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#EarthDay was largely inspired by Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Here is the bittersweet story behind how and why she wrote it: https://t.co/DRwh8xuzi8

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Happy #EarthDay, please enjoy this weird 17th century illustration titled "his nurse is the Earth".

From Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier, circa 1617-1618.

Woodcut of a standing woman. Her body is a geographically-incorrect globe with arms, legs, breasts and a head. She is breastfeeding a baby. In the bottom corner is a baby suckling a goat.

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2y

It’s #EarthDay & I’m giving a talk all about the global food system & its impact on the environment.

The agricultural sector is one of the most significant + immediately scalable places to have impact.

Since my talk isn’t public, here’s a great piece from @globalecoguy & the good folks at Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/news/insights/how-food-and-farming-will-determine-the-fate-of-planet-earth
#climatechange #science #food

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2y

President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.

NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."

https://flip.it/ImkS4B

#EarthDay #Biden #ClimateChange #USPolitics #Climate #News

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Join me Tuesday @⚠️ SPECIAL TIME⚠️ 6:30pm EST/5:30pm CST when #LaEsoterica celebrates #EarthDay with an exploration of films about the natural world. Playlist available here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTftlP3VarUp6tCqYE6yBfRDI&si=AtzoBNFdBNuR5sBM)
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NEW COUNTRIES WILL
GROW UP ON GRACEFUL
PROMONTORIES WHERE A FEW
PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER/
IN THEIR WORLD IT WILL BE
ILLEGAL TO OWN THE LAND…

Billboard
Robert Montgomery
Ostend Wall Piece. Crystal Ship Festival, 2016
Hahnemühle Photorag

Today, 22 April, is Earth Day.

https://www.robertmontgomery.org/new-gallery/hlltwglwt2au4gtsho09mz2afejeee

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #environment #environmentalism

A billboard, covering one wall of a five-storey block. In the foreground, three adults and one child are looking up at it. The billboard is black and carries white text in all capitals. The text reads:

NEW COUNTRIES WILL
GROW UP ON GRACEFUL
PROMONTORIES WHERE A FEW
PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER/
IN THEIR WORLD IT WILL BE
ILLEGAL TO OWN THE LAND.
//AND THEY WILL MAKE
NEW LITERATURES IN
WHICH THE OIL AGE WILL
BE FORGOTTEN//
AND OUR CITIES WILL BE
FOLDED BACK INTO THE SAND/
AND THEY WILL NOT EVEN
REMEMBER HOW WE ONCE
HELD THE WORLD IN OUR
HANDS AND HOW WE
CRUSHED IT LIKE A BIRD
IN OUR HANDS

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bradan à linne
fadh à frith
craobh à coille

trì nithean
nach meàirle
ghabhail o nàdar…

—Aonghas MacNeacail, “trì nithean”
published in Laoidh an donais òig / Hymn to a young demon (Polygon, 2007)

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #poem #poetry #landrights

aonghas macneacail
three things

salmon from the pool
deer from the moor
tree from the wood

three things
it’s no crime
to take from nature

grouse and salmon and deer
…and land and land and land

whose are they
who stole them

whose are they
who stole them

whose are they
who stole them

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aonghas macneacail
trì nithean

bradan à linne
fadh à frith
craobh à coille

trì nithean
nach meàirle
ghabhail o nàdar

cearc-fhraoich is bradan is fiadh
… is fearann is fearann is fearann

cò leis iad
cò ghoid iad

cò leis iad
cò ghoid iad

cò leis iad
cò ghoid iad

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dear small daughter for a long time I did not write
what had already become past-tense was past-tense
and I am sorry I was not able to hold it as one might
in a dream hold a stream of water and sing it to sleep…

—Sheila Black, “Climate (7) (Past Tense)”
published in BREAK IN CASE OF SILENCE: New Writing Scotland 39 (ASL, 2021)

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws39/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #climate #environment #environmentalism #climatechange

Sheila Black
Climate (7) (Past Tense)

dear small daughter for a long time I did not write
what had already become past-tense was past-tense
and I am sorry I was not able to hold it as one might
in a dream hold a stream of water and sing it to sleep
and I am sorry that I told you this image as if it were
in truth perdurable plangent and constant moon
over our seas when it is the shifting that matters.
dear small the birds the mockingbirds they sang
in the middle of the night and for this we cursed
them but then we came upon their nests in the black
of day noon when the sun is a diamond burning
through however much blue and the two of them
circled so tirelessly with their wings fanning the
turquoise eggs inside the nest of dead grass and we
understood we were not the only ones but even this
could not stop us from doing as we had done all
our lives long and the cars we pulled out of driveways
and the highways that took us into the buzzing
electric of buildings poured in dense concrete
and the cooling chemicals seeping and cycling
as though through calm artificial hearts and outside
unnoticed the ghost-blue of juniper needle and berry
and the ghost-rising of smoke from the fires we
claimed we had not set. dear daughter now that we
must use the past-tense for what we thought was ours
now as we move into the possible distance I open
my hand to give you this picture of two wings.

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Aw crap, it's #EarthDay too? Celebrate with a book about taking down an evil fossil fuel corporation!

