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Whereas what would actually make that Edinburgh Park building sustainable would be to build some medium-density houses on the car park. Add in a few shops, school, doctors... 20 minute neighbourhood, right there...
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Cop26 is fast approaching. The usually imperturbable IPCC’s latest report can best be translated as ‘Panic!’ and our Facebook feeds and Twitter timelines are littered daily with biblical scenes of infernos and flooding. But at least corporations are taking the crisis seriously... if you believe their advertising that is.
In an anarchic and challenging documentary series, BAFTA winning activist and satirist Heydon Prowse gives us his personal take as he unpacks the multi-billion-dollar PR and advertising industry that’s helping businesses across tech, energy, food and farming appear climate friendly.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is the former Governor of California and one of America's most influential green voices. He's also one of the biggest movie stars in the world and a big fan of the innovators, activists and entrepreneurs featured in the previous 39 episodes of this series. In this final programme, the Terminator star discusses his favourite ideas from the series with Tom Heap and looks forward to the crucial climate change talks in Glasgow in November.
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When faced with an impending or chronic threat, such as climate or ecological breakdown, we seem to go out of our way to compromise our survival. We convince ourselves that it’s not so serious, or even that it isn’t happening. We double down on destruction, swapping our ordinary cars for SUVs, jetting to Oblivia on a long-haul flight, burning it all up in a final frenzy. In the back of our minds, there’s a voice whispering, “If it were really so serious, someone would stop us.”
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Regardless of which complex system is being studied, there’s a way of telling whether it is approaching a tipping point. Its outputs begin to flicker.
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(From above link)
Last night I dreamed I saw the planet flicker
Great forests fell like buffalo
Everything got sicker
And to the bitter end
Big business bickered
And they call for the three great stimulants
Of the exhausted ones
Artifice brutality and innocence
Artifice and innocence‘
https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=59
(1985)
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the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity, due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.[2] In 1973, it won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.
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Some people may think this is in the wrong thread.
But it’s not.
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Who would buy a town hall these days?
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Call me cynical but is the answer the local government minister looking to flip it for a quick profit after developing it into flats?
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This could be useful to some:
Inform Friday: An Introduction to Energy Efficiency in Older Buildings
Event Description
Do you own a home or building that’s older than 1919? With this free livestream series, experts Lila Angelaka and Roger Curtis will take you through different parts of traditional buildings and how they were made to help you understand more about your older building.
This session we will be looking at what you can do to make a traditional building more energy efficient. So if you want to know how to keep the heat in without compromising the building's historic character, tune in to this session!
https://www.engineshed.scot/whats-on/events/?eventId=15a46e01-af49-402a-81d5-ada400d2d4df
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7:30 then iPlayer
Oops, except Scotland.10.35
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Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat
Panorama
Justin Rowlatt reveals where in the world the climate is changing the fastest and who will be most affected.
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A secretive investor court system poses a real threat to the Paris climate agreement, activists have said, as governments taking action to phase out fossil fuels face a slew of multimillion-dollar lawsuits for lost profits.
New data seen by the Guardian shows a surge in cases under the energy charter treaty (ECT), an obscure international agreement that allows energy corporations to sue governments over policies that could hurt their profits.
Coal and oil investors are already suing governments for several billions in compensation for lost profits over energy policy changes. For example, the German energy company RWE is suing the Netherlands for €1.4bn (£1.2bn) over its plans to phase out coal, while Rockhopper Exploration, based in the UK, is suing the Italian government after it banned new drilling near the coast.
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How have we got in a state where corporations are controlling governments?
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The report, Inequality in a Future Wales, from the future generations commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, Public Health Wales and Cardiff University, concludes: “The poorest and most marginalised populations are least responsible for climate change but are the most likely to be exposed to its negative effects and have the least resources to respond, cope and recover.”
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#COP26 has been named the must excluding COP ever.
This is no longer a climate conference.
This is a Global North greenwash festival.
A two week celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.
