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https://demo.f4map.com

Zoom in to street level to see the 3D features.

#map #maps #OpenStreetMap #3D #topography #world #WorldMap #cities #landscape #environment #data #tools #OpenSource #FOSS


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.

β€œThe Growing Popularity of Degrowth”

See -- https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth


Explore IBM Design’s approach to designing for sustainability -- link to PDF white paper including design checklist for sustainability 🌎

https://www.ibm.com/design/practices/design-for-sustainability/

#IBM #design #UIDesign #sustainability #environment #goGreen


Introduction to web sustainabilityβ€”learn how you can contribute to building a greener and sustainable web. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introduction-to-web-sustainability/ #webdev #webperf #environment #eWaste #goGreen


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!

lbc:b:50.765609:15.052277

#liberec #lbc #film #environment


Why web performance tools should be reporting website carbon emissions: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2023/why-web-perf-tools-should-be-reporting-website-carbon-emissions/ #webperf #webdev #environment #goGreen


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


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

Boosts very welcome.

#environment #policy #taxation #TaxTheRich


For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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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


I like this; any used it?

kualo β€” Green Web Hosting

https://www.kualo.co.uk/webhosting/green-web-hosting

#goGreen #environment


A message from Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)...
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School strike, week 251.

Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll 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. We’re still here, and we aren’t 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. We’re 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. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically β€œschool striking”. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.
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πŸ€— πŸ’š

#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 β€œMillionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”...
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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


This ancient goat willow is half-tree, half-octopus!

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 πŸ’š

#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict


Website Carbon Calculator: https://www.websitecarbon.com/ #webdev #webdesign #tech #webdesign #environment #gogreen #co2


This cartoon hits hard.

It hits even harder when you notice the 2007 publication date in the lower right corner.

#climate #environment #nature #COP15 #COP27 #sustainability #PredatoryDelay


This comic hits home, but when you see the 2007 publishing date in the lower right hand corner it hits even harder.

#climate #nature #sustainability #environment


#KDE #software is many things: free, beautiful, performant, customizable. How about all of that plus #sustainable?

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


πŸ“£ Awesome # Alert!!! πŸ“£ (boosts appreciated)

We're hiring.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for #. Full remote work on an # project with a mission to help landscape communities organize for the # and #.

In the coming months we're building #, # 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


The link between climate change and serious and organised crime is complex. On one hand, criminals infiltrate legal businesses and organisations aimed at protecting the environment. On the other hand, criminal activities such as wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, but also illicit drug production, counterfeiting of goods, and several types of fraud have direct and indirect
environmental impacts

https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/environmental-crime-in-age-of-climate-change-2022-threat-assessment # # #


Fascinating website on air pollution. https://www.addresspollution.org/ Put in my current postcode here in Cambrian Mountains- 1st percentile (phew!)
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. # # #

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