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It would be great if major train stations in Germany can install public water taps where you can refill your water bottle (for free, of course). That's much more environmentally friendly and much cheaper compared to buying bottled water at the train stations. And you don't need to feel that you have to buy something in a café to ask the waiter/waitress to refill your bottle. Background: I'm traveling several times per year from Sweden to different places in Europe and am changing trains in Hamburg every time. And every time I wish I could refill my own water bottle at a public accessible and free water tap, because I have often drank all the water I brought during the 4.5 hr train journey from Copenhagen, and need more water to stay hydrated for the further multiple-hour journey. Do you agree with my suggestion?
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We Don't Have Time
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We Don't Have Time and the United Nations Development Programme need your help ahead of the UN COP26 meeting. If we all come together, we can make a huge difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJswVu-Fh8 Did you know that all our governments around the world actively supports the destructive fossil-fuel industry with $11 million in subsidies — per minute! That needs to end if we are to at least have a chance of achieving the goals in the Paris Agreement and avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis. Today, October 27th at 00:01 AM EDT, we will help our partner, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launch the global campaign #DontChooseExtinction to urge our world leaders to abolish all fossil fuel subsidies. Share the English video on Twitter, Linked In, Facebook, Youtube, or use the below social media kit for more assets and to share it in over 30 languages. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #DontChooseExtinction and #WeDontHaveTime Unique to our users, we have been given permission from UNDP to give everyone access to their social media kit for partners. user: Friend_of_Frankie, pwd: NowOrNever2021 Campaign microsite with all assets and playbook: Click on below video and follow the instructions on how to share it, it is available in more than 30 languages! Thank you so much! Together we are the solution to the climate crisis.
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"It's not a question anymore of doing economic growth here and doing some environmental action over here, it's a question of framing the entire growth around sustainability and have the planet guide everything we do", says Johan Rockström in the documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our planet. This 75 minutes-long documentary produced in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Center follows the environmental scientist Johan Rockström on his climate journey from melting Kebnekaise (the highest mountain in Sweden) to the bleaching great coral reef in Australia. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the documentary enlightens the nine natural processes upon which all life on Earth depends, and the limits that cannot be exceeded without endangering humanity. A good pedagogic tool for the greater audience! https://www.netflix.com/se/title/81336476
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There is no Climate Justice without Social Justice. Algorithmic Justice League is leading a cultural movement towards equitable and accountable AI “We now live in a world where AI governs access to information, opportunity and freedom. However, AI systems can perpetuate racism, sexism, ableism, and other harmful forms of discrimination, therefore, presenting significant threats to our society - from healthcare, to economic opportunity, to our criminal justice system. The Algorithmic Justice League is an organization that combines art and research to illuminate the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence. AJL’s mission is to raise public awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with empirical research to bolster campaigns, build the voice and choice of most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policymakers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI bias and harms.” https://www.ajl.org/about https://youtu.be/jZl55PsfZJQ
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Introduction The industrial revolution has brought us an enormous rapid acceleration in technological advancements at the great cost of a rapid acceleration of natural resource exploitation and depletion. While this has enabled us a new ‘convenient’ and ‘comfortable’ way of life it has also brought us a myriad of problems far greater than anything we could ever have imagined. The industrial revolution also brought us the discovery of fossil fuels and their wide array of uses from energy production and transportation to the cheap production of the convenient and versatile yet environmentally destructive materials such as plastics and other synthetic materials. As we now begin to enter the digital revolution, we are discovering even greater benefits from our digital technological advancements, but this also comes at the cost of even greater and even more complex problems obstructing our path of true evolution. Ancient Technology I have come to understand that our modern-day technology greatly obstructs and obscures our ability to understand and utilise the great technologies that lie within our bodies and of course within all of creation itself. If we look back to ancient Egyptians for example, we can see these great geometric structures still standing today, perfectly designed to resonate at high frequencies and connect us to the cosmos. These technologies were designed and created for us to unlock and understand the great potential of the technologies that lie within us, within everything. We seem to have lost this knowledge along the way. Even with today’s technology we lack the ability to reconstruct the great pyramids, even our strongest of cranes lack the ability to lift the enormous blocks of stone required and to place them with such precision. This alone shows us just how in superior modern-day humans have become, or maybe we do still have the technology required, built within each and every one of us… we have just simply forgotten how to use it. The Enslavement to Modern Technology Our modern technology not only lacks superiority over ancient technology but I feel that it’s frequencies negatively interfere with our own bodily frequencies, causing not only mental and physical interference but also energetic and spiritual interference. With these so called ‘technological advancements’ along with other contributing factors, we have brought our collective frequency here on earth to an all-time low, making it more and more difficult for individuals to raise their own frequencies and keeping us slaves to the illusion of the capitalised material world. Modern technology software programs have been programmed to program you. Many of us have become obsessively addicted to the dopamine hits we get from recreational technology such as television, online gaming, social media, online dating, online gambling, etc. Television and social media advertising in particular have a way of brainwashing you into thinking you need something to make you happier or make your life easier. This is material capitalism at play, the greedy capitalists are so stuck in their primitive egoic way of thinking that they themselves have forgotten what is real as they continue to rape mother earth for all her resources just to sell you another product that you don’t really need so that they can add another zero to their net worth which gives them some kind of power that they continue craving more of the more they get. In saying all this… we do still have a choice. As difficult as it is becoming to break free from the material enslavement of modern humanity, it is possible, and the more of us who choose to find the strength to awaken in these difficult times, the more momentum we shall gather and the easier it shall become for others as we pave the way. Modern Technology Dependency Modern technology has become so embedded into our way of life at such a rapid pace, in such a short period of time. If we were to lose our technology today the world would break into complete chaos, as we have become so dependant on our technology for our very survival, many of us have lost the real-life skills required to survive without the assistance of our modern-day technologies. If a large enough solar flare were to reach our earth, it is entirely possible that we could lose the functionality of all our technologies in an instant. If this were to happen, which it could at any moment, how would we continue to process, transport and refrigerate our food? What would happen to all our digital ‘money?’ What would we do without electricity and tap water? How could we travel without our cars as their computer systems are fried and the fuel pumps are no longer working as they require electricity, or the delivery trucks can’t deliver… you get the picture, millions if not billions of people would die and wars would break out over food an water around the world. This just shows us the lack of resilience our current system provides. It could all fall apart in an instant. Thankfully we are beginning to recognise the importance of self-sufficiency as more and more people are learning to live off grid. Permaculture is a fantastic blueprint for us to follow, to bring us back that resilience and to reconnect us back to what is real.Rebuilding community and finding that connection back to mother earth. Realising that our planet, our home, is a living breathing organism which protects us from the vacuum of space, which created every particle of our being, and continues to sustain us despite our parasitic behaviours. We are of the earth. Together we are one. Due to the fact that our technology has become so intrinsic to our very survival, maybe rather than fight it we must learn to guide it and adopt it in a more appropriate way that will be beneficial to our evolution as a species. Maybe technology could assist and accelerate our collective awakening rather than enslaving us to the illusion of the material world. Technology and Global Warming While some might believe that it was our rapid advancement of technology that got us into this mess, I believe it was our intentions behind the creations of each technology and the way that certain technologies may have been misused which led us to where we are today. If our intentions behind the advancements and uses of technologies induced this global warming crisis than I believe that it is our intentions behind the further technological uses and advancements that can help us reverse the global warming crisis that we created. Natures Technology Remembering and understanding that nature is the ultimate and most superior technology will be essential to the reversal of the damage we have done. We must learn from nature and learn to work with nature rather than against her. Realising and acting on this will ensure our survival as a species. We human beings are one of natures greatest technologies but we must remember our place. We are just one evolved part of the whole system of nature, we can not sustain ourselves without the complexity of ecosystems that enables life on earth. Natures intelligence and technology will always be more superior than any technology we create from her resources unless we learn to work with her rather than against her. Industrial Animal Agriculture The industrial revolution enabled us to farm animals more efficiently than ever before. One of our most unsustainable and destructive behaviours on earth today is the overexploitation, overproduction and overconsumption of animals. Did you know that we currently slaughter animals (sentient beings) at a rate of over 80 billion per year! That’s 219 million per day or 2536 per second! This is not only unsustainable, unnecessary and cruel… but if you think about all of the suffering that is unnecessarily endured, this is dramatically lowering our collective frequency. If we are to continue evolving as a species, we MUST change the way we sustain ourselves. A diverse whole foods plant-based diet is now proving to reverse and reduce the chances of developing chronic disease, it is also giving us optimal energy and vitality, boosting our mental health, providing a greater immune response to viruses, preventing many animal viruses from jumping to humans in the first place, eliminating the unnecessary suffering of billions of sentient beings and it is healing our planet! What is good for us is good for our planet, and what is good for our planet is good for us. It is quite ironic being that our very bodies are made of the earth, in fact 90% of our cells are non-human DNA, our microbiomes are hosts for a diversity of microbes who we have co-evolved with, we literally are what we eat. Did you know that one handful of healthy soil contains more microbes than there are humans on earth! These microbes in the soil, along with the mycelium, water, the gasses in our atmosphere and the energy from the sunlight is what makes our food. This process is also what creates the food which feeds the animals that we might eat. “You are what you eat, and you’re even what what what you eat eats eats.” -Formidable Vegetable The problem with animal agriculture is that it is undermining the natural systems that sustain us. The huge populations of animals that we force breed into existence for our inefficient and inhumane exploitation are destroying the eco-systems that sustain life on our planet. Just some of the undermining problems that animal agriculture is majorly responsible for includes deforestation, land occupancy, biodiversity loss/species extinction, soil degradation, water consumption and pollution, greenhouse gas emissions including N2O (Nitrous Oxide) which is said to have 300 times the global warming potential of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) and said to last in our atmosphere for 150 years! If we ate organic beans instead of beef for example, our sustenance would be responsible for far less land use, therefore space for reforestation to rebuild biodiversity and to protect endangered species, we would dramatically reduce water consumption and eliminate water pollution, the beans would improve the soil health and sequester Nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. I used beef as an example here because it is the most