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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 3h

Ontario Investing $435,829 to Restore Areas of the St. Lawrence River news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 3h

Massachusetts cranberry farmers choosing to restore their bogs into wetlands amid economic headwinds www.cbsnews.com/news/massach... via @cbseveningnews

Massachusetts cranberry farmers choosing to restore their bogs into wetlands amid economic headwinds

A state program pays cranberry farmers to turn unproductive bogs back into wetlands.

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 3h

Nearly Half of USDA Employees to be Furloughed as Gov’t Shuts Down farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/10/near...

Nearly Half of USDA Employees to be Furloughed as Gov't Shuts Down - Farm Policy News

During a shutdown, about 42,000 USDA staff will be furloughed, according to the agency's 2025 shutdown contingency plan, roughly half the agency's employees. Activities deemed mission-critical, like f...

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 1d

Youth unemployment in Ontario has soared to 16.6% — the highest it’s been in over a decade. For teens? It’s even worse: nearly one in four can’t find work. And Doug Ford’s response? “Look harder.”
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'NO PLAN' DOUG FORD IS A JOBS DISASTER

800,000 Ontarians are out of work — and Ford has no answers.

ontariondp.ca

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

‘Revival’ Interrupted: World Nuclear Industry Won’t Sustain 2024 Growth, Struggles for Relevance as Renewables Surge
www.theenergymix.com/revival-inte...

‘Revival’ Interrupted: World Nuclear Industry Won’t Sustain 2024 Growth, Struggles for Relevance as Renewables Surge

Although global nuclear generating capacity grew 2.9% to a record 2,663 terawatt-hours in 2024, the industry won’t likely be able to sustain that growth amid limited investment, aging power plants, pe...

www.theenergymix.com

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

World Nuclear Status Report. The Independent Assessment of Nuclear Developments in the World.
www.worldnuclearreport.org/Canada

Canada

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 2d

An "interesting" predicament for Carney given all what has happened (and all that has not happened) in the last decade.

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 3d

Groups Urge PM Carney to Act on Climate Finance Risk, 10 Years After Key Speech www.theenergymix.com/groups-urge-...

Groups Urge PM Carney to Act on Climate Finance Risk, 10 Years After Key Speech

A decade after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a famous speech about the financial risks associated with climate change, global organizations called for financial system reforms in an open letter...

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

Carney is proving to be even more of a banker than expected. Economic growth is his primary focus, with previous interests in advancing environmental policy taking a back seat.

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 14d

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency | The Pointer thepointer.com/article/2025...

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency

‘Cuts would directly impact freshwater restoration’: Leaked texts hint that Carney’s cuts will target water protection agency.

thepointer.com

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Risk, innovation, electricity infrastructure and construction cost ove... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Risk, innovation, electricity infrastructure and construction cost overruns: Testing six hypotheses

This study investigates the frequency and magnitude of cost and time overruns occurring during the construction of 401 electricity projects built betw…

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked | The Tyee

Politicians who push small reactors raise false hopes that splitting atoms can make a real dent in the climate crisis.

thetyee.ca

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Is smaller better when it comes to nuclear? Thanks to a push by industry and governments, you might soon hear more about how nuclear reactors are now safer and better. But is nuclear — regardless of size or shape — the way to go?

davidsuzuki.org/story/is-sma...

Is smaller better when it comes to nuclear?

Thanks to a push by industry and governments, you might soon hear more about how nuclear reactors are now safer and better. But is nuclear — regardless of size or shape — the way to go?

davidsuzuki.org

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Mrs. Blue ELBOWS UP ❤️🇨🇦❤️ @mmebleue.bsky.social · 2d

Getting pretty sick of this guy living at large on our tax dollars while complaining about the Libs. This isn’t about political parties anymore. This is about who is doing best for 🇨🇦 and who’s getting a free ride. Has this ahole even been back to Alberta since they elected him? In it for the grift.

Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 2d

What a scam.

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 2d

After genocide, we have only your humanity and love.🍉

Every pound you give is a roof over my family, and the hope in their hearts.🫂
I'm truly grateful to every share and every donation.

Be their light — donate now.🙏

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Clean energy transition sparks nuclear reaction Though the responsible solution is renewables, nuclear power is getting a lot of attention as a climate solution. Why is that?

davidsuzuki.org/story/clean-...

Clean energy transition sparks nuclear reaction

Though the responsible solution is renewables, nuclear power is getting a lot of attention as a climate solution. Why is that?

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 2d

Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions Given the urgent need to quickly address global heating, it would be far better to put money into renewable energy & infrastructure, including modern east-west renewable-powered electricity grid in Canada. davidsuzuki.org/story/small-...

Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions

Given the urgent need to quickly address global heating, it would be far better to put money into renewable energy and infrastructure, including a modern east-west renewable-powered electricity grid i...

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 3d

Andrew L. Fanning & Kate Raworth present a renewed Doughnut framework with a revised set of 35 indicators that monitor trends in social deprivation and ecological overshoot over the 2000–2022 period.

#sustainability
#sustainablefinance

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature

A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

www.nature.com

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 3d

“We need to prepare children for the future that is coming. And in these unprecedented times of planetary change this means doing things like safeguarding biodiversity, bringing dead rivers back to life, and planting native forests that have been cut down.” — @joebrewer.bsky.social

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 3d

Transforming food systems demands more than just technical fixes—it requires rethinking the values, power dynamics and assumptions that underpin how we grow and consume food.

It entails a substantial turn towards relationally, sufficiency, and deeper connection with the land about our communities.

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Cascadia Bioregional Movement @cascadiabioregion.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌎 What is Bioregionalism? It’s more than a philosophy — it’s a way of life rooted in place. It asks us to align our politics, culture, and economy with the natural boundaries of watersheds, soil and terrain.

Swipe through to explore how bioregionalism calls us home to place.

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

“ #Degrowth has inspired the ire of those who consciously align with capitalism because they recognize that it represents socialist ideas breaking through into the mainstream. So they single it out for attack.”

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

“The core of ecosocialism is that we should democratize control over production so that we can organize it around ensuring human well-being and ecological stability.” — @jasonhickel.bsky.social

INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"

Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.

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Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Roy Cooper raised $14.5 million last quarter, shattering records.

The former North Carolina governor brought in more than double what his likely GOP opponent in the Senate race raised.

Roy Cooper raises $14.5 million last quarter, shattering records

The former North Carolina governor brought in more than double what his likely GOP opponent raised.

www.politico.com

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Gary1955 @gary1955.bsky.social · 2d

This morning's full moon.

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Malcolm Wozright @geoff61.bsky.social · 3d

I’m convinced that if Trumpollini dies in office, we won’t know about it for days or weeks because the rest of his criminal gang will continue to run things illegally.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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