Lia Cioni
@liacioni.bsky.social
MPH student @UC Berkeley
Reproductive Health and Climate Change
Reproductive Health and Climate Change
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How can we ensure justice and environmental responsibility in sourcing the precious metals we need for the energy transition? Stephen Lezak argues that several very familiar markets have achieved this by embracing traceability.
#RenewableEnergy. But mining comes at a steep environmental price. New regulations aim to balance economic needs with sustainability.
What's the right balance?
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
#SustainableMining #GreenSky #ClimateSky
What's the right balance?
carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
#SustainableMining #GreenSky #ClimateSky
What the Cobalt Industry Can Learn From Coffee Producers
Policymakers and industry leaders should look to the grocery store for inspiration in regulating the critical mineral industry.
carnegieendowment.org
October 11, 2024 at 9:26 AM
How can we ensure justice and environmental responsibility in sourcing the precious metals we need for the energy transition? Stephen Lezak argues that several very familiar markets have achieved this by embracing traceability.
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⛏️🤘 Metal Revolution: what can the jewellery industry teach us about how we get the materials we need for the energy transition? Join me as I speak with Pandora's Mads Twomey-Madsen and Oxford Smith School's Stephen Lezak - Tuesday December 10.
What can other businesses learn from Pandora's recent decision to only source recycled #Gold & #Silver?
@davidrvetter.bsky.social will be discussing the potential end of #GoldMining with Mads Twomey-Madsen (SVP Global Comms & Sustainability, Pandora) & #OxfordSmithSchool Stephen Lezak on 10 Dec.
@davidrvetter.bsky.social will be discussing the potential end of #GoldMining with Mads Twomey-Madsen (SVP Global Comms & Sustainability, Pandora) & #OxfordSmithSchool Stephen Lezak on 10 Dec.
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
⛏️🤘 Metal Revolution: what can the jewellery industry teach us about how we get the materials we need for the energy transition? Join me as I speak with Pandora's Mads Twomey-Madsen and Oxford Smith School's Stephen Lezak - Tuesday December 10.
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What lurks below the redecoration of the oval room?
"President Trump should have "a little more perspective" when it comes to #goldmining" Stephen Lezak, author of The Case Against Gold Mining.
@theguardian.com
"President Trump should have "a little more perspective" when it comes to #goldmining" Stephen Lezak, author of The Case Against Gold Mining.
@theguardian.com
Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong
The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leader
f.mtr.cool
April 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What lurks below the redecoration of the oval room?
"President Trump should have "a little more perspective" when it comes to #goldmining" Stephen Lezak, author of The Case Against Gold Mining.
@theguardian.com
"President Trump should have "a little more perspective" when it comes to #goldmining" Stephen Lezak, author of The Case Against Gold Mining.
@theguardian.com
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New study co-authored by #OxfordSmithSchool Stephen Lezak provides a roadmap for how voluntary standards can move beyond carbon credits and toward next-generation systems for climate action.
https://f.mtr.cool/cukwamapko
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/cukwamapko
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Update corporate climate standards to increase rigor and ambition
Voluntary corporate climate mitigation standard updates should continue to heed recent scientific evidence on carbon credits and carbon credit quantif…
f.mtr.cool
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
New study co-authored by #OxfordSmithSchool Stephen Lezak provides a roadmap for how voluntary standards can move beyond carbon credits and toward next-generation systems for climate action.
https://f.mtr.cool/cukwamapko
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/cukwamapko
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
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“After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID,” Marco Rubio wrote on Monday. (trib.al/nBk143S)
Now, the staff has been directed to shred and burn classified documents—an illegal move under the Federal Records Act.
Now, the staff has been directed to shred and burn classified documents—an illegal move under the Federal Records Act.
USAID Ordered to Shred or Burn Classified Documents in Alarming Move
Staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development have received a troubling order on what to do with their classified documents.
newrepublic.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID,” Marco Rubio wrote on Monday. (trib.al/nBk143S)
Now, the staff has been directed to shred and burn classified documents—an illegal move under the Federal Records Act.
Now, the staff has been directed to shred and burn classified documents—an illegal move under the Federal Records Act.
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Spot on.
March 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Spot on.
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This is terrible. As a weather spotter for 20 years and daily reader of the noaa technical discussion, I’ve gotten to know a few of Bay Area NWS staff, this is just heartbreaking and unfortunately also undermines public safety. #CAwx
ICYMI: Bay Area National Weather Service office hit by DOGE layoffs
The staffing cuts may limit the office’s ability to perform duties such as answering public and media phone calls during adverse weather, said a local steward for the NWS employees org who spoke to the Chronicle on personal time.