destructive consumption habit, as cows have the largest negative environmental impact than that of any other industrially farmed species. Though reducing or eliminating your consumption of all animal flesh or animal products will greatly reduce your contribution to the negative environmental impacts, including but not limited to the impacts listed above. By becoming vegan you will dramatically improve your health, the health of our planet, reduce animal suffering, bring more compassion to the world and raise our collective frequency. Chemical Farming Our use of synthetic chemicals in food production is evidence of our great ignorance of the complex systems of nature. The moment we began fighting against nature was the beginning of a great lesson for humanity. As humanity’s population grew and our technology evolved, we looked for more efficient ways to grow food such as monocropping. As we began monocropping the lack of biodiversity made crops particularly susceptible to widespread fungal infections and pest attacks. How did we respond? Without considering the lateral effects we used our technology to produce synthetic pesticides and herbicides and we learned to genetically modify crops so that they wouldn’t be affected by these chemical inputs. As a result, we caused an array of negative side effects including rapid soil depletion from the chemicals and lack of plant diversity, the chemicals began effecting the beneficial insects such as the bees, the chemicals run off and pollute the waterways, and of course our own gut microbiomes become poisoned by these chemicals and begin to reduce our gut flora biodiversity. When a food crop is being protected by synthetic chemicals rather than by its own natural defence systems such as the antioxidants it would produce as a natural chemical defence, it not only means that we consume the harmful synthetic chemical residues, but the food also ends up containing less of the antioxidants which helps our own bodies fight disease. Organic or biodynamic farming practices are much healthier for us and for our natural ecosystems. We must learn to work with natures intricate systems rather than working against nature as it will ultimately backfire on us, nature was designed perfectly, it does not require us to fix anything. We are a part of nature; we must remember how to work with her. Ancient Wisdom The indigenous peoples of Australia were far more advanced than most have been led to believe. Early humans are believed to have first left Africa around 60,000 years ago, if that is so, then the Aboriginal occupation of Australia 60,000 - 65,000 years ago makes them one of the first, if not the first to have left Africa. For many tens of thousands of years Aboriginal Australians have been the custodians of the continent. They began harvesting grains and baking breads some 30,000 years ago making them the world's oldest bakers by almost 15,000 years. Aboriginal Australians had been happily living sedentary lives sustainably farming the land may thousands of years before white settlers arrived, bringing with them their destructive unsustainable farming practices. We have a lot to learn from the ancient wisdom of our ancestors, as they had a much deeper understanding of how nature worked and how to work with nature to sustainably produce food and live off the land without depleting its resources but rather putting in more than you take. The Plastic Problem One important lesson that nature teaches us is that there is no such thing as waste, life is a circular process, ‘waste’ always becomes a ‘resource’ in the natural world, that is where we went wrong. When our technology allowed us to begin making polymers, long chain molecules from oil and gas, we created some very useful long-lasting materials. These materials made life much more convenient in many circumstances, however when we began applying these long-lasting toxic materials to single-use applications, we created a huge problem. After we were done with such materials, we would simply throw them away expecting they would just disappear. Unfortunately, that is not the nature of most plastics, they tend to stick around for a long time, lasting hundreds if not thousands of years in the natural environment, breaking down into smaller more problematic micro and nano particles. Studies suggest that we humans now consume an average of 50,000 particles of plastics each year and inhale similar quantities. We are still uncertain of the full extent of the health effects related to micro/nano plastic consumption and the thousands of toxic chemicals that come along with them. We are learning however, that nano plastics can be small enough to cross the blood brain barrier and that some of the synthetic hormones used in plastics are beginning to create reproductive issues in humans. Of course, when the natural environment is contaminated with such unnatural waste it is only a short matter of time before it begins to contaminate our bodies. Well, the time is now. “Worldwide about a truckload of plastic ends up in the ocean every minute. This number is on track to double by 2030 and quadruple by 2050. If we continue on our current path, by 2050 the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight.”- The Plastic Soup Atlas While there are many efforts underway to remove this plastic from the natural environment, we must get to the root cause of this issue. Companies and governments are doing far too little, too late to deal with this enormous issue. We must take action into our own hands as individuals. In this material world we vote with our money. As difficult as it is to live without plastic, we can do our very best to vote for alternative solutions. Every time we choose to purchase food that is not wrapped in plastic we are voting for a plastic-free world. There are an abundance of innovative solutions appearing in the market because of our collective choices so far, if we continue to support these changes and influence those around us to do the same then we are voting for a better world. Voting for a New World Every day we make choices, those choices have a ripple effect, influencing the world around us. It may not seem like it makes much of a difference but when we collectively vote for the things that create healthier humans and a more sustainable and just world, that is what we will begin to manifest. When we leave our money in the bank or with our superannuation fund, where is that money invested? If you are unsure, then it is likely not invested in a way that is voting for the new world that we must create. Ask your bank or superannuation fund where they invest your money, if you can see that it is not voting for a better world then tell them where you want your money invested, if they do not cooperate then find a bank or super fund who does invest in the best interests of new world for humanity to survive and thrive as a species. You can vote for a new world without using money too, every decision you make has the potential to contribute to the creation of a new world. You might choose to plant some fruit and vegetables in your garden or barter with your neighbour, share your knowledge or even share a smile. Even simply choosing to sit and meditate has the potential to contribute to the creation of a new world, we are energetic beings, if we can shift