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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2h

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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ArchDaily @archdaily-poster.bsky.social · 8h

House 258 / Cornetta Arquitetura - https://www.archdaily.com/1034562/house-258-cornetta-arquitetura

House 258 / Cornetta Arquitetura

Completed in 2024 in São Roque, Brazil. Images by João Paulo Soares. Built on a steeply sloped lot, House 258 arises from the principle of designing appropriately for the place, occupying the land and landscape with...

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 8h

While many older people say they are keen to downsize their home, the complex reality of doing so leaves many stuck in the family castle.

Shortage of smaller homes a challenge for would-be downsizers

While many older people say they are keen to downsize their home, the complex reality of doing so leaves many stuck in the family castle.

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 9h

BP = Beyond Petroleum by 0.40%...

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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 20h

This new residential tower in Lyon is made from wood.

In many ways, this is quite an incredible building. Here's why:

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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 9h

Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 10h

"Take carpenters' essential in a country where a great deal of construction uses wood. Their numbers have more than halved since 2020, while more than 43% of those still working are over 65. Many projects, large and small, are being delayed."

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15h

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 12h

In A Contest Between Solar & Ethanol, There Is One Clear Winner

cleantechnica.com/2025/10/09/i... @cleantechnica.bsky.social

In A Contest Between Solar & Ethanol, There Is One Clear Winner - CleanTechnica

The attacks on solar are inspired by ignorance and greed, not reality. Solar plus storage is the future; coal is the past.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

This is as good and urgent as others have been saying. I don't think it's possible to sustain anything resembling mass democracy in a post-literate society. musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 13h

District heating is one of the solutions for low-emission heating in cities. It's not easy due to high upfront, non-socialized investments and the complicated agreements needed.
But in Delft, a project for 6,000 homes is under construction, with geothermal heat!
www.omroepdelft.nl/omroepdelft/...

Buis van 180 meter gaat meters diep de grond in voor Delfts warmtenet

8-10-2025 13:57 Door Joey Hut Een 180 meter lange warmteleiding verdwijnt aan de E. du Perronlaan onder de grond. Elf hijskranen tillen de buis op de juiste hoogte, zodat het 45 centimeter dikke gevaa...

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BCCHR ResDev (DM) @resdevbcch.bsky.social · 13h

And the women who made the machines

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 13h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12h

a really smart plan here as well... this 3rd bedroom could be partitioned off as a guest suite.

also note it has daylight on 3 sides.

good luck finding something like this in the US

floorplan of 3-bedroom home w/ highlighted section that could be a guest suite

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 12h

"'Investigators think that radioactive dust was released into the environment after PMT inadvertently smelted scrap metal containing cesium-137. “Because it’s airborne, the contamination can be carried by wind,' said Bara Khrishna Hasibuan, a senior adviser to Indonesia’s Ministry of Food Affairs."

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 21h

just 10 of the biggest data centres planned in the UK would emit enough to wipe out the benefits expected from EV switching

www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/new-rep...

New Report: Big Tech Data Centres: a Threat to UK Decarbonisation

A new report by Global Action Plan and Foxglove estimates a significant rise in annual carbon emissions as a result of data centres planned or in construction in the UK: Ten of the largest data centre...

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 21h

"Around 1800, humanity finally worked out how to get richer: by burning fossil fuels. For the next two centuries, governments could credibly promise progress."
@simonkuper.bsky.social

A utopian future is still possible (just)

Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 2d

Revisiting what bonkers decision it was from the Tories to commit to scrapping the Climate Change Act we find the recent report from @climateoutreach.bsky.social, which finds:

1. People are very worried about climate change harming nature and wildlife
2. This 100% includes Traditional Conservatives

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 22h

Here is the original article by Einstein in the Monthly Review...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23h

Two graphs in today’s FT.

Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 23h

What will COP30’s legacy be?

In our #ClimateWeekNYC Studio Session with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social & the Global Citizens’ Assembly, @sddecleve.bsky.social and Arunabha Ghosh said COP30 must create a lasting pathway to embed citizens in climate governance.

Watch the conversation: bit.ly/479VeZv

The Green Development Agenda - Project Syndicate

09/22/2025 3:30 PM EDT New York City & Online 12 Speakers

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

Winning a bidding war on a house in a hot real estate market isn’t always a win.

People who paid more than the asking price for their homes are more likely to default on their mortgages and see significantly weaker returns, according to a real estate economist.

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Winning a bidding war isn’t always a win, research on 14 million home sales shows

In hot housing markets, buyers who outbid rivals often overpay – and face higher risks of loss and foreclosure.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

African nations should focus the vast majority of their climate action on adaptation rather than mitigation as the continent’s emissions represent only a sliver of the global total, says a veteran politician.

Africa Urged to Shift Focus From Climate Fight to Adaptation

African nations should focus the vast majority of their climate action on adaptation rather than mitigation as the continent’s emissions represent only a sliver of the global total, according to a veteran politician.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - China's slim AI budgets are self-reinforcing reut.rs/4oaxHNS

Breakingviews - China's slim AI budgets are self-reinforcing

Fears are growing that spending on advanced chips and data centres is inflating an investment bubble in the United States. A price war, Washington's export controls and Beijing's worries about overcapacity mean China may end up with the opposite problem: not spending enough.

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