#HoldenME - #Ecological #GardenDesign Workshop

Saturday, February 21, 9 am-12:30 pm
Fields Pond Audubon Center

"Join #MaineAudubon for a hands-on workshop exploring how to design beautiful, functional gardens that support #Maine #NativeWildlife. Led by #NativePlant expert Andrew Tufts, this half-day session will introduce ecological design principles, guide you through site analysis, and help you sketch a habitat-friendly garden plan for your own space. Perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners alike!

Maine Audubon strives to provide inclusive and accessible programs for all members of the community. If you require accommodations to participate in this program, please email events@maineaudubon.org. Maine Audubon can best meet the needs of requests submitted at least seven days before the event start date."

$45 member, $55 nonmember
Space is limited; pre-registration required.

FMI and to register:
https://maineaudubon.org/events/ecological-garden-design-feb21/

#SolarPunkSunday #MaineEvents #HabitatFriendlyGardens #Gardening #GardeningWorkshops #GardenPlanning #EcologicalGardens
#GardeningClasses #GardeningForPollinators

2/2 And it's worse: "Enthusiasts trek to remote rural areas to try to lift designated stones. ... Last year a boulder known as Cloch Bán, or White Stone, was shipped to enthusiasts in Boston."
Such Instagram #influencer behaviour can not only disrupt important #ecological #habitats, but also #archaeological sites. Because that is the difference between modern 'influenca' and ancient customs: in the past, people knew how to do things in harmony with #nature rather than for photos and profit.

We urgently need to overcome the #capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent #social and #ecological priorities www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can move beyond the capital...

Nate Hagens: Wide Boundary News.

Last week’s Frankly inaugurated a new category for videos on The Great Simplification platform, Wide Boundary News, in which I invite listeners to view the constant churn of headlines through a wider-boundary lens. As we are increasingly inundated with vast quantities of news (and nervous system dysregulation!), it becomes important to be able to tease out a thread on how they interconnect. The stories we tell ourselves about progress, growth, and stability no longer perfectly line up with the biophysical reality beneath them – in my words, ‘A biophysical phase shift cometh.’

https://youtu.be/ICBs1DvU5PY

#NateHagens #GreatSimplification #WideBoiundaryNews #ecological #climateChange #collapse #AI

The🏔️mountains are calling!📣
Welcome to our second special issue on the uplift history and #biological #evolution of the Himalaya-a vital cradle for unique #plant and #animal #life, and a remarkable #ecological treasure😍
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70039
@WileyEcology
#JSE #systematics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/what-trumps-plans-for-the-arctic-mean-for-the-global-climate-crisis. His plans mean #ecological #disaster - & he couldn't care less!

The inexpensive #HeatPump as a direct replacement for the #GasBoiler is always going to be fraught with #Disinformation when it comes to evaluating value vs performance. What is not subject to debate however are the #Decarbonization and #Ecological benefits of no longer burning gas. These are #Facts. Home designs must evolve to maximize the benefit streams, along with #BehavioralChange by consumers. @primonatura

#Wildfires, rising #floods, burnout, and obscene concentrations of #wealth are often treated as separate crises. #Sociology tells a different #story. These phenomena are deeply connected, produced by a single #social system that organizes life around profit rather than #human and #ecological well-being. #Capitalism is not merely failing—it is structurally generating #crisis
https://rachidzidine.substack.com/p/capitalism-as-a-social-and-ecological

well, if you expected the world to end because nations will end it all in a nuclear war in a fistfight over the last oil, that the #ecological & #climatechange situation will kill masses of people or that an economic crash so bad happens that the economy never recovers ever again, and spend your entire life trying to understand that particular scenario, the world3 scenario...

“ #Degrowth in material and energy throughput, combined with a radical #redistribution of #wealth and the devolution of decision-making power to #localgovernments is the only path that can rein in the forces driving #ecological #destruction & #human #suffering” canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Empire, ecology, and Canada’s ...

The record global ocean heat content is coherent with the extreme meteorological events and the never seen levels of pollutants in the atmosphere
#ecological #emergency #emergenciaclimatica #climatechange

COP30 was widely described as “the Indigenous COP.” But what does participation really mean?

This special episode of the Relational Science podcast, Post Growth Fellows, WarīNkwī Flores, Kaime Silvestre, and Josephine Ewoma, along with PGI team member Felipe Cortines, reflect on what unfolded in Brazil.

They examine how #Indigenous #leadership, #ecological knowledge, #climate #finance, and #AI governance intersect.

Listen now (transcript included): https://medium.com/postgrowth/the-aftermath-of-cop30-climate-governance-through-a-relational-lens-93148c1e848f?source=friends_link&sk=dd9120977e09b6f832de49902537b646

#postgrowth

@Geotripper I hear ya. A bit of fog now and then is tolerable. But the interminable weeks and weeks of fog of my grad school days - ugh. I suppose fog serves #ecological functions (sigh) for the native #flora of the Central Valley. My perception is that the number of foggy days in the valley has declined over the past decade or so. Perhaps related to the aridification that is occurring across the western US.

This report for the Scientific Frontline "What Is" series provides an detailed analysis of the #invasive species phenomenon. It moves beyond simple definitions to explore the complex #ecological mechanics that allow these #organisms to dominate naïve #ecosystems
#WhatIs #Ecology #Environmental #Conservation #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/wi01162601.html

Watching "Ocean with David Attenborough" - The industrial bottom trailing fishing industry is just heart breaking.

How does one only buy fish that's not fished in that way?

#ecological #fishing

#Cyanobacteria are key #ecological players of global carbon and nitrogen cycles. They are also becoming increasingly important for carbon-neutral biotechnology. They could serve as green cell factories for a light-driven and sustainable production of #chemicals and #fuels
#Biotechnology #Microbiology #MolecularBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/btech01142601.html

China is testing a megawatt airborne wind turbine that flies high above the ground to tap into stronger and more stable winds.

Instead of a massive tower, the system uses a helium-lifted platform to generate power where wind is more consistent. Developers say this could use far less material than traditional turbines and lower electricity costs once scaled.

What makes it more interesting is the use case beyond energy. The platform can be moved and deployed quickly, making it useful for disaster zones after earthquakes or floods to power lights, radios, and critical equipment.

What are your thoughts on this?

From evolving.ai IG

#solarpunk #hopepunk #eolic #wind
#windturbines #FlyingMachine
#renewables #renewableenergy
#China #emergencypreparedness
#sustainabletech #ecological
#EnergyTransition #EnergySky
#Inflatable #disasterpreparedness #EnergyGeneration

The snails were having a blast munching on a young moringa tree, so yesterday I removed the copper from a broken cable (kept for exactly this purpose) and wound it around the stem.

I tried this a few years ago with another tree and it worked like a charm. Hopefully this simple pesticide free trick will do the job again.

#pests #ecological #gardening

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@DrPlanktonguy/115554189599941981

When large quantities of brown #algae are repeatedly #washedashore over an extended period, my first question as an acarologist is naturally which interesting, and possibly phoretic, terrestrial #organisms, such as mites, are specifically #adapted to these #conditions. But these algae are a phenomenon with #ecological #repercussions that must be understood. It is particularly interesting, thus, that it is the #phosphorus content that affects #symbiotic #cyanobacteria, which promote algal growth

It's about time someone said this out loud:

The biggest existing threat to world peace is the USA!

The biggest climate-change enemy in the world is ... the USA.

The #Capitalism that encourages and nurtures #ecological disaster comes from the USA.

The money and weapons to enable #Israel's #genocide come from the USA.

It never stops!

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/03/us-invasion-venezuela/