Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

C'était il y a 10 ans : Aaron Swartz se suicide le 11 janvier 2013 à l'âge de 26 ans !

It was 10 years ago: Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013 at the age of 26!

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#aaronswartz #opensource #openaccess #opendata

My brother gave me Open Circuits by @oskay and @tubetime for christmas.

Super cool book!

This bombshell from @jtemple points out so many things that are wrong about Make Sunsets, a startup that claims to have released sulfur particles into the atmosphere for solar geoengineering and is trying to sell “cooling credits” on its website.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/

One tricky thing about the #mastodonmigration: leaving ranking behind. It's convenient to have platforms predict what we want to see. They're good at it! But we're probably better at it.

Still, curating your own TL takes work (which we are not used to)! I'm doing this largely through building out lists, which I wish we could share/follow, as you can on the other app. It would also be great to have a "priority follow" option, too (short of turning on notifications for a profile).

I can get as excited as the next person at cutting edge clean technologies. But I also love the simple solutions, the folk wisdom, the public domain knowledge that we can apply to live well and equitably within planetary limits. Here are a few of my favorites - what are yours?

- the bicycle
- the cover crop
- the compost pile
- the hand-me-down chain
- the mending circle
- the live music evening
- the repair cafe
- the library
- the shade tree
- the rain garden
- the sidewalk

"The only way to be sustainable is to fly less!
This is a message the aviation industry wants to hide from us using greenwashing."

– @CharlotteBraat@twitter.com from @FVReclame@twitter.com

Switzerland (finally) gets a nice energy dashboard.
Late, but thankfully very nice bonus points for including lake levels for hydropower, gas import/export flows, savings target, EU gas storage levels …

https://www.energiedashboard.admin.ch/dashboard

"12 ways to reduce cars in cities" ranked by effectiveness.
Really interesting combination of carrots and sticks, with the sticks having higher overall effectiveness. Most likely, need to use both in combination. HT @BrentToderian , @giulio_mattioli FYI https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642

Companies have poured millions of dollars into forest carbon offsets so they can keep emitting greenhouse gases.

It's not working.

Scientists at @nasa and the University of California Irvine looked at 37 forest carbon offset projects across #California. They found the amount of carbon stored isn't increasing and logging isn't slowing down over the past decade

From @TheConversationUS, edited by our #Climate editor @smorford@sciencemastodon

https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943
#NetZero #ClimateChange #Offsets

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Any conversation about “better” cars HAS to be in the context of real, ambitious strategies to achieve FEWER cars. As I put it recently in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles [that was their stated goal]. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250K electric vehicles. The answer HAS to be FEWER cars and LESS driving.”

#ElectricVehicles #EVs #cars #cities #urbanism #transportation

Centrist politicians are getting *very excited* at how a low-carbon technology that may be viable in the future will allow them to oppose low-carbon technologies & policies today