Let's recap
I nominate Stephanie LB @LincolnsBible Black for a Cassandra Award.
Here’s the summer before. 2018.
“Treason is the reason for the season, someone said on Twitter.
I shared it on my Instagram along with contemporary Tweets from Louis Neufeld who was very early on many germane threads that drive our headlines today. Her 2017 threads deserve a receipts challenge. I nominate her for a Cassandra Award.
Information war victims come for the meteorologists
Now they’re coming for the meteorologists. The right wing radio chemtrail folklore spawns death threats.
Another civilian victim of a military grade information war: he threatens to hang a meteorologist for treason. After the election we'll need to rehabilitate the information space and all the people who say "treason" but don't know where to pin it just like all the January 6, 2021 Capitol Attack insurrection dupes that are going to prison.
KIP and projects like it that can rehabilitate consumers of disinformation are greatly needed.
Biodiversity hot spot grows 150 native species each year for Golden Gate National Parks
Since 1981, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy has served as the nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, collaborating with the Presidio Trust, partners, donors, and the community to support the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). The GGNRA stretches across three Bay Area counties, north and south of the Golden Gate Bridge, and includes iconic places such as Muir Woods National Monument, Fort Point National Historic Site, Alcatraz Island, Crissy Field, Mori Point, Lands End, and the Presidio of San Francisco.
I volunteer with park staff at the nursery’s indigenous species greenhouses, shade houses and lab for seed processing and sowing.
Presidio Nursery is a cooperative program of Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, National Parks Service, and Presidio Trust.
Since September 2023, I have done transplanting, pruning, and pot washing and look forward to work in the seed lab during winter 🥼 🌱
These are some of the other tasks available for volunteers at the Presidio Nursery:
seed collection
seed cleaning
transplanting
pruning
weeding
composting
pot washing
nursery maintenance
care of an educational garden
The Presidio is a haven for more rare species per acre than all national parks including Yosemite and Yellowstone.
This international biodiversity hot spot grows 150 plant species and 150,000 plants a year for habitat restoration and reforestation around the Presidio and other parks.
Among other places, you can enjoy their plants at the new Tunnel Tops park at Speaker Nancy Pelosi Plaza. Thanks to Pelosi’s initiative to save the Presidio for the people, the Presidio was designated a National Park 30 years ago.
Repopulating the Presidio with almost-extinct manzanita clones one afternoon.
One afternoon we handled newly discovered Franciscan manzanita that had been cloned for repopulating the Presidio with the species. We washed 100 pots for them to be repotted into later (after steaming, sterilizing, bleaching) these plants are the only ones that exist other than the mother plant.
What should journalism do to reveal the state of our democracy?
Crazy Rich Asians & the impact of my work: I helped save an architectural gem in Southeast Asia
Remembering the time when I conceived, pitched, wrote, sold, published a three page story in a top newsweekly magazine out of Hong Kong that highlighted a historical building at risk from nearby development to 93,000 elite members of government, business and the arts.
The article had impact.
The year after the article was published, the building won a newly created UNESCO Heritage Award.
To promote the conservation of the greatest diversity of the region’s built heritage, in the year 2000 UNESCO inaugurated the annual Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, a program designed to respond to the question: “Within the realities of contemporary, fast-track development, what of the built heritage do Asians value and want to preserve from the past to inform the region’s place in the global future?”
quoted from TheSiamSociety.org Lessons from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation: International Best Practices in Thailand
Richard Engelhardt, Montira Horayangura Unakul and Julia Davies
In 2018 you saw this historic property in the film Crazy Rich Asians, which used it as a setting.
You know it from Crazy Rich Asians. I championed its story in 1998.
