Something to think about
tag > Regenerative
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From "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer" - by Wendell Berry
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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI)
"Considerations for the microbiome (from the ground up) need to be central in urban ecosystem management. Microbes are foundational to healthy ecosystems yet are rarely considered (apart from human pathogens = <0.0001% of all microbes)"
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Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself (imperial)
Researchers find the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, showing the process previously thought to take billions of years to evolve could be as old as life itself, and suggesting other planets may have evolved complex life much earlier than previously thought
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Insect species richness affects plant responses to multi‐herbivore attack - How plants respond to the diverse community of insects that interacts with them.
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"Peer-to-Peer Networks Applied to X" - What is your X?
#P2P #CrowdIntelligence #Networks #OpenSource #Infrastructure #Regenerative
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Fine dust deaths: significantly more than previously thought (Heise)
Through the successful reduction in fine dust emissions, one of the results of the investigation, 2.4 million deaths were avoided, 1.5 million in China and the rest abroad.
Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought (Harvard)
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018
Delhi pollution: Fine dust killed 15,000 prematurely in 2016, says study (Hindutimes)
Apart from the deaths in Delhi, the study also showed that Mumbai, which was one of five megacities considered from India, reported the fourth highest number of deaths among 12 megacities.
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“If you have a peaceful mind and peaceful thoughts, water becomes more peaceful.” – M.Emoto
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In India there is a tribe who learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. They take 15-30 years to make, last about 500 years and can stretch 15-250 feet over rivers and gorges.
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Humans now produce 160,000 plastic bags a second, enough to ring the planet 7 times an hour.
Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month—that is 3 million a minute. Most of them are disposable face masks made from plastic microfibers.
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Cyberbiomes - Discussions with mycelium and solarpunk futures & Cyberbiomes.org - Concepts, projects and initiatives at the intersection of nature, culture and technology - by Ilja Panić
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Relational Ecology and Design - talk by John Thackara
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Everyday Consumer Madness
Phones: A typical phone weighs about 150 g. Average CO2 created manufacturing average phone is 60 KG. So, a phone creates 400 times its weight in CO2 before it's first use.
Pears: Grown in Argentina, Packed in Thailand, Consumed in the United States of America
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The Dangers of Abstraction: Quantifying Nature in the Name of Order leads to Chaos.
