"Listen to what makes your hair stand on end, your heart melt, and your eyes go wide, what stops you in your tracks and makes you want to live, wherever it comes from, and hope that your writing can do all those things for other people." ~ Rebecca Solnit / @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"Nothing is more dangerous for a writer than to be dismissive. To dismiss means to judge, and nothing kills a piece of writing faster than that. Make room, make room! Let the world in all its shades and tones and terrains take you more fully into the human heart. " ~ Lee Martin

Dad Spends Daughter’s Wedding Day Thinking About History Of Oil MOUNT CLEMENS, MI—With guests congratulating him and his family as his mind drifted back from the very beginnings of ancient organic matter becoming trapped beneath the Earth’s surface, local dad Bren...

Dad Spends Daughter’s Wedding Day Thinking About History Of Oil

#workinprogress What I'm working on now: "POSTING MEMES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD WHILE THE WORLD ENDS 2025" 21.9"x34.5, charcoal & graphite on paper

Ya, baby. Our new #inductionstove (from gas). Up to 10 per cent more efficient than electric stoves and 3 times more efficient than gas. National Resources Canada reports gas ranges in Canadian homes emitted about 370,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2018 – more than about 80,000 cars in a year.

“There will never be a shortage of one inexhaustible thing—plain old life.” ~ Elizabeth Spencer

Turning Farmland Back to Peatland: Can It Slow CO2 Emissions? Farmers have long drained peatlands for agriculture, but the dried-out soils release vast quantities of CO2. To halt this process, new initiatives in Germany are not only rewetting peatlands but also ...

Globally, drained peatlands unleash more heat-trapping gas than the aviation industry.

Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging.