educator for climate action + becoming an agent of social change
postdoc at Critical Environments Lab, Colorado School of Mines
flip phone user, quaker, parent
currently in the high plains of northern Colorado
image: David Solnit, "Take This With You"
Ellie Andrews
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This Day in Labor History: June 15, 1990. 400 striking janitors organized with Service Employees International Union held a rally in Los Angeles. The LAPD proceeded to beat the shit out of them in front of office workers wondering what the hell was going on. Let's talk about Justice for Janitors!
It’s bizarre being a policy-oriented researcher in an environment where evidence and public opinion are basically irrelevant to what happens. We’re not informing policy any more, friends; we have to make politics.
"Many people I know aspire to compost because they have the sense that it’s “good,” but I would make the case that it’s actually just fun. It’s fun to be messy... and to witness yourself as an agent of such profound and generative transformation." whitneybauck.substack.com/p/composting...
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
the fact that a percentage of americans believed, and then *un*believed in climate change, suggests to me that not talking about climate change is obviously not the answer as beliefs and policy wants are shaped, not taken as given
The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie
heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond
I love walking into @skeuomorphpress.org & finding amazing things that our students & patrons made!
"Colorado's Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure"
shame on you, governor polis
apnews.com/article/tina...
