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"Ecological sovereignty is an encompassing frame that learns from building and interweaving ... food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, territorial sovereignty [etc.] to inform another kind of economic thinking, less aimed at comparative advantage and more focused on global immunity to catastrophe."

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

An infographic showing how different aurora colors are produced by different gasses at various altitudes in the atmosphere.

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.

Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

Recipes of Ruin: Food Traditions and the Struggle for Cultural Identity In “The Last Sweet Bite,” Michael Shaikh argues that the deliberate targeting of food traditions constitutes cultural warfare.

Michael Shaikh has spent two decades documenting the human cost of war. In his new book, “The Last Sweet Bite,” Shaikh shows how the targeting of food traditions is not collateral damage but cultural warfare.

Refugee settlements are highly exposed to extreme weather conditions Refugee settlements are often located in countries most vulnerable to climate variability. This article provides a systematic analysis examining the exposure to slow- and rapid-onset events of the 20 largest refugee settlements worldwide. We find ...

We have evidence that refugees are highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, including severe weather, and are often more vulnerable to these impacts because of restrictions on their right to movement, work, shelter (see: @sonjafransen.bsky.social et al. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...).

“It’s Time for Us to be Included”: An Assessment of Refugee and Displaced People’s Participation in National Adaptation Planning - Refugees International States are making progress in planning their responses to climate change, particularly through NAPs; yet, refugees and IDPs are still being overlooked.

Yet refugees and other displaced communities are excluded in climate planning processes and actions, from local disaster responses to national adaptation planning and international processes like COPs and the International Migration Review Forum
(See us www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...)

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

- Fadi Masoud argued we should call them something else. "We need a different category for these spaces," he said. "Call them squares or plazas … that type of space requires a completely different reading of what is required and how best to design and maintain them."

h/t @uoftcities.bsky.social

i think “ai data centers in space makes sense”
is the peak of the bubble. this is the beanie baby happy meal toy of the LLM era.

the annoying thing about the ostrich cull coverage is how much time it spends on various non-expert opinions and how little they spend on the latest science, capabilities & safety practices

Extreme Heat Governance Futures for Sydney – What Now, and What If? * Journal of Futures Studies Article James Balzer Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Abstract Sydney, Australia is experiencing more frequent and intense extrem...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can better #futures #governance help to address the problem of #extremeheat in #Sydney #Austrailia? Find out with James Balzer, MSusDev MPP, as he uses #futuresmethods, namely the #futurestriangle and the #ChangeProgressionScenario (CPS), and #causallayeredanalysis

it is worth remembering that cigarette companies also spent decades selling products they knew would harm and kill people and marketed them specifically to young people to create dependence. let's stop this without having to go through a generation of death and several class actions.

Book by Kian Goh Honored by Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning “Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice” is winner of the 2025 Paul Davidoff Book Award.

I'm thrilled and honored to receive the Paul Davidoff Book Award for Form and Flow, my book on the politics of urban climate change responses! Heartened to be recognized by my planning colleagues and to know that ACSP continues to foreground justice in these times. luskin.ucla.edu/book-by-kian...

River grabbing from the source: groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia's Northern Territory Indigenous people of the Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) have strong legal rights to most of the land through which the river flows…

New paper!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What’s missing from the Carney government’s first federal budget Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget represents a shift in policy from Justin Trudeau as the Liberals bet that major investments in an economic transformation will pay off with much-neede...

'We need to make sacrifices [to your health] in order to make investments [in tax cuts].'

Nothing new on pharmacare or dental care.

New tax deductions (and even 'super-deductions') for corporations.

Tax breaks on planes and yachts over $250,000.

Etc.

#cdnpoli
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...

Passport Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Canada -- many of us have spent time on the phone or in offices with hardworking federal employees.

And the plan, apparently in large part, is to replace the good jobs of these human beings with AI slopbots? During a jobs crisis??

The Closing Door of Climate Targets The linear relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and global climate warming implies that as mitigation is delayed, climate targets become unachievable.

"It is the fast and irreversible shrinking, and eventual disappearance, of the mitigation options with every year of increasing greenhouse gas emissions."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

EUGENE DEBS MENTIONED
running around freaking out

Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America’s largest city, after winning NYC’s mayoral race aje.io/vrh1g8

Table of contents | Budget 2025 Table of contents — Part of Budget 2025.

The budget includes cuts by department. In this thread, I'll highlight those cuts.

First up, Agriculture & Agri-Food.

-Agricultural Climate Solution Livings Labs ended

-"Reduce certain science activities"

-Reducing staff & contractors

1/x
#cdnpoli #Budget2025
budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow.

Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2025 CityTalk | Live — "There’s the Money! What The Federal Budget Means For City Building". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ... The local impact of national priorities: what the budget really means for Canadian communities. The 2025 federal budget sets the tone for how Canada plans to tackle its biggest challenges — housing, ...

What the federal budget means for cities this Thursday noon ET - moderated by @canurb.bsky.social featuring @fcm.ca @thehubcanada.bsky.social & @uoftcities.bsky.social (me) us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.

Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.

The Yukon is having a plebiscite tonight on electoral reform, and currently ranked ballots have 60% support with lots of votes left to come in

electionsyukon.ca/en/plebiscit...

A wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for a stronger, fairer Canada New report on the effects of wealth inequality, the revenue potential of a wealth tax, counter-arguments and an outline of transformative public investments.

A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada.

Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada.

New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax

Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire? Doug Ford wants Ottawa to ignore First Nations’ warnings that drinking water, treaty rights, and the land itself are on the line

Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire?

Doug Ford wants Ottawa to ignore First Nations’ warnings that drinking water, treaty rights, and the land itself are on the line.

The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/indigenous/w...

#cdnpoli #Budget2025

As water dries up in northeast B.C., some want industry paying more to pump the precious resource | CBC News Environmental groups are calling on the B.C. government to raise industrial water rates as drought deepens and demand for freshwater rises in some areas of the province.

“At $2.25 per million litres, B.C.’s industrial water rate is the lowest in Canada, far below the $54 to $179 charged by other provinces”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There is not only "no crying in baseball", there is only crying in baseball.

I think one of the greatest and consequential failures of 21st century education systems globally has been the collective refusal to understand that reading books, watching films and learning to appreciate art are necessary for ALL fields, but especially STEM, and especially tech.