#greensolutions — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greensolutions, aggregated by home.social.
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Troubling Scenes From An Arctic In Full Tilt Crisis
Courtesy of James Bradley The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot, at least by Arctic standards. Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/02/troubling-scenes-from-an-arctic-in-full-tilt-crisis/
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Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk
#Greensolutions #SpaceLasers
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Dear _ ,
🌱 The future is a network of narrow, permeable pathways where plants, fungi, & community action restore damaged land, sequester toxins, & bioremediate soils. 🌾 By supporting the research of such technologies & natural remediation methods today, I can reclaim urban spaces & liberate Nature in the future. 🌿 Pluricentric worldviews (self-as-nature) carry us into a regenerative future, when we heal the Earth. 🌍💚 #RegenerativeFuture #EcoRestoration #ClimateAction #GreenSolutions #Community
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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Underwater fountains are used to keep water aerated & prevent too many mosquitoes breeding in stagnant water.
#NatureSanctuary #water #aeration #Saanich #Wsanec #SwanLake #bubbly #Nature #VancouverIsland #NatureVideo #PacificNorthwest #GreenSolutions #YYJ #VictoriaBC #algae #freshwater #LekwungenTerritory #NaturePark #VanIsle #PNW
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Happy 2023!
Alles Gute für ein hoffentlich etwas weniger verrücktes und weniger trauriges Jahr. Mut und Durchsetzungskraft für die grünen Lösungen wünsche ich mir und uns allen.
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“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
~ Ron Franscell
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A new episode of my podcast - Radical Simple Living has just been published. Get it while it's hot from any of the normal places, or follow the link!
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/raylovegrove/episodes/2022-12-19T08_51_27-08_00
Among other things I get to talk about the Diggers and why their ideas live on. Live cat meowing can be heard here!
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Books that have had a huge influence on my simple life. (No links to seller sites, just honest recommendations.)
https://radicalsimpleliving.blogspot.com/2022/09/books-that-influence-my-simple-life.html
#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #GreenSolutions #books #SelfSufficiency
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“No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.”
~ John Perkins
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“The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.”
~ Robertson Davies
