Martin Röck
@martinroeck.com
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👨‍💻🌆 Scientist-Architect-Dad ♻️🤝 Regenerative Systems, Resilient Communities 🇦🇹 🇪🇺 Director @riselabs.at, Lead Scientist @gbdi.io 🌍👉 http://www.martinroeck.com #Climate #Policy #Buildings #Materials #LCA
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🎉 Check out #CollaborativeCarbon! Our new initiative aimed at connecting the dots between forthcoming EU Whole Life Carbon requirements, sustainable finance taxonomy, and the need for scaling sustainable, affordable, community-led models of Collaborative Housing! 👇
riselabs.at
🚀 Introducing #CollaborativeCarbon
A new initiative exploring the Whole Life Carbon (WLC) impacts of collaborative housing – a housing model that already outperforms market standards socially and economically. But how climate-friendly is it? Help us find out!
www.collaborative-carbon.com
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
Feeling like the discourse around around #climate change is broken?

Tune in to this exciting new #podcast documentary, in which @laurielaybourn.bsky.social sets out a new story to make sense of our current moment.

A narrative that can help us nativigate the storm ahead ⛈️
overshootpod.bsky.social
Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...
PART 1: Uncharted Territory
open.spotify.com
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.
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nytimes.com
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The male tendency to view debates as adversarial contests that must be won at all costs is what may help to create a more alarming antiscience dynamic in the manosphere,” writes Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics.
Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science
If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.
nyti.ms
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katjadiehl.bsky.social
" Die Chefin der Messenger-App Signal droht damit, sich vom europäischen Markt zurückzuziehen. Grund ist der Plan der EU, Hintertüren in Apps einzubauen, die eine automatische Suche nach kriminellen Inhalten ermöglichen. "

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...
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jay.bsky.team
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
„Die reichen Länder würden davon profitieren, wenn sie sich zusammentäten und anderen Ländern den #Kohleausstieg finanzieren würden.“

Ausführliches Interview von PIK-Direktor Ottmar #Edenhofer im „Handelsblatt“ zur internationalen #Klimapolitik.

www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut... (€)
Handelsblatt
www.handelsblatt.com
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benmsanderson.bsky.social
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
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lissaharris.bsky.social
they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass:

all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff

stop burning stuff for heat

stop burning stuff for make car go

stop burning stuff for power

we have the tools
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michaelburchert.bsky.social
"Feels like Heimat" Erbseners harvested their own building materials and DIY'd a load-bearing jumbo #strawbale community house, together. That's the regeneration spirit: Take people with you, local, rural - urban empowerment. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #bauwende
www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...
Erbsen: Dorfgemeinschaftshaus aus Stroh fertiggestellt
Das Baumaterial kommt von den Feldern rings um Erbsen. Die Idee hatte Anna Dienberg aus dem Architekturstudium mitgebracht.
www.ndr.de
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arbeiterkammer.at
Österreich ist laut #GlobalWealthReport der #Allianz auf Platz 17 der reichsten Länder der Welt. 2024 stieg das #Geldvermögen der öst. Haushalte um 5,4%. Dem #Sozialstaat bringt das nichts, da #Vermögenssteuern kein Thema sind. Warum nicht, fragt ihr euch? Dann schaut mal unser Video👇 #AKinformiert
Vermögenssteuer: Höhere Steuern auf Reichtum in Österreich?
YouTube video by Arbeiterkammer Österreich
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martinroeck.com
We are planning joint activities for advancing #LCA, low carbon and climate resilient construction with partners on the continent. We will develop accessible, easy to use LCA tools to support uptake of low carbon, climate resilient buildings.

Curious to learn more or eager to join, get in touch!
martinroeck.com
Highlights:
- #LC3 offers cost-efficient and accessible low carbon cement alternative
- Inspiring examples of scaling low carbon practices with participatory urban development by Daniel Wyss
- Great interest to partner w/ #GBDI for advancing low carbon, climate resilient construction across Africa.
martinroeck.com
Last week I got to join an insightful exchange with African partners in context of #LC3 Low Carbon Cement at #EPFL.

Great resonance with our work at @gbdi.io on leveraging life cycle data to reduce resource use, embodied whole life cycle emissions. Looking forward to deepening our collaborations!
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mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social
Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)
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mishacollins.bsky.social
Please cancel your Disney+ subscription. I did. Let’s show the Mouse that their customers are more formidable than Trump.
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robertferry.bsky.social
Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...
techxplore.com
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..”

@dziblatt.bsky.social
www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
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Insightful piece (DE) into theory of Technofeudalism and why, while appealing, it does not describe well what is going on in big tech and AI. After all, the dynamics of the system still spell Capitalism with capital inputs growing to staggering heights recently.
monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!609...
Leben wir im Technofeudalismus?
Big Tech ist das neue Feindbild der Linken. Sie vergleichen die Geschäftspraktiken von Amazon, xAI und Co. neuerdings mit dem Lehnswesen aus dem Mittelalter. Doch stimmt diese Analyse?
monde-diplomatique.de
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arminwolf.at
Es gibt in den USA unter Trump kaum noch Demonstrationen von Rechtsextremen und Neonazis.
Der Chef der extrem rechten „Proud Boys“ erklärt es der NYT so: „Unsere Ansichten sind jetzt Mainstream. Worüber sollten wir und noch beschweren?“
In Trump’s Second Term, Far-Right Agenda Enters the Mainstream
www.nytimes.com
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davekeating.substack.com
"We deserve answers from our leaders about why placating Trump is worth the deaths of more pedestrians on European roads, worth increasing global warming, worth stripping away protections for Europeans using the internet. What is the end game here?"
Washington gains veto power over EU legislation
Von der Leyen's trade war surrender deal promises to lower Europe's vehicle safety and pollution standards - just one of several legislative changes pledged to Trump.
davekeating.substack.com
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
"CCC is deeply conservative on near-term changes to consumption norms, while embracing dangerously optimistic projections of future carbon removal technologies"

Important #ClimateEmergency conclusions. Relying on fantasy #CCS indefensible

theconversation.com/the-uks-year...
The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure
Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.
theconversation.com