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Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law | Ars Technica
#environment #pollution
If only this shit could be banned worldwide.Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law
Law targets small engines, which can pollute more than passenger vehicles.arstechnica.com
Law targets small engines, which can pollute more than passenger vehicles.arstechnica.com
#internet #environment #streaming #climate #web #youtubeThe Hidden Cost of Digital Consumption
How much carbon dioxide is released when you load this article? Digital doesn’t mean green.parametric.press
How much carbon dioxide is released when you load this article? Digital doesn’t mean green.parametric.press
#Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’ | #Germany | The Guardian
I wonder if this could be made to work and whether it could be translated to other major cities?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/06/berlins-car-ban-campaign-its-about-how-we-want-to-live-breathe-and-play
#Environment #Transport #UrbanInfrastructureBerlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’
Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backerswww.theguardian.com
Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backerswww.theguardian.com
Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates | Ars Technica
#technology #environmentFairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates
If you want a smartphone with a long life, Fairphone is leading the industry.arstechnica.com
If you want a smartphone with a long life, Fairphone is leading the industry.arstechnica.com
The Transformation of Greta Thunberg
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/25/greta-thunberg-i-really-see-the-value-of-friendship-apart-from-the-climate-almost-nothing-else-matters
"A remarkable story. Not just the fantastical stuff – the little girl who conquered the world, but the smaller, more #personal #story, the one she’d doubtless tell us doesn’t matter – the lost little girl who learned how to belong. This is the one that really moves me. …"
#interview #gretathunberg #greta #transformation #biography #autism #environment #climate #crisis #activism #inspiration #cop26 #hypocrisy #fridaysforfuture
The US’s largest solar farm is canceled because Nevada locals don’t want to look at it
#Environment #SolarEnergy #Idiocracy ##Nevada #GlobalWarming #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateChange #Dumbfuckistan
With the level of stupidity that high, we can never solve the life threatening challenges of global warming.
Maybe our human race needs to be gone for the earth to have a fresh start and the next dominant species may to better taking care of it.The 850 megawatt, 9,200-acre solar farm, which would have been constructed in southern Nevada’s Moapa Valley, was to sit on 14 square miles on the Mormon Mesa, a flat-topped hill around 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
California-based Arevia Power and Solar Partners VII LLC withdrew their application with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) last week in the face of opposition from a group called Save Our Mesa.
The group, which is made up of residents, environmentalists, and others, feels that the solar farm would hinder hiking, camping, driving off-highway vehicles, and horseback riding and deter tourists from visiting artist Michael Heizer’s environmental sculpture, “Double Negative” (1969).
Arevia told TV station KLAS that “the arrays would have been set back and not visible from the valley below. The company had estimated the project would create 2,600 jobs and provide daytime energy needs to 500,000 homes.”
The 850 megawatt, 9,200-acre solar farm, which would have been constructed in southern Nevada’s Moapa Valley, was to sit on 14 square miles on the Mormon Mesa, a flat-topped hill around 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
California-based Arevia Power and Solar Partners VII LLC withdrew their application with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) last week in the face of opposition from a group called Save Our Mesa.
The group, which is made up of residents, environmentalists, and others, feels that the solar farm would hinder hiking, camping, driving off-highway vehicles, and horseback riding and deter tourists from visiting artist Michael Heizer’s environmental sculpture, “Double Negative” (1969).
Arevia told TV station KLAS that “the arrays would have been set back and not visible from the valley below. The company had estimated the project would create 2,600 jobs and provide daytime energy needs to 500,000 homes.”
Why Bill Gates and others pushing for nuclear solution and fighting solar, wind and other alternative energy sources.
The world needs a global push for clean, renewable and safe energy alternative to slow down and limit the climate catastrophe we are facing in the next decade or 2.
This is from 1970s, but still sadly accurate (should add hydrogen to the list of todays fake clean energy).
#energy #renewableenergy #cleanenergy #solar #renewables #solarenergy #solarpower #alternativeenergy #climatechange #sustainability #climate #environment #ClimateCatastrophe
Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement on climate
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/world/climate-pledges-insufficient-cat-intl/index.html
"None of the #world's #major #economies - including the entire #G20 - have a #climate #plan that meets their #obligations under the #2015 #ParisAgreement"
This is of course excluding huge parts of our #emissions and aspect of #equity. Not even then are we on track.
#video #environment #climatechange #cat #pledges #cop26 #us #china #uk #eu #japan #common #interest #fossilfuels #coal #greenhouse #gas #reduce #carbon #emissions #global-warming #floods #fires #hurricanes #earth #ecosystem
Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement on climate
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/world/climate-pledges-insufficient-cat-intl/index.html
"None of the #world's #major #economies - including the entire #G20 - have a #climate #plan that meets their #obligations under the #2015 #ParisAgreement"
This is of course excluding huge parts of our #emissions and aspect of #equity. Not even then are we on track.
#video #environment #climatechange #cat #pledges #cop26 #us #china #uk #eu #japan #common #interest #fossilfuels #coal #greenhouse #gas #reduce #carbon #emissions #global-warming #floods #fires #hurricanes #earth #ecosystem
Monitoring my home's air quality (CO2, PM2.5, Temp/Humidity) with AirGradient's DIY sensor | Jeff Geerlingwww.jeffgeerling.com
Looks like we will be driving the final nail into our coffin soon https://time.com/6094560/deep-sea-mining-environmental-costs-benefits/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en
#environment #earth #nature #biologySeabed Mining May Solve Our Energy Crisis. But At What Cost?
Mining polymetallic nodules could power 4.8 billion electric vehicles—at a cost to biodiversity and life on earthtime.com
Mining polymetallic nodules could power 4.8 billion electric vehicles—at a cost to biodiversity and life on earthtime.com
Louisiana Shell refinery left spewing chemicals after Hurricane Ida
Black smoke rises from Shell’s petrochemical plant in Norco, Louisana, after Hurricane Ida knocked out the facility’s power.
Power outages from the storm have left air quality tracking systems out of commission, making public health concern hard to gauge
#environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClmateEmergency #Economy #HurricaneIdaLouisiana Shell refinery left spewing chemicals after Hurricane Ida
Power outages from the storm have left air quality tracking systems out of commission, making public health concern hard to gaugewww.theguardian.com
Power outages from the storm have left air quality tracking systems out of commission, making public health concern hard to gaugewww.theguardian.com
You can get #cotton #bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental #solution become part of the #problem?
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/style/cotton-totes-climate-crisis.htmlAn organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production, according to a 2018 study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. That equates to daily use for 54 years — for just one bag....It’s also associated with forced labor, thanks to revelations about the treatment of Uyghurs in #Xinjiang, #China, which produces 20 percent of the world’s cotton and supplies most Western fashion brands....You can’t, for example, just put a #tote in a #compost bin: Maxine Bédat, a director at the New Standard Institute, a nonprofit focused on fashion and sustainability, said she has “yet to find a municipal compost that will accept textiles.”...Some brands are turning to other #textile solutions. The British designer Ally Capellino recently swapped cotton for #hemp, while Ms. Hindmarch introduced a new version of her original tote, this time made from recycled water bottles; Nordstrom also uses similar bags in its stores.#environment #economy #fashion #future #news #recycling #supermarket #shopping
An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production, according to a 2018 study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. That equates to daily use for 54 years — for just one bag....
It’s also associated with forced labor, thanks to revelations about the treatment of Uyghurs in #Xinjiang, #China, which produces 20 percent of the world’s cotton and supplies most Western fashion brands....
You can’t, for example, just put a #tote in a #compost bin: Maxine Bédat, a director at the New Standard Institute, a nonprofit focused on fashion and sustainability, said she has “yet to find a municipal compost that will accept textiles.”...
Some brands are turning to other #textile solutions. The British designer Ally Capellino recently swapped cotton for #hemp, while Ms. Hindmarch introduced a new version of her original tote, this time made from recycled water bottles; Nordstrom also uses similar bags in its stores.#environment #economy #fashion #future #news #recycling #supermarket #shopping
The Ancient Persian way to keep cool - BBC Future
#environment #climate #history #cultureThe ancient Persian way to keep cool
From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.www.bbc.com
From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.www.bbc.com
#Girls just want to have #climate #justice ✊
#fff #FridaysForFuture #earth #pollution #nature #crisis #fire #future #temperature #protest #environment #Resistance
U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds
#environment #pollutionU.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds
The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.www.nationalgeographic.com
