- 🔥 🤩 🇪🇺 Feminist Tech Policy. “To build just and inclusive digital futures it needs a holistic view of digitalization. A Feminist Tech Policy sheds light on power structures, injustices and the environmental aspects of technology. It questions current innovation narratives and examines the value of maintenance, accessibility, openness and care for the digital societies of the future. A feminist approach helps to think and see beyond existing stories and structures.”
- 😮 ⚓️ 🛢 The happiest number I've heard in ages. “But no—a little research makes clear that in fact if you add up all the tonnage, something very close to forty percent of all the shipping on earth is just devoted to getting oil and coal and gas (and now some wood pellets) back and forth across the ocean.”
- 🤩 🇪🇺 🚄 A little website that lets you input any train station in Europe, and it maps all the places you can travel without transfers. (Via The Prepared.)
- 🇨🇳 🌱 👍🏼 Young Chinese Show a Growing Appetite for Plant-Based Diets. “Young Chinese are adopting flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets in record numbers, as activists and celebrities increasingly speak out about the ethical, environmental, and public health problems caused by the country’s rising meat consumption.”
- 🤔 ☢️ Nuclear Power Reactors Could Be Way for Nations to Achieve Climate Goals. “Although efforts to battle climate change have been largely dominated by renewables, the International Energy Agency says achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will require doubling nuclear power worldwide.”
- 😍 📸 🏢I’d hate these in an actual city but wow! visually. A future city from the past. “The series, “A Future City From The Past” is based on this mystifying vision of a radically aggressive urban dystopia — an uncompromising design in the brutalist dogma. All buildings and structures are homogenic.” (Via Dense Discovery)
- What’s the emoji for sceptical? (🤔 🤐). We are channel 🌌 channel.xyz a decentralized media organization building tools to help creators join forces, token-enable their communities and experience the benefits of Web 3.
- 🇬🇱 🥶 😍 😍 Freeze frames: the epic wilderness of Greenland – in pictures (Via Mark Storm.)
- 🇮🇷 🇪🇬 🌬 The ancient Persian way to keep cool. “From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. In the search for emissions-free cooling, the "wind catcher" could once again come to our aid.” (Also via The Prepared.)
Note — Jan 16, 2022