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Zoom in to street level to see the 3D features.
#map #maps #OpenStreetMap #3D #topography #world #WorldMap #cities #landscape #environment #data #tools #OpenSource #FOSS
F4map Demo - Interactive 3D map
F4 Map is a WebGL 3D Map Viewer based on OpenStreetMap dataF4map Demo - Interactive 3D map
Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.
Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.
βThe Growing Popularity of Degrowthβ
See -- https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth
The growing popularity of degrowth - Grist
Excerpts from a Q&A with bestselling degrowth author Kohei Saito.Grist
Explore IBM Designβs approach to designing for sustainability -- link to PDF white paper including design checklist for sustainability π
https://www.ibm.com/design/practices/design-for-sustainability/
#IBM #design #UIDesign #sustainability #environment #goGreen
IBM Design
At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work.www.ibm.com
Introduction to web sustainability | MDN Blog
What can web designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? This post explores the environmental impacts of web technologies and looks at some of the ways we can build greener websites.MDN Web Docs
Snowless winter in Himalayas β another sign of climate change
Lack of snow could mean water shortages for millions across Asia
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/environment/tibet-snowless-winter-01232024144224.html
#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #Himalayas
Snowless winter in Himalayas β another sign of climate change
Lack of snow could mean water shortages for millions across Asia.By Subel Rai Bhandari and Tenzin Pema for RFA Tibetan (Radio Free Asia)
Biomasakr ve Stamine, streda 19h.
Toz kdo zna Staminu, tak ho neprekvapi, ze plisen nakonec vyhrala.
A hle, nebyla to plisen, ale repka! Melo se jednat o dokument propagujici Teslu, ktery hrde zaplatili vlastnici Tesly z cele republiky.
Misto toho vidime prerod zgreenwashovaneho majitele Tesly na jejiho zaryteho odpurce. Autori dostali od teslistu pres drzku, ale stalo to za to!
Zajdete do kina. Muzu jenom doporucit!
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#liberec #lbc #film #environment
Why web perf tools should be reporting website carbon emissions
Recently, a post from the web performance monitoring tool DebugBear about why they won't report website carbon emissions in their platform caught my attention.Web Performance Calendar
A large group of scientists has collaborated to produce the "2023 State of the Climate" report. And guess what, it's not pretty...
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Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.
For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.
In the present report, we display a diverse set of vital signs of the planet and the potential drivers of climate change and climate-related responses. The trends reveal new all-time climate-related records and deeply concerning patterns of climate-related disasters. At the same time, we report minimal progress by humanity in combating climate change.
Given these distressing developments, our goal is to communicate climate facts and policy recommendations to scientists, policymakers, and the public. It is the moral duty of scientists and our institutions to clearly alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.
The effects of global warming are progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored. By the end of this century, an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals β approximately one-third to one-half of the global population β might find themselves confined beyond the livable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, and elevated mortality rates because of the effects of climate change.
Big problems need big solutions. Therefore, we must shift our perspective on the climate emergency from being just an isolated environmental issue to a systemic, existential threat. Although global heating is devastating, it represents only one aspect of the escalating and interconnected environmental crisis that we are facing (e.g., biodiversity loss, fresh water scarcity, pandemics). We need policies that target the underlying issues of ecological overshoot where the human demand on Earth's resources results in overexploitation of our planet and biodiversity decline.
To address the overexploitation of our planet, we challenge the prevailing notion of endless growth and overconsumption by rich countries and individuals as unsustainable and unjust. Instead, we advocate for reducing resource overconsumption; reducing, reusing, and recycling waste in a more circular economy; and prioritizing human flourishing and sustainability. We emphasize climate justice and fair distribution of the costs and benefits of climate action, particularly for vulnerable communities. We call for a transformation of the global economy to prioritize human well-being and to provide for a more equitable distribution of resources.
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It's wonderful to see these scientists boldly calling for system change in the face of a planetary overshoot emergency. Now if only someone will listen...