The staffing cuts may limit the office’s ability to perform duties such as answering public and media phone calls during adverse weather, said a local steward for the NWS employees org who spoke to the Chronicle on personal time.
NEW: Thursday’s massive National Weather Service layoffs included three employees at the Monterey office, which provides weather forecasts for nearly all of the Bay Area. One meteorologist, an administrative support assistant and a facilities technician were all fired with less than a day notice.
March 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is terrible. As a weather spotter for 20 years and daily reader of the noaa technical discussion, I’ve gotten to know a few of Bay Area NWS staff, this is just heartbreaking and unfortunately also undermines public safety. #CAwx
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The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.
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"We are at a crossroads in history today," Starmer said.
“This is not a moment for more talk – it’s time to act and unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace."
“This is not a moment for more talk – it’s time to act and unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace."
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"We are at a crossroads in history today," Starmer said.
“This is not a moment for more talk – it’s time to act and unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace."
“This is not a moment for more talk – it’s time to act and unite around a new plan for a just and enduring peace."
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What can one person do?
February 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What can one person do?
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The Trump administration says it finished a 90 day review of suspended foreign aid 53 days early—magically just hours before a court had ordered the aid restarted.
It terminated over 90% of these thousands of aid contracts, devastating lifesaving programs worldwide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
It terminated over 90% of these thousands of aid contracts, devastating lifesaving programs worldwide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Services collapsing as USAID cuts health contracts worldwide
U.S.-funded health projects around the world, including those providing lifesaving care, received termination notices from Washington on Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration neared completion of a review to ensure grants are aligned with its "America First" policy.
www.reuters.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Trump administration says it finished a 90 day review of suspended foreign aid 53 days early—magically just hours before a court had ordered the aid restarted.
It terminated over 90% of these thousands of aid contracts, devastating lifesaving programs worldwide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
It terminated over 90% of these thousands of aid contracts, devastating lifesaving programs worldwide.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
I just don't get it . It's like they want to hurt people
I just don't get it . It's like they want to hurt people
FDA cancels vaccine advisory committee meeting to select next year’s flu strain for no reason
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the FDA was supposed to meet next month to choose what strains of flu would be included in next season’s flu vaccine but the meeting ...
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage
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The charges against her were dropped, and the cosplay cops who manhandled her had their business license revoked. 🥳 But the message remains clear: uppity women dissenting will not be tolerated, especially when it comes to reproductive rights.
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The charges against her were dropped, and the cosplay cops who manhandled her had their business license revoked. 🥳 But the message remains clear: uppity women dissenting will not be tolerated, especially when it comes to reproductive rights.
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Three random dudes throw down a woman and drag her out of a TOWN HALL in Idaho during a discussion about abortion. Cuz nothing says “reasonable political discourse” like a couple of self-appointed bouncers in cargo shorts assaulting a woman for daring to have an opinion. The update?
Doctor thrown out of Idaho townhall
Three random dudes throw down a woman and drag her out of a TOWN HALL in Idaho during a discussion about abortion. Cuz nothing says “reasonable political dis...
youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Three random dudes throw down a woman and drag her out of a TOWN HALL in Idaho during a discussion about abortion. Cuz nothing says “reasonable political discourse” like a couple of self-appointed bouncers in cargo shorts assaulting a woman for daring to have an opinion. The update?
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This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.
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In the USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials.
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
www.motherjones.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials.
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
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We know how to improve health
1. Universal healthcare
2. Stable housing
3. Access to food
1. Universal healthcare
2. Stable housing
3. Access to food
February 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We know how to improve health
1. Universal healthcare
2. Stable housing
3. Access to food
1. Universal healthcare
2. Stable housing
3. Access to food
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👇🎯
I have spent a lot of time since 2016 arguing with people about whether I was too worried and whether experts like me were exaggerating the threat. I never said authoritarianism was a certainty, but I always said the risk was unacceptably high. And.... <gestures wildly>
February 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
👇🎯
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The world’s strongest voice for Democracy
February 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The world’s strongest voice for Democracy
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I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later).
Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.
Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.
February 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later).
Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.
Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.
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Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.
February 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.
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One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up
The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align the military with Trump’s agenda.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity
Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity
US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
Donald Trump abruptly fired the air force general CQ Brown Jr as chair of the joint chiefs of staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making…
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity