"Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design" - by @Ecocene: https://theconversation.com/surviving-climate-change-means-transforming-both-economics-and-design-109164 #Regenerative #Design #ClimateChange
"Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design" - by @Ecocene: https://theconversation.com/surviving-climate-change-means-transforming-both-economics-and-design-109164 #Regenerative #Design #ClimateChange
The Happiness-Energy Paradox: EnergyUse is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being:
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11482-019-09719-y?author_access_token=NMDbmhL4OqNpZR74rDlP7_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6iZDwOmzrXG_aupSasgBuJ_pUGwxiZFQ7C3PXh-3Pm1kMNuGTLIcxk3tRGAzX3fgquSM1-QFXofYR5F31qt5Bs8a85m0Kr9LG0cA6GNGsekA%3D%3D
"How Circular is the Circular Economy?" - by @lowtechmagazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/11/how-circular-is-the-circular-economy.html
"As long as we keep accumulating raw materials, the closing of the material life cycle remains an illusion, even for materials that are, in principle, recyclable"
Where is the equivalent of the open-source software movement, focused on climate change resilience? Where are the Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds type figures, focused on the race to fully regenerative economies? What is the equivalent of Linux for renewable infrastructure?
Konzept des Tages: Die Planetarische Zivilgesellschaft (planetary civil society)
"Making the most of the ‘UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration’: bioregional regenerative development as a deep adaptation pathway" - by @DrDCWahl: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/making-the-most-of-the-un-decade-on-ecosystems-restoration-bioregional-regenerative-development-484119e763ee #Regenerative #ClimateChange
"To quibble with this kind of system [capitalism] about its values, to frighten it with visions about the consequences of growth, is to quarrel with its very metabolism" - Murray Bookchin, (Toward an Ecological Society, 1980)
"Calicut: How and Why Open Hardware and Open Source can and should be used in non-western countries" - presentation by @mfioretti_en: http://mfioretti.com/2019/02/calicut-how-and-why-open-hardware-and-open-source-can-and-should-be-used-in-non-western-countries/ #OpenSource #Regenerative
If we recognise "planned obsolescence" as a factor in the evaluation of how "intelligent" our machines are, the result likely will be stupid.
"Vultures are a key species that provide us critical ecosystem services, just like bees or earthworms. Don’t screw with nature, Portugal. When a catastrophe hits us, these critical ecosystem services is how our own species will survive and not fall victim to a pandemic!" - Vakibs
WormUp: "Recycle your kitchen scraps at home": https://eng.wormup.ch/ "The first ceramic Worm Bin: Compact, Odorless, Elegant" #Regenerative #FFHCI
"Earth 2.0 - A Sustainable Human-Earth OS" - talk by Tencent CXO @dwallerstein (at 2018 Tencent WE Summit). #Regenerative #OS #ClimateChange #Technology #FFHCI
It is refreshing, timely & sane to see a executive (@dwallerstein) of a tech giant (tencent) give a keynote on climate change & outline a strategic vision for the role of tech (AI, IOT etc) to tackle this challenge (& opportunity). US tech seems deep asleep on this crucial issue.
"Robotic farming: It looks to be a growth industry": https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/03/28/robotic-farming-looks-growth-industry/tNZmrGTSyavCn98tRaMseK/story.html #FFHCI #Robot #Regenerative
Tired: The great firewall of China. Wired: The Great Green Wall of Africa.
More than 20 African countries have joined together to plant a giant wall of trees that will run across the continent to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert. The Great Green Wall of Africa will stretch for 7,000 kilometres, from coast to coast right across the continent. https://www.greatgreenwall.org - https://www.unccd.int/actions/great-green-wall-initiative #Regenerative #ClimateChange
Many say "Green New Deal", but what do they really mean? Given the track-record of leading players, one gets the impression it mainly means the complete privatisation / financialization of nature (via "ecosystem services") to further consolidate power in the hands of the very few.
Water & feed requirements to produce 1 lb of protein
Interview with Tom Dinwoodie (legendary solar entrepreneur, founder Powerlight, CTO SunPower) on climate change and the ongoing revolution in energy markets:
Cities, biodiversity and health: we need healthy urban microbiome initiatives: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23748834.2018.1546641?journalCode=rcah20 #Regenerative #Science #Biology