#climate change mitigation.

[headspace-hotel]

This is approximate since calculations vary, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of carbon emissions since the Industrial Revolution have come from destruction of terrestrial ecosystems—wetland destruction, deforestation, degradation of grasslands and so on

Soil, soil communities, root systems, carbonate rock, wood, living plants, and peat in wetlands—all holds carbon

Now consider what plants do for you

The mere sight of plants and trees improves mental and physical health. I won't elaborate much more upon this, the positive effects are incredible and overwhelming.

Trees and vines that shade your home and outdoor areas: reduce the cost of cooling, meaning less electricity is used. Shade reduces the risk of death in extreme heat events.

(Trees also reduce light and noise pollution)

Edible plants (many wild plants and many plants you can grow): provide you with food reducing your dependence on industrial agriculture and cars to reach supermarkets

Community gardens and orchards: creates resilience and interdependence among small local communities, reducing the power of capitalism and increasing the ability of individuals to organize and create change. Makes more sustainable and plant based diets accessible to people for whom they would ordinarily be inaccessible

Compost piles for gardening: less greenhouse gas emissions than result from waste breaking down anaerobically in landfills

No more traditional lawns: much less use of gas powered lawn mowers, weed whackers etc. which are, by themselves, significant contributions to carbon emissions and urban pollution

Crafting and creating using plants: Locally available wild plant species can be used by local crafters and creators for baskets and containers, yarn, fabrics, dyes, and the like, resulting in less dependence on unsustainable and unethical global industries

More people growing and gathering edible and useful plants and using them = larger body of practical, scientific and technological insights to draw from in order to solve future problems

In conclusion: Plants

#plants #plantarchy #you are a caretaker #climate change #climate change mitigation #climate change adaptation #gardening #community gardens

[wachinyeya]

#good news #nature #science #environmentalism #environment #climate change #climate change mitigation #climate crisis #climate hope #energy #renewable power

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Nearly five years after the City of Vancouver declared a climate emergency, projections show the municipality falling short of its climate target. The update came in an annual report on the city’s efforts to tackle climate change presented to council on Wednesday. “It’s obviously not a problem Vancouver is going to be solving alone, it’s a global problem that demands a global solution, but we do have an important role in that,” said Matt Horne, the city’s manager of climate mitigation.

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Tagging @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #british columbia #climate change #vancouver #energy #transportation #climate mitigation

[thrivingisthegoal]

A challenge I want to issue to Solarpunk Storytelling! Ground it!

I'm reading a lot about the role of transformative adaptation in response to disaster, and indigenous communities. There is a link in restoring cultural connections based in land, adaptation to climate change, and improved health of indigenous communities. There was also an Australian study that found that caring for the land had a dual benefit in adaptation, not only in adapting the land to respond better to climate disaster, but also in the health of Aboriginal people who worked implementing the adaptation practices.

Part of what makes it so transformative is that adaptive responses to climate change are extremely place based. You don't establish a mangrove to reduce the shock of typhoons in the American Midwest, and you don't do controlled burns in coral reefs.

I see and read a lot of fruit trees and solar panels in Solarpunk concepts, which is great, they definitely have a place in our bright future! But not everywhere in the world is going to be a sunny food forest because not everywhere can support that.

I want to see more Solarpunk narratives integrate adaptive techniques, and maybe put mitigation on top of it! Does a town's seawall have solar panels on top? Do we root mangrove forests on offshore turbines? Adaptive strategies are a part of human response to climate change, and they're grounded in place, I'd love to see more of those ideas! What kind of biome is being restored in this narrative, and how does that look different?

#solarpunk #narrative #adaptation #mitigation #climate change #climate crisis #writing #transformation #climate justice

[faithfromanewperspective]

remember being in a horrid shitty mood catching the bus back to my parents, thinking, if they just painted a bus lane on the fucking road my journey could take less than 45 minutes and be way more reliable. wondering why it isn't there, the infrastructure, surely i could afford the jail time if i just went out there and built it, they wouldn't tear it down right? footpaths and shit. cause it's still a pretty rural area. instead i'm sitting on the bus destroying my mental health, no wonder i feel better having moved out of the area, when every car that cuts in front of us and all the traffic we can't just zoom past feels like a personal put-down, an insult to my way of life that i've chosen because it's better for all of us, not just me.

and realising, when my head's out of the constant frustration of it having moved out to somewhere walkable, i can see it 'above the trees' if you will that i can whine and bitch about it all i can (and believe me i have) but any change like the one i want, is political. we do this for the city, we as the whole city do it together. of course it would be good, say the 3+ million of us living in greater brisbane, soon to be 4, 5, 6, 7 million in the leadup to 2032 and after, but it's the tragedy of the commons isn't it? my priority, say 3+ million minus one self-supporting adult in this soon-to-be megacity, is getting to work every day and putting food on the table. i've never had that strong of a survival drive, I'd rather do the right thing and invest my choices into something that makes for a better city than be able to work or eat but when it comes to my mental health? sometimes you've gotta learn the hard way, some things you can't change, and it's not worth losing everything over. you can't think if you're exposing yourself constantly to what's fucking up your brain like if i punished myself for the inaction of the city it might make it better.

i'm starting to learn it doesn't. change is political, it's about power, and people are like water (bear with me, i'm a hydrologist) because it takes volume, all going a certain way, to make the biggest impact. have the strongest force. erode grooves in rocks and wash away entire buildings (this is brisbane, we've seen it happen). what we need, is all these people, 3+ million of us and more, coming together around an idea. getting together, council can't do anything to stop a majority, not in australia at least, and the functionality of a city is something we all need. heck, traffic is bad for all of our mental health and i would bet both my kidneys that the impact of it on our lives and relationships is understudied and underreported exponentially. we can solve this, but individual choices alone don't do shit.

so i'll stop beating myself up for not being able to simply will all the traffic lights along my commute to be green, and turn the energy i put into being mad at all of those stupid annoying cars into the things i do best. it turns out i'm really fucking good at drawing up ideas and connecting with people. so i'll stop beating myself up about the fact that the uni degree i did so i'd know about these things and the job i do for Experience and Sustenance meant i haven't had time to do all of these things As Soon As I Thought Of Them (like you always got told to do for your homework assignments). instead i'll think in larger timeframes. 9 years til the olympics. 2 to finish my masters degree. 27 til the rest of the world is carbon negative like tasmania and bhutan. what can i do in each of these timeframes? and how can i prioritise it?

as i coax my brain slowly out of fight or flight, as i put my pencils and watercolours and maps to annotate out on the table in front of me and say 'take your time, but you're allowed to do what you love' i know the places that have marked on my soul stand out to me. south east queensland right out to the bay. western sydney and bringing dignity to our second cbd, parramatta. queenstown tasmania, for some reason. the murray-darling basin as a whole, gundagai and the murrumbidgee at its heart. the red dirt centre of this great land and all the peoples and cultures it holds. i can hold all of their perspectives. i can train my intuition to find out all of their needs. i can put myself into 26 million pairs of shoes and decorate the lands and i can do it respectfully and lovingly like i'm tattooing my own skin because it might as well be. tattoo it with the needs of all of us and all who have gone before. blueprints of functionality, functionality we don't have, and then meet all 26 million souls (okay, i probably only need 2 million if we're starting from brisbane) and say to them, would you dream this dream with me? will you imagine this lifestyle where you're less burdened? can you be a part of simply talking about it, because that's how we're going to make it happen? can you improve it, make it better, make it yours, knowing that when you do it imprints itself on your heart a little more, you feel a part of it? and then we're all part of it. it takes years, but it can happen.

so i guess i've got my life's work cut out for me, and i'm so fucking glad i could figure this out from something that has been frustrating me to no end, because 'you can't change it' doesn't work for me unless you switch it out like a child's toy for something more big and exciting that i can change instead. fuck you, conformity. i found what it can be for me. a dream so big it doesn't matter if i can only do some of it--and who says i have to limit myself to australia?

#urban design #personal mental health tag #silver bridges #urban planning #sustainable transport #sustainable lifestyles #sustainable development goals #socio hydrology #neurodivergence #not to mention climate change mitigation

[cgandrews3]

#alaska #alaska native tribes #biodiversity #braiding sweetgrass #candice gaukel andrews #climate change #climate change mitigation #conservation #covid 19 #drought #ecosystems #environment #executive order 14072 #forests #global warming #indigenous knowledge #natural habitat adventures #nathab #nature #plants #remote #robin wall kimmerer #science #science and environment #scientific research #shellfish #social justice #technology #trees #western science

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

For the past two years, world leaders, economists and activists have called for sweeping overhauls to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that would make the two lending institutions more adept at combating climate change.

Discussions about how to reform lumbering multilateral bureaucracies can get tedious quickly. But ultimately the debates are all about money. How to make more money available for developing nations that are being battered by extreme weather? And how to make sure poor countries don’t spend too much money servicing their debt?

Experts estimate that at least $1 trillion a year is needed to help developing countries adapt to hotter temperatures and rising seas, build out clean energy projects and cope with climate disasters.

“For many countries, they will only be able to implement strong new climate plans if we see a quantum leap in climate finance this year,” Simon Stiell, the United Nations climate chief, said in a speech last week.

Starting in 2022, a burst of activity had made the prospect of such a quantum leap seem within reach.

Policymakers and economists gathered in Barbados and hashed out an ambitious reform agenda. The president of the World Bank stepped down after coming under fire for not doing enough to address climate change, and was replaced by an executive who promised to embrace climate work. Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, hosted a summit aimed at building momentum for the work.

But at the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and the I.M.F., which are taking place in Washington this week, reality is setting in.

While more money has become available to address climate issues over the last year or so, the sweeping reforms many had envisioned are proving to be out of reach.

Some of that is a process problem. Overhauling 80-year-old international institutions with complicated governance structures and tens of thousands of employees is no small task.

But much of the challenge comes back to money. So far, the countries that control the World Bank — including the United States, Germany, China and Japan — have not allocated huge new sums for climate issues in the developing world, and the private sector has not stepped in to fill the gap.

“The numbers do not show the kind of progress that we really need,” said Rachel Kyte, a visiting professor at Oxford and former World Bank executive. “We’ve got to get a little bit more radical.”

#climate change #climate mitigation finance #climate adaptation finance #climate finance

[brightokyolights]

People will cry and moan about not using plastic water bottles or eating certain food because of 'the microplastics!' and 'genetically modified foods!' but then not give a single fuck about being sustainable or the climate At All. 😐

#just came to this realisation rn lmao #like ive been moaned at so much about my water bottle that ive had for years now (because until this thing literally falls apart i am not #throwing it away lmao) and when i eat fish or 'highly processed' foods or drink water from the tap BLAH BLAH BLAH #and i just realised a lot of these issues could be mitigated by... proper regulations in terms of dumping oil and rubbish and the Huge #pollution fucking issue we have and climate change??? #and these are the same people who throw out anything as soon as its even Slightly tainted. over buy products that they dont need. only #purchase from fast fashion brands etc etc i could literally go on #anyways uts just astounding the hypocrisy of people and the way they only care about certain things at the surface level #and when i try to mention how capitalism is the reasin for a lot of these issues they are for some reason. shoved up capitalisms ass and #genuinely believe it is a good thinh #im going mental!!!!!!! #le text post #oh btw i feel like its not clear in the actual post but when i say plastic water bottle i am not meaning like bottled water like evian or #whatever. i am meaning like i have a heavy duty water bottle literally Meant to be reused that is also made of plastic. bpa free blah blah #the people that i am talking about give me grief for using this bottle but go out of their way to only drink 'filtered' aka bottled water #so that just adds on to my fucking point #anyways im gonna stop i could literally go on about this

[glamurai56]

#deforestación #deforestation #global warming #climate action #climate crisis #climate deniers #climate change mitigation #climate change #climate catastrophe #climate emergency

[rulesforthedance]

"Just Give Up because no effort you make is going to be bulletproof and it might be slightly inconvenient"

#American cultural approach to so many things tbh #from covid precautions to climate change mitigation to road safety infrastructure improvements #on the one hand many people will die if we don't. but on the other hand some people will still die if we do AND #it might take me 1.5 minutes longer to drive to work. so we better not #(go fuuuuiick yourself) #(guys help I had to see a bad take that happens to be my blood-boiling pet peeve)

[headspace-hotel]

Proposed logging project in the Daniel Boone National Forest (South-Central Kentucky, USA)

I found out about this recently and Ive seen barely any discussion or attention about it in real life or on the internet, so hopefully I can attract more attention

The USA Forest Service is planning to log 10,000 acres of the Daniel Boone National Forest near Jellico Mountain, near the Kentucky-Tennessee border. The plan includes around 1,000 acres of clear cutting.

