Christine Condy 🇨🇦
@ccondy.bsky.social
Seeking balance between soul crushing empathy and a psyche left intact. On a mission to save a small lake in Muskoka.
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There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on in my other feeds so I end my #bluesky sessions here in the #gardeningfeed. It’s important to stay informed but more important to keep my humanity. Thanks for all your beautiful pics! 🌱 Grandson takes a sniff at the sweet williams.
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Polycyclic aromatic compounds in freshwater ecosystems following non-invasive remediation of controlled diluted bitumen spills: The freshwater oil spill remediation study (FOReSt) at the Experimental Lakes Area, Canada
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Polycyclic aromatic compounds in freshwater ecosystems following non-invasive remediation of controlled diluted bitumen spills: The freshwater oil spill remediation study (FOReSt) at the Experimental ...
Freshwater oil spills are a public concern, and evaluating and improving cleanup procedures under realistic field situations is needed. The Internatio…
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December 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Polycyclic aromatic compounds in freshwater ecosystems following non-invasive remediation of controlled diluted bitumen spills: The freshwater oil spill remediation study (FOReSt) at the Experimental Lakes Area, Canada
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Floating WETLANDS
'Artificial or constructed floating wetlands involve planting wetland vegetation on floating rafts, mimicking a natural ecosystem that removes nutrients, sediments and other pollutants from the host water body.'
phys.org/news/2025-10...
'Artificial or constructed floating wetlands involve planting wetland vegetation on floating rafts, mimicking a natural ecosystem that removes nutrients, sediments and other pollutants from the host water body.'
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Artificial floating wetlands offer cost-effective, nature-based water treatment
A new international study has endorsed artificial floating wetlands as a sustainable and cost-effective solution for improving water quality in rivers, lakes and wastewater systems.
phys.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Floating WETLANDS
'Artificial or constructed floating wetlands involve planting wetland vegetation on floating rafts, mimicking a natural ecosystem that removes nutrients, sediments and other pollutants from the host water body.'
phys.org/news/2025-10...
'Artificial or constructed floating wetlands involve planting wetland vegetation on floating rafts, mimicking a natural ecosystem that removes nutrients, sediments and other pollutants from the host water body.'
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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Manmade floating wetlands provide natural pre-treatment mailchi.mp/biomatrixwat...
February 21, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Manmade floating wetlands provide natural pre-treatment mailchi.mp/biomatrixwat...
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In 2024, we worked with our volunteers and partners to install two ‘Floating Treatment Wetlands’ in Gallions Lake, Thamesmead, south-east London on this SYMBIOREM project. ©RichardHeald ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In 2024, we worked with our volunteers and partners to install two ‘Floating Treatment Wetlands’ in Gallions Lake, Thamesmead, south-east London on this SYMBIOREM project. ©RichardHeald ⬇️
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"If it walks like a duck..." - these "look" like loon nesting platforms.
Could floating treatment wetlands be a functioning loon breeding platform AND help improve a lake's water quality? Food for thought
Floating Treatment Wetlands: https://buff.ly/42uchDQ
#wwd2025 #birds #wetlands #habitat
Could floating treatment wetlands be a functioning loon breeding platform AND help improve a lake's water quality? Food for thought
Floating Treatment Wetlands: https://buff.ly/42uchDQ
#wwd2025 #birds #wetlands #habitat
January 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"If it walks like a duck..." - these "look" like loon nesting platforms.
Could floating treatment wetlands be a functioning loon breeding platform AND help improve a lake's water quality? Food for thought
Floating Treatment Wetlands: https://buff.ly/42uchDQ
#wwd2025 #birds #wetlands #habitat
Could floating treatment wetlands be a functioning loon breeding platform AND help improve a lake's water quality? Food for thought
Floating Treatment Wetlands: https://buff.ly/42uchDQ
#wwd2025 #birds #wetlands #habitat
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Floating Wetlands Offer Cost-Effective Nature-Based Water Treatment
->Newswise | #Wetland #Water | More from BigEarthData.ai
->Newswise | #Wetland #Water | More from BigEarthData.ai
Floating Wetlands Offer Cost-Effective Nature-Based Water Treatment
Newswise — A new international study has endorsed artificial floating wetlands as a sustainable and cost-effective solution for improving water quality in rivers, lakes and wastewater systems. Led by scientists from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the University of...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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💧 Spotted in the field: #Beemats floating treatment #wetlands hard at work in a #stormwaterpond!