our vibration to a higher frequency of love, that is the ultimate decision we can make towards creating a better world. If we can learn to create from love rather than fear then we are on the right path.When we learn to make decisions from our heart and live from our soul, we not only take control of the creation of our own lives we also have a much greater potential to influence the world around us. Slaves to the System of Modern Society Right from birth we are moulded and shaped by society, we are told and shown what is and what isn’t normal or accepted by society. To be successful in the eyes of society often means that you complete your education and get a well-paying job, have a family, buy a nice house and a fancy car, etc. This is the status quo that everyone becomes slaves of the economic system to try and achieve. Many become miserable comparing themselves to those who have done better and many become miserable ‘succeeding’ as they spend their life working a job that has little meaning instead of spending valuable time with their family and doing what makes them happy. Or maybe you become so successful that you set yourself up with everything you could have ever wanted just to realise that no amount of material or monetary gain will provide you with the love and happiness you desire. These qualities can only be found within and yet society tells us our whole lives that we always need something more to be successful, to be happy and content with life.This is the biggest lie that keeps the majority enslaved in the system that benefits nobody. The moment we realise that true love and happiness is only found within, is the moment we take back control of our own power and lives. Free yourself and look within, that is where you will find what you have been searching for. The more of us who take back our power from the system, the weaker the system becomes and the easier it becomes for others. “We are not consumers, we are creators, breath takers and energy makers” - Paul Izak We are Creators Look around you, look at everything we have created in this material world, all of this was once just a thought in someone’s mind, someone just like you. You see, everything is simply a transfer of energy from one form to the next, nothing is ever created or destroyed. I guess you could say we create transformation, turning one energy into another, we do this consciously and unconsciously every moment of our existence. Every breath we take, the oxygen (O2) fills our blood and combines with the carbon in our bodies, as we exhale, we release the carbon dioxide (CO2) into our atmosphere, now its natures turn… the trees, the plants and the ocean take a very slow deep breath, inhaling our CO2 and exhaling O2 this symbiotic transformation of energy is continuous and is a vital part of creation and of life. We are collectively creating a dangerous imbalance as we interfere with this natural delicate balance of life on earth. The past hundred years or so we have really been pushing this symbiotic relationship to its limits. As we have evolved so rapidly, we are still stuck with our primitive egoistical survival response system. Most of the lower vibrational, negative emotions and thought patterns that we continue to create with once might have served us well as survival responses, for example; Anger gives us the energy to fight, Greed encourages us to gather the things that we believe are necessary to survive comfortably, Ambition drives us to climb to the top of the food chain in the fight for survival, Fear warns us and protects us from potential danger. These qualities only served us when we were living in survival, we have now evolved to the ability of living from creation but yet our primitive egoic behaviours are holding us back from the final stages of evolution, that is living and creating from love. The Material Illusion I have referred to the material world as an illusion a couple of times in this text so I thought I’d better elaborate on what I believe the illusion of the material world to be.Everything in the material world including us is ultimately made up of atoms. These atoms are actually 99.99% empty space and the tiny amount of space that theses subatomic particles occupy have been named as follows; the electron, which orbits the nucleus which contains the protons and neutrons. These subatomic particles are divided again into what we call quarks, these particles are so small that our technology is not yet able to allow us to observe them. I believe that if we were able to observe them, we would soon realise that they too are divided into smaller particles and so on, to infinity. Ultimately these particles are vibrational energy, different molecules, atoms and particles all vibrate at different frequencies ultimately combining in different formations to create different objects, liquids or gases. When I look to the stars, I believe in the same infinity. Our planet orbits our star just like the electron orbits the nucleus. Our solar system orbits our galaxy. Our galaxy moves through our universe. But our technology can not see any further than that much like it is unable to see any further than the subatomic particles, therefore I believe that the universe is infinite. Physicist, Nassim Haramein’s calculations suggest that if we theoretically expand the proton to the size of the universe, it is so energy dense that it is the exact same density of our universe. Therefore, we are the universe and we contain the mass of the universe within every proton in our body, the entire universe is everywhere within everything. What is our Purpose? I feel like this would be an appropriate question to end with after the weight of my previous point, if you haven’t thought about this before, you are likely questioning your existence.I believe that it is extremely important for us to question our existence. I am sure that our ancient ancestors would have answered this question in a much clearer way than I am about to answer it I’ll give it my best try to my understanding. I believe that we all have an individual soul purpose, some souls may have fulfilled that purpose in a previous life but still chose to come down at this crucial time to shine their light, to help raise our collective frequency, while others are still yet to fulfill their souls purpose. The moment we embody, many of us begin to forget our souls purpose. Our survival instincts that have been passed on through the generations and the beliefs and expectations of modern society begin to mould us and lead us to believe that the material world is all that exists at this time, as a result we weaken that connection with our soul. I believe that with practice and faith, we can strengthen that connection again if we so choose. If we truly wish to fulfill our souls purpose we all have the same potential to do so. While many of us feel powerless to the constraints of society or enslaved to the capitalist material world, while we all have our own unique challenges to face on our own journeys, deep down I believe that we all ultimately desire to live from our hearts and souls. I believe that we all share the common purpose of not only creating a better world but learning the true quality and nature of the highest universal frequency that binds all of us and everything together, the frequency of love.
