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Weatherwatch: how #SolarFarms benefit #bees and #butterflies | #Biodiversity | The Guardian
An unexpected benefit.
#Biology #Ecology #Pollinators
Weatherwatch: how solar farms benefit bees and butterflies
Research shows pollinating insects thrive in solar parks, particularly where a variety of plants are flourishingPaul Brown (The Guardian)
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
#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."
https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1637352
#Aotearoa #NZ #research #ecology #NativeReplanting #UrbanForest
Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.
Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".
(CNN) — Dozens of heat records have fallen in Siberia, as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius).
Despite only being early June, records are tumbling across parts of Siberia as extreme heat pushes into unusually high latitudes
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/world/2023/6/9/Siberia-record-breaking-temperatures.html
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #Siberia
Led by French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, the study advocates a progressive rate of 1.5% to 3% for fortunes of over $100 million
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2023-01-31/report-proposes-tax-on-the-ultra-rich-to-finance-a-global-climate-fund.html
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate
Report proposes tax on the ultra-rich to finance a global climate fund
Led by French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, the study advocates a progressive rate of 1.5% to 3% for fortunes of over $100 millionManuel Planelles (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)