Tracking sustainability trends & issues that affects British Columbia.
Public well-being must include sustainability: environment + social inclusion. It's foundational for civil society, income equality, and good governance.
Many interests, but mostly (and related): #climatechange #sustainability #greencities #sustainablefood #health #architecture
How We Used Machine Learning to Investigate Where #Ebola May Strike
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ProPublica spent months teaching a computer to analyze past Ebola #outbreaks linked to #deforestation.
What we found reveals a weakness in the way that governments and #PublicHealth experts are preparing for future #pandemics.
#MachineLearning #Disease #Outbreak #Pandemic #Nigeria #Africa #Spillover #News #Research
The art of #greenwashing
Check out ICIJ's (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) exposure of how unregulated Sustainability industry overlooks #deforestation and #humanrights violations -- while granting environmental certifications.
🪵 = Contributor to #globalwarming #ClimateChange #heatwaves #wildfires 🔥
Auditors - part of a growing $10 billion industry - are rarely held accountable. "Self-regulated" and rely on a 3rd-party verification system.
Actively engaging in public health protections like vaccines, masks, and clean air means more people are able to participate in society, especially those at higher risk.
Ignoring public health protections excludes many people from society.
Why do y'all keep getting this wrong?
"Carbon Offsets Are Unscalable, Unjust, & Unfixable — Joe Romm" via @cleantechnica (by way of @penncssm https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/05/carbon-offsets-are-unscalable-unjust-unfixable-joe-romm/
Call me old fashioned, but I prefer seeing the leaders of public health agencies keeping us updated on the status of disease outbreaks, rather than how full their parking lots are.
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause #Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime
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An #EPA document shows that a new #Chevron #fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.
An 'era of global boiling' is looming, the UN warns. https://t.co/FRtMdfiajR
“The impact of Long Covid is going to be huge. When you’ve had 7 billion people in the world infected, you only have to increase the risk of diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular disease by a tiny percentage, & you’ve got a huge long-term problem. We’ve got to understand Long #Covid and find ways of preventing it, but also treatments."
-WHO chief scientist Dr. Jeremy Farrar
https://www.science.org/content/article/who-s-new-chief-scientist-wants-look-tomorrow
As the climate crisis threatens all life on the planet, the difference between today's Lever home page & today's typical cable TV news home page explains why I originally created The Lever, why independent media is necessary, and why corporate media is ruining the world.
Corporate ExxonMobil ad shows scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies" {cue: orchestral violins 🎻}
#InformationAsymmetry used. The #greenwashing ad "had disturbingly persistent 🫥 effects":
Actual investments in renewable energy ≠ claims in ads. But actual data comparisons "did not fully reverse or correct greenwashing ads' initial impact".
Big polluters increasingly present themselves as green 🏡 to avoid accountability.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/27/why-greenwashing-works-how-to-fight-it-gaslit/
What could Alberta’s new post-combustion economy look like? Canada must help unstick the province from #OilAndGas. Markham Hislop writes. 🛢
Billions In Conservation Spending Fail To Recover Wild Salmon In Columbia River Basin | @OregonState @UW | @PLOSONE
by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience @Forbes
#salmon #conservation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/31/billions-in-conservation-spending-fail-to-recover-wild-salmon-in-columbia-river-basin/
#ClimateDiary 31st July 2023 Day after day of storm, wind, rain here, never ending #HeatWave #Floods and #Wildfires elsewhere; new research showing #AMOC #Gulfstream may be much closer to collapse than previously thought. Not a peep from political leaders about any of this. On the contrary: #FossilFuel funded Rishi #Sunak, having praised cars yesterday, today gives go-ahead for 100s of new oil and gas projects. #GTTO it’s a matter of survival 1/3
Hope that you haven't been impacted.
The art of #greenwashing
Check out ICIJ's (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) exposure of how unregulated Sustainability industry overlooks #deforestation and #humanrights violations -- while granting environmental certifications.
🪵 = Contributor to #globalwarming #ClimateChange #heatwaves #wildfires 🔥
Auditors - part of a growing $10 billion industry - are rarely held accountable. "Self-regulated" and rely on a 3rd-party verification system.
#Osoyoos, B.C. is now under an evacuation order (732 properties) for an out-of-control #BCWildfire (aka previously Lone Pine Creek fire, now referred to as Eagle Bluff fire).
It crossed the Canada-U.S. border. Burning area is approximately 8.8 square kilometres on Canadian side, 40 square kilometres on the U.S. side.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/osoyoos-fire-evacuation-alert-1.6922446
Yes, likely. The worst ones were in downtown (in "the West End") of Vancouver.
East side of Vancouver had a crow, "Canuck", renown locally for stealing stuff -- particularly a knife from a crime scene. Yes, that really did happen.
He disappeared a few years ago. People speculated that he was kidnapped (crownapped?).
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee
> Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts.
They are intentionally framing climate and COVID as problems for individuals to deal with to distract us from holding the powerful accountable.
Crows are interesting creatures in Vancouver. We have annual dive-bombings by crows here (cue: Hitchcock movie scene).
Apparently, crows have good memories. It was originally thought that that was the reason for dive-bombings (poor treatment of the crows). But, recently understood that this occurred in the Spring where parent crows were protecting nearby nests & young ones if humans were perceived to be too close to the nests.
