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Which of our community presenters at GristCon were ahead of the curve last year? A lot has happened since then! https://www.getgrist.com/blog/a-year-of-grist-seen-through-gristcon-2025-highlights/
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Using Grist to find the sweet spot between a vector index and a relational data store for retrieval-augmented generation. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-rag-hits-a-wall-on-structured-data/
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NYC’s flood walls will be ready by 2027. Now the mayor is tackling underserved areas like Coney Island. Here’s what’s next for coastal resilience.
Read more → https://grist.org/politics/new-york-zohran-mamdani-sea-level-rise/
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NYC’s flood walls will be ready by 2027. Now the mayor is tackling underserved areas like Coney Island. Here’s what’s next for coastal resilience.
Read more → https://grist.org/politics/new-york-zohran-mamdani-sea-level-rise/
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Heute ist längster Tag des Jahres. Es gibt tolle Musik draußen und das umsonst, denn vielerorts ist Fête de la Musique.
Uns seht ihr heute abend um 18 Uhr auf der Gristuf Bühne bei der Straze in Greifswald. Wir freuen uns auf euch!
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#fêtedelamusique #fête #fetedelamusique #fete #restposten #greifswald #straze #gristuf #punkrock
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Via #LLRX The #EPA #data on #cancer risk from #airpollution has gone dark – Grist reporter Sachi Kitajima Mulkey explains how EPA’s data on #cancer #risk from air pollution has gone dark. For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold #polluters accountable. And this year, it’s missing. #pollution #publichealth #medicine #data #government #politics #policy #poverty #cities #discrimination #lowincome #trump #GOP #republicans #congress https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/
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Underreported.
📢 When plastic companies write the lesson plans
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Mass protests against New Zealand's effort to weaken Māori rights — and hurt the planet
Mass protests were held in New Zealand this week over an effort to weaken the rights of the Maori, who often serve as environmental stewards.
“This is about the protection of all that we hold dear.”
#Māori #Indigenous #Rights #Extractivism #FarRight #NewZealand #ProfitMotive #LandDefenders
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Father speaks at Edmonton sentencing hearing after 11-year-old boy killed by dogs
EDMONTON — The father of an 11-year-old boy killed by two large dogs said he is in a…
#Canada #Edmonton #Grist #Kache #KacheGrist #Kache's #KendrahWong #Macdonald #TheCanadianPress #WesleyGrist
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🔗 Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.
Here's how the fabric went from a "miracle" fiber to TikTok slang for fake.
https://grist.org/culture/gen-z-is-using-polyester-as-an-insult-its-actually-a-throwback/
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introducing gris, a vactrol tremolo and filter with 10 LFO shapes, modeled after Throbbing Gristle's famous Gristleizer.
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Indigenous groups are asking for a stronger say at the UN as warming in the Arctic threatens their traditional ways of life. #climatejustice
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🔗 When plastic companies write the lesson plans
The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs.
https://grist.org/article/plastics-industry-lesson-plans-school-curricula/
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Texas is adding a big new solar farm on some old coal mining land, making room for more clean energy. #solarenergy
https://grist.org/energy/this-texas-coal-mine-will-soon-be-home-to-a-1-2gw-solar-farm/
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Texas is adding a big new solar farm on some old coal mining land, making room for more clean energy. #solarenergy
https://grist.org/energy/this-texas-coal-mine-will-soon-be-home-to-a-1-2gw-solar-farm/
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Texas is adding a big new solar farm on some old coal mining land, making room for more clean energy. #solarenergy
https://grist.org/energy/this-texas-coal-mine-will-soon-be-home-to-a-1-2gw-solar-farm/
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Texas is adding a big new solar farm on some old coal mining land, making room for more clean energy. #solarenergy
https://grist.org/energy/this-texas-coal-mine-will-soon-be-home-to-a-1-2gw-solar-farm/
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Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79712 I don't really deal in sales figures and pricing tables - that's the sort of grist for a corporate AI, not something based as I am in the humanities and (to a lesser degree) social sciences. So a lot of this article is orthogonal to what I would be looking for in a description of how to make my data AI-ready (assuming I have anything that would be considered 'data' in the first place).
