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Melanie Winter@wuddaworld.bsky.social |
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autodidact, generalist, synthesist, rabble-rouser, naiad, cassandra. work with nature. smash the patriarchy. founder/director @RiverProjectLA born @ 313ppm
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Clarity about vision and values. When you don't know what's coming you can still know what you stand for and where you are trying to go. You can have your compass ready when rapid change and destabilization might spin you around.
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Andrew D Thaler
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We're in the most dangerous moment not because we're doomed, but because we're at the razor's edge of a tipping point between the future we could have and the past that a bunch of losers are desperately holding on to, and just, like, the tiniest fucking thing could push it one way or the other.
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Melanie Winter
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I'm in Los Angeles, where we go hard when it comes to underfunding parks. During budget time, one of our Councilmembers once compared parks to dessert - as in something you only spend money on when you have a surplus.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Promising comfort, the extractive growth paradigm brought us the discomfort of heatwaves, floods, and fires, even to the heart of empire.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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When your vision exceeds current reality that creates tension - it hurts to see something that is not (yet) manifest. In that tension there are 3 options: 1. lower your vision to reduce the tension (which is part of how we get the the world we've got.)
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Melanie Winter
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Still have my black mini and electric blue nano. I have a hard time getting rid of old tech.
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Melanie Winter
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Thank you! Doing all the complementary-to-chemo things I can for stage 4 lung cancer.
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Melanie Winter
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Interested in your recipe. It’s a mushroom I’m supposed to be eating more often.
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Melanie Winter
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Same! Saw one parked in my neighborhood this morning. Looked like rough draft of a bad idea. Embarrassing.
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Melanie Winter
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Thanks! Just read it. Concept sounds promising. Curious to see if it proves effective (or is even being considered) for more than post-surgical patients (mine's non-resectable), and how quickly trials move forward this side of the pond. Adding to the list of things to discuss with my oncologist(s).
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Melanie Winter
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Almost got my hopes up. Great news for those with NSC lung cancer with ALK rearrangement (the driver with the most treatment options already), not so much for folks with any of the other genetic drivers (like me).
Latest chart on 1st & 2nd line treatment options per driver: bit.ly/4c0Znie
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
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Nüümü tribe from "Owens Valley, Southern California" put water "to beneficial use" and would like to prove its water rights. Great story by Teresa Cotsirilos on FERN News, quoting Felicia Marcus, among others. thefern.org/2024/05/in-c...
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Melanie Winter
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This looks pretty great.
“The age of denial is over The time has come to take a different path .”
californiawaterblog.com/2024/05/12/b...
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Melanie Winter
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Encouraging news. Interested to learn why the frame was limited to "streakbank" rather than "floodplain" restoration. It's a not unmeaningful distinction.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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...we all got a ticket for this ride at birth, and that a small group is simultaneously sabotaging the ride and figuring out how to monetize an improbable escape route is just ridiculous if you get enough distance to see it playing out. These are the brilliant minds at work?
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Melanie Winter
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Any time anemone nemorosa comes up I hear it murmured reverently in the voice of character actor Richard Haydn in “Ball of Fire” - one of my favorite screwball comedies (with Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck)
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Melanie Winter
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That stuff gave me persistent lightning flashes across my peripheral vision and intense itching all over. Never again.
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Dr. Jeff Masters
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Some extraordinary exposure: California’s “FAIR Plan, growing at a rate of about 27 percent a year, has only about $250 million in cash on hand. One major fire near Lake Arrowhead, where the Plan holds $8 billion in policies, would plunge the whole scheme into insolvency.”
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Melanie Winter
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Seconding the Daybreak recommendation (currently obsessed) - and it was developed by the folks who created Pandemic, too!
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Melanie Winter
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Ah. Yeah I think an older model had a snooze button programmed in but not anymore. Users keep asking, alas.
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Melanie Winter
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Just checked my alarm settings and apparently you can have different ones for every day of the week and then some.
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Melanie Winter
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It’s got an automatic setting? I’ve used it as my M-F alarm for years. Mine’s set to NPR, but a chime alarm is also an option.
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Melanie Winter
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You could go with a basic Sonos speaker that can be programmed to wake you with an alarm or radio/music, but it'd cost a bit more and won't show you the time.
