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Stonemason climate activist. I work with deep time dust making material. Climate Crisis Club climatecrisisclub.org bluecast.app http://www.stonemasonryrepairs.co.uk/
Finally, Tom had a chance to speak among the noise (that somehow he helped to create, but that's part of his job..). Good one, @TWCrowther , @CrowtherLab ! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/01/ive-never-said-we-should-plant-a-trillion-trees-what-ecopreneur-thomas-crowther-did-next-aoe
‘I’ve never said we should plant a trillion trees’: what ecopreneur Thomas Crowther did next
The ecologist admits ‘messing up’ in the past, but says his Restor project will be ‘a Google Maps of biodiversity’, showing the impact of restoration – from a forest to your own back garden
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Sunday thought: When the sleeping giant dances open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: When the sleeping giant dances
Friends,
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Move away from dams- be not seduced by their grandeur, the sweep and awesome power. They are a curse on rivers, and now as harnesses of captured bulk water electricity, full of negatives in a world that's moved on to the clean convenience of renewables. Rivers are alive, so free them again.
Ian James@ianjames.bsky.social · 2w agoLake Mead and Lake Powell have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim milestone in the Colorado River's deepening crisis www.latimes.com/environment/...
If you want to better understand Canadian wildfires — and the causes of the climate change that make conditions for such disasters so much worse — I recommend this wonderful book by @johnvaillant.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554938...
Fire Weather by John Vaillant: 9780525434245 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION...
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@londonremembers.com Saw Lonsdale Sq Railings as part of WW2 railings rip out, but no mention of Avondale Park frontage that suffered same fate, and remade and fixed 2005 ahead of Norland remake.
A controversial Russian theory claims forests don't just make rain—they make wind | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... This is not a just banged out theory; finest Russian physics since 2007. Point is this has been ongoing foot in the door of conventional resistant science for too long.
A controversial Russian theory claims forests don't just make rain—they make wind
Biotic pump theory would have radical consequences in a world of rampant deforestation
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Ollie has invited you to take The Overshoot Challenge, a climate action challenge. One card, one conversation, one action at a time. Join here → theovershootchallenge.com?ref=ollie
The Overshoot Challenge: What Can I Do?
The Overshoot Challenge is a climate action challenge about ecological overshoot and the polycrisis, for families, communities, schools and workplaces. About your power, not your guilt.
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Who's Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... The fear was some tech monster T@ style would destroy the Earth, but it's the middle class jobs and economy that are for the chop. Flight to hands on jobs one outcome, but little wealth creation in that.
Who's Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff?
As we lose jobs and the middle class contracts, where will consumer demand come from?
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The Real Meaning of July 4, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
The Real Meaning of July 4, 2026
Friends,
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Common Sense is so frequently ignored. Now work it out in your brain that this is EVERYWHERE
WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · last mo.With strong associations between air pollution + heart + breathing conditions, diabetes + dementia, if you want to ease pressure on the NHS, start by cutting air pollution. Credit to Khan for sticking to this in the face of all the anti-ULEZ hysteria: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eighty F*cking Years Old? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... It's all gravy after 80
Eighty F*cking Years Old?
Today
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Formula developed by long-dead British polymath shows one side nearing defeat in Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/multipol...
Formula developed by long-dead British polymath shows one side nearing defeat in Ukraine
The iron law of warfighting mathematics shows the Ukraine war is only a few months away from a tipping point beyond which the losses of one side will snowball, leading inexorably to defeat.
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I've been working on history of old family home my dad, bless him, saved from certain demolition. This shot is around 1950 just as it started it's slide into ruin.What you see is a Mid Victorian mock Tudor on top of foundations & part structure of 1610 house mkcdc-catalogue.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Nature restoration will plant the seed for exciting new careers ->The Irish Times | More on "Nature restoration green career growth" at BigEarthData.ai | #Restoration #Seed #Nature
Nature restoration will plant the seed for exciting new careers
My son came home from a Transition Year careers session and said to me in wonder that there was a living to be made from environmental sciences. He is right: “green” or environmental careers are on the increase. In the United States over the last 30 years, nature restoration has grown into a $10 billion (€8.6 billion) industry, employing thousands of specialists. It is surprising though that this is still not often recognised by educators and career advisers or by students and their parents. How do we get to the point where a career healing the environment has the same recognition and value as being a doctor or physiotherapist? The emergence of a nature restoration economy requires reliable, long-term and substantial commitment. Government regulation provides the framework within which the restoration economy works. The new Nature Restoration Regulation has set legally enforceable and time-bound targets for the extent and quality of restoration to happen across the country over the next years and decades. Governments across Europe, including in Ireland, are developing plans for the achievement of nature restoration targets, and it is up to government departments to put in place policies, funding and actions to bring plans to fruition and...
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The Trump administration must expedite info to Democrats on plans to deploy ICE and National Guard to the polls this fall, a federal judge ordered. Between DHS, DOJ and DOD, thousands of pages of potentially relevant records have been collected, but still not provided to the DNC.
Troops at the polls: Judge orders Trump admin to hand over any planning docs
The judge said she wanted the records request completed before the midterms.
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Mongabay is opening applications for the Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship. This program is designed for early-and mid-career environmental journalists from coastal nations in the Southeast Asia region. Help us tell the stories that shape the future of our oceans. mongabay.cc/meZsN9
'Bodysnatchers' in history and fiction met their ends in entirely different ways. The real-life grave robbers of the 19th century were typically stopped by violent mob justice or the gallows, while in sci-fi, their extraterrestrial counterparts usually burned, decayed, or abandoned the planet🟠💩GO
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3mo agoIs Trump eligible to run for a third term? At some point, playing to an audience of one just makes you look stupid. This judge should hang his head in shame over this non-answer. Any middle school kid knows a United States president cannot serve three terms.
