Still convinced tiny things can solve big problems. Keen on soil, food, fungi, recycling, ecology, mending. Co-invented 'Soilet' - makes waste productive.
Devon, UK
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Using Soilets in temporary settlements ( refugees or people displaced by events) would allow for recovery of enough nutrients to establish trees for food, shelter, fodder or fuel.
An innovative project anchored on the reuse of greywater from kitchens, bathrooms, and community watering points, is changing the lives of #refugees & host communities in settlements.
Find out how↪️ bit.ly/3vd3QuC
@IWMI_ @DRC_ngo @agsciences @BiovIntCIAT_eng @marynjeng
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I filmed this video in the tents in Gaza. The water here reached a height of one metre. It was an incredibly difficult day, a truly catastrophic one.
Like Venusian otherworldly.
A sustainable Agriculture discussion group I was in, in the last century, (called SANET) came to the opinion that the greenhouse effect should be re-termed the Venus effect.
One of my favorite ways of putting climate change into perspective is using standard deviations. It’s too bad most folks don’t relate to it. Because, for people who understand this way of expressing likelihood, 7.22 sigma is otherworldly
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The Polar Vortex is collapsing in November, weeks earlier than any event on record.
To see what this could mean for winter, we searched over thousands of global climate model simulations, to find winters with the same early collapse during a strong El Niño. The signal for December and January is clearly colder and snowier over parts of the United States and Europe.
But this year’s Super El Niño is pushing a very different pattern, and the latest forecasts already show the two events potentially interacting
severe-weather.eu/long-range…
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After border officials turned me back from the West Bank last week, I spent a few hours on Mount Nebo. It is where Moses is said to have looked out across the land he was never allowed to enter.
That view feels personal today. Millions of Palestinians are still denied entry to the towns and villages their families came from.
What happens here reaches far beyond these borders. Allowing any state to strip people of their basic rights without consequence erodes human rights protections for everyone.
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At what point do we stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and start asking where all of our tax money is going.
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Amazon Rep: "I have applied a $15 promotional credit to your Amazon balance."
Customer: "I will be sending this message for every late box."
Lesson for Prime Members:
Amazon does not just sell products. They sell your own laziness back to you. Their reps are trained to offer a weak $5 credit first because they know 95% of Americans will just complain to their spouse instead of demanding the full monthly fee they are legally owed.
Stop treating Prime like a charity. Claim your late credits, link a second adult under Amazon Household to split your $139 fee in half, and cancel your Subscribe & Save the exact minute the first discounted box ships.
Stop quietly subsidizing a trillion-dollar algorithm.
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2021: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2022: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2023: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2024: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2025: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2026:
Customer: "This package missed the guaranteed delivery date."
Amazon Bot: "We are so sorry for the delay! It is still in transit and should arrive tomorrow."
Customer: "I am not asking for a tracking update. Two-day Prime shipping is a paid retail contract. Since you missed the delivery window, apply the $15 monthly Prime fee credit to my account balance immediately."
48 hours later...
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Unpopular but important thread. Landowners of course already know this, but when we suggest it we get shot down by the badger protection lobbyists.
I have written about the decline in hedgehogs. There's a huge amount of evidence that badgers are the cause. This thread spells out that evidence.🧵
Something is plainly going wrong for hedgehogs in farms, woods, gardens and parks despite a general improvement in the management of these habitats. Farmers leave more uncut grass and shrubs; gardeners leave more leaf piles, foresters are planting more native trees. Yet still the prickly beasts get rarer and rarer...
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The hedgehog is not the only species that is suffering as a result of the badger boom. Bumble bee nests are a favourite food of badgers. Three times in recent weeks on walks I have come across a spot where badgers have dug out nests and eaten all the young bees.
This is a well known ecological dilemma called the mesopredator release problem. Get rid of top predators and the middle-ranking predators run amok to the detriment of their prey – especially if subsidised by roadkill, landfill and trash. Remove wolves and bears, watch foxes and badgers wipe out small birds. Feed crows all winter with roadkill and waste, watch them devastate ground-nesting birds in spring.
Britain has some of the highest badger, fox and crow densities in Europe with dire consequences for some of our most loved species such as hedgehogs and bumble bees.
In the disneyfied imagination of too many animal charities, predation is never a problem. But we are derelict in our duty if we ignore it. If we refuse to control badgers, the demise of the hedgehog will be on our conscience.
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But why should badgers suddenly be such a problem for hedgehogs? After all, the two species have coexisted for millions of years. The answer is simple: badgers now live at unnaturally high densities in Britain thanks to three factors: lack of predators, food subsidies from human activities and legal protection.
Without wolves, bears, wolverines and the like, badgers need fear only people and people have not been allowed to kill or even disturb them since 1992 – about the time hedgehog numbers started declining steeply. Thanks to farming, gardening and food waste, we boost badger numbers to a level that is wholly abnormal: there are about half a million of the animals now in Britain, twice the numbers of the 1980s and perhaps ten times the number that were here in historic times.
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Nothing beats the horrors that will come from this anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing.
The heating from a greenhouse gas forcing of 4.2 W/m² is equivalent to more than a billion Hiroshima bombs per year.
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1. The bottom line: SARS-CoV-2 only emerged in late 2019. No-one can know the long-term effects of repeated infections, but with anosmia and cognitive dysfunction as common symptoms, the assumption I make is that there is a tsunami of early-onset neurocognitive diseases coming.
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The Brexit referendum was rigged in favour of Leave. Three of the most affected groups were denied a vote. 16-17 year olds were excluded to placate the Tory right. EU27 citizens in the UK were denied a vote while Commonwealth citizens, who were far less affected, were allowed to vote. Britons abroad for 15+ years were denied the vote that the Tories had promised them.
If, as in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the vote had been granted to 16-17 year olds and EU27 nationals, Remain would have won.
Leave won the referendum not because of a fair democratic vote, but because the electorate had been gerrymandered to exclude the most affected groups.
Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern history. The gerrymandering of the electorate was just one of those abuses. – at Brighton, England
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
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We cannot convert Mars into a habitable planet like the Earth, but we can definitely convert the Earth into an uninhabitable planet like Mars. Our techno-industrial civilization led by omnicidal capitalist and imperialist psychopaths is making tremendous progress on that front.
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The problem is Privatisation.
But the Telegraph won't tell you that.
So I will.
The average new-build property has 130 defects, according to specialist inspection company HomeSnag.
I visited one with Tom Britton and his team to find out why so many of Britain's shiny new homes are scarcely fit for purpose.
Read: telegraph.co.uk/money/proper…
Credit: @HomeSnag
My brother won’t see this, but he had these as his vows when he married his childhood sweetheart.
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It means Palestinians have to live behind an 8m high Wall in crowded ghettos with a single gate-checkpoint to get in or out. 3/4
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It means Palestinians have to often wait for the water that Israel steals from them so settlers can enjoy x times more water – that they use for landscaping and swimming pools. Then they brag about how they made the desert bloom. 4/4
:: A Video on Water and Israel's Occupation ::
This low-quality video is from a programme called Earth Report, from 2003. It features @Jeff_Halper of ICAHD talking to IDF soldiers bulldozing a Palestinian farmer's reservoir.
Palestinians in the Jordan Valley are especially discriminated against by Israel in water allocation. But never has Israel completely cut off water like it has on Gaza. (Ongoing #GazaGenocide ).
Source: youtu.be/hH4OKho3550
See this PDF from ICAHD .org: bit.ly/3ML044L
See OCHA-oPt articles on water: bit.ly/3G5AsvP
Follow (the more active) @ICAHDUK