Scotland becomes first UK country to put Swift bricks into law

From the Good News/Positive Science Bot @goodnewsrobot@mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org

DATE: July 28, 2026 at 12:59AM
SOURCE: THE GOOD NEWS PODCAST

TITLE: Swift Bricks 🧱

URL: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e96d226e

Recently Scotland has passed a rule requiring bricks with space for birds in new construction.

Read more about the rule here
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#Birds #Scotland #swifts #nesting #ecology #construction #conservation #UK #design #UrbanPlanning #harmony

Me: "Swift? As in boat? As in Thick as a Swift Brick? A new bird for me, not in UK, but good on Scotland! Co-existence.

#doomposting

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign

“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds. “They were spending all their time just trying to find food.”

Read more:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs

#klimakrise #meer #wale #natur #ökologie #wissenschaft #science #ecology #nature #whales #climatecrisis

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

^{Avery Schuyler Nunn (National Geographic)}

Expedia CEO Peter Kern has led the online travel agency for three years, from its pandemic nadir to the post-COVID surge in travel. With that experience, one trend he says he doesn’t see changing anytime soon is people traveling like there’s no tomorrow. What’s more, he says, people talk a good talk about climate change angst but are not modifying their behavior much

https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/expedia-ceo-travel-climate-change-rewards/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Expedia CEO says customers claim to be worried about climate change. But he isn’t seeing changes in their travel behavior

Expedia's CEO says people will always choose the cheaper travel option over the "greener" one.

^{Phil Wahba (Fortune)}

The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general

It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.

And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Why tech companies are wrong to think electric cars are a solution to climate change

To fight climate change, carmakers want to sell us ever more technological and ecological vehicles. For Paris Marx, this approach is wrong.

^{Thomas Duthois (Euronews.com)}

"Urban forest restoration by trial and error is costly, and resulting failures are both discouraging to practitioners and condemning of future funding approval. Instead, we propose an evidence-based approach developed with partners and practitioners, informed by, ecologists and applied through practice oriented principles."

#KiriWallace, #BruceDClarkson

https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1637352

#Aotearoa #NZ #research #ecology #NativeReplanting #UrbanForest