tag > Regenerative
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Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review
Road verges have considerable potential to be used for pollinator conservation. Verges can be hotspots of flowers and pollinators in managed landscapes. Traffic and road pollution can cause mortality and other impacts on pollinators. Evidence suggests the benefits of road verges to pollinators outweigh the costs. Road verges can be enhanced for pollinators through strategic management.
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Solar advocates are starting a guerrilla solar movement to combat the notion that one should have to pay for energy.
Related: Wikipedia entry - Book: Solar Guerrilla - Constructive Responses to Climate Change
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Municipal officials often say they want to boost diversion and keep collected materials in the regional economy, but developing a workable plan for doing so is difficult. Here's a look at one model that lays the groundwork. This is the first in a series of articles called “Steps to Circularity” that will explore a variety of different projects and viewpoints connecting the business of recycling to the wider circular economy movement.
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Fuckcars: Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the Word
When you drive, tiny bits of plastic fly off your tires and brakes. Now scientists have shown how all that road muck is blowing into “pristine” environments like the Arctic. Today in the journal Nature, researchers model how microplastics from our cars are travelling from densely populated regions into the environment.
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Shale boss says US has passed peak oil
"The shale sector has not been gifted with discipline" - Matt Gallagher
US crude production has already peaked, according to one of the country’s leading shale executives, as producers battered by the price crash shun new output growth and start trying to become profitable. Matt Gallagher, chief executive of Parsley Energy, one of Texas’s biggest independent oil producers, said the record output level struck earlier this year would be the high-water mark. “I don’t think I’ll see 13m [barrels a day] again in my lifetime,” the 37-year-old Mr Gallagher told the Financial Times.
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Intellectual Gourmet Bullshit
Lately, I've come across many sentences along the lines of the following: "A transdisciplinary research project to cultivate new forms and practices of planetary cognition" (via). While it might sound intriguing at first, what does this actually mean precisely? It's quite possible that i am simply to dumb to "get it", but this stuff strikes me as intimately related to the intellectual gourmet bullshit that the likes of Gregory Bateson pioneered.
This "use many impressive fancy words, which in essence are totally incomprehensible for most" mentality seems to be taking hold of the wider ecology/regenerative movement across the Anglosphere. In a peculiar way, moving it closer to the mainstream "everything is for sale - buy or die" culture, which they proclaim to be an alternative to.
These developments are somewhat predictable and mirrored across many sectors. For example, Ted Nelson describes the MIT Media Lab as follows: "The whole point of the Media Lab is 'we know something that you don't know!' It is led by con men. Con men and politicians aren't necessarily held to telling the truth at all.".
I for one strive to adhere to the "explain it so a child can understand it" maxim and not hide behind a cloud of artificial complexity, that is mostly there to make one look important.
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UN expert Jean Ziegler describes bio-fuels as “crime against humanity”
A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce bio-fuels as a replacement for gasoline as a crime against humanity. The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said he feared bio-fuels would bring more hunger.
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The business of the Honey-Suckers in Bengaluru (India)
In the absence of a city-wide sewerage network in Bengaluru, one form of sanitation self-service that has emerged is that of the ‘honey-suckers’, which empty holding and septic tanks. Part of the faecal sludge is used productively by farmers in the fringe of Bengaluru. The honey-sucker service has emerged without any form of financial or technical assistance, but operates outside the legal framework.
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Fuck Cars: VanMoof’s e-bike ad banned in France for creating a ‘climate of anxiety’
VanMoof, the Dutch electric bicycle brand, is officially too hot for (French) television.
The company’s first TV advertisement was banned in France for its negative portrayal of car traffic and pollution. The commercial was rejected by France’s advertising regulatory authority, ARPP, because it “discredit[s] the automobile sector [...] while creating a climate of anxiety.”
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China-India border conflict can be resolved with Himalaya nature reserve, says scientist
Indian environmentalist argues rare wildlife under threat as both countries build infrastructure along contested border. Ecology trumps geopolitics as Himalaya rivers supply water to more than 1 billion people, scientist says
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Open tools for bridging the gap between science-policy-practice - by Aristide Athanassiadis
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A Bioregional Food System for Southwest British Columbia, Canada
A regionalized and participatory food system, built on regenerative agriculture, for the bioregion of Southwest British Columbia, Canada
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Revealed: millions of Americans can’t afford water as bills rise 80% in a decade
Exclusive analysis of 12 US cities shows the combined price of water and sewage increased by an average of 80% between 2010 and 2018, with more than two-fifths of residents in some cities living in neighbourhoods with unaffordable bills.
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Turtles are not inside their shells. They are their shell. "Ghost in the shell" is a dumb notion.
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5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Growing Mushrooms For A Living
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Spain Readies Big Reduction in Single-Use Plastics From Mid-2021
Spain is preparing to significantly reduce the distribution and sale of single-use plastic cutlery, straws, cups and products containing microplastics as part of the government’s drive to promote recycling and reduce waste.
