I've been playing with the idea of starting a Solarpunk magazine for some time now. And I'd love to get in touch with some fellow Solarpunks who would like to help me start it.
If you're a writer, artist, designer, or organiser interested in starting a crowd-sourced magazine, please contact me.
To be clear: this is only an idea so far, but I would love to turn it into something bigger, with some help.
“Instead of seeing the ocean as a “solution” for climate change, we need to see it as a test of a new attitude to our planet, one that doesn’t treat it as a combination of universal rubbish bin and exploitable resource. Ask not what the ocean can do for you, but what you can do for the ocean.”
"The UN says Hoang is the fifth high-profile #climate activist in #Vietnam who has been charged with tax evasion in the past two years. Human rights experts say the Vietnamese government is arbitrarily enforcing the law to target civil society groups."
"Human rights experts say is the latest case of the country's ruling Communist Party suppressing civil society."
I hope they say the same of governments in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia similarly suppressing protest.
hmmm ... Rowan Atkinson makes several valid points here, but others that make no sense to me, such as "the environmental problem with a petrol engine is the petrol, not the engine ..." What?! (fyi, "Mr Bean" Atkinson holds bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering).
"I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped - Rowan Atkinson (Guardian)
"By 2050 we could end up with 200 million tonnes [of disused solar panels a year] globally." It is crucial to think about the recycling of solar tech as the first generation of panels near the end of their lifespan and good on the BBC for featuring an article on the topic. I just wish they had picked a less loaded headline. I mean, look at it: "Solar panels - an eco-disaster waiting to happen?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65602519#cleanenergy#climate
Right now in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, a shelter in place is in effect due to a crude oil fire at Calcasieu Refining. Just another day in the life of a petrostate. #CancerAlley#ClimateCrisis#climate
All the new information about climate change from scientists falls into two categories: it confirms predications made decades ago by scientists and climate models, like this story; or the climate changes and impacts will be worse than we anticipated. #climate#climatechange
The strandbeests noticed it first. They quit their daily pilgrimage and took to gathering mid-beach in listless herds.
It was as if, in their own way, the wind-powered sculptures realized that the warming water and the still, hot, damp air were somehow wrong, and they wanted no part of them.
Tell me about droughts, food supplies, CO2 levels, El Nino, farming issues, ice melt, sea levels, wildfires and smoke warnings, pollen increases, biodiversity issues, what animals and insects are disappearing, soil erosion, corporate lies, news on EV's, problems with electricity rollout, clean energy, household improvements, clean eating, on and on.
'Utterly Absurd': Rich Nations Spending Climate Dollars on Coal Projects and Chocolate Shops.
"Essentially, whatever they call climate finance is climate finance," said one developing nation's lead climate negotiator.
Wealthy nations are spending money under the guise of "climate finance" to fund projects that have little or nothing to do with tackling the climate crisis and—as in the case of three Japanese-backed coal plants—are sometimes fueling the planetary emergency, according to a Reuters investigation published Thursday.
It's not just about hotter days, and more use of the AC...
Two climate scientists have issued a dire warning about the consequences the planet might face if humans do not limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Professors Johan Rockstrom of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and David King, chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge, have said that failure to limit the temperature rise could lead to the collapse of life on the planet.
The remarks were made at the Innovation Zero Congress in London last week, where experts from various fields gathered to discuss climate change.
Professor Rockstrom and Professor King spoke at length about the need to take stringent actions if we wish to avoid a catastrophe.
Prof. Rockstrom said: "There's one conclusion without any uncertainty whatsoever, and that is that a 2.5°C global mean surface temperature rise is a disaster. It's something that humanity has absolutely no evidence that we can cope with. It would actually exceed the warmest temperature on Earth over the past four million years."
"There would be a collapse of all the big biomes on planet Earth – the rainforest, many of the temperate forests – abrupt thawing of permafrost, we will have complete collapse of marine biology, we will have a shift of large parts of the habitability on Earth," he further added.
A collapse of all the big biomes. Tipping points. Loss of human habitability.
That's at 2.5°C, and we're currently on track for probably 3°C this century, if not more. Civilization is in deep trouble.
McKay said “The scientific reality is we will hit 1.5C of #GlobalHeating in the next 18-24 months, which should greatly alarm each and every person on this planet. I stand with those taking action to defend the #climate, to wake up the world’s sleeping governments to the terrifying scale of the catastrophe we are now living through."
"Climate kids case can go to trial, Oregon judge rules"
"A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change."
"NOAA and NWS forecast a coastal flood approximately 3 feet above normal high tide (MHHW) for Newark, New York around 9 PM (local) Saturday, 6/03/2023."
Yowza. #climate#NYC
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI (www.scientificamerican.com)
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic