Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

The #COP15 biodiversity framework correctly recognizes #invasivespecies as a major driver of global #biodiversity loss and calls for rates of invasion to be reduced by at least 50% by 2030. This is a very ambitious target that will require innovative risk assessment, monitoring & management of pathways of invasion. Invasive species are a transboundary and multidimensional problem. Cooperation among nations, policy makers, scientists & industry will be crucial for meeting this target.

#NewJersey #lawmakers advance a bill to ban #invasiveplants revive statewide #InvasiveSpecies council.

Environmentalists who have pressed the state for years to revive a long-defunct council to fight invasive plants and animals scored a victory when lawmakers agreed the New Jersey Invasive Species Council should be reestablished.

Click to read more. 👇

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2022/12/15/lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-invasive-plants-revive-statewide-invasive-species-council/

"It’s worth noting that most invasive plants aren’t true invaders; they are escape artists. Every one of the invasive plants I saw in North Carolina was brought to North America deliberately in the 18th and 19th centuries, during a kind of horticultural free-for-all."

Invasive weeds are "the botanical pets of aristocrats, gone feral."

That's from a great article on weed control by Sonya Bennett-Brandt in Wired.

#weeds #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpecies

https://www.wired.com/story/secret-life-invasive-plant-killers/

Morning legends 🤘 Surrounded by wetlands here in Busselton, Western Australia.
#justanotherdayinwa #busselton #sunrise #wetlands #photography #westernaustralia

READ THIS: Smart guy turns his cargo e-bike into a snow plow.

“I estimate that by using it instead of a trade van, I have avoided roughly 30 tonnes of CO2…

His route took him by municipal hall, where he cleared the sidewalk and the bike lane.

He wanted to make the point that the municipality needs to rethink its car-centric perspective to snow clearing, which often ignores the needs of pedestrians.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/victoria-cyclist-created-a-bicycle-with-a-snow-plow

@LizOzselcuk

#CatsOfMastodon
#WhiskersWednesday
#DiscoWhiskersWednesday

The toddler has a 103 degree fever.

Again.

We have been sick with one virus or another since mid-October.

Hard to overstate how devastating this pandemic and now tripledemic has been for those of us with small children.

We are not okay, and this is not sustainable.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams
#EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

“There is nothing inherently unsafe about transit, which is a public space that reflects the broader issues of the city that it moves. The TTC is a microcosm of Toronto, which is struggling with a mental health crisis, a housing crisis and a drug poisoning crisis, all which have persisted for decades but reached a tipping point during the pandemic.” #transit

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/12/27/as-ridership-plummets-the-ttc-faces-another-problem-violent-crime.html

’But what on earth does this have to do with #gardening?’ I hear you cry, in an exasperated fashion.

EVERYTHING!

Gardening is just one way in to reconnecting with our world, our actual, natural world. We are able to create *more* diversity of habitat & native species to support more life.

#NativePlants are better for #wildlife because a wider range of insects prefer to eat them, providing food for the rest of the #ecosystem.

6/?

i considered leaving so many times. but i'll never doubt in the future that i can't stick out hard things, because somehow i fucking *made it*. and even if the circumstances suck, i'm proud of myself for that.

so here it is. my attempt to take a step back and analyze why the chips fell as they did: where i went wrong, where the holes in the support net were, and maybe (?) a way forward for others.

https://www.jfmclaughlin.org/blog/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-defenses

From the hiking trail: an ice-covered woodland pond with evergreen trees and glacial deposits in the background.

#Explore #NewEngland #Nature #hiking #hikingadventures #glacial #Geology #Woodlands

@mmasnick - imagine if Elon did that instead of buying Twitter?

@mmasnick
That is, without a doubt, the loveliest thing I've heard today. Feel like starting a tradition myself, now.

“When you realize that under capitalism, a forest isn’t worth anything until it is cut down, you begin to see where the ecological crisis comes from.” - Adam Idek Hastie
#AntiCapitalism #BiodiversityLoss