These floating islands aren’t just pretty - they’re powerhouse tools for improving #waterquality. By taking up excess nutrients like #nitrogen and #phosphorus, they ...🧵
These floating islands aren’t just pretty - they’re powerhouse tools for improving #waterquality. By taking up excess nutrients like #nitrogen and #phosphorus, they ...🧵
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
💧 Spotted in the field: #Beemats floating treatment #wetlands hard at work in a #stormwaterpond!
These floating islands aren’t just pretty - they’re powerhouse tools for improving #waterquality. By taking up excess nutrients like #nitrogen and #phosphorus, they ...🧵
These floating islands aren’t just pretty - they’re powerhouse tools for improving #waterquality. By taking up excess nutrients like #nitrogen and #phosphorus, they ...🧵
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We’re getting so close! Our community is one step closer to putting floating treatment wetlands out on the landscape. 🌿🌰#floatingtreatmentwetlands #ecologicalrestoration
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We’re getting so close! Our community is one step closer to putting floating treatment wetlands out on the landscape. 🌿🌰#floatingtreatmentwetlands #ecologicalrestoration
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Artificial floating wetlands offer cost-effective, nature-based water treatment
phys.org/news/2025-10... via @physorg_com
phys.org/news/2025-10... via @physorg_com
Artificial floating wetlands offer cost-effective, nature-based water treatment
A new international study has endorsed artificial floating wetlands as a sustainable and cost-effective solution for improving water quality in rivers, lakes and wastewater systems.
phys.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Artificial floating wetlands offer cost-effective, nature-based water treatment
phys.org/news/2025-10... via @physorg_com
phys.org/news/2025-10... via @physorg_com
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This is an interesting piece of fact-checking on the tanker ban and arguments made on both sides (including by Andrew Scheer) of the issue.
Thoughts?
thehub.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Thoughts?
thehub.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Fact check: Elizabeth May’s tanker ban claims don’t add up
thehub.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is an interesting piece of fact-checking on the tanker ban and arguments made on both sides (including by Andrew Scheer) of the issue.
Thoughts?
thehub.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Thoughts?
thehub.ca/2025/11/25/f...
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Comparison between American emergent macrophytes and Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) as nature-based solutions for nutrient phytoremediation and cyanobacteria mitigation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Comparison between American emergent macrophytes and Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) as nature-based solutions for nutrient phytoremediation and cyanobacteria mitigation
Emergent macrophytes effectively control eutrophication in constructed floating wetlands (CFW). However, tropical species from South America are underutilized. This study evaluates five emergent ma...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Comparison between American emergent macrophytes and Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) as nature-based solutions for nutrient phytoremediation and cyanobacteria mitigation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#cyanobacteria #Microcystis is almost #art in the form of natural #pointillism It's structure is open and beautiful. These colonies can be big. Sometimes 1 cm! #plankton #bacteria #freshwater #microscopy
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#cyanobacteria #Microcystis is almost #art in the form of natural #pointillism It's structure is open and beautiful. These colonies can be big. Sometimes 1 cm! #plankton #bacteria #freshwater #microscopy
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I suspect there will be a lot of people lashing out at the Carney government over the MOU that's been leaked today.
I'd encourage them to read this first. The biggest hurdle in the way of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, by far, has yet to be cleared.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
I'd encourage them to read this first. The biggest hurdle in the way of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, by far, has yet to be cleared.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
Alberta’s pipeline math still doesn’t add up
The biggest obstacle standing between Alberta and its premier's repeated pledge to double oil production isn't the tanker ban, the emissions cap, or any other piece of federal legislation. It's realit...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I suspect there will be a lot of people lashing out at the Carney government over the MOU that's been leaked today.
I'd encourage them to read this first. The biggest hurdle in the way of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, by far, has yet to be cleared.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
I'd encourage them to read this first. The biggest hurdle in the way of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, by far, has yet to be cleared.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/o...
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The problem is when cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae, populations get out of balance. This can happen when runoff laced with phosphorus and nitrogen enters a lake system. #vtenviro #vtcolleges
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Beyond the Usual Suspect: UVM researchers find nitrogen feeds algae blooms | Vermont Business Magazine
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November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The problem is when cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae, populations get out of balance. This can happen when runoff laced with phosphorus and nitrogen enters a lake system. #vtenviro #vtcolleges
vermontbiz.com/news/2025/no...
vermontbiz.com/news/2025/no...
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Comparison between American emergent macrophytes and Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) as nature-based solutions for nutrient phytoremediation and cyanobacteria mitigation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41246922/
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Comparison between American emergent macrophytes and Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) as nature-based solutions for nutrient phytoremediation and cyanobacteria mitigation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41246922/
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ONE MORE WAY TO MUTILATE THE ENVIRONMENT: "The Doug Ford government plans to consolidate the province’s 36 local conservation agencies down to just seven. It is accepting public comments on this proposal through Dec. 22" .. ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... #ThanksDoug #onpoli #Kenora #GregRickford
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ONE MORE WAY TO MUTILATE THE ENVIRONMENT: "The Doug Ford government plans to consolidate the province’s 36 local conservation agencies down to just seven. It is accepting public comments on this proposal through Dec. 22" .. ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1... #ThanksDoug #onpoli #Kenora #GregRickford
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🦠📢If, like us, you lie awake at night wondering how cyanobacteria can be so good at adapting to any conditions, or if you just think they're cool and need an excuse to visit #Montreal, please consider submitting an abstract to our session by November 25th #ASLOSIL2026 www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🦠📢If, like us, you lie awake at night wondering how cyanobacteria can be so good at adapting to any conditions, or if you just think they're cool and need an excuse to visit #Montreal, please consider submitting an abstract to our session by November 25th #ASLOSIL2026 www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/
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For those going to Montreal for the joint @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social meeting in May 2026, note special session SS059 on #lakenutrients #cyanobacteria and #climatechange hosted by @ferroproject.bsky.social Olga Tammeorg and other colleagues.
💦Abstracts due 25 November
💦Abstracts due 25 November
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
For those going to Montreal for the joint @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social meeting in May 2026, note special session SS059 on #lakenutrients #cyanobacteria and #climatechange hosted by @ferroproject.bsky.social Olga Tammeorg and other colleagues.
💦Abstracts due 25 November
💦Abstracts due 25 November
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For those following global surface temperature anomalies, October 2025 is going to finish 1.50C above the pre-industrial baseline and 3rd hottest on record since 1940.
Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.
Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
For those following global surface temperature anomalies, October 2025 is going to finish 1.50C above the pre-industrial baseline and 3rd hottest on record since 1940.
Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.
Which also means that October, 2025, is likely the 3rd hottest October in the last 120,000 years.
So many different hydrangeas in our new place! What should I be doing before the snow hits? Zone 4.5 Ontario 🌱
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
So many different hydrangeas in our new place! What should I be doing before the snow hits? Zone 4.5 Ontario 🌱
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Your 'doom quote' for today:
"In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned. And the hotter it gets, the bigger that gap will grow."
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"In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned. And the hotter it gets, the bigger that gap will grow."
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The Heat Will Kill You First
New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise wi...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned. And the hotter it gets, the bigger that gap will grow."
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-...
"In the end, the most enduring legacy of air-conditioning may be the divide it has created between the cool and the damned. And the hotter it gets, the bigger that gap will grow."
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeff-...