Samuel Plumppu
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"The future which is most likely is the one that we come together to try and build." - Simon Mair I highly recommend watching and discussing this video with friends and family. A sustainable economy won't just happen by itself. Let's co-create the future we want to see! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DbYuuwjgQ Learn more about Broaden Films and the story behind this project: https://broadenfilms.com/work/ecological-economics/
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Ingmar Rentzhog
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For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) together with 17,000 co-plaintiffs and six other organisations the court in The Hague ruled that Shell must reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% within 10 years. This historic verdict has enormous consequences for Shell and other big polluters globally. The ruling is only legally binding in the Netherlands, but the ruling can be reviewed in other countries at the same time as many lawsuits related to climate change. Among other things, Shell has said that they will reduce their emissions by 20 percent by 2030, but that is not enough, according to the ruling. The case against Shell, which is headquartered in The Hague and London, was brought by the local environmental group MilieuDefensie. The group accused the company of violating human rights by failing to comply with the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the average increase in global temperatures to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius. While many countries, including the Netherlands, have signed the Paris Climate Agreement, companies such as Shell were not part of the agreement and have so far not been bound by national commitments. For the first time in history, a large oil company has been sentenced to change its operations to protect the environment from climate change, writes Sky News. Read more: https://en.milieudefensie.nl/news/historic-victory-judge-forces-shell-to-drastically-reduce-co2-emissions
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Charlotte Gyllenhammar’s gigantic little person makes us stop and pay attention. The dimensions distort our otherwise ingrained protective instincts towards children. The child portrayed here in a giant format makes us think twice, as if the tables have been turned. The child in its protective suit is almost like an omen. Will we all be wearing protective clothing in future? The dimensions of the sculpture create a sense of urgency. The contemporary ‘prepper’ movement reflects society’s worries about impending doom. We are said to be living in the end of days and there are many possible apocalyptic threats looming ahead of us. The weapons of mass destruction are primed, and the tensions of the Cold War are fresh in our memory. Added to this are the current waves of refugees, a democratic crisis in the West and the ever-present threat of climate change. Charlotte Gyllenhammar is considered to be one of the more influential contemporary Swedish artists. Though trained as a painter, she is best known for her sculptures. For these, she uses a range of materials and media from classic bronze statues to multimedia installations. Her breakthrough came during the postmodern turbulence of the 1990s. A 120-year-old oak tree hanging upside down on Drottninggatan in Stockholm created a bit of a stir. The roots and the crown of the tree were still intact. It said something about life itself: the roots and the crown reached out for sustenance and the trunk that gave all this life stability was in between but upturned. Childhood and parenthood are recurring themes in Gyllenhammar’s works. There are a number of variations on this theme where she portrays well-protected figures of children, often in their natural size. They act like silent witnesses, perhaps of the mad world we adults have created. They don’t look at us accusingly, but it is us, the viewers, who begin to feel uncomfortable nevertheless. Children are our hope for the future. Perhaps the long line of Gyllenhammar’s thought-provoking sculptures is a forerunner to what we are seeing today with the rise to fame of the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, bearing witness to our demise.
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Sophia Ersson
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En femma extra för varje kötträtt och redovisat klimatavtryck. Det är upplägget när Debaser och Calexico’s öppnar för säsongen. Sedan november i fjol har Debaser, Calexico's och Bar Brooklyn hållit stängt till följd av pandemin. När det nu är dags för nyöppning görs det med ännu större klimatfokus än tidigare. – Vi har länge varit engagerade i miljöfrågor. Redan 2006 var vi i Spanien och tog fram egna ekologiska husviner och dessutom är vi Krav-certifierade – vilket innebär att minst 25 procent av all vår mat och dryck är ekologisk, berättar Annelie Telford, vd på Debaser. Nu anpassas utbudet ytterligare. Koldioxidutsläppet kommer att redovisas på alla menyns rätter och för de "utsläppstunga rätterna" (främst de som innehållande rött kött) tillkommer 5 kronor per rätt vilka oavkortat går till klimatprojektet Solvatten. – Vi vill med detta sprida kunskap om hur stor klimatpåverkan är på vad vi äter och dricker. Att få se svart på vitt vad vardera rätt har för klimatavtryck är tankeväckande, även för den som kanske tror sig ha bra koll. Vi hoppas att många med oss kommer tycka detta är intressant att följa, och de som är ointresserade får i alla fall en automatisk klimatkompensation på köpet i de fall de gör klimatavtryckstunga val hos oss, berättar Annelie Telford och fortsätter: – Eftersom livsmedelsindustrin står för en så stor del som 25 procent av alla koldioxidutsläpp i världen kan restaurangbranschen verkligen vara en del av lösningen. Jag tänker att vår bransch borde gå längst fram i ledet och prata med gästerna om detta. Vi vill och kan göra skillnad. Text och bild tagen från White guide
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We Don't Have Time
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Here is an amazing opportunity if you are a Swedish entrepreneur working with solutions for the climate. A prize sum of 2 million SEK is up for grabs – as well as the future of our planet. We Don't Have Time is a proud partner of Startup 4 Climate. Read more and join us when we launch! https://startup4climate.confetti.events #climatechange #startup #climateaction #wedonthavetime
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Alexander Hopkins
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Interesting to hear from Psychologist Per Espen Stoknes. Can we hold governments and corporations accountable for Climate Grief? It seems that mental health is generally in decline for a while range of reasons, from social isolation to over stimulation and the monetisation of our time and attention. But nature and communities are our best healers! Something which Grey Industries are almost always against, whether it be by quashing social and legal action such as FreeDonzinger.org, or by squeezing out independent, local business while giving tax breaks to the big hitters. I'm so glad that we, as a global society are becoming more aware of emotional wellbeing as well as physical wellbeing, ecological degradation detrimentally effects both! And those who pollute should be held accountable.
