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Erik Nordman

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Consultant in climate resilience, environmental econ & policy • Author: The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom • Speaker • Fulbrighter (Kenya)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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I like Bluesky but something I'm realizing is there's a shortage of funny people. @kashana.bsky.social is doing too much labor. We need more funny people

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Read this great thread below. We can build a climate community on Bluesky. Here’s a starter pack for folks to follow some people who work on climate. go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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For the record: voting matters. So does turning up to school board meetings. Community board meetings. Planning and zoning board meetings. Making public comments on pending rules. Contacting public officials. Protesting. Running for office yourself.

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We live at the end of a dead end street, so we don't get much trick or treat traffic. But this could be a game changer.

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Here’s how the Supreme Court's decision to end the "Chevron doctrine" and expand judicial review of administrative agency decisions could affect climate regulation: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/c...

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The US Society for Ecological Economics welcomes Dr. Kate Kish for a seminar on July 5, 2024 at 12:00 EDT.
"Bridging Data Gaps: Measuring Well-bring in Canadian Rural Communities."

FREE registration: acphs.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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If you follow me a little bit you know that I went to Grenada last December to learn how to sail. I have been texting with the boat captain who taught me how to sail (he's from Saint Vincent but works in Grenada they have a freedom of movement agreement) and he shared this gofundme

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Donated. I worked on a project in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2014. It was a climate change and disaster risk reduction curriculum. Hope all those folks are OK.

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The US Society for Ecological Economics welcomes Dr. Kate Kish for a seminar on July 5, 2024 at 12:00 EDT.
"Bridging Data Gaps: Measuring Well-bring in Canadian Rural Communities."

FREE registration: acphs.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Erik Nordman 's avatar Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social
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If the president's official conduct is "not a crime," it would seem nearly impossible to get enough support for impeachment. The bar was always extraordinarily high. But it seems even less likely now.

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Seems like this decision, from a practical perspective, takes impeachment off the table. Not that impeachment was effective before.

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If the president has immunity from prosecution for official acts, that would seem, in a practical sense, to take impeachment off the table, too. Right?

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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“But that carbon tax is useless,” they counter; getting to the real objections, driven by solution aversion. Again, NO. This meta-analysis of 21 policies finds that "introducing a carbon price yields immediate + substantial emission reductions despite the low level of prices." We just need more!

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Read a paper long ago saying Congress was often reluctant to make value judgments & so framed them as technical problems to be solved by experts. Not great but OK.
By diminishing the role of experts, overturning #Chevron may reframe these as value conflicts, hard to resolve.

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Mongabay's avatar Mongabay @mongabay.bsky.social
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In Galicia, shellfish harvesting is traditionally women’s work But the shellfish they depend on are increasingly harder to find Extreme weather events -- made more frequent by climate change & including heat waves and torrential rain -- threaten the shellfish, and with them, the tradition:

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The pizza in this picture is a Chicago tavern style, which is what they do here in West Michigan, too. Square cut on a round pie. Why?

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I think Robert Frank's "Under the Influence" talks about the advantages of a hybrid like the Prius being distinct (a little weird looking) from an ICE model e.g. hybrid Accord. But I don't think this is it.

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Costa Samaras's avatar Costa Samaras @costasamaras.bsky.social
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Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would doom our chances of avoiding the worst outcomes of climate change and ships the clean jobs of the 21st century outside then United States. It would be policy, bad politics, and bad for America.

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Not just Paris, Project 2025 calls for withdrawing from the UNFCCC altogether. "To that end, the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement." (P. 709) Iirc, can withdraw from that in 1 year vs 4 for Paris.

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Read a paper long ago saying Congress was often reluctant to make value judgments & so framed them as technical problems to be solved by experts. Not great but OK.
By diminishing the role of experts, overturning #Chevron may reframe these as value conflicts, hard to resolve.

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I recall the "militia movement" making headlines in the 1990s as well. Does Ganz connect those early militia groups to today's?

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Matthew Borus's avatar Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social
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There is a distinct sociopolitical region of the US that starts in Buffalo and Rochester and continues southeast, though Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake Bay, all the way to North Carolina. I call it the Holy Wegman Empire.

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Nick Geiser's avatar Nick Geiser @nageiser.bsky.social
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He... he literally said the Anatole France line. "The law in its majestic equality prohibits the backpacking influencer and the homeless alike from sleeping in the park."

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Brendan Cantwell's avatar Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social
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The Times and co never ask for Trump to step aside because they know Republicans are irredeemably hostile to decency and democracy - a basket of deplorables! - but are unwilling to say it. So Democrats look abnormally chaotic and Republican indecency and authoritarianism is literally normalized.

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Saw a ghost pipe plant on our walk today.

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David Waldman's avatar David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social
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Well, now it's up to federal judges to closely examine and decide what to do with "fecal soup."

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I watched a law firm's lunch and learn on Chevron last week. They were pretty stoked about the chance at overturning. "Lot's of opportunities on the litigation front!"

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Gail Drakes's avatar Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social
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This argument is fascinating because I was told such closings were due to masses of Black folks stealing too much soap and toothbrushes and hair cream despite being locked behind the plexiglas. Turns out it’s soulless white billionaires fault…good to know.

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I definitely over watered it and it had some root rot. But it's never come back. Thanks, I will give it some more TLC.

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Lady Disdain's avatar Lady Disdain @maggiesox.bsky.social
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Bingo. But why admit fault when you can blame consumers?

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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at joint event with USAID on financing climate resilience: "Extreme weather events, including heat waves, continue to become increasingly severe and frequent, from the East Coast of the United States to India ..." home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

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SJSCentralTX 's avatar SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social
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Nearly half of Texas counties lack disaster plans - especially rural counties. The plans allow counties to receive disaster assistance.

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Any tips on how to grow these? Somehow I've almost killed mine.

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Rite Aid is closing all it's stores in MI and OH.

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Our local Rite Aid is one of the stores that is closing.

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One of the big unmentioned reasons for the closure is that these pharmacies, including Walgreens, have multi-billion opioid settlements against them. Walgreens is on the hook for $5.5 billion.
www.mlive.com/public-inter...

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Wait, it's not a physical box with paper copies of the opinions? 😅 That's how I always imagined it.

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