New music video from me!
Also available at my PeerTube site:
New music video from me!
Also available at my PeerTube site:
Walpurgisnacht raccoon: The one who takes everything in its hands pays a personal visit
It was about an hour after midnight, and I groped for my glasses on the bedside table. I went to the window to look. A raccoon stared back at me.
Replacing some or all of your #lawn with native plants and food is one way to support each other and the environment – but it truly does so much more than that.
Here are some significant research-backed and expert-approved benefits you’ll experience when you make the switch.
#nolawn #nolawns #rewilding #gardening #biodiversity #cities #urbannature #insects #ecology #landscaping #ediblelandscaping #mentalhealth #bees
https://www.rewildingmag.com/6-reasons-to-downsize-your-lawn/
NEW from my lab in Ecology Letters: Machine learning trained on >10k iNaturalist records let us "hindcast" Joshua trees' flowering back over the 20th Century. The hindcast recovers flowering events recorded in field notes, herbarium records, and newspaper archives. Joshua trees now flower a bit more often than they once did— but that's probably not good for the trees overall
OA paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14478
"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.
"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."
*** First video up!
https://ecoevo.social/@xris/114167406196864478
** I'm approved! @xris. No videos yet.
* Thanks to all for the *unaninimous* recommendations for lone.earth. Pending approval, I will be at https://lone.earth/c/xris.
#FediVerse Hive Mind: I have been using @Vimeo to host my videos. I want to try using a @PeerTube instance instead.
Example Video:
https://vimeo.com/705157758
#Video #PeerTube #Vimeo #Nature #Ecology #Animals #Mammals #Groundhog #Gardening
cc: @darwin
Green Islam reframes climate responsibility as a sacred act of community care in Indonesia
As rising seas and vanishing forests remake Indonesia’s landscape, a growing movement rooted in Islam is reshaping climate action as a shared religious and civic duty
#religion #Indonesia #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Something to die for
To die: to give up life for
to die for means to live for
would we want to die for what
we would not live for?
—“Saving the Planet” by Tessa Ransford (1938–2015) – poet, activist, & founding director of the Scottish Poetry Library – born #OTD, 8 July
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/saving-planet/
Heatwaves sweep Europe, US; London may touch 40 degrees this summer
Europe and the US are facing extreme heatwaves driven by Omega blocks, heat domes, and climate change, with London possibly nearing 40 degrees Celsius this summer
#Europe #USA #US #UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
I've finished: A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
If you want to read a book from the 80s that isn't horribly outdated, your best bet is to seek a female author.
A Door Into Ocean is about non violent resistance to an imperialist patriarchy. About the dangers of deadly technology to humanity and the environment. About a path to a society that will not destroy itself.
It pits a women lead planet that has learned to live in balance with nature and is governed through consensus against a men lead planet that is governed by a hierarchy and the threat of force.
The far future setting and restrictions on technology create a clean break from current trends and help prevent the novel from dating itself. Though the fear of nuclear war is a major aspect of this universe.
The complexity of the Sharer culture, it's language and philosophy and the powerful will of the women that make up it's collective are very compelling.
I appreciate that Slonczewski gives us two main points of view, that of a mature noble woman and of a young commoner man. This allows us to experience migration to Shora at two different levels, (and we don't have to spend all of our time with a stupid teenager).
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/779f8a08-a9e6-4bd4-bc7d-e5cf394fb522
@bookstodon @audiobooks
#ScienceFiction #pacifism #ecology #feminism
The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
By Tim Vernimmen
Fossils at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5409
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026
This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, & to investigate Stevenson both as a writer of dichotomies/dualisms & of their wild transgressions
@litstudies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EoselkYayxzSXzW36aDZTbZv_SQt8cCG/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #LiteraryStudies #ecology #science #gender