#sustainable-development — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sustainable-development, aggregated by home.social.
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Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway
https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329583
#HackerNews #Mexico #Coastal #Development #Crackdown #EnvironmentalProtection #SustainableDevelopment #YucatanNews
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I am starting to unroll a yarn on imaginaries: growth versus care 🧶
#imaginaries #beliefs #progress #polycrisis #commoditization #commodification #faith #hope #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #emissions #ecologicalTransition #transition #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation #ecofeminism #technoCriticism #technique #development #sustainableDevelopment #hegemony #mindsets #ideologies #collectiveSafety #desire #narratives #growth #modeling #modelling #forecasting #exploitation #extraction #civilization #tech #technology #domination #philosophy #criticalThinking #resources #commodities #acceleration #criticalTheory #digitalization #engineers #separation #exploration #discovery #degrowth #growth
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It’s Such a Blessing: The Farmers Embracing Solar Arrays
Dowell / Getty Images The solar farm where Jess Gray’s sheep were giving birth was only four miles away but after a February ice storm this year, it took her more than an hour to get there in her pickup truck. Fallen trees and power lines littered the roads. Ice coated the ground and encrusted the wires of the chain link fence enclosing her flock. Gray was anxious to see if any had survived. “I got to the farm and my sheep were lambing in the middle of it,” she recalled. “Lambs […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/13/its-such-a-blessing-the-farmers-embracing-solar-arrays/
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Methane Leaks Multiplying Beneath Antarctic Ocean Spark Fears of Climate Doom Loop
Leigh Tait – Earth Sciences NZ A potent greenhouse gas has begun seeping out of the Antarctic seafloor in dozens of places, scientists have discovered. Researchers documented the emergence of these methane seeps in shallow regions of the Ross Sea, a bay off the southern coast of Antarctica. The patches of leaking gas could be caused by global warming, and they could also threaten to accelerate it further, according to a new study published Oct. 1 in the journal Nature […] -
📰 First Pollinator District Development Helps Bees and Butterflies
🌎 Colorado: A master-planned community called Baseline is integrating pollinator habitat, native landscaping, research, and public education directly into its design through a "Pollinator District" model.
🦋 The initiative aims to support bees, butterflies, and other pollinators whose habitats are often fragmented by conventional development.
🤝 The project highlights a practical solution: building pollinator conservation into new communities rather than treating development and biodiversity as competing goals.
#InsectSaturday #Pollinators #NativeBees #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Conservation #PollinatorGardens #Butterflies #SustainableDevelopment
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🌱⚖️ Environment and Social Justice Commission of India Announces Punjab Chapter, Unveils 2026–27 Roadmap.
https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/pb_environment_social_justice_commission
#ESJCI #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateAction #FloodManagement #WaterConservation #TreePlantation #AirPollution #SustainableDevelopment #Chandigarh #News
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No Data Centers in My Backyard
https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901
#HackerNews #NoDataCenters #NIMBY #TechPolicy #SustainableDevelopment #LocalCommunities
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Flood And Landslide Susceptibility Assessment And Multi Hazard Interaction Mapping Using Machine Learning And GIS For Sustainable Settlement Planning In Nepal
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s44288-026-00670-8 <-- shared paper
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H/T @Narayan Thapa | Earth Data Modeling
“Nepal lies within an active seismic zone and is influenced by most dynamic climatic systems in the world. It faces compounding floods and landslide threats. Impacts are worst where multi-hazard interactions create spatially linked corridors. Despite frequent co-occurrence, national-scale assessments remain limited. This study presents machine learning and GIS-based approach to map nationwide susceptibility to floods, landslides, and identify their potential interaction zones, and delineate critical multi-hazard flow zones through spatial adjacency analysis. Using Google Earth Engine, the Random Forest model integrates topographic, climatic, environmental, and hydrological datasets to overcome subjective expert-driven methods. The model achieved strong predictive accuracy (AUC: 0.84 for floods, 0.85 for landslides). The results showed 19% of Nepal’s lowlands are medium to very highly susceptible to inundation, threatening approximately 900,000 people and over 3.4 million buildings; whilst in the hilly terrains, 40% is susceptible to slope-failure endangering 200,000 people and about 0.6 million buildings. K-means clustering followed by spatial adjacency analysis identified four spatial zonation: 81% of national area as low-hazard zone, 9% as flood-only zone, 5% as landslide-only zone, and 5% as interaction zones. Critical multi-hazard flow zone covering 7,588 km² represents spatially connected corridors linking interaction zones to downstream flood-prone populated areas, affecting 88 km² built-up land and 1,722 km² cropland. These zones represent susceptibility-based spatial connectivity rather than physically simulated cascading processes. These findings support recommendations for risk-informed land-use planning, resilient infrastructure development and climate adaptation aligned to sustainable development and investment risk screening…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #GoogleEarthEngine #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #GeospatialAI #DisasterRiskReduction #MultiHazard #ClimateAdaptation #climatechange #extremeweather #LandUsePlanning #SustainableDevelopment #InfrastructurePlanning #RiskAssessment #NaturalHazards #Nepal #EarthObservation #HinduKushHimalaya #HKH #HinduKush #Himalayas #risk #hazard #assessment #national #regional #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #massmovement #landslide #assessment #mitigation #water #hydrology #flood #flooding #sustainability -
From living roofs to rainwater harvesting: the future of sustainable homes
By Diana BuddsA new book, Homes for Our Time, by Philip Jodidio, showcases the quiet revolution in green residential architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/03/future-sustainable-homes
#Culture #Sustainabledevelopment #Artanddesign #Environment #USnews #Worldnews #Design #TheGuardian #DianaBudds
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From living roofs to rainwater harvesting: the future of sustainable homes https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/03/future-sustainable-homes #Culture #SustainableDevelopment #ArtAndDesign #Environment #UsNews #WorldNews #Design
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**Research also available in Spanish**
¿Cómo pueden los pequeños agricultores proteger el medio ambiente sin que eso afecte a sus ingresos?
Unos investigadores estudian las mejores estrategias para gestionar los árboles de cacao autóctonos en Perú: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138076?language=spanish
Encontrarás la investigación publicada en #AgronomyforSustainableDevelopment en español aquí:
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/500d5f90-e317-49b4-bee3-bcee8a4d6186, Artículo original aquí: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-026-01127-5 -
Halmahera's Nickel Boom and the Path to Sustainable Development
📰 Original title: Save Halmahera From Becoming a Permanent Extraction Frontier
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/halmahera-s-nickel-boom-and-the-path-to-sustainable-development.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
#economy #nickelextraction #sustainabledevelopment #resourcegovernance
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A new measure of courage: how Maasai warriors became lion guardians