BREAKING: Court orders Clive Bundy to post $92,00 bond payable to @CenterForBioDiv for "vexatious and spurious litigation." Finds "Mr. Bundy and his attorney have initiated, pursued & maintained one of the most flagrantly ill advised pieces of litigation this Court has ever seen" Clive "Let Me Tell You About the Negro" Bundy sued in state court to have all federal lands in NV turned over to the state (or counties). His attorney, @LarryEKlayman, whose infamy is only exceeded by his incoherence, argued that the constitution forbids federal ownership of land

Everything wrong with inauthentic environmental messaging in three quotes.

1. Struggling to stay on the awkward ecosystem services message, #IPBES chairman dismisses pending extinction of a million species as a side issue to human wellbeing. I don't believe for a second that Watson actually thinks this. This disaster of a quote is the result of trying to "message" the mass extinction crisis via an ill-fitting, consultant-designed ecosystem services framework instead of authentically speaking from actual lived values.

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds @rareseeds is hosting Clive Bundy, the racist, violent, militia, anti-government, anti-public lands, anti-environmental activist to speak at its gathering of 10,000 gardners in May.

Disgusting. Everyone should boycott Baker Creek immediately.

RETWEET Here's one of Clive's public racist rants filmed by the New York Times. Does @rareseeds agree with him?

Olives ripened late this year in Tucson, I'm just getting them in brine now.

The path of olives trees (Olea europaea) to Tucson is long and tangled. They evolved in Italy and the eastern Mediterranean Basin during the Oligocene, 20 to 40 million years ago.

(thread) We don't know when humans learned to cure olives, and Lawrence Durrell was likely wrong to call them "a taste older than meat, older than wine...as old as cold water," but we do know Athena beat Poseidon in a contest to give humans the greatest gift by offering them an olive tree