My mother gave me this #bamboo cutting board as a gift a long time ago and I use it all the time. Much of the #wood I use -- if it isn't produced on our property -- is bamboo because it is the most #renewable type of wood. Bamboo regrows in a year unlike other #woods which take twenty years or more. It has a lot of uses and demands very little from the #land . #environment #environmentalist
WATER AND IT'S ALLIED SECTORS
●The Urgency of Water Crisis
Video link:
https://youtu.be/u3fQf5OgUFg?si=pDwsGnqzTQOL3-6M
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@everyone #everyone #followers #highlight #wisdom #spiritual #path #life
#meditation #environment #environmentalist
#protect #protectnature
I don't care how many protest events you've been to, I don't care if you've spent time at blockades & got arrested either, don't care how much content you post online about caring about the environment IF -> you still choose to fly all over Canada for leisurely trips & when not flying everywhere, you choose to drive all across BC & across Canada, you choose to overconsume material items & create more unnecessary waste - you are part of the problems & not really a part of the solutions.
The above listed selfish human behaviours are not what any serious environmentalist engages in. It's what performative folks engage in - they film themselves multiple times daily to get views online on multiple sites. Their self worth is tied to their online life/likes. I do not enjoy being around high hypocrisy, dishonest, self absorbed, irresponsible people like that & avoid them as much as possible. I tend to adhere tightly to my standards of association & don't let unsavory selfish folks stay around me. I oust them fast & have not felt bad about it. Being cautiously careful about the company we choose to keep around us is a pretty big part of our self care as well.
If I put caring about people's reactions above my natural born duties to Mother Earth & her needs - I have failed.
Wild First. Or we all tumble down.
#ThrowbackThursday
4 years ago, I first met this gentle giant.
It's one of the only older Western red #cedar #trees left at #W̱MÍYEŦEN #NatureSanctuary. Most of the land had been logged more than once before it was acquired for conservation & rewilding. This is a 2nd growth cedar & it is over 150 yrs old.
The W̱MÍYEŦEN #Nature Sanctuary is a 42 acre protected forest and riparian area that supports biodiversity while preserving ecosystems and wildlife habitat. The tranquil natural environment, inspires an awareness of nature as teacher and essential ally.
https://wmiyetennaturesanctuary.com/
I'm a member of this local, biodiverse nature sanctuary. They mainly rely on memberships & public donations. They work with #Indigenous leaders/educators/naturalists from #Wsanec First Nations. The name was changed from the former Mary Lake Sanctuary to W̱MÍYEŦEN Nature Sanctuary to respect that the property is on native lands.
This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.
The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.
Our coastal temperate #rainforests on Vancouver Island are super lush with so much #biodiversity. They are worth conserving & protecting. These forests are also full of medicines, some yet to be discovered.
As an #environmentalist l much prefer to be out in #nature, than to be socialising with people that "don't know their ass from their elbow" (environmentally speaking)
In public & overall, l notice the public's environmental neglect \ apathy & that, or them, could cause me to feel depressed about the #environment. But, l compartmentalise that feeling because it's beyond my control if some people are oblivious to the fact[s] that they are an animal living in an #ecosystem.
HT @rmblaber1956 !
"Early poems about #Merlin portray him as #environmentalist, say scholars
Re-examination of #Welsh poems dating back to 10th century show #Myrddin as prophet concerned by human interactions with #Nature
by Steven Morris
Tue 25 Feb 2025 07.13 EST
"He is probably most often thought of today as a wizard, a shape-shifter or a mentor to the young King Arthur.
"But a detailed re-examination of Myrddin – Merlin – by Welsh scholars suggests he can also be considered an early British environmentalist deeply worried about human interaction with the natural world.
"Over the past three years academics from three Welsh universities have edited and translated more than 100 poems, all in Cymraeg (Welsh), about Merlin dating back as far as the 10th century.
"David Callander, who is based at Cardiff University’s school of Welsh, said some of the conclusions of the Myrddin Poetry Project challenged the modern view of the figure."
Tagging
@sevmunro
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/early-poems-about-merlin-portray-him-as-environmentalist-say-scholars
#History #Poetry #WelshHistory #Magic #Nature #Magicians
Trump taps #OilIndustry insider to oversee drilling on #PublicLands
#BureauOfLandManagement nominee #KathleenSgamma heads a #FossilFuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark #conservation rule.
By Maxine Joselow
"President Donald #Trump has nominated oil and gas advocate #KathleenSgamma to lead the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, the agency tasked with managing millions of acres of public lands and waters for the benefit of all Americans.