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Melanie Winter
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To be fair, I should amend the list to include the Woodman Ave & Victory Blvd medians and the Elmer St project( all decent GI projects built in the past 15 years in the public ROW) and our Water LA work on private properties. Demonstration projects easily replicable with political will.
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Melanie Winter
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Oh, dear. The city doesn’t have any sponge infrastructure. Not in the way Singapore & other cities are starting to do. We have 5 spreading grounds, most built in the 1930s. They used to perc ~30k AFY, but (based on our rec) some have been reconfigured and optimized. Other than that, it’s just plans.
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Melanie Winter
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A similar project (2k acres, 8 miles of floodplain restoration) was analyzed for technical feasibility and proposed right here in Los Angeles. The City has different ideas. Cover that next, maybe? www.theriverproject.org/sepulveda-ba...
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Melanie Winter
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Couple articles here. www.latimes.com/california/s... www.laforward.institute/report-forwa...
Mostly tech and concrete heavy shovel ready projects agencies had sitting on their shelves. What nature-based work NGOs did was offset by additional hardscape created by agency projects.
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Melanie Winter
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Would be awesome if true. Despite clear goals to reduce impervious surface area, the first billion in Measure W stormwater investment unpaved a net total of ~5 acres.
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Melanie Winter
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Just started watching on Netflix last night! Loving it.
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Rebecca Traister
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I wrote about the thing where you look at the California senate primary and think "Wow, what an incredible bench!" then turn away, take a breath, look again and think "Wow, what a garbage fire!"
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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The same linkages that make problems interconnected can make solutions interconnected too. It's the same feedback loop that drives an upward vs a downwards spira.
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Melanie Winter
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re: that storage issue - kinda makes one wonder if the Building Industry Assoc has some sort of unholy arrangement with the Self Storage Assoc.
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
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"State management of Calif’s headwaters could benefit the water resources planning. But its current plan for climate adaption doesn't mention “headwater,” “mountain,” “meadow,” or “forest," says hydroclimatologist Mike Dettinger in a new paper (citing me, Ben Goldfarb, Peter Gleick, Ben Dittbrenner)
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Anyway, sick of being called irrational, emotional, or unrealistic when a whole systems long-time horizon view is anything but.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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English needs a word that we could replace stupid and dumb with that isn't about intellect but kind of a mashup of "willfull ignorance" and "incuriosity"
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
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Conventional wisdom: "Our infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.” Solution = more infrastructure. In fact, infrastructure is making water disasters much worse. I explain how in cities, forests, farms, and drylands: Nature Outlook: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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The thing is there's no choice that isn't change. So why not choose change at the roots where it could actually prevent symptoms that become ever more unmanageable.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Jockeying for domination and supremacy in an interconnected system is going to end in disaster. Imagine if your liver tried that. Or your gallbladder. So let's cut the crap and try to find our way out of these messes using practices, processes & systems fit for a world of interconnection, shall we?
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Emily Atkin
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Being alarmed about something that is objectively, factually alarming does not equal being an "alarmist." You just think it does because you're uncomfortable with emotion and you equate calmness with intelligence
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Melanie Winter
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yup. and you have to be able to afford to go outside the system to get proper help.
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Melanie Winter
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Oof, been there. They prescribe mediocre therapists that don't consider your particular case but go by the book; they have a made up schedule for how fast you should recover; if you don't meet it, they end treatment & classify you as permanently disabled rather than prescribe better therapies.
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Melanie Winter
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A good boy! Mind my asking what backpack you use? Having a heck of a time choosing one for my girl.
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Melanie Winter
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Asked my pharmacy for novovax and they said they stopped carrying it since it only comes in 5-dose vials that expire quickly once opened, meaning they had to have 5 people wanting it at the same time. Absent demand, they were ending up losing doses and eating the cost. Gonna try rite aid...
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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Petition that no one who isn't blown away, awestruck and humbled by the complexity of ecological systems can run for public office.
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Melanie Winter
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Ooh, sounds good - looking forward to seeing an open access version someday!!
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Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
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“The climate problem is not just about carbon. It’s very much about water transport, which is strongly influenced by vegetation cover ... playing a huge role in weather extremes.” Excited re my story in @NatureWaterJnl exploring links among plants, water and climate. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Melanie Winter
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yep!
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Melanie Winter
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I live on Hella these days, both classic and grapefruit!
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Melanie Winter
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and he gave you a shout out on Colbert, too!
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