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Alex Johnson
@alexhjohnson.bsky.social
River guy, dad, farmer/environmental markets combo. Oregonian. Rugby lover. Chief Strategy Officer @ Virridy. Fellow @ CU Boulder Mortenson Center. Columbia River Gorge Commissioner.
Sure are a lot of skeets out there in the past month that deserve a reskeet along with “seems bad”
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
February 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Happy 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, one of the most significant pieces of public health legislation ever passed in the United States.

Despite incredible and sustained benefits for most Americans, there is still work to do.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The effects of racism, social exclusion, and discrimination on achieving universal safe water and sanitation in high-income countries
Drinking water and sanitation services in high-income countries typically bring widespread health and other benefits to their populations. Yet gaps in this essential public health infrastructure persist, driven by structural inequalities, racism, poverty, housing instability, migration, climate change, insufficient continued investment, and poor planning. Although the burden of disease attributable to these gaps is mostly uncharacterised in high-income settings, case studies from marginalised communities and data from targeted studies of microbial and chemical contaminants underscore the need for continued investment to realise the human rights to water and sanitation.
www.thelancet.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:24 PM
“Beans and Bugs” -> next big Michael Pollan foodie book
December 3, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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@sarahjeong.bsky.social is singlehandedly transforming BlueSky into a useful & interesting app by drunkenly skeeting out news about the Korean anti-martial law actions
December 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
boy - Irish rugby has taken a few steps back this year; missing their spark. Lucky to come away with a W over plucky Australia. Lions tour upcoming suddenly looking a lot more interesting. Huge congrats to Cian Healey for taking the most-Irish-intl-matches title off of BOD! crazy from a prop
November 30, 2024 at 6:43 PM
I’m preemptively sad & frustrated for the expected departure updates from some of the great fed agency staffers I’ve come to know over the last decade+… 👇🏼
November 27, 2024 at 2:23 AM
honored to be one of tens of people watching the livestream of Duke rugby take on Catholic U in the SE D3 regional quarterfinals. Duke up 41-24 with 18 mins left - about to punch their ticket to the Final 4 in Houston 👊🏻
November 24, 2024 at 8:03 PM
seems not ideal.
Just to emphasize: Saudi Arabia *and only Saudi Arabia* was sent a draft of the COP29 negotiating documents *by the COP presidency* so that Saudi Arabia alone *could edit it directly*.
Man, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough.

“We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku
November 24, 2024 at 1:03 AM
so far I’ve spent my leg surgery rehab following COP negotiations, learning more about the Columbia River Gorge Commission, watching my college rugby team compete in the D3 championships, researching Brooke Rollins to see what she may want to do at USDA… quite a potpourri
November 24, 2024 at 1:02 AM
gotta hand it to Rhino Rugby - this is a fun tee shirt for those who love both rugby and Taco Bell usa.rhinorugby.com/products/tac...
November 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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This reporting on a wave energy project in Oregon highlights a critical question for the clean energy buildout: how to resolve potential conflict over siting, a classic land (ocean) use dilemma. In this case, why did local crabbers - who will lose economically near-term - come to support it?
This seaside town will power thousands of homes with waves
A test site off the Oregon coast could be key to unlocking wave power in the United States. Surprisingly, residents aren’t opposed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:17 AM
i just had my femur broken & a telescoping rod installed to fix a 1.5in leg length discrepancy, AMA 😜
November 21, 2024 at 10:32 AM
love having water news folks like @mavensnotebook.bsky.social and a bunch more NBA content on here - the place is really filling out nicely!
November 17, 2024 at 12:12 AM
So. I’m on my way home from La Paz BCS (MX). My brain is smoking because I haven’t been in a professional spanish-speaking setting for a long while, but everyone I met with gave me a lot of grace & worked with my espanglish. Anyhow, to the interest of some of the water people on here, La Paz
November 15, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Haven’t come across a water people list so I made my first starter pack! A broadly defined set of #water experts go.bsky.app/V1LydbV
September 9, 2024 at 11:17 PM
damn I’m embarrassed to get all these new followers as BlueSky is blowing up, given I’m not currently tweeting much rn. Here’s what I’ve got to offer - this week a bear ran off with one of our leftover halloween pumpkins! in our back forest - Hood River County, OR.
November 14, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Currently at a panel featuring WRI, LifeStraw, Xylem and Millenium Water Alliance that is focused on the existing state of carbon-financed water resiliency work globally. Pretty impressive and generally unheralded health outcomes to date - but so much opportunity for growth! #climate #water
August 27, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Spent 5mos away from bsky but ready to get back at it - any other climate folks at World Water Week in Stockholm this week?
August 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Happy World Water Day to all who celebrate - we just published the report ‘Decarbonizing Water’ here: static1.squarespace.com/static/63ffa...
static1.squarespace.com
March 23, 2024 at 4:47 AM
So how’s this place holding up as an unwalled garden
February 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM
We’ve got to decarbonize water - 10% global emissions are from the water sector! I was part of a team writing a report getting introduced at COP28 tomorrow, here’s info:

“Unlocking Voluntary Carbon Market Investment in Resilient Water Systems: A High-Impact Dialogue."
December 2, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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Never stops making me mad every time I see it: if we had begun the process of eliminating fossil fuels in the 1990s, it would've been a relatively shallow curve.

Climate deniers and delayers have put us in a position where the same temp limits require a cliff-like drop in emissions.
November 21, 2023 at 8:24 PM
As a fan of both vinyl records and climate action, I endorse this graphic!
The title says it all.
November 20, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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I have been writing about climate change for 15 years and this year I have been experiencing more deeply disturbing cognitive dissonance than ever before
One thing I think not enough people know is that the US is the biggest oil producer in the world and this year, eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, will be the biggest single year for US oil production in history. 2024 will break that record.
Major Fossil Fuel Producers Are Likely to Blow Past Climate Change Targets
Countries including U.S., Russia, and China are set to blow past production goals in spite of pledges to reduce fossil fuel dependence.
themessenger.com
November 8, 2023 at 2:25 PM