We need mature forests to remove and store carbon from the atmosphere. This is disastrous from a climate change perspective.

The excuse being given (apart from the obvious economic incentive of logging) is that the tract is mostly "mature forest" and that the forest needs to have a "diversity of age classes" for wildlife. This is total bullshit, since less than 1% of old growth forest in the Eastern USA remains, and an 80-year-old forest is still incredibly young. This type of reasoning is greenwashing.

To make matters worse, the planned logging is on mountain tops, which will cause huge amounts of erosion and possible floods and landslides that endanger the people who live in the valleys below.

Kentucky experienced a deadly flash flood in the eastern mountains that killed 40 people last year. Forests help stop flash flooding by absorbing rainfall in a dense layer of roots and soil, draining it slowly into waterways; without them, mud and rainwater goes rushing straight into narrow mountain gullies rapidly, causing dangerous floods.

Mud and sediment rushing into streams also kills fish and aquatic life that need clear, clean stream water.

Kentucky has one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems in the entire world, with only a couple states next to it having more freshwater species. Kentucky's forest streams have fresh water fish, crustaceans and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

The Southeastern USA has the most diverse freshwater life of any place on Earth, the most salamander diversity of any place on Earth, and the Appalachian Mountains are a global hotspot of biodiversity, considered one of the world's most biodiverse temperate deciduous forest habitats.

It is crucial that we begin building the old-growth forests of the future NOW!

Logging these forest tracts will facilitate invasive species to take over. Mature forests form buffer zones against invasive species. The forest will never grow back the way it was; it will be infected with Kudzu, Autumn Olive, Honeysuckle and other invasives that take advantage of the destruction and prevent the normal process of forest succession from happening as it should.

If you live anywhere near this area, talk to everyone around you about this, send them the links above and encourage them to do the same themselves.

Talk to your friends, your neighbors, people at your church, everyone you are in contact with or speak to in your day to day life. Tell them about the risks of flash flooding and landslides and the importance of preserving mature forest land. Any environmental clubs and organizations you know of, tell them as well.

Most people haven't even heard this is happening, and that's how they get away with it.

Public outrage protects priceless habitats all the time, so TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW. Tell people you don't know, even. Call and email organizations and people that might be interested, until you run into someone who has an idea of what to do. That's how change happens!

#boost #kentucky #conservation #logging #protect our forests #climate change mitigation #usa

[wachinyeya]

#good news #science #environmentalism #nature #environment #epa #climate change #climate change mitigation #climate legislation #global climate change #conservation

[hylianengineer]

It is 107 degreee fahrenheit outside today. (That's 41.67 celcius.) This is the hottest I can ever remember it being in my region. We're probably setting heat records again. Welcome to the new fucking normal I guess.

#i'm bitter okay. #i'm way more optimistic than most people about climate change but i am allowed to be bitter on occassion #yes we can still avoid the worst of it yes this is still gonna suck. already does suck. #this just meqans we have to work even harder to mitigate the problem so it doesn't get more worse #this is not an excuse to despoair #no despair allowed #however. i am grumpy. #and bitter #negative #vent post #climate change tw #extreme heat #extreme weather

[realasslesbian]

Y'aaaaaaaaall winter ain't even over in Australia yet and the magpies are already swooping and bushfires are already burning, me and my heat-aggravated epilepsy are fucked for this summer lmao

#climate change is actually real you dorks #but at least I'm already a master of mitigating heat exhaustion #the rest of y'all gonna find out and not enjoy finding out lmao #auspol #australia

[aifyit]

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#AI and Climate Change #AI for Climate Action #AI in Climate Modeling #Climate change #Climate Change Adaptation #Climate Change and Technology #Climate Change Mitigation #Climate Change Solutions

[elimgarakdemocrat]

I don't turn into the joker

Like I'll see some " environmentalist " group block a solar farm because it'll displace a couple tortoises or a block hydro power line delivery because it'll ruin a view or block a wind farm because it'll lead to bird details equivalent to those caused by a small towns cat population

And I'll get mad, but I won't turn into the joker

No, I'll turn into the onceler 😤😤😤😤

#anti terrapin aktion #anti tortoise aktion #lorax #onceler #climate change #climate mitigation #renewable energy #solar power #wind power #hydro