Ayla Gard
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I write about the environment with words in Scientific American, Orion 🌱 Tongva/Chumash land
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Ayla Gard
@aylagard.bsky.social
· Jan 16
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In the early 90s, the first season of animated series Blinky Bill inspired a new generation of Australians to care about deforestation. Some people weren’t happy about it. Today I got to write about the beloved cartoon koala for Orion. orionmagazine.org/article/hey-...
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Study after study show immigrants are a net positive to the US economy, and yet they don’t get the same benefits that citizens do.
Hate is in power. Hate is winning. We need to fight back. Humanist values will win. And the children of these hateful people will look at their parents in disgust.
Hate is in power. Hate is winning. We need to fight back. Humanist values will win. And the children of these hateful people will look at their parents in disgust.
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Study after study show immigrants are a net positive to the US economy, and yet they don’t get the same benefits that citizens do.
Hate is in power. Hate is winning. We need to fight back. Humanist values will win. And the children of these hateful people will look at their parents in disgust.
Hate is in power. Hate is winning. We need to fight back. Humanist values will win. And the children of these hateful people will look at their parents in disgust.
I wonder if they made drug education for kids less about what it could do to their own bodies, and more about what it does to the bodies of kids in the countries where some of it comes from, it would be more effective english.elpais.com/internationa...
A childhood amid bullets: Homicide rate of minors soars in Ecuador
Two children were murdered every day in 2023 in Ecuador, which is suffering a wave of violence due to drug trafficking: ‘The state, society, and family, we have all failed them,’ says an expert
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April 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I wonder if they made drug education for kids less about what it could do to their own bodies, and more about what it does to the bodies of kids in the countries where some of it comes from, it would be more effective english.elpais.com/internationa...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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guess it’s moss mushroom for my first entry
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
guess it’s moss mushroom for my first entry
Nice work, plant influencers
“Millions of plants have been illegally dug…resulting in the functional extinction of at least eight species, with hundreds more species being pushed toward the same fate.” e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
“Millions of plants have been illegally dug…resulting in the functional extinction of at least eight species, with hundreds more species being pushed toward the same fate.” e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
A Craze for Tiny Plants Is Driving a Poaching Crisis in South Africa
South Africa’s Succulent Karoo is the most biodiverse arid region on the planet, with thousands of plants found nowhere else. But to meet a demand fueled by social media, criminal networks have been p...
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March 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Nice work, plant influencers
“Millions of plants have been illegally dug…resulting in the functional extinction of at least eight species, with hundreds more species being pushed toward the same fate.” e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
“Millions of plants have been illegally dug…resulting in the functional extinction of at least eight species, with hundreds more species being pushed toward the same fate.” e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
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Here in the U.S., we have Smokey Bear. In Australia, they have Blinky Bill.
(Thanks to @nrdc.org for sponsoring our winter issue, from which this breakdown on a very cool koala hails.)
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hey-hey-blinky-bill/
(Thanks to @nrdc.org for sponsoring our winter issue, from which this breakdown on a very cool koala hails.)
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hey-hey-blinky-bill/
January 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Here in the U.S., we have Smokey Bear. In Australia, they have Blinky Bill.
(Thanks to @nrdc.org for sponsoring our winter issue, from which this breakdown on a very cool koala hails.)
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hey-hey-blinky-bill/
(Thanks to @nrdc.org for sponsoring our winter issue, from which this breakdown on a very cool koala hails.)
https://orionmagazine.org/article/hey-hey-blinky-bill/
In the early 90s, the first season of animated series Blinky Bill inspired a new generation of Australians to care about deforestation. Some people weren’t happy about it. Today I got to write about the beloved cartoon koala for Orion. orionmagazine.org/article/hey-...
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January 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
In the early 90s, the first season of animated series Blinky Bill inspired a new generation of Australians to care about deforestation. Some people weren’t happy about it. Today I got to write about the beloved cartoon koala for Orion. orionmagazine.org/article/hey-...
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