Leslie Garrett

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...

Adopted a Pyr due to a neglect case in Arkansas and Polar was the absolute best boy. Lost a leg to bone cancer at 7 and lived four more years as a tripawd. So loyal, smart, and stoic.

Adding to my vocabulary and plan to drop "frass" into casual cocktail conversation. Much appreciated.

The Toronto Story This is the story of a city and how it grew from an unk…

Oldie but goodie: (my cousin) Claire Mackay's The Toronto Story: www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

And me. A book I wrote for "just-learning-to-read" kids about the environment.

How the Klamath Dams Came Down Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

Read the full five part story here: grist.org/project/indi...

Reporting: Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle
Illustrations: Jackie Fawn

#Indigenous #Fish #Dams #Justice #Environment

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a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle ALT: a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle

buy Canadian.

Noble idea. an one I will pursue.

But I think we need to really consider applying this tactic to perhaps the most important industry.

Media.

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I don't have to reply to a pitch to write for me when the writer uses "u" instead of "you", do I? I'm thinking ... no.

The First Business in ‘Little Côte d’Ivoire’? | The Local From Chinatown to Little Italy, every historic ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. Can that process still work in 2025?

Beautiful story about one of the many ways in which immigrants contribute to our cities and create community. In this case, by sharing their culture's food: thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Morning walk with dog through snowy woods

Quintessentially Canadian winter morning walk in the woods

"The cruelty is the point."

Combatting the mis- and disinformation around climate initiatives is an endless game of whack-a-mole. Solutions are not perfect. Much is new technology that will evolve. But continuing to burn fossil fuels with abandon is. Not. An. Option. (At least not a good one.)

This Thanksgiving, Biden Should Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Amnesty International has campaigned for Peltier’s release for decades. The group recently sent a letter to President Biden, reiterating their demand.

speaking of pardons....

President Biden still has the power to free Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.

“If we lose the CBC, we lose a key institution that connects us with our past and helps us understand our future. And if we lose the CBC, we risk losing the ability to separate and sort objective fact from self-interested fiction.
If we lose that? Well, then we lose our country.”

Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change - Carbon Brief A global treaty on plastics, touted as the most important environmental treaty since the Paris Agreement, will be negotiated in South Korea.

I have my platform biases like everyone.

But I’m slightly puzzled how little coverage the global plastics treaty talks is getting. Either we get this right or every other story on each site doesn’t matter www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-...

Heat Pumps Demystified - Bluedot Living Everybody’s pumped about heat pumps! But what are they, how do they work (especially in cold climates), and who will help finance one?

Wondered the same thing so assigned a Canadian to write this (tl;dr they work fine in beliw freezing temps) bluedotliving.com/heat-pumps-d...

The Answer to Democrats’ Class Problem Is Staring Them in the Face The climate crisis offers one of the strongest fields imaginable for proving fealty to the working class against rapacious elites.

"Rather than run from climate conversations, Democrats ... should shout with one voice every time a community is poisoned by pollution or a climate disaster leaves a family homeless ... : “Look what these fossil fuel fat cats are doing to you!" 👏 newrepublic.com/article/1886...

If you were an Ontario school kid, you have memories of the Science Centre. I still remember things I learned from exhibits (for instance, just how faulty our memories are for eyewitness accounts).

Similar to what's happened in Canada. So much anger being turned into policy.

it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

The Killing of the Science Centre | The Local The 55-year old museum shuttered without warning one Friday in June. Then devastated staff were given four months to dismantle it. A former employee on the last days of a beloved institution.

The Local continues to do really great reporting and storytelling. This one about the killing of the Ontario Science Centre: thelocal.to/ontario-scie...

Bluesky starting to feel like a great house party where you keep bumping into people you kinda forgot about but are genuinely happy to see again.

Thanks! Londoner here 👋👋

Well … can thank the election for sending me back to therapy, and bringing back my need for both a sleep aid and mouthguard so I can’t grind my teeth 😩. Was a nice 4 year reprieve

Long-time freelancer turned staff editor/writer for Bluedot Living (solutions-focused climate journalism with newsletter locations around U.S. and Canada). Would love to be added! :)

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
-Bet taker (ticket puncher?) at a race track
-essay typer pre-computer
-Santa’s elf

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