@vivekgani.bsky.social
Still wayfinding. Trying to understand paths during these times of planetary change. Open to feedback. Also on @[email protected]
Likes ≠ Endorsements
Likes ≠ Endorsements
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Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
Decreasing landscape carbon storage in western US forests with 2 °C of warming - IOPscience
Decreasing landscape carbon storage in western US forests with 2 °C of warming, Hurteau, Matthew D, Jung, Chang Gyo, Francis, Emily J, Dobrowski, Solomon Z, Littlefield, Caitlin E, Parks, Sean A
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
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Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...
phys.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.
And they were nothing like "primitive"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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You may appreciate one of my favorite stories eg-solar.de/en/nepal/ describing how an old growth forest was saved from becoming firewood by solar cookers. Near 7K cookers in a 20+K refugee camp.
This is how resourced countries help.
This is how resourced countries help.
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You may appreciate one of my favorite stories eg-solar.de/en/nepal/ describing how an old growth forest was saved from becoming firewood by solar cookers. Near 7K cookers in a 20+K refugee camp.
This is how resourced countries help.
This is how resourced countries help.
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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"Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having." – The Dalai Lama
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
Is the Insight Tradition Complicit in Genocide?
Dharma without courage becomes complicity
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having." – The Dalai Lama
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
open.substack.com/pub/buddhist...
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Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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I’m looking locally first and professionally but if anybody knows an actual genuine high-quality bookkeeper who knows how to whip a small Non Profit into shape and has some kind of sliding scale. We are looking right now.
needs to be easy and something in the wheelhouse of the person or company.
needs to be easy and something in the wheelhouse of the person or company.
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I’m looking locally first and professionally but if anybody knows an actual genuine high-quality bookkeeper who knows how to whip a small Non Profit into shape and has some kind of sliding scale. We are looking right now.
needs to be easy and something in the wheelhouse of the person or company.
needs to be easy and something in the wheelhouse of the person or company.
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Even fallen trees reach for the light.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Even fallen trees reach for the light.
"What would it take to extract what we need to move away from fossil fuels in the coming years without engaging in extractivism?"
I really enjoyed speaking with @triofrancos.bsky.social about EVs, minerals, the birds of the Atacama salt flats, the surprising biodiversity of microbes, and her great new book, Extraction.
windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/on-evs-min...
windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/on-evs-min...
Are EV Batteries Destroying Indigenous Lands?
Thea Riofrancos is asking all the hard questions — and pointing to some encouraging answers.
windowofopportunity.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"What would it take to extract what we need to move away from fossil fuels in the coming years without engaging in extractivism?"
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Just wrapped up an intense week in Pakistan’s high-grit plateau around Peshawar and the Indus River Valley – some of the most challenging landscapes for biodiversity conservation. Inspired by the efforts of local communities, forest & wildlife authorities, WWF Pakistan and conservationists. 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just wrapped up an intense week in Pakistan’s high-grit plateau around Peshawar and the Indus River Valley – some of the most challenging landscapes for biodiversity conservation. Inspired by the efforts of local communities, forest & wildlife authorities, WWF Pakistan and conservationists. 1/2
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If you only call for new construction and bike-friendly cities, you might get a few apartments and a better urban vibe, as social and just as that may be, also a lot of climate change due to the building materials.
This is the time for the big transformation of Everything.
This is the time for the big transformation of Everything.
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you only call for new construction and bike-friendly cities, you might get a few apartments and a better urban vibe, as social and just as that may be, also a lot of climate change due to the building materials.
This is the time for the big transformation of Everything.
This is the time for the big transformation of Everything.
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"The Trump EPA approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram, a “forever chemical,” for golf courses, lawns & food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, & oats. The administration plans to approve 3 more PFAS pesticides in the coming year." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram for golf courses, lawns and food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, and oats. The pesticid...
biologicaldiversity.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"The Trump EPA approved the highly persistent pesticide isocycloseram, a “forever chemical,” for golf courses, lawns & food crops such as oranges, tomatoes, almonds, peas, & oats. The administration plans to approve 3 more PFAS pesticides in the coming year." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Some important news this week that fell below the headlines or other news
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Some important news this week that fell below the headlines or other news
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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Preview of coming attractions in the American Southwest.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Preview of coming attractions in the American Southwest.
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FYI, comments on this new attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act are due by December 22, 2025. The short version is: potential economic impacts will override scientific data; that includes development construction, drilling, etc. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Designating Critical Habitat
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS or the Service), propose to amend portions of our regulations for section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act or ESA). Specifically, we...
www.federalregister.gov
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
FYI, comments on this new attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act are due by December 22, 2025. The short version is: potential economic impacts will override scientific data; that includes development construction, drilling, etc. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Be sure to read this major investigation by Robert Lopez. capitalandmain.com/californias-...
California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
capitalandmain.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Be sure to read this major investigation by Robert Lopez. capitalandmain.com/californias-...
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Policy Brief by Blue Community Ambassador Rosario Sánchez together with Ivonne Cruz:
Binational Governance of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States.
blue-community.net/2...
Binational Governance of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States.
blue-community.net/2...
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Policy Brief by Blue Community Ambassador Rosario Sánchez together with Ivonne Cruz:
Binational Governance of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States.
blue-community.net/2...
Binational Governance of Transboundary Aquifers between Mexico and the United States.
blue-community.net/2...
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The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The wholesale corruption of the information ecosystem and deliberate destruction of sources of reliable factual knowledge is the world’s most urgent problem, in my opinion—and it’s continuously getting worse, with no end in sight, at a civilizational scale I could barely imagine just a few years ago
"52 percent of renters living in Austin and the surrounding counties spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs, which include rent and utilities"
The Nov. 4 trouncing of Austin City Council’s Proposition Q tax hike ballot measure has prompted soul searching by some council members as they seek to regain the trust of voters who overwhelmingly rejected higher taxes.
austinfreepress.org/constituent-...
austinfreepress.org/constituent-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"52 percent of renters living in Austin and the surrounding counties spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs, which include rent and utilities"
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Story here insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Story here insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...
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#education #forestschool #homeschool #edusky #ecology #unschool #nature #foraging #environmentaleducation #deepadaptation
Picture is Tricia Pilkington processing acorns with kids during one of my Explorations in Ecology Meetups.
Picture is Tricia Pilkington processing acorns with kids during one of my Explorations in Ecology Meetups.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#education #forestschool #homeschool #edusky #ecology #unschool #nature #foraging #environmentaleducation #deepadaptation
Picture is Tricia Pilkington processing acorns with kids during one of my Explorations in Ecology Meetups.
Picture is Tricia Pilkington processing acorns with kids during one of my Explorations in Ecology Meetups.
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Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet.
“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”
“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet.
“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”
“Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”
"Green Revolution [...] wasn’t just about using synthetic chemicals and high-yield seeds to produce more food, it was also withdrawing more groundwater [...] Today, exhausted soils and collapsing aquifers are twin legacies of that mid-century surge." climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-big-gr...
The big groundwater crisis - food, water, pollution, and social unrest : John Cherry interview Part I
groundwater supplies our freshwater, water crisis is based in a groundwater crisis, virtual water hides the groundwater crisis
climatewaterproject.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"Green Revolution [...] wasn’t just about using synthetic chemicals and high-yield seeds to produce more food, it was also withdrawing more groundwater [...] Today, exhausted soils and collapsing aquifers are twin legacies of that mid-century surge." climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-big-gr...