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Efflam Mercier
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Spaceship Earth An Astronaut on 'Oumuamua looking at the Earth-moon system. Inspired by the idea of a “spaceship economy” understanding that this is the only spaceship capable 5of harboring billions of life-forms, that it’s been5 a steady ship running autonomously for billions of years and that it only took us two century to ruin the aeration and water recycling system. We don’t have to escape anywhere, we just need to care for the amazing ship and natural satellite shield we already have. Originally published as the cover art for Pincipium Much love to you all <3
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Mafer Undurraga
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For many years the earth has treated us with a great deal of love, let us be reciprocal, let us take care of, let us protect those who always hold us, it has done so with our ancestors, with us, it is our responsibility that it remains healthy so that it can continue to care for our descendants, let us never stop being grateful for what has given us so much. Earth day 🌎
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Bluepaccao
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Have you ever wondered why new tech often breaks in a span of a few years while that 20 year old microwave at home still works just fine? Why we celebrate our smartphone if it's still functional after 3 years like that is rare? I for one has always wondered about this and I found a really interesting video about the topic of Planned Obsolescence. Some key points from the video: Manufactured obsolescence fuels consumerism and environmental degradation in an already over consuming world. So if it is clearly a terrible scheme for our wallet, well being and the environment; how do we stop it? We have to shift our action compass from self-centric to nature-aligned. We have to filter every action through a consequential stress test, and we have to be pretty radical about it. When considering an action, we have to ask: Does it actively contribute to humans and nature thriving together as one integrated system on this planet? If yes, green light. If not, red light. Companies like Fairphone and Framework Computer (to name a few) seem to be working on this problem so this is not a distant dream, it is happening right now. https://youtube.com/watch?v=wzWU7D0S9_8 Photo by Ashkan Forouzani @ashkfor121 on Unsplash
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Per Espen Stoknes
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Resolving the growth paradox Growth is necessary. But eternal growth on a limited planet is impossible. Growth is a prerequisite for generating more and better jobs, eradicating poverty, creating smarter societies and making sure our children inherit the best of all possible worlds. But growth is also what is slowly killing us: destroying soils, acidifying the oceans, weirding earth’s climate and killing off wildlife at breakneck speed, creating a world which is far from the best there can be. So what should we do? Once, the climate thresholds were a world away. Not anymore. We, meaning those who participate in modern economic life, are staring into the abyss of irreversible climate change and are morally obliged to change our ways for future generations’ sake, to do something. After all, it is our fault we have ended up here. So again, should we speed up or slow down the economy to avoid falling into the abyss? What do you do when you are headed for a cliff? The obvious answer is to slow down, right? Step on the brakes? We have already passed the safe planetary boundaries, some say, so growth and consumption must be cut as soon as possible and as much as possible to save what still can be saved. We might call this a “just-say-no”-approach; no to any and all kinds of growth. Step on the brakes, they say. There is no planet B, they say, which is true, and they focus on reducing, taxing, shutting down and regulating, which are all good policies and good practices. And yet there might be better ways. Psychologically, it creates a lot of resistance to be told “just shut everything down, downscale and downgrade and stop focusing on creating new solutions which only will create new problems and acerbate the problems we already have”. To some, a ban on diesel cars and focus on degrowth will feel like a slippery slope which ends with all of us riding donkeys and the floods of invention dwindling down into a trickle. Ridiculous, of course, but let the person without such illogical psychological defense mechanisms throw the first stone. And even without such psychological resistance, even if we all would have accepted to focus on degrowth as the panacea with which we can turn things around and avert the worst ecological collapses, there might be a solution which is even more effective and better both in the short and long run both for us and nature. This solution is the right kind of growth: healthy growth. In healthy growth, we try to stimulate new solutions and initiatives that are good for the world. We accelerate and fertilize these as much as we can, even if they are not yet perfect, to make them grow as fast as possible. The thing is, we cannot turn back time. We cannot uninvent inventions. We cannot pretend we haven’t discovered how to make polluting machines and simple, cheap, useful plastic which is so durable that it fills the oceans. As the American systems theorist and futurist Buckminster Fuller put it: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” To avoid falling into the ecological abyss, we can’t rely solely on degrowth. Our brakes aren’t good enough. But we can’t solely speed up either, as our vehicle is on the wrong track. The answer, then, is to improve our vehicle – in other words, continue to improve and innovate and grow, and speed up in a new direction. To change our mindset and escape the simplistic dichotomy of growth/degrowth, we must first become aware of what underlies our ideas about growth in the first place. What narratives frame our thinking? In which direction do we expect growth to go, and what properties will it take? These questions open up a new psychology of economic growth and differentiates between very different kinds of growths: ‘ Linear, exponential growth (More of the same!) is not the same as circular growth (More recycling!) or logistic growth with radical resource productivity (More with ever less!). They both feel different, use different metaphors and elicit different mindsets. If we are in the addictive grip of linear growth, more of the same in perpetuum, change is anathema. Just keep growing in the same direction forever! This has been the mindset of car companies, coal companies, and oil companies. This is also the mindset of investors who want nothing else than to grow their own assets way beyond any level they need to live. We can call this addictive, because it is: it becomes almost impossible to accept or even see other ways of growing, and the entire cycle is a constant hunt for new highs. Nothing is ever enough, and yet our old growth model becomes the only way forward, come hell or high water. And soon enough, the outer consequences of that inner addiction become visible: glaciers disappear, as do forests and pollinators. Soils degrade from chemical fertilizers, heavy metals and excessive tilling. All while the oceans rise and groundwater aquifers deplete. Luckily, there are better models of economic growth. There are better designs for capitalism than the one currently ripping apart societies by escalating inequalities and undermining democracies in pursuit of its one-sided goal. We don’t have to buy into the linear growth model. We don’t have to negate capitalism in order to save the world. Rather, we can rethink growth so that capitalism starts to serve society and nature, and us, rather than vice versa. We can, step by step, redesign and redirect our vehicle, our momentum, and so avoid going down into the deepest parts of the abyss. But such a swerve necessarily starts in our psyche. The images we hold of economic growth need to be reimagined along with what capitalism is all about. As American futurist Alex Steffen has observed: “It’s literally true that we can’t build what we can’t imagine… The fact that we haven’t compellingly imagined a thriving, dynamic, sustainable world is a major reason we don’t already live in one.” We are all to a greater or lesser extent prisoners of the linear growth mindset. More has always been good, ‘up’ is always better than ‘down’, hoarding and unimaginable wealth and bigger, more fancy and even more flashy cars and houses and watches are all good. But this is precisely the mindset which is slowly strangling the planet and all living creatures on it. This is the mindset which got us into this mess in the first place. And so we must change. We are morally obliged. But we cannot escape the unavoidable fact that to our minds, growth is good, and degrowth always, on some level, will sound like regression and a step back and not like progress at all. And in some important ways, that’s true. We must grow. But we can’t grow like we have done so far. So instead of growing bigger, we should grow smarter and wiser. Instead of growing by exploiting and depleting, we should grow by regenerating, healing and nourishing. Linear growth ad infinitum is bad. It will destroy the planet. But to degrow is also bad, for the planet but also for us, psychologically. The best way forward, then, is neither, but to grow smarter. After all, it is the smartest thing to do.
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Adam Wallin
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Icebug just took a huge step towards radical transparency regarding CO2 footprints in the shoewear industry! By disclosing the amount of CO2 that is emitted for each pair of shoes, they make it easier for customers to make good choices. What's even better is that they are sharing the method publicly to make it easy for other companies to do the same thing! In 2019, Icebug became the world's first climate positive shoe company (according to the UNFCCC). We have since spent a lot of time sharing how we managed to do it so that more companies could make the same journey. By ourselves, we make little difference, but the entire shoe industry accounts for as much as almost 2% of the World's total carbon dioxide emissions. We thought there would be an explosion of other brands also becoming climate neutral or positive, but the development has been disappointing. What we now do is unique by combining publicly reporting on CO2 footprints and the other most important sustainability indicators, while providing full transparency in the supply chain. But just as we hope that others will continue building on our work, so we have learned from the sustainability work of others. From the apparel industry, we have, for example, learned from the outdoor legends Patagonia, our local denim phantoms Nudie Jeans (also Goteborg, Sweden-based), and the up-start activist Asket. And in the shoe industry, our Climate Neutral colleagues Allbirds published the CO2 footprint of all of their styles last year. Now in 2021, Icebug becomes the first sports shoe brand to publish climate footprints on all shoes. In addition to opening the supply chain, we also share the method for how we have calculated and worked through the processes and material selections to reduce the footprint. The shoe industry is complex. A single shoe l can have over 50 different components - we believe that customers, the industry, and the planet win if we provide a road map to minimize negative impact, although we have spent a significant amount of time and resources to find the best alternatives in terms of sustainability. In the long run, we are all winners if other shoe brands can more quickly switch from standard materials to more sustainable alternatives. Let's keep working together to make everyone follow this example!
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Tomas Roovete
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Climate Live is a super interesting organization that wants to combine climate action and good music. As we all know music can take us from a sad mood to a happy mood, so there is no doubt that music and culture can make a big impact and change when it comes to solve the climate crisis. Climate Live is going to have two global events on the 24:th of April and the 16:th of October and as quite often there is lack of money. Back to my idea - I will give them a small contribution of ten dollars and if a lot of us do the same, it will be consert events that will be remembered for a long time. If you live in Sweden you can use the Swish number 123 062 66 97 to help Climate Live to become LIVE and at the same time be a part of the solution. If you live in any other country you could get in contact with www.climatelive.se and they can help you to get in touch with the right Climate Live organization in your part of the world. Together we will rock. www.climatelive.se www.climatelive.org
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Seán Marsh
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The Apple Podcast app doesn’t have a climate category, which means it’s incredibly difficult for listeners to find information on climate and environment. Apple Podcasts sets the standard for the entire podcast industry, which sits at US$2 billion P.A. When they added True Crime as a category in 2019, all podcast apps followed suit. As a result, there are now 40,000 True Crime shows... If we get Apple to change, we change everything. So help us raise the volume for climate-engaged podcasters — because the real true crime is climate silence. Sign our open letter to Apple here: www.podcastersdeclare.com
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We Don't Have Time
