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Vanuatu takes the stage — Part Two A little manatee that roared has changed the prospect for climate action

“Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” Except the World Court just did. medium.com/@cooldesign/... @billmckibben.bsky.social
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Vanuatu takes the stage—Part Two A little manatee that roared has changed the prospect for climate action

Grand Canyon is biggest fire in the US — Calif, Ariz & Utah are burning. So too Greece, Turkey, Spain, Japan & Siberia. And! World Court just set fire to insurance cos, credit agencies & banks open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...
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Vanuatu takes the stage—Part One Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

Will banks still finance coal and oil projects now that the World Court has made them liable for extreme weather events and migrant relocation? Will governments? What about the corporations themselves? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/08/vanu...

Pleading to a lesser charge of poaching underage towel girls diverted attention from the larger racket of money laundering going back to DJT’s first gig in Russian Brighton Beach coin-ops. The diversion worked.
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Pleading to the lesser charge of poaching underage masseuses was to divert attention from the larger racket of money laundering that goes all the way back to Brighton Beach Trump laundromats. It’s working.
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Why is the Vanuatan win at the World Court such a big deal? I’ve put it all together. Paywall drops tomorrow.

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Vanuatu takes the stage—Part One Why the climate opinion by the World Court is such a Big Deal

Why is the Vanuatan win at the World Court such a big deal? I’ve put it all together. Paywall drops tomorrow. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @hpacoalition.bsky.social

Urban Permaculture almost sounds like an oxymoron until you add biochar to make permeable pavers, capture rain, clear the air and cool the planet. No car soups for you! peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/07/brea...

Breathing Highways and Sponge Cities | Albert Bates Get more from Albert Bates on Patreon

True fact: Mark Twain was not the first to say, “Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The statement is wrong anyway. www.patreon.com/posts/breath...

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Breathing Highways and Sponge Cities We could do worse than to go back to the way nature manages rainfall.

Car soups, floating houses, broken bridges... these are just the new climate we are in at 1.5 degrees. Adaptation should be on everyone's mind. cooldesign.medium.com/breathing-hi...

Breathing Highways and Sponge Cities We could do worse than to go back to the way nature manages rainfall.

As a city develops, the soil is slowly covered by hardscape. There is less and less water infiltrating through to reach soil. If the level of rainfall exceeds its pumping stations’ capacity, the city floods cooldesign.substack.com/p/breathing-... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @revkin.bsky.social

Who knows? At auction, Epstein’s estate might get $10B for the DJT original drawing. The price goes up the longer Donald and Rupert fight over it. #sharpiegate peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/07/oper...

Operation Irony The Epstein saga could have been short-lived scandal. Instead, its becoming Shakespearean.

Kompromat is as old as the USA. J. Edgar Hoover, Joe Alsop, and the Lavender Scare brought it into the 20th century. But be careful. It’s a double-edged sword when your targets command clandestine forces of their own. medium.com/@cooldesign/...

Lest we’ve forgotten, Thomas Jefferson used the first autopen in March 1804, during his first term, and used it some 19,000 times both in his official capacity and for private letters.

Operation Irony The Epstein saga could have been short-lived scandal. Instead, its becoming Shakespearean.

With the Rules Committee demanding a floor vote in Congress on whether Trump’s DOJ should release the Epstein files, irregularities where Epstein was housed created conditions where a murder could have occurred. Qui bono? That’s the premise for a graphic novel! cooldesign.medium.com/operation-ir...

Operation Irony The Epstein saga could have been short-lived scandal. Instead, its becoming Shakespearean.

Shakespeare’s Richard III is "determined to prove a villain/And hate the idle pleasures of these days.” cooldesign.substack.com/p/operation-...

Into the Fish’s Mouth Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

2,250 years ago tens of thousands of Chinese constructed a water-diversion levee resembling a fish’s mouth. It still protects from river floods today. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/07/into...

Into the Fish’s Mouth Two years’ average rainfall fell in just three days. Permaculture came to their rescue.

Unlearning is a kind of errancy within weather patterns, a syncopating line distressing the monotony of continuity. It is not reducible to intention. — Bayo cooldesign.medium.com/into-the-fis...

Into the Fish’s Mouth Two years’ average rainfall fell in just three days. Permaculture came to their rescue.

The official US policy when confronted by extreme weather caused by climate change is to plug our ears and shout nahnahnahnahnah until it goes away.

Somehow, I can’t see that working.

Better strategies do exist. Some have been around a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

El Salvador Contradicts Trump, Says It Has No Authority Over Migrants Held in Megaprison Read more here.

El Salvador’s Jul 6 admission to UN investigators that Trump could have returned Abrego at will is more jello on the wall. On Thursday, the DOJ must explain its new deportation plan. Judge Xinis may get some more jello to nail up. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: The Real Reason Trump Buried the Epstein List—And Elon Knows Why I know it’s been quite a weekend.

The children of Ukraine are being bombed to keep the pee tape from being released. And now the Epstein client list "never existed." levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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And here is an unpleasant truth. A huge fraction of that meat consumption goes to feed pets, most of which are mistreated ornamentals and psychological crutches.

Where’s the Tip? Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

“If we pass one boundary, we should be shitting our pants. We’ve passed seven!” said David Suzuki. Some climate tipping points now seem irretrievable. The positive ones don’t have to be. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/07/wher... @hpacoalition.bsky.social @herbsimmens.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social