Wild Things - Sometime in the near future, four teens are living through every day dystopia, perpetuated by ecological collapse and mass extinction. Each has a unique connection to nature; a connection which will prove useful as they find themselves embroiled in fossil fuel conspiracies and corporate corruption.

https://books2read.com/b/3y667v

@bookstodon #bookstodon #fantasy #fiction #YoungAdult #selfpublished

(sorry for all the book posts - I'm self published and mastodon is the only place I have to advertise!)

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Change, change – that’s what the terns scream
down at their seaward rocks;
ﬂeet clouds and salt kiss –
everything else is provisional,
us and all our works…

—Kathleen Jamie, “Fianuis”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953

#Scottish #literature #EarthDay #poem #poetry #EarthDay2026 #environment #environmentalism

Fianuis
by Kathleen Jamie

Well, friend, we’re here again —
sauntering the last half-mile to the land’s frayed end
to find what’s laid on for us, strewn across the turf —
gull feathers, bleached shells,
a whole bull seal, bone-dry,
knackered from the rut
(we knock on his leathern head, but no one’s home).

Change, change — that’s what the terns scream
down at their seaward rocks;
ﬂeet clouds and salt kiss —
everything else is provisional,
us and all our works.
I guess that’s why we like it here:
listen — a brief lull,
a rock pipit’s seed-small notes.

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Today, on #EarthDay, a sobering new report says #US #AirQuality is putting millions of Americans at risk of #health problems. Nearly half the US population — or about 152 million people — breathes unhealthy #air & lives in a county that received a failing grade for #pollution, data shows.

#ALA #StateOfTheAir #SOTA #climate #ClimateCriss #PublicHealth
https://www.lung.org/research/sota

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This #EarthDay I present to you...

my front door

My family will be using the garage door for the next couple of weeks as we have for the last couple

We, all of us, all of humanity, are nothing more than a thin expression on top of the natural world. Take care of it, and it takes care of you. Don't take care of it, and, well... not good things

i wish more took heed, but we're an egocentric species

#EarthDay2026 #bird #birds

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the nest, as it sits in a wreath on a door

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The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/first-paper-to-link-co2-and-global-warming-by-eunice-foote-1856 #earthday #climatechange

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Today’s find on our Earth Day walk included this pair of Pine Warblers enjoying the trees. #birds #EarthDay #warblers #WingsonWednesday #nature #birdphotography #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky #WednesdayWOW #Ontario #Canada

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Today is Earth Day, but each year it can feel a little more like Groundhog Day.

While we replay the same pipeline debates in Canada, the rest of the world is racing ahead on renewable energy — which is growing so fast that it met all new electricity demand in 2025.

It’s time for Canada to catch up. Let's make Canada a renewable energy superpower.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/solar-wind-ember-renewables-electricity-9.7170953

#cdnpoli #EarthDay

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142d

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PS.: Share this widely to reach that one person who’s just broken their phone!

#EarthDay #Fairphone

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📢 Exclusive offer for our European customers:

Until May 4th, buy your Murena Fairphone (Gen.6) and get the free protective case and screen protector of your choice.

👉 Grab yours: https://murena.com/products/smartphones/

PS.: Share this widely to reach that one person who’s just broken their phone!

#EarthDay #Deal #Android #Smartphone #Fairphone

Earth day promotion: Buy a Murena Fairphone (Gen.6) and get a free protective case and screen protector

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Create your own climate change stripes for #EarthDay - or really any day!

This image shows temperatures in Boston from 1860 to 2020.
https://showyourstripes.info/

Colored stripes to indicate change in temperature in Boston Massachusetts US - the closest location to me. The left side (the past) is primarily blue and the right side (moving toward the present) is deeper and darker red.

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My favorite #EarthDay song

Monkey Gone to Heaven – #Pixies

* disclaimer: I don’t adhere to any belief in “god”

#music #climate #ClimateCriss #conservation #wildlife #air #water #ecosystems #sustainability #PublicHealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHC9HE7vazI

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This #EarthDay, we wish we could count on the federal government to protect farmworkers from toxic pesticides. But in 2026, it looks like we need to do it ourselves. Make your gift today to help bring a better future. https://act.seiu.org/a/earthday2026?ms=m #WeFeedYou

A photo showing farm workers laboring in a field while a pesticide applicator applies pesticides in a very close field with the text overlay "This Earth Day, help us protect farm workers from pesticide exposure"

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Happy Earth Day 2026!
“Our Power, Our Planet”

Tree of Life, Kalaloch, WA
The Tree of Life still stands as a living symbol of resilience on the edge of the Pacific.

#Washington #PNW #Earth #Earthday #Planet #Nature #Trees #Photo #PhotoOftheDay

A windswept tree with sprawling roots clings to a rugged cliff, under a vivid blue sky. Fallen logs lie on the sandy ground, creating a dramatic coastal scene.
Tree of Life, Kalaloch, WA

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March #running recap: mileage climbed slightly from 218.6 → 219.9mi (227.6 including walking). EG reduced 5,925 → 5,142ft, and run time slightly reduced 38 → 37.5hrs.

This month I ran two races: Woodinville #HM and Redmond City #Marathon, 3 weeks apart! With tapering/recovery my mileage is decent. My VO2max also jumped to all-time high 54!

I'm now just 18.2mi behind my 2,500mi yearly goal (was 25.8mi last month)! #EarthDay 10K race is up next in less than 3 weeks. Onward!

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