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Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia
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Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia

The climate crisis is causing increased extreme weather events in Southeast Asia. Could “sponge cities,” a city planning method engineered by Chinese architect, Yu Kongjian, help them weather the storm?
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Sami dwelling

Traditional Sami dwelling made of turf with a few amenities: a window and, most importantly, solar panels. While most of these huts are now used as summer kitchens for smoking fish or baking bread, here an old herder prefers to live in his hut in summer rather than in a more modern house.
#Lapland (2008)

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#photography
#Sami
#shelter

A makeshift hut with solar panels.
#Photography #shelter #lapland #sami

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Which of these steps have you done?

ethicalrevolution.co.uk/ #ethicalrevolution #TheOnlyWayisEthics

I am working my way through them. Some I had already done to some extent but there are always useful tips.

Would anyone like to do this with me and share their journey?

Welcome aboard the Ethical Revolution

Join the Ethical Revolution and take 26 step challenge to a better world from A-Z. The only way is ethics!
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Wondering if people have any #recommendations on online courses on #presentation skills for #Science, not just giving the presentations but preparing them, making professional looking #powerpoints. Seems standards in this are very high these days!
#science #presentation #recommendations #powerpoints

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Petition for an interprovincial People's Renewable Power Network in #Canada

We're calling on the Carney government to deliver a People’s Power Grid, an East-West Grid that provides affordable, reliable, renewable electricity to people from coast to coast to coast.

It would be a way better deal than that pipeline we bought.

act.350.org/s/2955257.5Ud8Cf

Build a People’s Power Grid

act.350.org

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Fundraiser for Nature Alberta

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Nature Alberta does a great job of educating and standing up for nature in Alberta.

Fiona's Funds for Feathered Friends

This is a Nature Alberta fundraiser. I will make a list of birds I see or hear (identified by Merlin App) from the start of this contest up until the end of August, and then make a donation to Nature Alberta of the species count! It will be awesome i…
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Crunch!

This male house finch is caught mid-meal, working intently on a seed. Fragments of the shell scatter in the air, frozen in motion—a quiet explosion of effort and instinct. It’s a fleeting moment, suspended in time.

"A male house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) perches on a black metal surface, caught in the act of cracking open a seed. His plumage is a warm tapestry of earthy browns and soft grays, but it’s the vivid red on his head and chest that steals the spotlight—like a splash of sunset against a muted sky. His small, conical beak is pressed firmly into the seed, exerting just enough pressure to shatter its shell. Tiny fragments scatter near his mouth, evidence of his success. His wings are slightly spread, not in flight but in balance, revealing the delicate layering of feathers—each one etched with subtle patterns that ripple like wood grain. The background is softly blurred, drawing all attention to the finch’s focused posture and the quiet intensity of his task. But it’s his eye that anchors the scene with quiet drama. Round and glossy, the visible eye is a deep, liquid black rimmed with a faint halo of gray. It gleams with alertness and purpose, catching a sliver of light like a polished bead. There’s no menace in it—just a sharp, instinctive intelligence. It’s the eye of a creature that knows its world intimately: the texture of seeds, the rhythm of wind, the subtle movements of predators. In this moment, the eye is fixed on the task, a tiny window into the finch’s singular focus." - Copilot

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Satellites targeted by clilmate-denying adminstration npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-54537… #earthobservation #ClimateCrisis
#climatecrisis #EarthObservation
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Canadian nuclear assets and largest ever public contract being sold to US nuke consortium

The latest bit of craziness that is going under the radar, but we shouldn't let it:
- Background: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as part of Atomic Energy of Canada used to be a Crown asset ; after $18 billion of public funds it was privatized by Harper for $17 million. Sold to who? good old SNC Lavelin!
- SNC Lavelin recently renamed itself to Atkins Realis, I can't imagine why./s

- Now they are selling Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to a US consortium, along with a huge public 20 year $24 billion contract.
- The US consortium operates nuclear weapons facilities
- WTF?! WTF?! WTF?!
- Elbows Up?
-see petition below - there's more - we haven't discussed the nuclear waste yet...guess where it is going ...not with the money!


ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…

Petition e-6636 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Canadian companies still supplying components for Israeli military - evidence

New report uses shipping records to prove multiple ongoing Canadian exports of military components to Israel despite government claims to the contrary

"This analysis of commercially-available export data uncovered 47 shipments from Canada-based arms manufacturers to Israeli defence manufacturers between October 2023 and July 2025. Crucially, the 47 direct shipments traced here are only “a glimpse,” not an exhaustive record of all military supplies Canada sent to Israel during this time....

The Canadian government appears to have pursued a strategy of rushing through a record-breaking number of arms export permit approvals to Israel prior to publicly committing to pause approving any new ones. This was then quietly undermined by a series of exceptions and loopholes that were only acknowledged when exposed through media investigations or parliamentary scrutiny."

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