Tag: nature
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Carl Sagan on climate change: “we’re doing something immensely stupid”
This is sobering: in an ad for the United Nations Global Compact, the words of Carl Sagan from nearly 40 years ago warn us of the necessity for urgent action on climate change, deforestation, and extinction. Source: Kottke & Colosal.
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Nature in an urban setting
I’m very fortunate to have a handful of new trees, some grass and public seating bookend the street I live in. One of my favourite times of the day to be out on my balcony is dusk, because when the sun starts setting and the hustle and bustle of the city subsides, a group of…
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How solar energy got so cheap
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You Are an Impossible Machine
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Climate protests
Last week, an Australian climate protester, who blocked a lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was sentenced to up to 15 months in prison under a new anti-protest law. It was one of many recent disruptive climate protests that seem to do little else than annoy and inconvenience everyone. Our knee-jerk reaction to…
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Wildlife pond
Makes me want to build something like this…
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Comet Ice
[…] Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? Daniel Becker No. In fact, it’s honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways. […] Outer space…
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Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Fitting for Global Warming (and likely plenty of other weird stuff humans got accustomed to), but apparently the story is about death.
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Volcanoes
