🌳 Your Local Lorax Rants, roots, and research from the muddy middle of Missouri.
Hi, I’m Cordy — a disabled veteran, environmental science nerd, and recent MPS grad living in the tangled mess of rural Missouri’s floodplains, cornfields, and conservation contradictions. I’ve got a soft spot for native plants, a loud mouth about monocropping, and a deep love for making complicated things make sense — especially when it comes to climate change, land use, and why polar bears don’t speak for everyone.
This space is part soapbox, part field journal, part research archive. It’s where I yell (respectfully) about how climate change actually shows up in the Midwest, dig into local environmental history, and write through grief, rage, and regrowth.
If you’re tired of climate stories that leave your hometown out — welcome. You’re in the right bottomland.
📚 What You’ll Find Here: Blurb Posts: Short rants, local news breakdowns, occasional cursing about soil erosion
Deep Dives: Research-backed essays on sustainability, disability, and local land politics
Before the Bulldozer: Stories and history from before colonization reshaped this region
Digital Zine-ish Things: Because healing sometimes looks like a map, a memory, or a metaphor
📬 Shareable? Heck yes. Each post has a link. Share it to BlueSky, to your grandma, to your future self.
🔗 Contact You can find me on BlueSky as @EcoScholar — or yelling into the corn about climate justice.