FULL REPORT -- https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extremRipple, William J (Oxford University Press)
If you're an #EU citizen, I strongly encourage you to take a look and consider signing this European Citizen's Initiative (ECI) that calls for the establishment of a #tax on great #wealth to fund a just ecological and social transition: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2023/000006_en
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For those who havenβt seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunbergβ¦
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I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project β coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators β while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age.
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https://bookwyrm.social/user/BreadAndCircuses/review/1196642/s/essential-reading#anchor-1196642
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
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A message from Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)...
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School strike, week 251.
Today, I graduate from school, which means Iβll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything. After striking every day for three weeks, we were a small group of children who decided to continue doing this every Friday. And we did, which is how Fridays For Future was formed.
Some more people joined, and quite suddenly this was a global movement growing every day. During 2019, millions of youth striked from school for the climate, flooding the streets in over 180 countries. When the pandemic started, we had to find new ways to protest.
With time, we started to get back on the streets again. Weβre still here, and we arenβt planning on going anywhere. Much has changed since we started, and yet we have much further to go.
We are still moving in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice marginalised and affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. They continue to destabilise the biosphere and our life supporting systems. Weβre rapidly approaching potential nonlinear ecological and climatic tipping points beyond our control.
And in so many parts of the world, we are even speeding up the process. There are probably many of us who graduate who now wonder what kind of future it is that we are stepping into, even though we did not cause this crisis.
We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. Iβll continue to protest on Fridays, even though itβs not technically βschool strikingβ. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
We can have one of two things β but not both.
We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.
This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled βMillionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitionsβ...
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Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5Β°C.
Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5Β°C.
The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5Β°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.
Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other β but not both.
READ THE PAPER --https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666791622000252
#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
It may have been broken by a Cumbrian storm, but is still very much alive - and supporting lots of other life too. One of my favourite trees π
#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Come to π Room AW1.126 (#energy devroom) at #FOSDEM from π 16:30-17 (CET).
Or π₯οΈ watch online.
More information here: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/energy_combatting_software_driven_environmental_harm/
#KDE #KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #OpenSource #sustainability #environment #ecology
#MastoArt #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #Illustration #Art #Anime #Landscape #Environment
Website Carbon Calculator v3 | How is your website impacting the planet?
The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, thatβs more than the entire United Kingdom.Website Carbon Calculator
It hits even harder when you notice the 2007 publication date in the lower right corner.
#climate #environment #nature #COP15 #COP27 #sustainability #PredatoryDelay
#climate #nature #sustainability #environment
used photo: Beach by Tony George on Flickr
#photostudy #digitalart #landscape #environment #beach #rock #gameart
KDE adopts #SustainableSoftware as one of 3 overarching goals to focus on!
> Software has an impact on our future. It has an affect on #energy and #resource usage. KDE can deliver software which does this in a way which preserves #environment and society for us and future generations.
https://community.kde.org/Goals/Sustainable_Software
#KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #ClimateCrisis
We're hiring.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for #Terraso. Full remote work on an #opensource project with a mission to help landscape communities organize for the #environment and #SustainableDevelopment.
In the coming months we're building #mapping, #DataCollection and learning tools.
Honestly its such a cool project. Every day I go to work with wonderful people and try to save the world. Come work with me.
Check it out! https://jobs.lever.co/TechMatters/cea5ee2c-2c07-4758-bfd3-b47a6a6e4a4c
Also learn more:
- terraso.org
- landscapes.global
Tech Matters - Senior Software Engineer, Terraso
Tech Matters is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the Terraso platform, an open source project delivering critical software tools to empower communities around the world to adopt sustainable practices addressing the climate change crisβ¦jobs.lever.co
environmental impacts
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/environmental-crime-in-age-of-climate-change-2022-threat-assessment #ClimateEmergency #pollution #environment
Environmental crime in the age of climate change: 2022 threat assessment | Europol
This is Europolβs latest threat assessment on environmental crime. Environmental crime has become a key threat to global security and a profitable criminal activity, as much in the EU as worldwide.Europol
Previous address in Bucks 81st percentile! Previous address to that in Bristol was 64th percentile. So Bristol was actually cleaner than rural Bucks! Who knew. #environment #pollution #Health
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