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https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1456295342253740037
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George Monbiot says Governments Leave Fossil Fuel in the Ground Now
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Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030, while poorest 50% will release one tonne of CO2 a year
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Undoubtedly, the climate emergency represents the greatest risk to society and to business and is the defining characteristic of our generation. But something has happened in the past 18 months - companies talked before about sustainability, green credentials and climate crisis mitigation - but for most, action was muted. No longer.
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Of course it’s unreasonably cynical of me to think this is about looking for business for lawyers (and other sorts of consultants).
“18 months” is slightly random, but maybe that’s when some people realised that things had begun to change.
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Together they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each.[7] To avoid energy-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed "How dare you", was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.
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Cop26 is upon us. The usually imperturbable IPCC’s latest report can best be translated as ‘Panic!’ and our Facebook feeds and Twitter timelines are littered daily with biblical scenes of infernos and flooding.
If we're going to save the planet while maintaining our quality of life we’re going to have to look to technological innovation for the answers. The good news is that every multi-billion-dollar behemoth in Silicon Valley has gone green, and just as vocal as the companies about their climate targets are the billionaire bosses behind them.
In an anarchic and challenging documentary, BAFTA winning activist and satirist Heydon Prowse, who’s been part of calls for businesses to do more for years, asks have they listened?
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She said the only way to avoid the climate catastrophe was with “immediate, drastic, annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen” and not technological solutions that didn’t yet exist.
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The influx of production has drained power supplies and China continues to grapple with severe energy shortages. It is driven in part by an enormous hunger for goods as the world reopens from the pandemic. Tight coal supplies and stricter emissions standards have also led to power outages, halting production at some factories. Mowbray says on top of those pressures, cryptocurrency miners – though technically banned in China – continue to operate and “use a tonne of electricity”.
“So now we have the electricity crisis in China,” he says. “It’s a huge constraint.” In response Beijing has rationed power and imposed energy limits. Mowbray says the restrictions at factories in the Guangdong province – where some of Zuru’s most popular toys are made – would have cut capacity in half. Zuru has created a workaround – building “mini-power stations”, laying concrete, constructing new buildings and equipping sites with generators – to keep output at those factories ticking at 100%.
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‘The time for change is now’: demonstrators around the world demand action on climate crisis
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There was also a setback, however, as Democrats postponed a vote on an even larger bill. That 10-year, $1.85tn spending plan to bolster health, family and climate change programmes, known as Build Back Better, was sidetracked after centrists demanded a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Biden said he was confident he could get it passed.
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It would take 100 years for a woodland to sequester and store as much carbon as Steart can store in six years, McGrath says. “Trees and peat can take us so far, but blue carbon ecosystems, such as salt marshes, can take us further. It’s time governments seized this opportunity.”
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Ministers and negotiators at COP26 should "pull together and drive for the line" to secure ambitious action on climate change, Boris Johnson has said.
The prime minister said countries must be ready to "make the bold compromises and ambitious commitments needed" at the final week of the climate summit.
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I’m marching in Glasgow with many thousands from Edinburgh.
World leaders must commit to reduce emissions in their power & enabling actions & help Cities & communities tackle climate change.
Action & investment needed at all levels to help Edinburgh hit net-zero by 2030.“
https://twitter.com/adamrmcvey/status/1456986645429985281
GOOD
But I’m afraid I’d argue that Adam/CEC need to (and could) do a LOT more with its existing powers/resources.
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There is an hilarious commentator on the Cop26 pages I follow that expects all 100,000 marchers to be Vegan.
Good that Adam has gone through on a bad day but as you say, why not implement what he can already, ah wait bad tories waiting. In the wings as elections coming up.
Apparently after Boris left Cop26 he was flown in a private jet to have lunch with a chum who is a climate change denier.
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“to have lunch with a chum who is a climate change denier“
Thought it was dinner?
I’m sure the denier prefers ’sceptic’.
Either way, shoddy.
Still, highlights the complexity of ‘real life’.
Some decisions are just bad.
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