climate, justice, music
Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
The 2025 edition of the Climate Game Jam starts on Friday! We’ll kickoff at 6 PM Pacific with a keynote presentation from Dr. Isabel Carrera Zamanillo (Front and Centered).
The jam goes from June 13-July 18, and all skill levels are welcome! Last year we had 500 participants and nearly 50 games were created!
https://www.indiecade.com/climate-jam/
#GameJam #Climate #ClimateChange #GameDev #Godot #GodotEngine #Unity #UnrealEngine #EnvironmentalJustice
Stream is still going! Almost at hour 100!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc8yjp5G5GM
Great #climate and #weather science from just a few of the many who work with #NOAA, #NASA and other federal funding support for science
American #climate and #weather scientists have been streaming for almost 85 hours straight to call attention to all the firings and proposed cuts at #NOAA and other research labs.
I scored the most sought after time slot of them all to present: Sunday 1 June at 4 AM EDT/1 AM PDT (OK maybe not the best time).
Not so bad for friends in Europe/Africa/Asia/Australia though! 9 AM BST/10 AM CEST/5 PM KST.
Tune in here any time:
https://wclivestream.com/watch
Live bluegrass/rap fusion at UW!
New version of our Climate Future simulator, updated with data through 2024. You can use it to calculate how much we need to cut fossil fuel use to stop global heating (quickly, completely)
https://atmos.uw.edu/~dargan/EarthGamesUW/FutureClimate25/Climate_model_simple25.html
50% of all fossil fuel burning in history has happened since December 31, 1995
https://atmos.uw.edu/~dargan/EarthGamesUW/book/carbonemissionsCDF.html
Source: Global Carbon Project 2024
https://globalcarbonbudgetdata.org/latest-data.html
EJAtlas.org, the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, is a collection of over 4,200 struggles against unfair pollution burdens across the world. Incredible resource!
#EnvironmentalJustice #Pollution
My mom made an interactive Christmas book! Sleighbear is for young children, with original art and story, and text and narration in either English or Spanish.
You can download it for $1.99 on iOS, Mac or PC:
https://virginia-wright-frierson.itch.io/sleighbear
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleighbear/id1445593675?mt=8
Our research in the #Climate #FalseSolutions newsletter!
"Ladanijirah found that many of the future energy scenarios predicted by the database heavily relied on false solutions (such as bioenergy, hydroelectricity, and nuclear power), and therefore concluded that “a radically different approach may be necessary for the construction of justice-based scenarios.”
The #ClimateGameJam is going strong, with over 400 registrations, and 67 submissions for the Ideation sprint that happened during week 1. You can check out the entries and give feedback here:
https://itch.io/jam/climate-jam-2024-ideation/entries
Still 4 more weeks to make a finished game that helps to "change the story" on climate!
Midnight Oil: an amazing #EnvironmentalJustice documentary by former refinery employee Bilal Motley on the 2019 PES Refinery explosion in Philadelphia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOl5tIwxxU
I saw https://findingmoneyfilm.com/ tonight at UW. Really interesting and worth the time. Important documentary. Well done to the film makers.
Learning about #ModernMonetaryTheory really helped me understand how much the federal government can achieve in terms of climate action.
There's a new documentary out about #MMT, called #FindingTheMoney. It's screening at UW on Friday, and I'm participating in a Q&A afterwards with stars of the film, the filmmakers, and more.
More info here!
https://findingmoneyfilm.com
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-the-money-seattle-documentary-film-screening-and-qa-tickets-888476285487
DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
https://risehomestories.com/dots-home/home/
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PREMIERES APRIL 22, 2024
Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal
Available on air and streaming online #ClimateChange #Pollution #Documentary #Film
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoned-ground-tragedy-love-canal/
Spectacular lenticular cloud formation over Tahoma on Sunday.
#Washington #PNW #PhotoMonday #PhotoOftheDay #MountainMonday #Mountains #wawx #clouds #Nature #Photography #Prints #WallArt #HomeDecor #Puzzle #Gifts #GiftIdeas #FediGiftShop #ArtForSale #Photo #GreetingCards
I used to have a page on the podcast website with book recommendations, but it was a hassle to keep updated. Over the weekend, I moved it over to Bookshop so I can keep it more current.
Check it out for a bunch of critical tech book recommendations: https://bookshop.org/shop/parismarx
