more pervasive than earthquakes or wildfires.
Surprised? More facts here, from the folks at Public Policy Institute of California!
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Flood risk is the most widespread natural hazard in the state—more pervasive than earthquakes or wildfires.
Surprised? More facts here, from the folks at Public Policy Institute of California!
t.co/5ekF1ZHCCn
https://www.ppic.org/publication/floods-in-california/
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October 29, 2024 at 3:16 PM
More than 7 million Californians—1 in 5 residents—live in areas at risk of flooding.
Flood risk is the most widespread natural hazard in the state—more pervasive than earthquakes or wildfires.
Surprised? More facts here, from the folks at Public Policy Institute of California!
t.co/5ekF1ZHCCn
Flood risk is the most widespread natural hazard in the state—more pervasive than earthquakes or wildfires.
Surprised? More facts here, from the folks at Public Policy Institute of California!
t.co/5ekF1ZHCCn
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well welll well apparently the radical flank approach works similarly on climate as it has on every other social issue
October 21, 2024 at 8:20 PM
well welll well apparently the radical flank approach works similarly on climate as it has on every other social issue
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"Engineers just can’t wrap their heads around the idea that nature can do it cheaper, better, easier than they can." I spoke with @wuddaworld.bsky.social about her vision for rewilding portions of the L.A. River watershed. www.latimes.com/environment/...
An L.A. River champion offers a vision for reimagining the waterway — and the city's future
Melanie Winter has long advocated for change along the L.A. River. As she undergoes cancer treatment, she remains focused on healing L.A.’s relationship to water.
www.latimes.com
October 9, 2024 at 5:43 PM
"Engineers just can’t wrap their heads around the idea that nature can do it cheaper, better, easier than they can." I spoke with @wuddaworld.bsky.social about her vision for rewilding portions of the L.A. River watershed. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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A lot of people watching Asheville are learning in real time why avoiding disasters (by acting on climate change) might be good actually.
October 6, 2024 at 7:19 PM
A lot of people watching Asheville are learning in real time why avoiding disasters (by acting on climate change) might be good actually.
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These are the type and magnitude of impacts we would likely see during an ARkStorm-like event in California. It's possible such effects could be even more widespread, and affect more people, than this Southern Appalachian disaster, but the general point holds. [12/n]
September 28, 2024 at 7:19 PM
These are the type and magnitude of impacts we would likely see during an ARkStorm-like event in California. It's possible such effects could be even more widespread, and affect more people, than this Southern Appalachian disaster, but the general point holds. [12/n]
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It's lonely when people are cheering the little incremental wins while you can hear the cracking and shuddering of bigger systems beneath the surface.
August 27, 2024 at 12:59 PM
It's lonely when people are cheering the little incremental wins while you can hear the cracking and shuddering of bigger systems beneath the surface.