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Op-ed by: David Edwards, Kathleen Rogers, and Ingmar Rentzhog. Governments across the globe are overlooking two of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change and the building of just, sustainable, societies—teachers and students. If humanity is to avoid the worst consequences of global warming and fast forward the green, clean and sustainable economies of tomorrow today, it has to start at school. As far back as 1992, when nations came together to ink the first UN climate agreement, world leaders noted that education needed to be part of the response. Today too many schools world-wide remain almost untouched by that bold and visionary plan despite the efforts of many teachers and organizations to bridge the gap left by governments. A recent report by the youth group Teach the Future found that 70 per cent of teachers in the UK, the host of the next UN climate conference, felt that they had not had adequate training to teach climate change. They are findings that could have been made in almost any country round the globe with young people reporting that if climate change is taught at all, it is often cursory or siloed in a science or geography lesson. With the climate threat now transformed into a climate emergency; affecting every facet of life and the window for action closing fast, the underplaying of the importance of climate education has become a national and international liability. Indeed, scientists have recently concluded that without quality climate education, the chances of realizing the safety limits of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement will remain a distant hope rather than running reality. Meanwhile the hope of building green, sustainable economies and new, living wage jobs will be held back because these depend on the skills, the knowledge and the enthusiasm that quality education nurtures. On the eve of the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, being hosted by the United States of America’s President Biden on Earth Day 22 April, over 32.5 million teachers in 178 countries convened by Education International will hold their own Teach for the Planet—Global Education Summit to say enough is enough and to lead the charge toward the sustainable future we all need to survive. We are convinced that the fight against climate change must have an education face and a teacher’s voice in every area of the world. The educators of the world are supported not just by each other but by millions of young people who are organizing for change. Citizens also support stepped up ambition on climate education. Last year’s Climate Assembly UK listed many actions such as taxing short haul flights and food choices as important, but their overall ask was stepped up action through climate education and public awareness. A survey of some 80 countries carried out in 2015 by the WorldWideViews found that the majority of ordinary citizens from rich and poorer countries alike put climate education as their number one policy for addressing climate change followed by protecting tropical forests. Teachers and youth groups are also part of an international climate education initiative, spearheaded by EARTHDAY.ORG and now involving over 450 organizations from six Continents. It is time for governments, starting in the run up to the UN climate conference in Glasgow in November, to make good on the promise of 1992. It is time to agree to make quality climate education a compulsory, core subject for all and to weave it across national climate plans or Nationally Determined Contributions and national curricula world-wide. This quality climate change education includes climate literacy, career and technical education and goes hand in hand with strong civic engagement. Climate change is the biggest challenge facing young people today. It is time to support education systems and teachers to do their job in a rapidly changing world. In doing so, we can equip young people everywhere with the knowledge needed to thrive, to engage with confidence, to become climate solutions entrepreneurs, to hold leaders to account and to shape a better future than the one they are currently inheriting. This op-ed is written by: David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International: Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG and Ingmar Rentzhog is CEO of WeDontHaveTime.org which is a member of the international climate education campaign
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Axel Moll
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Hej, jag har utvecklat en 3-h Sprint för produktföretag som vill göra sin produkt-livscykel mer effektiv. Det är en aktiv satsning att hjälpa de företag som inte redan har tagit aktiva steg mot den fossilfria framtiden. Om du är intresserad får du gärna höra av dig via DM här eller kolla min sida www.mvpdesign.se / Axel
Samuel Plumppu
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The effects of the climate- and biodiversity crises may feel too abstract to understand. Luckily, this changes with the newly released Timelapse in Google Earth - a feature that allows anyone to see how humanity's impact on the living world has changed (for the worse) over the last 37 years. With these compiled satellite images, it's no longer possible to deny that changes are happening, or to say that one "didn't know". It's time to use this knowledge to build a better future - let's do it! 🌍 Read the announcement: https://blog.google/products/earth/timelapse-in-google-earth/ Watch more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W-zPqrGQWA
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Sara Nyberg
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Sweden needs to exit the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) now! It makes it possible for companies in the fossil sector to sue governments if their profits are threatened. Already one million EU citizens have signed the petition for EU and the EU member states to exit this devastating agreement - do so you, too! Here is the link to the petition page by PUSH Sweden: https://agera.skiftet.org/campaigns/l-mna-fossilbolagens-fulhandelsavtal-ECT Read more about the ECT (in Swedish) on the blog post by the international group in PUSH Sweden: https://pushtocop.org/2021/03/08/energy-charter-treaty-darfor-maste-sverige-och-eu-lamna-fossilbolagens-fulhandelsavtalet/
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Adam Wallin
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Swedish state-owned forestry company Sveaskog just announced that they are leaving "Svenska Skogen", the nationwide communications campaign that is paid by forest owners and focuses on the message that the best thing to do with Swedish forest for the climate is to use it to make products. The campaign has been questioned in Swedish media for its one-sided messaging, and environmental organizations have accused it for greenwashing the reality of Swedish forestry. Sveaskog, who recently changed CEO to focus more on long-term benefits, motivates the decision like so (My translation): "Sveaskog has a bigger focus on biodiversity and climate adaptation along with a continued strong focus on delivering capacity and increased growth in forests." Could this be the start of a more sustainable view on forestry from the largest forest owner in Sweden? More information (In Swedish): Sveaskog's announcement: https://www.skogen.se/nyheter/sveaskog-lamnar-jattekampanj-0 About Svenska Skogen: https://svenskaskogen.nu/
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Markus Lutteman
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A new report from Nordic Energy Research shows that the practical potential of using industrial excess heat can be around 5,600 GWh annually. Flue gases from heat production plants will be able to contribute an additional 1,800 GWh. Let's make it happen! Read the full report here: https://pub.norden.org/nordicenergyresearch2021-02/
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