"The nomination of Sgamma, who heads a Denver-based oil and gas industry trade group called the #WesternEnergyAlliance, heralds a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property — about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.
"If confirmed by the Senate, she would be a key architect of Trump’s #DrillBabyDrill agenda alongside Interior Secretary and '#EnergyCzar' #DougBurgum. An MIT graduate who previously worked in consulting, she has advocated for the BLM to prioritize oil and gas drilling, #HardrockMining and #livestock grazing on public lands nationwide.
"A spokesman for Sgamma did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"During his first term, Trump tapped conservative lawyer William Perry Pendley to lead the BLM on an acting basis. But Trump never nominated Pendley, a vocal advocate of selling off public lands, to helm the agency on a permanent basis, prompting a rebuke from a federal judge.
"President Joe Biden in 2021 chose Tracy Stone-Manning, a prominent Montana-based #environmentalist, to lead the BLM. Earlier in her career, Stone-Manning worked on conservation policy at the #NationalWildlifeFederation and led Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality.
"Under Biden, the BLM finalized a landmark rule that sought to put conservation, #recreation and #RenewableEnergy development on equal footing with #ResourceExtraction on public lands. Sgamma’s Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging that rule, which the Trump administration is expected to overturn.
"In an interview with The Washington Post in April, Sgamma criticized the regulation for allowing ranchers, renewable-energy developers and other interests to lease federal lands for the purpose of #conservation and #HabitatRestoration.
"We have no choice but to litigate,' she said. 'These conservation leases seem to be designed to preclude energy development on federal lands.'
#Environmentalists criticized #Sgamma’s nomination.
"'This choice shows that the new administration will leave no favor ungranted for the oil and gas industry and the wealthy #FossilFuel #executives who funded Trump’s campaign,' #AlanZibel, oil and gas research director with the liberal advocacy group #PublicCitizen, said in an email.
"#JeffEshelman, president and #CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents small oil producers, praised Sgamma’s selection while critiquing the Biden administration."
Original article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/12/trump-bureau-land-management-kathleen-sgamma/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/tmTH6#selection-645.0-724.1
#USPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #BigOilAndGas #BigOilKnew #KillCapitalism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #BigOilCriminals #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #NoMiningOnConservationLands #DrainTheSwamp? More like, #OilUpTheSwamp!#IndepdendentPetroleumAssociationOfAmerica
@VeroniqueB99
More examples of how #DonTheCon couldn't be more different from the other presidents on #MountRushmore:
Teddy Roosevelt served in the military as a Colonel in the NY NatGuard and famously led his troops up San Juan Hill (vs #CaptBoneSpurs & his 5 deferments.)
Teddy was a virulent #Environmentalist who protected #YellowStone & The #GrandCanyon (T**** reopened the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to drilling.)
Resumed France's construction of the #PanamaCanal and agreed to SHARE it.
"Futoshi Tachino Shares How to Rediscover the Beauty of the Natural World
The modern world, bustling with technology and rapid urbanization, has made it increasingly easy to lose touch with the natural environment. Yet, reconnecting with nature is more crucial than ever—not just for our personal well-being but also for the planet’s health.
Read more at:
https://gamesbad.com/futoshi-tachino-shares-how-to-rediscover-the-beauty-of-the-natural-world/
I am deeply concerned about the future of the federal #tax credit for residential #solarpanels under a completely #Republican Congress. That tax credit has made it affordable for millions of Americans to install #solar , which helps prevent harmful emissions, save money, and shore up an aging power grid. Solar panels have created hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs in the USA and generated hundreds of billions of dollars for the economy. #environment #environmentalist
Decades ago, there were only one nesting pair each of #osprey and #baldeagle left in #NewJersey. Today, those species were removed from the #NJ #endangered #species list. What a tremendous victory for the #environment and all the hard work put in by #environmentalist activists all these years in NJ.
a piece every #environmentalist, #climate activist, #collapse activist should read
so long story short:
1. if you consider yourself an #environmentalist you have to openly acknowledge the inherent limits to exponential growth and you MUST NOT NEVER EVER sugarcoat it. it's not #hope. it's delusion.
2. you have to be actively #antifascist, period.
that is the only way how any of this works, that is the only way there is #hope.
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Roman #Emperor Nero (37). He is infamously known as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned".
Birth Anniversary of #French Civil Engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832) - best known for the world-famous #EiffelTower.
Birth Anniversary of Brazilian #Environmentalist Chico Mendes (1944). He was assassinated by a rancher on December 22, 1988.
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