"My name is Saththiyasri. I am the Treasurer of the Puthumai Women Farmers' Society. We have provided revolving loans to 35 women for farming. Thanks to this fund, our women no longer need to turn to profit making credit companies. With your support we can go further" chuffed.org/project/trinco

Help @empowerprojects.bsky.social support this women's agricultural cooperative in #SriLanka - their efforts to rebuild post-Cyclone Ditwah have been incredible: chuffed.org/project/trinco

Help Kadakaraichenai Women's Cooperative grow

TRINCOMALEE DISTRICT, SRI LANKA — After Cyclone Ditwah in late 2025, the women of Kadakaraichenai have shown extraordinary resilience. With support from Empower Projects, their cooperative has already...

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If you build three gigawatts of solar in the desert, and then use all of that to power the melting of computer chips to run GenAI (instead of helping to push fossil fuels out of the system through an undersea cable to Asia), what's the benefit to climate, or biodiversity or environment?

My hundredth essay at my newsletter (in just under 500 days). It's about beauty and pleasure, films and trees and singing, about the small things,and their relationship to democracy and the large things.

In the Dark Times Will There Also Be Singing?

This is the one-hundredth essay at Meditations in an Emergency. Thank you everyone who has joined me here. A while back I bought a first edition of a Willa Cather novel for nothing much at a library ...

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I had the privilege of spending time with this women's cooperative in #SriLanka in Feb. Their solidarity and perseverance was so humbling. They need our help to help more women improve their livelihoods. 100% of donations go to their co-op fund, and are tax deductible. chuffed.org/project/trinco

Help Kadakaraichenai Women's Cooperative grow

TRINCOMALEE DISTRICT, SRI LANKA — After Cyclone Ditwah in late 2025, the women of Kadakaraichenai have shown extraordinary resilience. With support from Empower Projects, their cooperative has already...

chuffed.org

A short film from the launch of the Fixim Sola vocational training program on off-grid solar repair in #Vanuatu. 48 participants from Tafea province (5 islands) took part in a 2-week program that covered the fundamentals of #solar + how to perform basic maintenance and #repair operations

Launching Fixim Sola: Empowering Vanuatu's remote communities through solar repair training

YouTube video by Business Partnerships Platform

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On Vanuatu’s outer islands, off-grid solar brings vital lighting, phone-charging and cooling where the grid can’t reach—but what happens these system break down? 'Fixim Sola' is addressing this challenge by building local repair capabilities i.e. training, support & tools. #repair #solar #offgrid

Solar repair training empowering remote Vanuatu communities to tackle waste and create jobs

Fixim Sola, a new solar repair training course launched last month in Vanuatu’s Tafea Province is giving local communities the tools, skills and confidence to manage solar waste…

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Our team at @ceemunsw.bsky.social have a new article on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia. This research examined diverse stakeholder perspectives on this emerging form of RE procurement, including its scope for decarbonising electricity in Australia #research

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed

When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist

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New paper from CEEM researchers exploring stakeholder perspectives on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia has just been published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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"While we found interest in 24/7 CFE among some sophisticated buyers and the emerging green hydrogen sector, we argue that 24/7 CFE contracting will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia's electricity sector."

Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)@ceemunsw.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper from CEEM researchers exploring stakeholder perspectives on 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity procurement in Australia has just been published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡

📣 New paper from @shanilsam.bsky.social, @miker66.bsky.social, and other colleagues at @ceemunsw.bsky.social on perspectives of 24/7 "real time" RE procurement in Au! (tl;dr: will likely play a limited role in driving decarbonisation in Australia..) 🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The right time for real-time? Stakeholder perspectives on the role of temporal matching in renewable energy procurement in Australia

Amid mounting stakeholder pressure to decarbonise electricity consumption, corporate renewable electricity (RE) procurement has played a significant r…

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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

. @paulmunro.bsky.social outlines our research on off-grid (final 8 mins) #solar repair and e-waste in #Vanuatu, #Zambia and #Malawi. He discusses the dynamics of the off-grid sector that complicate repair, the challenges communities face on the ground, and the solutions (upstream & downstream).

Flow Batteries, windships, and a new approach to off-grid solar - ABC listen

They're cheaper and safer than their lithium counterparts, they're easier to scale-up, and they can hold power for much longer than conventional batteries, so why aren't flow batteries better known? T...

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these are the kind of moves that'll eventually move the needle towards shifting power away from tech oligarchs

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last yr.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Just over a week to go to get your abstracts in (Feb 28th) for our session on "Future energy systems - embracing creativity in energy transformations"at @energygeography.bsky.social . Please share with anyone that might be keen to participate, be it in-person or online. Details below 👇

Shanil Samarakoon@shanilsam.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 CfP 🚨 Pleased to be co-hosting an online/hybrid session for RGS-IBG on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social , @rex-martin.bsky.social and @miker66.bsky.social 1/2

🚨 CfP 🚨 Pleased to be co-hosting an online/hybrid session for RGS-IBG on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social , @rex-martin.bsky.social and @miker66.bsky.social 1/2

Shell was comfortably the world's largest purchaser of carbon offsets in 2024. carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/02/12/b...

Behind the green curtain: big oil and the voluntary carbon market - Carbon Market Watch

Shell was the world’s largest user of carbon credits in 2024, a year in which fossil fuel companies dominated the voluntary carbon market. This allows Shell was the world’s largest user of carbon cred...

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A blog post on some recent fieldwork in #Zambia. @mattkearns.bsky.social and I had the opportunity to accompany repair technicians from @solaraid.bsky.social during "Repair Days" for small-scale solar products. offgridsolarrepair.com/bringing-lig...

Open letter for academics to sign in support of academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, whose Australian research grant on “Arab/Muslim Australian Social Movements since the 1970s” is being targeted by the Australian Government for political reasons docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter on Academic Freedom

We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of Ma...

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Very worrying. There is of course a serious problem with anti-semitism in Australian society. But changing the definition of anti-semitism to outlaw protests by university students against the conflict in Gaza will do nothing to stop hatred in our community www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Inquiry urges Australian universities to ‘closely align’ with controversial definition of antisemitism

Report tabled by Labor MP Josh Burns finds there is an ‘urgent need for reform’ to ensure safety of Jewish students

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Enough is enough - today I’ll be tabling our Federal bill to protect protest from these kinds of inappropriate restrictions. We will fight for the right to fight for your rights!

We're seeking contributions that engage with creativity and transformation towards future energy systems 250 word abstracts due Mon 24th February Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1Lgzz...

Delighted to be co-hosting an online / hybrid session on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social, @shanilsam.bsky.social & @rex-martin.bsky.social of @ceemunsw.bsky.social 1/

🚨 CfP 🚨 Co-hosting an online / hybrid session for RGS-IBG on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social, @shanilsam.bsky.social @miker66.bsky.social 1/2

Interesting story by @dancharles.bsky.social about what happens when farmers abandon land, and what types of ecosystems come back. (Globally agricultural land is still expanding on a net basis, but it is contracting in some places.)

Farmers are abandoning land worldwide. What should happen to it?

Ecologists differ on whether to steer recovery or let nature take its course

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New(ish) research published in #ERSS with the terrific Yolande Strengers where we propose the concept of 'non-energy feedback' to examine how data not directly about energy still shapes it's use. Specifically we explore sensory, social, material and systemic forms of non-energy feedback 1/2

I put together a starter pack of energy social scientists (distinct from the existing 'climate social science' starter pack). So far it's a small but mighty list. Please collaborate to help build this out! 🔌💡 go.bsky.app/5zMF4Vx