#environmental

[ecoamerica]

Watch @ecoamerica's 2026 American Climate Leadership Awards now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdF0SDmn1xE

The 2026 American Climate Leadership Awards broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel! Tune in to be inspired by leaders and organizations advancing local climate solutions nationwide. Join us in celebrating the impactful work of the finalists and young leaders. Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and Jerome Foster II, and with a special appearance by Bill McKibben!

[mysticdragon3md3]

[jmossart]

California poppies WIP, playing with translucency ❤️‍🔥

[miamaimania]

"Floating Echoes" - A red whisper in Chinatown's puddles.

[blurbofparadise]

"The slogan 'refuse, reduce, reuse, repair and recycle' provides us with a hierarchy of strategies for dealing with waste. Refuse means to decide not to engage in the consuming action or task in the first place because it is not necessary. Reduce means to minimize the materials and energy required or the frequency of the consuming action. Reuse means either reuse for the same purpose or put to the next best use. Repair means to use skill and very limited additional resources to restore function. Recycle means to break down into more basic elements or materials before being reprocessed for the same or other uses."

- Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holgren, page 112

[you-need-not-apply]

White sharks are washing up dead in South Australia.

Read that again.

White sharks are washing up dead in South Australia.

This is because the temperature of the ocean has risen, causing an algae bloom to over take the water, smothering their gills and suffocating them.

The temperature has risen.

This algae bloom has caused an ecological catastrophe. It’s a dead zone for all gilled life forms. When it dies it will smoother the aquatic life.

White sharks are washing up dead.

[thedruidsforest]

Protect the Porcupine Mountains!

Hello friends - I come to you asking for your help on protecting the most beloved piece of my home, the beautiful Porcupine Mountains of Michigan's upper peninsula.

The Porkies are a vast swath of old growth forest, rivers, waterfalls, lakes, Lake Superior shoreline, and a vast home to so much wildlife. In 2022, it was ranked as the most beautiful state park in the entire US.

Right now, it's under threat again for a third time. Highland Copper is a brand-new Canadian copper mining company, and they want to open Copperwood Mine right along the border of the park, and are vying for a grant of $50 million taxpayer dollars to do so. The mine would be a 15 second drive from the park, and all of the waste that they generate (98.5% of everything they pull from the ground), including lead, arsenic, and a plethora of other poisons, would drain directly into Lake Superior, which holds 10% of the world's fresh water.

The company has been trying to get this grant for years - it has passed the Michigan house only to be shot down in the senate twice. Just last week, it passed the house again, and moves along to the senate with a deadline of September 30th.

The kicker in this is, a BIG reason it was shut down was due to public outcry. So, I'm making this post here to try to raise awareness of the issue, and ask if you can set aside 5 minutes of your day to write to the senators listed in the link below. Even if you're not a Michigan resident—if you're in the Midwest, or anywhere in the US, this will affect you too. There are templates on the website linked below as well. Please write if you can, or make a phone call or three—anything helps, and the more we flood the senators' inboxes, the more we will drive this home, that this mine cannot be built.

ProtectThePorkies website