Hayao Miyazaki, the beloved helmsman of Studio Ghibli, is a titan of environmental media.
Nijsse and colleagues find that due to technological trajectories set in motion by past policy, a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies. Uncertainties arise, however, ove...
In terms of legal structures, look to see if your local jurisdiction has a social benefit or public benefit corporation that you can legally register as. They're like an LLC, but place a social mandate of some kind above profit making. This is legally built into the charter of the business, meaning it can be enforced in the courts if later on the business attempts to violate that mission. It also allows such businesses to qualify for certain grants.
Poplars and willows are fairly fast growing. Plus there are perennial grass feedstocks
On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to
This article really highlights to me how critical infrastructure is to achieving a sustainable food system. There are plenty of people growing food in an ecologically mindful manner, but they're so atomized that they need to do everything themselves. And the infrastructure is so centralized that you're forced into the industrial model if you want to go beyond the farmer market level. We need more meat lockers, local grain mills, oil pressers, etc. to build out regional food production networks.
Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.
The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you've ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible
Our species has the potential to bring about an era of abundance and luxury for every person on the planet.
You'd probably site them on higher ground outside of the flood plane. Add in flood walls, etc. if storm surge is a concern
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Just noodling around with what majors/classes would be available in a solarpunk world. Open to suggestions!
For sure. I think trying to preserve these tools is a bit of a waste of time. But extending their lifespan is always a win in my book
A little extra TLC can turn your wooden cutting board into a family heirloom
Off to purchase some coconut oil!
When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.
I first met Kali Akuno in 2018 — the same year that the “Deep Adaptation” paper was published1. Despite a lack of wider circulation, the paper went viral in climate movement circles. For many of us, the paper validated our years-long campaign to declare the current era as the sixth mass extinction, ...
Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.
My professional, political, and social circles are defined by folks who are hyper-focused on sustainability. Whether it’s energy, justice, infrastructure, agriculture, transportation, or policy, sustainability and resilience are the core directives of nearly everyone I associate with. I am incredibl...
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I like to chop it up, fry it with onions, and put it in burritos. Breakfast burritos especially with egg, bacon or sausage, and cheese. It can also substitute for turnip or collard greens in a recipe if you're looking for a place to eat it. Since its more of a bitter plant, you'll want to use it much differently than spinach (whoever told you it tastes like that deserves a stern talking to)
I'm from a big wind state. It's absurd to me how unpopular wind farms have been among rural folk. It brings jobs and revenue and has a relatively small land foot print. I just don't get why people don't like them, except for culture war stuff :/
With the biggest poultry company in the country backtracking and other commitments to raising healthier birds unmet, the future is rockier than it once seemed.
Samsung phones now come backed with seven years' worth of security updates and seven generations of OS upgrades.
Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
Nuclear could be useful in applications that need a high energy load on-site, like steel, cement, and nitrogen production
These two helped launch the Svalbard seed vault in Norway and protect massive amounts of seed diversity for future use. Not to mention their work on bringing orphan crops back into production to support food security in developing countries.
I definitely recommend looking into some of Dr. Fowlers history, he's such a cool person and his work with Crop Trust was so cool.
In this post, I wanted to put together a round-up of some of my favorite news sources focused on agriculture. Containing a mix of food security and production-oriented periodicals coupled with more sustainability-minded publications, this directory provides various news sources that allow one to be ...
The only disease to be fully eradicated, 5 million people can live every year who otherwise would have died had we not defeated this disease
In the context of COVID-19's global impact, it is important to remember what was accomplished on Dec. 9, 1979.
In 2008, the most likely projections had us around 4.5 degrees of warming. So, there is progress. Insufficient progress, we need to double down, but progress nonetheless
No, but it does change the implication. If leasing doesn't lead to drilling, then it's a pretty negligible concern
Overall, oil companies are withdrawing investment from exploration and new drilling. It seems oil companies are not drilling new but riding out on the investment they've already made plus utilizing market power to squeeze out profits. In terms of Biden's political calculus, it seems that they think new drilling leases don't involve much risk of increased oil coming onto the market, but it does improve his position among voters, especially in an era of inflation. Plus, this gave him political capital to pass the IRA, especially with Manchin.
This video goes more into detail of the economics behind this trend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQbmpecxS2w
I disagree. To unlock workable solar and wind powered electricity, you need something to carry you energetically through the 'tech tree.' I simply don't think you can get to that level of technology without some fossil fuel use.
By placing the fire and chimney on opposite sides of the house and constructing a tunnel between them, heat is pulled through the tunnel, heating the floors and helping distribute heat more evenly.
If you’ve spent any amount of time talking to farmers about consumers, you’ll often end up fielding complaints about how little the average consumer knows about how food arrives on their plate. This can take several forms, such as frustration about not knowing the role of gestation crates (to restra...
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/chart-solar-installations-set-to-break-global-us-records-in-2023