Women in technology
fromwww.dw.com
12 hours agoIs caring about the climate unmanly?
A former fighter pilot shifted from military aviation to post-fire reforestation and climate tech, influenced by childhood wildfire trauma and the green gender gap.
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fromPsychology Today
3 months agoDo Multinational Corporations Care About Biodiversity?
You have probably heard about voluntary carbon offset-if not from elsewhere, from buying plane tickets, where, after you have paid for the ticket, the tax, the seats, maybe the luggage fee, and the priority boarding, you have an option to also pay to offset your carbon footprint. Companies get to do this, too, and, unlike you, they get to brag about it.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 months agoThese artists want your help distracting fossil fuel executives
Interactive interventionist artworks disrupt fossil-fuel actors and reframe carbon offsets as performative, accountable actions that fund emissions-reducing direct interventions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months agoCarbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to intractable' systemic problems, study says
Carbon offsets largely fail to reduce global emissions because systemic flaws—additionality, impermanence, leakage, and double-counting—make most credits poor quality.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months agoOur world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire
The hope that followed the signing of the Paris climate agreement in 2016 has long gone as the global community has failed utterly to rein in emissions, which barring a small pandemic-induced blip in 2020 have headed remorselessly upwards ever since. And there is little sign of this changing anytime soon. Indeed, as global heating has accelerated over the past few years, instead of trying harder, the world is turning its back on measures to tackle the climate crisis.
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fromEarth911
1 year agoEarth911 Podcast: Cool Earth's Hannah Peck Collaborates With Indigenous Communities To Preserve The Planet's Remaining Rainforests
Cool Earth promotes direct support for Indigenous communities as a better solution for rainforest conservation than traditional carbon offset frameworks.
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