E.B. Greene

My neighbor sprays glyphosate around his fence line several times a year. This property tips back into a wetland. So he's making pesticide runoff, soil erosion, uglifying his yard, and doing it all at the expense of our mutual watershed. How do you even talk to someone about this.

Happy weird duck season to all who celebrate! Went up north this weekend and saw fabulous fall color, an apple festival, mute swans, and some horned grebe! The grebe were particularly hard to spot because of their diving

Memento Amori. Remember Love

Tom Barrett is my representative in Congress, and he's a cruel, corrupt, liar. I hope he loses his health care soon along with his job.

I was so happy to have been able to make a small donation to the Rothbury Estate today. I'm hoping and praying that they hit their fundraising target soon. What a beautiful chance for nature. #RothburyEstate

Genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. A poster at my mom's hairdresser promoting a "Student Biodome Project" at Michigan State University. There are dozens of greenhouses on campus but I guess none of them are ROUND lol.

Wrote a wee mediation on boundaries 🐦 ebgreene.substack.com/p/chain-link...

Won't anyone think of the HOMES acronym?

Like an eagle, I am eager for the sky I can see the light of a clear blue morning

Let's go hayfields

MIRC must close over 500 children's cases due to the loss of federal funding. These children will end up "facing deportation and being forced to return to situations that they had fled usually for their safety." www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

A black tank with flashing lights just drove past me in my little town. There's no sane argument where that's a reasonable use of resources. Defund the police

Michiganders lets go vote! So much is on the line, not the least of which is the ongoing fight to #shutdownline5

FUCK Enbridge and Line 5

FIRE!! The world is screaming FIRE!!

Accidentally ended up on a deep dive of the Tao Te Ching because of some dead trees at a Fourth of July party... Life is amazing sometimes

So grateful to have been included in the latest issue of Wild Greens Magazine 💚 Give it a read at wildgreensmagazine.com

Excited for this pond talk! Anything which makes it more likely I will see frogs is a good thing 🐸 youtube.com/live/fwhiXpg...

Struggling to communicate to my neighbors effectively about human/animal interactions. I've heard people suggest shooting bats, poisoning box elder bugs, and even literally salting the Earth! It's very interesting to me how threatened people can feel by their other-than-human neighbors.

Thrilled to share that my work is featured in this month's fantastic @wildgreens.bsky.social editon! Thank you Wild Greens 💚 www.wildgreensmagazine.com/archive/july...

Got this fabulous texture of this specimen Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis) at the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden. It's so wild that our American sycamores can have such a close relative that diverged so far away in time and space.

I will never post anything created with generative AI :]

Having such a good time watching this Eastern Phoebe pair raise their chicks. I think many people have a reflexive aversion to wild animals near their homes or landscaping. But I truly believe we can learn to live together with our neighbors: birds, bats, groundhogs, and all.

Finally got all my thoughts out on the boogeyman, aka the Scott's Miracle-Gro Company. They're the woooorst!

Working on a blog post about the Scott's Miracle-Gro Company. Love to dig in on a sinister history behind a familiar brand

Terrible picture, but cool oak galls. Trying to start an article about my partners dad trying to shoot brown bats with a handgun but its almost too ridiculous 🙃

Some lovely light on a sweetgum this morning

Been doing a lot of thinking about how we build and sustain community. This article came out of a great discussion with a friend. We've got a lot of work to do to foster diverse groups that can take this movement forward #naturalist

Putting in my 2 cents in on an extremely old controversy but why was everyone mad at the grave cleaner lady on tiktok? Whenever I visit my family graves I give their neighbors a little touch up too. Also this catalpa was majestic!

Climate change is an emergency

Got all geared up to take beautiful pics of this nest with my new macro lens and realized that its so close to the deck boards that the camera couldn't fit into this space without literally touching the eggs 😅 🤦‍♂️ phone pic it is!! #Birding

Mushroom invaders on a widowmaker snag #natureismetal

This is so beautiful. Children releasing these beautiful birds back into the world. Countries working together. Restoration ecology can heal hearts, too. www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic... #rewilding #restorationecology #seventhgeneration

I found this little friend's nest in my deck joists! Pics incoming 👀 #birding

Raising the colors 🫡 #Pride

Was out bogging on this beautiful day, highly recommend 🐸 #swamp

Found a super cool Glechoma gall wasp while weeding my tomatoes! Does glechoma smell weird to everyone? My partner claims he can't smell the skunky horribleness

A sea view in honor of Rachel Carson's birthday. Hard to overstate her heroism or her impact on me. Thank you for the songs of spring 💙🐦

I 💚 snags! This grand old snag at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh had lots of great signage describing the environmental benefits of dead trees #naturalist #sustainablelandscaping #rewilding

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Amazing news! Big ups to MDARD for phasing out Callery pear and Japanese barberry www.mlive.com/environment/...

No, it's my fault for thinking that my potted oak tree would be safe from deer on my driveway for 12 hours

Went to a native plant sale today. Shoutout to Wildtype Nursery in Mason, MI for doing it crazy style since before I was born

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Loving these beautiful habitat fragments. Loving the broken world

Lovely hedgerow blooming from my trip to Edinburgh. Scotland had such an prickly wild beauty

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More pics from my Scotland trip. I was endlessly amused by the masonry crack weeds. Here the lovely blue of the ivy-leaved toadflax contrasts with the ubiquitous local red sandstone. Cute!