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1.3 million trees planted in 2025 alone 🌳✨

With one of our newest partners, @plantwpurpose, we’re supporting rural farmers to grow trees in cacao and coffee forests in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Keep searching to help us plant even more trees in 2026 🌱

#ecosia #reforestation #climatehope

#reforestation #ecosia #climatehope

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““We’re operating in disaster mode everyday,” Dr. Parks said.”

Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow | Globe and Mail (gift article link)

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth

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Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow

Call follows deaths of three patients in Grey Nuns Community Hospital emergency on Dec. 22
Alanna Smith (The Globe and Mail)
#abpoli #ableg #abhealth

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 From the other morning when the snow was at times horizontal. Thankfully that didn't last long, but now we head into some even colder weather for the weekend. In this view the grouse were writing messages to Bird Goddess in the snow...
#winter #Ablerta #nature #birds #animist #photography
From lower left and mid left, two sets of bird footprints in nearly straight lines cross the snowy ground, angling slightly upward to the right. The fresh powder snow on the surface is not too deep and the prints are distinct. A slight film filter giving a faint violet hint and enhancing the snow texture has been applied, and edges are blurred and a white vignette effect used.
#Photography #nature #winter #birds #ArtAdventCalendar #animist #ablerta

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In the Rockies, a group of protesters aims to unite Albertans: ‘Most people can agree that we need clean water’ 💧🌲
#abpoli
thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-loggi…

Civil disobedience in the Rockies, in photos | The Narwhal

In Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, organizers set up a civil disobedience camp in response to logging plans
Drew Anderson (The Narwhal)
#abpoli
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Record frostbite amputations in Edmonton, Alberta

I'm ashamed of my province in a lot of ways these days but this is one of the worst

"A controversial practice in both Edmonton and Calgary has been to dismantle tents and homeless encampments. Both cities confirmed that policy will continue this winter, citing safety concerns."

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#homeless #Alberta

Number of amputations with diagnosis of frostbite

Graph from CBC article
www.cbc.ca
#Alberta #homeless
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A government scientist was prevented from speaking to the media and community groups about his research, according to 600 pages of documents obtained by The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stalled-…

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal

An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
Ainslie Cruickshank (The Narwhal)

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One of the (only) ways to protest an FCC launch filing is by showing technical infeasibility. So... I may have started writing a technical paper about Reflect Orbital last night, driven entirely by rage. Luckily I have a lot of astronomer colleagues who I think will help out with this! Because I definitely don't have time to write yet another paper... aaahhhh....

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Roger Moore

Rage can be a powerful motivator. During the CrowdStrike fiasco last year our IT people managed to mess up a computer my lab uses for government regulated work. I wound up doing the investigation, and I was in a white-hot rage when I wrote the report. We were inspected by the government regulators recently, and they mentioned that investigation as an example of how we should be doing things. I'm sure I wouldn't have done so well if I hadn't been so angry.

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Bizarre cannibalism fake news stirs up hatred and fear against refugees

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#India #Rohingya #FakeNews #refugees

What’s behind the growing anti-immigrant discourse around stateless Rohingya in India

The “Bangladeshi Rohingya” framing has become a central weapon in anti-immigrant narratives through systematic disinformation campaigns in India’s digital sphere.
Global Voices
#India #refugees #Rohingya #FakeNews
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Goldfinch and the Drop of Water

I was about to post another sparrow photo—I've got so many good ones, it’s hard to choose. But then I came across this image of a goldfinch (Spinus tristis) pausing for a drink at the birdbath, and I knew this was the one to share.

"A goldfinch perches delicately on the rim of a circular birdbath—its feet gripping the smooth, perforated surface with quiet precision. The birdbath itself is pale and metallic, dotted with evenly spaced holes that catch the light like tiny moons. Against a stark white background, the goldfinch’s plumage blazes with color and clarity. Its head and chest are a brilliant yellow, like sunlight distilled into feathers. The wings are a tapestry of black and white, with crisp markings that resemble brushstrokes on a fine canvas. A warm brown hue softens the transition between its vibrant torso and the darker wings, adding depth to its compact frame. The bird’s beak is slightly open, and from its tip hangs a single, glistening drop of water—suspended in a moment of stillness. The droplet catches the light, a tiny jewel poised between gravity and grace. Whether the bird is mid-song or mid-sip is unclear, but its posture suggests alertness and ease, as if it’s both present and poised to take flight. The white backdrop isolates the scene, drawing all attention to the goldfinch’s vivid colors and the quiet drama of the water droplet. It’s a portrait of balance—between motion and pause, color and calm, life and light." - Microsoft Copilot

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This Beaverton ( /s ) piece is really on the nose
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Is The Temporary Foreign Worker Program working? We asked 4 Tim Hortons franchise owners, and one slum landlord - The Beaverton

The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available, and that's why it is completely uncontroversial and nobody has any issues with it.
Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
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Aceh Tamiang, #Indonesia
A woman stands in a waterlogged street after a flash flood.

Photograph: Yt Hariono/AFP/Getty Images

#photography
#floods
#ClimateDiary

A woman stands in a waterlogged street after a flash flood.
#Photography #indonesia #floods #ClimateDiary

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 02 (still late..lol)
Snow Mother hasn't been around that much this year, but she's starting to catch up this week. #winter #pagan #Latvian #animist #snow #garden
A close view of a couple of remaining apple-crabs on a snowy tree. The apples have frozen and thawed repeatedly for a couple of months so though maybe partly/frozen at the moment they look soft, melted. A criss-cross of snow dusted branches is behind the fruit, and circles of light come through the blurred/shadowed trees behind. I've slightly tinted these violet, pinkish, orange. The edges/corners have a white vignette effect applied.
#winter #garden #snow #Pagan #ArtAdventCalendar #latvian #animist

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What would Scrooge be today? With AI you can do so much better than "Bah Humbug"
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OPINION: The AI Crash will all be worth it if I just get to lay just a few thousand people off - The Beaverton

by Jameson Varner, CEOI'm the CEO of a major accounting firm, and so I have my finger on the market's pulse.
Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
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On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.

Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities while state institutions strive even more blatantly to repress and impoverish us, we need the lessons of the Seattle WTO protests more than ever.

crimethinc.com/WTOEpilogue

A banner with an image of the World Trade Organization as Death. Much of the iconography of the movement that shut down the World Trade Organization framed global trade institutions as anti-democratic, enabling reformists—and later, nationalist reactionaries—to propose solutions that did not cut to the root of the problem.
An iconic photograph of the protests against the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle, 1999, showing a masked woman raising her hands in a victory sign in front of a blockade.

Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization

22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
CrimethInc.

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Water pollution in DRC attributed to Chinese mining company
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Water pollution in DRC attributed to Chinese mining company

While areas rich in rare minerals may be a blessing for the country’s economy, they can also be a curse for the local populations in the DRC.
Global Voices

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