Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com
@revkin.bsky.social
40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks
Glen Hansard, Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o... Horrifying.
Glen Hansard, Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56
The Irish singer-songwriter, who won an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” died in a motorcycle crash.
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Looking forward to hearing from @ayanaeliza.bsky.social @elizkolbert.bsky.social Robin Wall Kimmerer today at College of the Atlantic here in Downeast Maine. You can stream if elsewhere: coa.swoogo.com/si
COA Summer Institute
The Summer Institute is College of the Atlantic’s week-long gathering of thinkers, artists, journalists, scientists, and civic leaders exploring the ideas shaping our world and its future. Sessions ar...
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Here are a couple of the fishing folk lost at sea for whom I wrote this song. (I shot this video last week at the Lubec, Maine, Lost Fishermen's Memorial.
Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com@revkin.bsky.social · 2w agoClip from my updated video for my new song on the dangers facing those who harvest seafood – the second most dangerous occupation in America, and the top one in Canada. No AI in my songwriting, folks. Full song and background: open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
Clip from my updated video for my new song on the dangers facing those who harvest seafood – the second most dangerous occupation in America, and the top one in Canada. No AI in my songwriting, folks. Full song and background: open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
This post from @revkin.bsky.social has, among other things, a series of videos of he & I that go all the way back to 2010!
David Roberts: "There is a Win Win Win" for Data Centers, Utilities and Citizens (But they're Ignoring it)
An "Other Voices" post on the data binge, community resistance and paths beyond backlash and my long climate and energy journey with David Roberts
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Absolutely the truest and best community note ever is still awaiting approval on X on Andrew Tate's insane cry-baby tweet from prison: "Posting on social media is contact with the outside world."
Nancy Holt is a great guide: Tips for Scientists to Work Effectively with Communities blog.ucs.org/science-blog...
Tips for Scientists to Work Effectively with Communities - Union of Concerned Scientists
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com@revkin.bsky.social · 2w agoAt 1 pm Eastern hear Musa al-Gharbi and colleagues Chris Tyler and K. L. Akerlof describe their new Nature commentary on this rather important topic: "Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy" open.substack.com/live-stream/...
At 1 pm Eastern hear Musa al-Gharbi and colleagues Chris Tyler and K. L. Akerlof describe their new Nature commentary on this rather important topic: "Six ways to put the public at the heart of science and policy" open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: How to Boost Public Trust and Engagement in Science and Policy
Starting Jul 23 at 1:00 PM EDT
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I was just at the Canadian border yesterday (Campobello Island - Lubec, Maine) so this is relevant: @wsj.com Editorial Board (aka Murdoch) on Trump's new tariffs: "The more Mr. Trump keeps swinging recklessly, the more Americans are likely to think there’s only madness in his tariff methods."
In 2012 I talked and wrote about the need to meld urgency and patience in pursuing climate progress. Still necessary, as @jdtonkin.bsky.social has been writing on Substack.
As Trump Scraps With Meloni, His Envoy to Italy Is at Sea www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/w...
As Trump Scraps With Meloni, His Envoy to Italy Is at Sea
Tilman J. Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, is summering on his superyacht as President Trump squabbles with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
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When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Trump has threatened Canada with tariffs for wildfire smoke, which is a good reminder that he doesn’t understand how tariffs work. Or how fire works. Or how Canada works.
Folks focused on #immigration justice: a wonderful young Venezuelan American filmmaker is shooting a short narrative film she wrote and needs just a few dozen $20 donations to push her over the $10,000 threshold. She’s already committed to filming. seedandspark.com/fund/absence...
Talented young Venezuelan American filmmaker Carla Troconis is super close to her $10,000 goal for shooting her Film “Absence.” She’s starting filming in the Hudson Valley next week regardless but you could make sure all goes well. seedandspark.com/fund/absence
Terrible news out of Biddeford Maine this morning via @speakerfecteau.bsky.social to news media. Details pending on death in shooting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAeu... #ICEout
Find moments where you can converse across cultural /political divides.
Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com@revkin.bsky.social · last yr.I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)
I just came across this May 1997 double-header showing pretty much the span of my @nytimes.com reporting - disasters and environment. Also recalling the eagle biologist Pete Nye asked me not to mention something: the cat collars he regularly found in eagle nests. #journalism101 1/
Thinking back to this great 2002 project: MANAGING PLANET EARTH; As Alien Invaders Proliferate, Conservationists Change Their Focus www.nytimes.com/2002/08/20/s...
cf. Major media coverage (or lack thereof) of Ken Paxton's criminal behavior. What is the ratio of media ink on Ken Paxton's misdeeds vs. Graham Platner's misdeeds? How many stories about how Republicans embrace the bad apples rather than get rid of the rot? www.thebarbedwire.com/ken-paxton-s...
Ken Paxton Is No Stranger to Controversy. Here’s a Timeline of Nearly 20 Years of Scandals & Headlines.
We’ve compiled every serious scandal the Texas Attorney General has faced during his political ascendancy.
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ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w agoICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU
Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the United States, lawyer says
Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a policy of sending them to third countries arrived in Eswatini from the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. lawyer following the case ...
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w agoA few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there. Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.
Need a boost? The Maine Wonk looks at Senate race odds: “The only person having a worse week than Platner: Collins….
The First Amendment issue: a federal patrol boat enforcing a private agreement over banners in a sail parade open.substack.com/pub/robverch...
Did the Coast Guard Fillet Free Speech on the Fourth of July?
A Hudson Valley sloop is booted out of a parade for speaking its mind.
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Trump taints everything he touches…. Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.
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