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Stephanie

@blooming-burbs.bsky.social

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Michigander, Environmental Health Educator especially climate change adaptation, PhD & academic has-been in community food systems. Side gig: suburban flower farming, growing native plants, & troubling suburbia at https://www.blooming-burbs.com/. She/her

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · Jan 19

Here's the starter pack for small-scale flower farmers and florists using sustainable methods. go.bsky.app/Cf6MnEi

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 12h

Is @artdecider.bsky.social here?

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, that’s the most exercised I’ve ever seen him.

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 1d

I guess that’s his version of ‘fired up.’

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Charlottesville: come out to UVA tomorrow where I’ll be giving a talk and participating on a panel about AI and the environment as part of UVA’s Environmental Futures Forum. www.environmentalfuturesforum.org

UVA Environmental Futures Forum

www.environmentalfuturesforum.org

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 1d

I heard this news today and my first thought was that pasta is the best go-to for busy and/or financially strapped families who are also making an effort to have healthy family meals.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 2d

I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal before cell phones and the internet and missed a bunch of things. One of the big ones that comes to mind is the OJ trial.

For many years after returning home, I often was clueless when certain cultural references were made.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! They grow further north, too.

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

It seems so obvious to me, I would be surprised at anyone saying anything different. It is not coincidental that they're ratcheting up the rhetoric just ahead of Oct 18th protests.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3d

Verily I tell you, Miller plans to do to Democratic groups, and possibly even the Democrats themselves, what Putin did to Navalny's anti-corruption organization.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

@k1v1n.bsky.social 👋

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

In Michigan, they don't want to alienate the ag sector, which I get....but we're also a leading producer of beans...so let's elevate that!

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

If you go to a climate conference and meat or dairy is on the menu, please say something to organizers. "Please aim to have a vegan menu next year! Meat & dairy are huge contributors to climate change and it undermines our commitment and message to serve them at an event about climate change."

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't it weird when you go to a conference about climate change and they are serving meat and/or dairy? It's just not necessary.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't it weird when you go to a conference about climate change and they are serving meat and/or dairy? It's just not necessary.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

I’m excited to use these purple hyacinth beans in this week’s bouquets. 💜

Deep purple bean pods attached to stem, held by my hand.

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

I sold 20 pounds of paw-paws to eatredhaven.com in East Lansing yesterday. If you're in the area, look for paw-paws on their menu in November! I, for one, will be making reservations to see what wonderful dishes they make with them.

#farm-to-table #paw-paws

Red Haven - Home

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

Though....I really need to occasionally give money to @onthemedia.bsky.social and @thisamericanlife.org because I rely on them so much.

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 3d

I subscribe to/pay for reporting from @prospect.org, @talkingpointsmemo.com, @propublica.org, @bridgemi.com and have been trying to decide btw @zeteo.com & @rollingstone.com. Now that @swin24.bsky.social is at @zeteo.com, my choice was made easier. I'm a new Zeteo subscriber! Now I need to 🛑.

Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 4d

Loved this convo with @jamellebouie.net .

Yes, things are scary, but historical context gives (me) some comfort (things have been worse!), as well as courage to get out there and fight (October 18th is right around the corner and I need to make a new sign!)

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 4d

🎧 On this week’s show: @jamellebouie.net on how fear of Trump is holding us back, and Corey Robin on eerie parallels between now and McCarthysim. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

On the Media

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transp...

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 4d

I want to issue a challenge to all of us to go one day without spending all our energy pointing out conservative hypocrisy (it's been well established) and instead try to talk about anything else that feels productive. Just one day, as a treat. Just to see what happens

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