(They/them) I love sustainability, dancing, birding, plants, ecology, tea, and public transit. I run @bPlantOrg, @RateTea, and am a co-founder of Why This Way.
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In other news, it's still time to replace Biden, and there's still enough time. New from A.B. Stoddard: thebulwark.com/p/the-case-to…
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A problem with PennDOT is Philly's district office is located within King of Prussia sprawl.
Boston and NYC get it right: departments that serve a premier city should be within that city.
How will people who live and drive in KoP know how best to spend billions in Philly?
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Why do 'booming' American towns struggle to budget for basic services? Look to the suburban development pattern.
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Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election, but the legal path just took him back to the truth: that I won the election—and he lost.
ALT A graphic that reads: Trump lost the popular vote by 7 million votes Below the text, there is a cutout of President Trump pointing to the number
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Europe has a much lower traffic death rate than America. It’s not because Europeans are simply less-error prone.
It’s due to decades of policy choices to make unsafe roads that prioritize speed over safety, combined with the danger posed by large SUVs and trucks
This is awful.
“Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years”
Almost all due to human error.
This is what motivates us to work with urgency at @cruise.
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Understanding plants' habitat preferences holds the key to just about any work involving plants, whether ecological restoration or other conservation work, gardening, or landscaping. Our latest blog post serves both as an introduction and reference: bplant.org/blog/27
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Wow, we're on a roll, we just interlinked our site with @MDBiodiversity which is an unparallelled resource for the distribution of organisms (not just plants) in the state of Maryland. This site also addresses a key gap in USDA and BONAP data. 2,947 pages linked!
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We just interlinked our site with the Missouri Plants website: missouriplants.com/
For all linked records, the page on our site will now include a link to the corresponding record on Missouri Plants. This website is a great resource for wild plants in Missouri.
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Our latest blog post summarizes our successes of 2022 and goals for 2023. We've also published our 2022 financial statement. We got a ton done, also had some fundraising successes, but are still far from our mid-term financial goals: bplant.org/blog/26
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These are cars in my neighborhood. @SecretaryPete a Rhodes scholar, says we need more research to know whether being hit in the head and torso by something that weighs 4 tons is worse than being hit in the legs by something that weighs 2 tons. These cars are *designed* to kill.
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Sign this @Change petition for @HomeDepot to stop selling invasive species! Thanks to @cazort for sharing.
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You are definitely aware of what is happening in Ukraine right now. Russia declare war not for Ukraine but for all civilized world. If you support human values, you should live the Russian market!
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Right now, Putin is plunging Europe into its darkest time since 1939. Any government hoping to sit this out is naïve. Don’t repeat mistakes of the past. Hit Russia with severe sanctions now. Help Ukraine with military and financial support. Together we can #StopRussianAggression.
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Unironically, this is the future liberals want
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These ecoregion-based plant range maps cover far more plants, communicate more information, and are more accurate than our first-generation maps. Our blog post explains what we did, how we did it, why, and where we're going: bplant.org/blog/18 #ecoregions #nativeplants
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Eutrochium purpureum prefers drier, shadier habitats than other Joe-Pye species, and does well in degraded habitats such as edges and small forest fragments. This plant is easy to grow in the garden and has great potential for ecological restoration: bplant.org/plant/787
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The Common Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is widely planted in gardens, but is becoming invasive in North America and is best not planted anywhere. Our article gives some control tips and explains this species ecology and life cycle: bplant.org/plant/1055
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More generally, we now have data (from Delaware's safe yielding law) that shows how #IncreasedVISIBILITY and #ReducedEXPOSURE are key bicycle safety principles.
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Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is the tallest deciduous tree in the eastern US; its showy flowers are often overlooked for being too high to see Our article highlights its ecology, including both its habitat and the wildlife it supports: bplant.org/plant/135