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It Takes a Full Bus "What happens when a hitchhiker stranded far from home meets a bus full of passengers who all have somewhere to be?" https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-it-takes-a-full-bus #ShortStory #HopePunk #CliFi #Free #OpenAccess #PublicTransit #CarFree
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Heute ist längster Tag des Jahres. Es gibt tolle Musik draußen und das umsonst, denn vielerorts ist Fête de la Musique.
Uns seht ihr heute abend um 18 Uhr auf der Gristuf Bühne bei der Straze in Greifswald. Wir freuen uns auf euch!
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#fêtedelamusique #fête #fetedelamusique #fete #restposten #greifswald #straze #gristuf #punkrock
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Heute ist längster Tag des Jahres. Es gibt tolle Musik draußen und das umsonst, denn vielerorts ist Fête de la Musique.
Uns seht ihr heute abend um 18 Uhr auf der Gristuf Bühne bei der Straze in Greifswald. Wir freuen uns auf euch!
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#fêtedelamusique #fête #fetedelamusique #fete #restposten #greifswald #straze #gristuf #punkrock
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The Latest Data Confirms - Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
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https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires <-- shared technical article
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http://alturl.com/efp6m <-- shared (focused) #GlobalNatureWatch web map
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https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/wildfires-and-climate-change/ <-- shared NASA technical article, ‘Wildfires and Climate Change’
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https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.825190 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505418122 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add606 <-- shared paper
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https://globalnaturewatch.org/dashboards/global/ <-- shared Global Nature Watch dashboard
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https://youtu.be/-0-pv1Bqm-U?si=IHcZJNiVphosbeVt <-- shared overview video
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https://grist.org/wildfires/the-us-has-lost-a-quarter-of-its-forest-cover-to-fire-since-2001/ <-- shared technical article, ‘Fire is responsible for a quarter of US forest loss since 2021’
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/climate/wri-report-forest-loss.html <-- shared media article
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H/T @ World Resources Institute
[‘topical’ - Europe, North America, indeed globally, more & more…]
“New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change…
The latest data [2nd link above] confirms [that] forest fires are becoming more widespread and destructive around the globe. Updated data from researchers [3rd link above] shows that between 2001 and 2025 forest fires now burn over twice as much tree cover each year as they did two decades ago, and more than three times as much in the tropics.
This increased fire activity has been starkly visible in recent years. Record-setting blazes are becoming the norm, with four of the five worst years for global forest fires occurring since 2021. As fires worsen - including in historically low-risk areas, like rainforests - they are becoming an increasingly prevalent driver of global forest loss…”
#GlobalForestWatch #GlobalNatureWatch #deforestation #fire #wildfire #forest #vegetation #climatechange #risk #hazard #loss #ecosystems #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #worldwide #forestfire #damage #destruction #fireactivity #forestLOSS
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Why cities around the world are uniting to keep cool
A new global initiative is helping cities from #PhoenixAZ to #QuezonCity address #ExtremeHeat with #SharedSolutions and #LocalAction.
From the #C40 website: "Cities are focusing on increasing green cover, cool roofs, and shaded public areas in places that experience the most heat and the least access to adequate cooling."
Nov 05, 2025
"The following is a sponsored op-ed written by Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona and Joy Belmonte, Mayor of Quezon City, the #Philippines and sponsored by C40 Cities.
This summer, cities around the world broke temperature records once again. The results were devastating: Extreme heat now kills nearly half a million people each year, and the danger keeps rising. By 2050, the number of people in cities exposed to life-threatening heat is expected to increase fivefold.
From the desert of Phoenix in the United States to the humid streets of Quezon City in the Philippines, mayors are facing the same new reality: Heat is here to stay, and it is impacting every element of city life. That’s why we — along with more than 30 other mayors from C40 Cities, a global network of nearly 100 of the world’s biggest cities tackling the #ClimateEmergency — are joining forces to protect our people today and prepare our communities for a hotter tomorrow. Through the new C40 #CoolCities Accelerator, we’ll work together to speed up bold and inclusive #ClimateAction that meets the urgency of this growing threat.
In some ways, our cities couldn’t be more different. Phoenix, America’s fifth largest city, sits in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, and sees more than 300 days of sunshine a year. Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, faces sweltering humidity and the annual risk of typhoons. Yet both cities are on the front lines of rising temperatures that threaten health, strain our power grids, and deepen inequality.
Extreme heat is the deadliest climate hazard, but it’s also the quietest. It kills through heatstroke and dehydration, and by worsening heart and respiratory conditions. It’s often felt most by the people with the fewest resources to cope: older adults, children, outdoor workers, and low-income communities. In Phoenix, residents in low-income neighbourhoods can experience temperatures several degrees higher than in wealthier parts of the city. In Quezon City, densely populated neighborhoods can become dangerous heat traps.
We refuse to accept a future in which a heatwave becomes a death sentence for those with the least, and whose responsibility for the climate crisis is disproportionately small. The Cool Cities Accelerator is our shared plan to prevent that. In line with COP30’s call for a ‘decade of delivery,’ this provides a practical framework for mayors to act boldly and share what works.
First, we’re protecting lives right now. Participating cities are appointing heat leaders, improving early-warning systems, and coordinating emergency responses across agencies. Phoenix, for example, created the US’s first publicly-funded Office of Heat Response and Mitigation, expanded access to chilled water stations, and opened cooling and hydration stations, including overnight cooling center options to bring relief where it’s needed most. Meanwhile, Quezon City is currently mapping heat-vulnerable communities and developing a citywide heat-health action plan. It has already adjusted work hours for outdoor workers, and introduced heat-tolerant crops across more than 1,400 urban farms.
The goal is to build long-term resilience. Within five years, cities in the Accelerator will integrate cooling into building codes, redesign streets for shade and airflow, and expand tree canopies and green corridors. Phoenix is piloting reflective ‘cool pavements’, planting thousands of trees, and building artistic shade structures and setting regional standards for heat-ready infrastructure. Quezon City is restoring parks and greening schools and public spaces. As part of these efforts, the city has supported local groups turning vacant lots into small forests and gardens, while encouraging private development to adopt greener designs under its Green Building Ordinance. These efforts save lives, and cut energy bills while improving neighbourhoods.
But urban heat doesn’t stop at city limits, and neither should our solutions. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of the Cool Cities Accelerator. Thirty-two cities — from Austin to Athens and Singapore to Santiago — are now exchanging data and design ideas. The details on the ground obviously differ, but the solutions we craft together are remarkably similar, creating more shade, better design, and better care for the most vulnerable. When our teams share lessons on early-warning systems, or how to engage with our communities, we all move faster and more effectively.
For too long, extreme heat has been under-measured and under-estimated. We can build cities that are not only cooler, but more fair. But to do so, we must act together, and we must act now. We need to deliver solutions that both keep people alive today, and allow future generations to thrive."
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https://grist.org/sponsored/why-cities-around-the-world-are-uniting-to-keep-cool/More info about #C40:
https://www.c40.org/accelerators/cool-cities/#SolarPunkSunday #ExtremeHeat #Resiliency #Cooling #Greenspace #GreenBuilding #GreenCorridors #HardeningInfrastructure #ClimateChange
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Here’s what’s at stake for #Indigenous peoples at #COP28
Negotiations happen behind closed doors, but for Indigenous peoples, “a lot of work happens in the hallways.”
by Anita Hofschneider, Nov 29, 2023
“Ozawa Bineshi Albert wants the world to stop relying on #FossilFuels. So last year, the co-executive director of #ClimateJusticeAlliance flew from the U.S. to Egypt to make her voice heard at COP27, the international conference on climate change where world leaders gather to negotiate new commitments to battle the #ClimateCrisis.
”But at COP27, Albert, who is Anishinaabe and Yuchi, noticed that Indigenous peoples like herself were outnumbered by fossil fuel #lobbyists. She was also struck by how many people touted #nuclear energy as an alternative to burning #oil and #gas.
'#Nuclear is one of the most dirty, damaging energy sources, particularly for #IndigenousPeople,' she thought. 'It touches Indigenous communities all along its lifecycle from where it gets #mined, to where it gets #processed, to where #NuclearPower plants are placed, to where #NuclearWaste gets stored.'
“That observation was just one indication of how the perspectives, and experiences, of Indigenous peoples aren’t always reflected in the broader #EnvironmentalMovement. As COP28 kicks off in the United Arab Emirates this week, hundreds of Indigenous advocates are making their way to Dubai with the hope of ensuring that their communities aren’t overlooked by global leaders.
“Though the conference doesn’t officially begin until Thursday, the work has already started. Jennifer Tauli Corpuz is Kankanaey-Igorot from the Philippines and is managing director of policy at Nia Tero. She spent eight hours Tuesday in an auditorium with about 350 fellow members of the #IndigenousPeoplesCaucus, a delegation representing Native peoples, working on the details of a two-minute opening statement that the Caucus will be allowed to give during COP28’s opening ceremony. Corpuz says it’s not easy to distill everyone’s perspectives and issues into such a short statement and the work required interpreters in five languages.
“Apart from ending fossil fuel reliance, Indigenous advocates at COP28 want to ensure that funding to offset the impacts of #ClimateChange reaches their communities; ensure Indigenous knowledge is seen as a solution to climate change; and prevent governments and private actors from violating their rights, especially as those actors pursue #GreenEnergy projects.
“Corpuz said the caucus plans to approve advocacy papers outlining their positions Wednesday. Then comes the work of convincing negotiators to listen. But it’s not easy.
“The estimated 350 Indigenous peoples at COP28 is an attendance record for Native advocates, but it’s still far fewer than the 600 fossil fuel lobbyists who attended COP27 last year. As well, the most important work at the conference, negotiating the exact language of international climate change treaties, gets done behind closed doors among designated representatives from United Nations member countries.
“Corpuz estimates that perhaps 20 of the 350 #IndigenousPeople at COP28 this week have government badges that allow them access to negotiations. But even then, because they aren’t credentialed delegates representing a negotiating party, they are only able to watch and listen, not speak, she said.
“Still, it’s an improvement over past years when Indigenous peoples’ representatives were locked out from even more rooms, said Corpuz. At least now Indigenous representatives will be able to hear the details of the negotiations, the perspectives of international representatives, and carry the information back for advocates to lobby government delegates. 'A lot of the work of the Indigenous Caucus happens in the hallways,' Corpuz said.
“A key question that’s expected to be decided this year is how much money wealthy nations like the U.S. should pay in order to cover the costs of climate disasters in the Global South, an initiative known as the loss and damage fund. One study estimates that nations in the Global North are responsible for 92% of excess carbon emissions each year, compared with 8% in the Global South.
“‘What’s at stake is how these finance mechanisms are going to impact and be accessible to Indigenous communities and other impacted communities, how they will be funded, and to what levels will they be funded,' Albert said. 'And will those resources actually get to communities and not be taken up by agencies that will administer them?'
“Eriel Deranger of the #Athabasca #Chipewyan #FirstNation in #Canada and executive director of Indigenous Climate Action, thinks that it makes sense that wealthy countries would be paying for climate impacts, but Deranger also wants the money to be available to Indigenous people no matter what country they live in due to already extreme climate impacts, many of which are exacerbated by #colonization and #LandTheft .
“‘If Canada, for example, or the U.S. is contributing to the loss and damage fund and we don’t have access to it as Indigenous people in North America or in the Global North, where are we going to see those kind of climate reparations and restitution for the damages that we are facing from the climate crisis?' Deranger asked.
“But money is only part of the equation, said Kandi White, a citizen of the #Mandan, #Hidatsa, and #Arikara Nations in the U.S. and program director at the Indigenous Environmental Network, which sent a 25-member delegation to Dubai. 'For Indigenous peoples, it’s not just about the money, but it’s also about the return of our #sovereignty over our lands,' said White.
“That sovereignty has been threatened by #landgrabs, including recent #landdeals between a #UnitedArabEmirates company and five #African nations for the #CarbonCredit trade, White said. The land deals were touted as a way to help conserve land and offset #pollution, but White is concerned about whether the Indigenous people living there truly #consented to the plan as well as how they’ll be affected. It’s part of a broader pattern of conservation deals that are creating conflict in Indigenous territories around the world.
“Both Deranger and White, who are in Dubai this week, also hope to establish a grievance procedure through which Indigenous peoples whose rights are infringed upon could hold governments accountable. 'We need there to not just be lip service of, ‘We recognize Indigenous rights,’ but we need to see language that has teeth,' Deranger said.
“But securing that level of accountability may be an uphill battle. Even when world leaders make promises, they don’t always fulfill them: wealthy countries blew a 2020 deadline to spend $100 billion a year to help poorer nations cope with climate impacts and make progress toward #decarbonization. One study suggested that goal may have been met last year, two years late, even as the world hurtles toward 3 degrees of warming.
“The combined challenges—a lack of access to negotiating tables and tepid commitments by global leaders—have fueled disillusionment. Moñeka De Oro, who is Chamorro from the Mariana Islands and co-executive director of the #Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, says that last year at COP some Indigenous Caucus members discussed boycotting the convention, 'no longer being a part of these processes that continuously degrade our input,' she said.
“De Oro recently helped draft a declaration for peace, unity and climate justice in the Pacific to be read at COP that called for a future free of #colonialism and #militarization. But as much as she believes in that message, she joined a boycott of this year’s convention with Grassroots Global Justice Alliance protesting the Israeli government’s war on Gaza, and questions whether to attend future meetings.
"'If you’re going to continue to continuously be ignored and continuously be just erased from the entire process, I don’t know how much longer we want to be complicit in attending these sorts of things,' she said.
“The power imbalances can be discouraging but Ozawa Bineshi Albert still feels determined.
“‘#COP is not a place that we go to thinking we’re going to get everything we want,' she said. To her, the overarching question is: 'How can we make sure that we at least hold the line and make sure the least amount of damage and the least amount of harm is caused to frontline and Indigenous communities?’”
#IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice #IndigenousConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #BigOilAndGas
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Dotphoton’s setup is in production, complying with the engineering standards of the European Space Agency. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-system-for-the-european-space-agency-without-hiring-a-documentation-team/
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Hybrid retrieval for structured data: where a vector index meets a relational database. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-rag-hits-a-wall-on-structured-data/
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Dotphoton needed a system to track production requirements that met the engineering standards of the European Space Agency, ran on their own infrastructure, and produced audit-ready deliverables on demand. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-system-for-the-european-space-agency-without-hiring-a-documentation-team/
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The system Dotphoton owns is auditable, self-hosted, extensible, and maintained by their own engineering team. https://www.getgrist.com/case-studies/how-dotphoton-built-a-fully-traceable-qa-system-for-the-european-space-agency-without-hiring-a-documentation-team/
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Making a RAG system that works for domain experts and engineers. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-rag-hits-a-wall-on-structured-data/
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This month's newsletter is out: MCP improvements, memory optimizations, integrations, and lots more.