Alaina Wood
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Alaina Wood
@thegarbagequeen.bsky.social
Appalachian Climate Storyteller
Sustainability Scientist & Climate Activist
🌍 goodclimatenews.substack.com
📧 [email protected]
Clean energy and natural materials. We have replacements for many things made from fossil fuels. The rest just needs more research and development. The world won’t effectively go for those alternatives until we commit to phasing out fossil fuels and getting rid of their subsidies though.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Learn more about what I’m fighting:
Protect Jonesborough
www.protectjonesborough.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thank you!! BWXT already found the video on Instagram, and I’m having to delete comments from their bots/employees. They’re trying to gaslight someone who knows exactly how they cover up their pollution!!
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you’re local, please copy + paste this email script and send it to the Washington County planning commission members that have email addresses.

There’s also a rezoning discussion meeting on Monday at the Justice Center in Jonesborough at 6 PM that y’all should attend if you can.
Tell The Planning Commission: No To BWXT Rezoning Request
NORTHEAST TENNESSEE LOCALS: URGE THE WASHINGTON COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION TO DENY THE REZONING REQUEST FOR BWXT COPY + PASTE THIS SCRIPT IN YOUR EMAIL: Dear [Official’s Name], I am contacting yo...
docs.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please sign this petition regardless of where you live.

(I didn’t create the petition so don’t yell at me about the AI art)
Sign the Petition
Stop BWXT's Uranium Processing Expansion in Jonesborough!
www.change.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here’s how I check what that man is up to without having to sign up for Truth Social:

civictracker.us/executive/me...

Go read his posts for yourself.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Far too many climate scientists. I don’t want to tag them to start drama. I just want them to do better.
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
No prominent activist is saying it, but hundreds upon hundreds of everyday activists did after Helene. So many left me nasty comments and messages, and I’m actually still in counseling for it. I never knew how many folks hate Appalachia so much they’d wish me harm. It really messed me up.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So I should rot even though I stayed behind in Appalachia as a scientist and activist to make it a better place?
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I had to stop taking screenshots of harmful things people say to me so I could respond to folks like you with evidence. It was ruining my mental health.

Just because you haven’t seen the cruel posts and comments, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Sometimes you just gotta believe folks.

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November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I was being told while I still didn’t have power that my community deserved Hurricane Helene and that these blue state climate activists wouldn’t be supporting recovery efforts due to the way my state voted in recent elections.

It wasn’t bots. It was real people. Some of them I know.

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November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM