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Carrots for all

9/30/2021

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Carrots are healthy🥕...for both people and our mealworms! 🐛Until 17th century, the only types of carrots were black, white, red and purple!🎨😮
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More fruit trees please!

9/29/2021

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Apple season in Ontario 🍎 We think cities should plant fruit trees to improve the health of humans and wildlife🌳🙂
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Microplastics in the great lakes

9/29/2021

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"A 2021 study on seven fish species in Lake Ontario and Lake Superior found 'the highest concentration of microplastics and other anthropogenic microparticles ever reported in bony fish.'" 

Industrial plastic is spilling into the Great Lakes, and no one's regulating it, experts warn
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Essential glaciers melting

9/28/2021

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"They are integral to industry, livelihoods, nature and climate on every continent...And they are essential for supporting life in some of the most densely populated and quickly expanding regions"

The multi-billion dollar giants that are melting away​
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Teddy bear sunflower

9/27/2021

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Teddy Bear sunflower 🌻The petals are edible and can be sprinkled on salad🥗 Great pollinator plant, too 🙂
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Nitrogen fixing snap peas

9/24/2021

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​Fall sugar snap peas against a clear sky 🌿😀Peas fix nitrogen and enrich your soil
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Baby watermelon

9/19/2021

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​Sugar baby watermelon🍉Tastes like a slice of summer 😋
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PIvotal moment

9/16/2021

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"much... is rooted in poverty and growing inequality... 10 richest men saw...wealth increase by half a trillion dollars since the COVID-19 pandemic began while 55% of the world's population, or 4 billion people, 'are one step away from destitution.'..."

UN chief: World is at 'pivotal moment' and moving in wrong direction

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Actual baby carrots

9/16/2021

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A seasonal treat of real baby carrots🥕 for our mewos🐛Happy to bring in ~16,500 mealworms for the patients of @torontowildlifecentre last week 🦇🦉🐢 Please support wildlife conservation in your neighbourhood
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Fossil fuels need to be reduced

9/15/2021

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"nearly 60 per cent of the world's oil and gas reserves and 90 per cent of the coal reserves need to stay in the ground by 2050"

Study estimates how much coal, oil must be left in the ground to curb climate change
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