Children across Europe are getting to school in a pedal-powered bicycle bus called the S’Cool Bus.
— Read on activeforlife.com/pedal-powered-bicycle-bus/
If 50% of car journeys are less than 5km and 70% less than 7km then surely our world needs fewer cars If 50% of car journeys are less than 5km and 70% less than 7km then surely our world needs fewer cars clogging our streets and more S’Cool Bus?
www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/10/usa.poetry
words of disdom by GW Bush
Canada will see C$25 billion in losses per from climate damage as early as 2025, finds a new report the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI).
— Read on www.theenergymix.com/2022/10/02/canadian-households-likely-to-face-25b-in-climate-losses-in-2025/
for folks who think there might be cooler emigration destinations when extreme weather gets even more extreme. Bear in mind that literal zero emissions tomorrow won’t reduce CO2 blanket at all, up there for centuries, you won’t pass go and collect any $ at all.
mobycon.com/updates/melissa-bruntlett-to-host-icbf-conference-2022/
Annual conference
A $1.4m floating solar plant – Australia’s biggest yet – is being installed in Warrnambool as part of a government deal with state water corporations.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/victoria-to-host-australias-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-water-facility/
Just do it…
The climate emergency is now a methane emergency – because only rapid
methane reduction will slow the rate of warming at the required speed (<decade). The most effective response is to cut livestock emissions – reduce
consumption of beef and dairy and lower methane emissions in production.
This means the food and livestock industry, particular beef and dairy, face
a truly existential risk. Their future will be decided this decade. If they
don’t embrace change and recognise its disruptive nature, they will go down
the same path as fossil fuels. Denial, resistance, avoidance and delay
followed by their collapse.
— Read on www.paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/will-food-and-livestock-follow-fossil-fuels
methane on 20 year time scale 86 times worse warming effect than carbon dioxide, 10 year time scale even less, how many years do we have?
2020 by Bihar, India, which was estimated to include 51.7 million people across 18,000 kilometres
— Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chain_(politics)
To wave goodbye to Queen Liz, long queue not long at all compared
“2020 by Bihar, India, which was estimated to include 51.7 million people across 18,000 kilometres “
Boston startup T-Omega Wind says it’s prototyped and tested a unique floating offshore wind turbine that can withstand massive storms, but at 20% the weight and around 30% the price of conventional designs, unlocking the world’s best wind resources.
— Read on newatlas.com/energy/t-omega-floating-wind/
Here we go, Star of the South…
John Pilger asks: “Isn’t it time those who are meant to keep the record straight declared their independence and decoded the propaganda?”
— Read on www.greenleft.org.au/content/john-pilger-silencing-lambs-how-propaganda-works
As pandemic of acceptance of AUKUS dissolves our collective conscience and infects Mental Health here’s a sobering attempt by John Pilger to shake us out of our complacency:
“”US foreign policy,” he said, is “best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that.” should grab your attention enough to want to read the main story. Presume you recognise name Pilger, a fine Australian.
The mighty Colorado is under threat. From the Rockies’ snowy peaks to Mexico, the river is a lifeline for tens of millions of people. We journey along its waters to see the places and meet the people changed by a drier world.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/foreign/the-vanishing-river/14047622
from Las Vegas to all that irrigated agriculture, less hydroelectric power to pump less water for farming, less and “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” 1970 song Big Yellow Taxi
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