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Fascism.
In red states, women’s options and speech are being dramatically constrained by the misogynist laws that have sprung into effect since the reversal of Roe v Wade
In Idaho, we’re seeing how freedom of speech is being curtailed around abortion | The Guardian
If you have ignored or had doubts about whether the concern that democracy is in danger in America, just look at the growing movement to ban books in our schools and libraries.
Did you ever think you would see book bans in 21st century America? • Missouri Independent
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“It’s not what it was 20 or 25 years ago; the storms are getting bigger and bigger, and it’s no surprise, because the warnings have all been there.”
This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
In Western Australia, an ambitious project to take thousands of farms and properties off-grid is slowly taking shape.
Climate collapse will continue to intensify the destruction. People will stubbornly, stupidly continue living there as people across the US continue engaging in the behavior that has locked us into much worse warming.
From the Danube to the Loire, these lifelines for the continent’s economy are running low after five months of brutal drought and years of dry weather.
The Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Could Be the New Normal | WIRED
This silent film edit of Tim Burton’s Batman by Ben Crew is fantastic. I think I may enjoy it more than the original.
An interesting episode featuring a discussion on what a “truly public Internet would look like, from the fiber optic cables to the social media platforms.”
Ben Tarnoff Wants an Internet for the People - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
“The only landscape we know is something dead.”
Utah Youth Climate Activists Hold Wake for the Great Salt Lake – Mother Jones
Interoperability — a fairly fundamental tenet of the Internet. Simply, it means that different applications and devices can share the same data with one another.
Keyword: Interoperability - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
Nate Hagens' podcast, The Great Simplification is always a deep, but very understandable and enjoyable dive into current, near and long term implications of how we’re living on the planet.
Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought.
High school senior Shiva Rajbhandari won elected office in Boise, defeating an incumbent school board trustee backed by local extremists
Idaho Far Right’s Election Loss to 18-Year-Old Climate Activist
We’re expecting in excess of 40,000 satellites in the next few years. Soon one out of every five objects you see in the night sky could be a satellite…
Fireball over Scotland was likely ‘space junk’ from SpaceX satellite | The Guardian
As someone who has enjoyed a daily walk for most of the past 30 years, I deeply enjoyed this.
We are asking what we can get out of a walk, rather than what a walk can get out of us. This might seem like a small distinction, a matter of semantics. But when we begin to think of walking in terms of the latter, we change the way we navigate and experience — literally and figuratively — the world around us.
To understand the difference, we need to ask more about what Mr. Lopez explained is the purpose of all this sensory input. “The purpose of such attentiveness is to gain intimacy, to rid yourself of assumption,” he wrote in his essay “A Literature of Place.”
When I first read that line, I’ll be honest, I didn’t get it. What does intimacy have to do with assumption? And what does walking have to do with intimacy? And what does “assumption” mean?
Opinion | The Transcendent Power of Walking - The New York Times
While the US still clings auto-based transport the world is moving on to the future.
While Paris has not been known as a cycle-friendly city, all that is changing, with some 50km of bike lanes added in the past few months alone.
Prolonged droughts and insufficient moisture can contribute to a tipping event that transforms a rain forest ecosystem into an environment resembling a savanna. “Increasingly, if this drought intensity is above a certain threshold, then we have a straight transition from a forest state to this savanna state.
A fungal disease that attacks while bats are hibernating has brought the tricolored bat to the brink of extinction.
Fish and Wildlife Service recommends tricolored bats for endangered species list : NPR