Mexico's Floating Gardens Are an Ancient Wonder of Sustainable Farming
#environment #agriculture #sustainability
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/
https://scicomm.xyz/@paul4kant/112297446962213752 paul4kant@scicomm.xyz - After months of sorting more than 50k bricks & numerous weekends of building, my son & I finished the #Lego Millennium Falcon™ (75192) last weekend.
Made of around 7.5k colorful bricks & weighing around 13kg in total. Our greatest Lego project ever.
Out of the 7.5k bricks we had 6.5k in our stocks & ordered the rest. Believing in #sustainability we reused most of the bricks we already had.
Please boost, if want to color up someone else's day! 🚀🌈
Just because we practice traditional Chinese medicine, doesn't mean we condone animal cruelty, so we are happy that African Heads of State and Government recommend a continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their skin.
There are many alternatives to animal products, including different herbal medicines, foods, qi gong, moxa and even acupuncture. Chinese medicine has a very long and very noble history, and has always adapted to the needs and customs of the times. It can do without products that are not ethical to use in the 21st century.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68335851
#donkey #Ejiao #chineseherbalmedicine #chineseherbs #herbalmedicine #sustainability #TCM #acupuncture
Eduardo Paes discusses his smart city vision for Rio and tech-driven progress amidst social, environmental debates.#ShowTypes #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Olympics #ScienceandTechnology #Sustainability #Technology #WorldCup #Brazil #LatinAmerica
Rio Mayor on hosting World Cup, Olympics together: ‘DON’T!’
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and don't replace that iPhone every year!
https://www.sciencealert.com/sustainability-5-practical-tips-to-make-your-life-greener-in-2024
Got my new #Fairphone 5. Durable and easy to repair with modular parts, and there are online instructions and videos so you can #repair many things yourself. I like that they're both doing their best to source things fairly, and also being transparent about what they can and can't do:
We’ve stepped up our game for the Fairphone 5, with more than 70% fair focus or recycled materials. And we’re improving supply chain transparency and taking responsibility for our material footprint.
On the other hand, it's bigger and heavier than my old one (an 8-year old Fairphone 2). And with newer phones, it seems you can no longer listen directly to the radio.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04045-8
#photovoltaic, #sustainability, #energy, #renewable, #RSS
A contentious fossil fuels agreement stirred up anger while states found to be falling behind on climate commitments.#BusinessandEconomy #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #FossilFuels #Politics #Sustainability
COP28 Dubai is over: Four key highlights from the UN climate summit
#Tory MP and our trade secretary Kemi Badenoch tweeted:
“We don’t have a cure for poverty. If we did, we would have done it already.”
Of course, we know how to tackle poverty. As a matter of fact, there is less poverty in the #UK than once there was. As a result, unless you are wilfully blind, it is apparent that we do know how to tackle this issue.
The answers are relatively straightforward. Apart from paying decent benefits and appropriate pensions (neither of which happens in the UK at present) we also need to:
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The choice is simple. Do we run the #economy in the interests of those who are in need, or for the benefit of those who already have a great deal but want more? That is the political question that we need to answer now. To add piquancy, human life can only survive one of those choices. That should make deciding fairly easy.
As COP28 commences in Dubai, here is a look at the major outcomes of the UN's last five COPs and where they stand.#ClimateCrisis #Environment #FossilFuels #Sustainability #MiddleEast #UnitedArabEmirates
COP28 Dubai: What were the gains of past five UN climate summits?
Recycling the World’s Batteries | Emma Nehrenheim | TED
Battery recycling pioneer Emma Nehrenheim. While batteries are fundamental topowering a sustainable future, their production is surprisingly harsh on the environment.She lays out the science behind a breakthrough in recycling a battery’s core elements, offering a manufacturing solution that could vastly reduce the industry’s environmental impact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr7iEH3eeQo
#recycle, #batteries, #tedtalk #renewable, #sustainability
A 21-kilometer #solar cycle track in Hyderabad, #India, generates electricity while providing shade for cyclists.
Inspired by a similar project in South Korea, it cost $12 million and has a 16 MW solar roof. The power generated supports local infrastructure and saves energy costs.
The project promotes #cycling and offers a potential model for sustainable #UrbanDevelopment, with the possibility of replication in other Indian cities.
#climatechange #sustainability
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/india-is-fighting-heatwaves-with-solar-cycle-tracks/
Second Life.
Of course I would never buy something like that, but the last time I was at the junkyard it looked so good. Repairing almost new things is more fun than repairing old stuff that is already really rotten. At home and one soldering point on the switch later the light came on.
#repair #fixit #climate #change #newmindset #sustainability #Nachhaltigkeit #mywork #myfoto #mylifestyle
Planting trees has been promoted as a method for addressing global warming, but could it do more harm than good?#ClimateCrisis #Environment #Sustainability #Africa #Asia #AsiaPacific #LatinAmerica
Can planting trees really help fight climate change?
RAPPORT MEADOWS : ILS ONT TOUT ANTICIPÉ IL Y A 50 ANS !
RAPPORT #MEADOWS : ILS ONT TOUT ANTICIPÉ IL Y A 50 ANS !
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#Collapse #Effondrement #MIT #ClubDeRome #LimitsToGrowth #Sustainability
Nice read for the weekend:
The Menominee Tribe’s tradition of doing “what’s best for the forest” has become a global model for #sustainability.
“The #forest looks pristine,” he says, as a flurry of snow falls through the open canopy. “These big maples and basswoods are around 150 years old. But we have been logging here for over a century, and we still have more trees than when we started.” In June, the tribe’s forestry officials began exploring the potential for selling the carbon accumulating in the forest on the U.S.’s growing market for carbon-offset credits.
There are probably more than a billion trees today in the Menominee forest, which is an hour’s drive west of Lake Michigan. We were there in late February, the day after the biggest snowstorm of the winter. We were standing near the Menominee’s sawmill in Neopit village, from where trucks move the lumber across America to make everything from basketball courts to domestic furniture and hand-crafted toys. But even close to the mill, big healthy trees with the highest potential price tag get to grow old.
The trick, says Lohrengel, is husbandry for the long term. “We come in every 15 years, take out the weak trees, the sick trees, and the ones that are dying, but leave the healthy stock to grow some more and reproduce,” he says. “We don’t plant anything. This is all natural regeneration, and the way we do it the forest just gets better and better.”
Tesla years ago began exaggerating its vehicles’ potential driving distance – by rigging their range-estimating software. The company decided about a decade ago, for marketing purposes, to write algorithms for its range meter that would show drivers “rosy” projections for the distance it could travel on a full battery, according to a person familiar with an early design of the software for its in-dash readouts.
Then, when the battery fell below 50% of its maximum charge, the algorithm would show drivers more realistic projections for their remaining driving range.
The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elmo Skum, according to a Reuters source.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
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https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/06/low-tech-magazine-the-comic/