No.228 Asides

💯 ☀️ 🌳 Project Drawdown updates world’s leading set of climate solutions—adding 11 new solutions for addressing the climate crisis. “[C]onfirms with even more clarity and conviction that humanity has the solutions needed to reach drawdown quickly, safely, efficiently, and equitably.”
🇲🇽 🤔 Algae biopanel windows make power, oxygen and biomass, and suck up CO2. “Beautifully designed, energy-generating bio-panels that suck up carbon dioxide and pump out biomass for use as fuel or fertilizer – that's the idea behind Mexican startup Greenfluidics and its nanotech-enhanced microalgae bioreactor building panels.”
🌏 🌳 36 Countries Are Gaining More Trees than They’re Losing. “[N]ew trees don’t make up for the loss of old-growth, carbon-rich forests. But this new data provides a chance to examine where and why gain is happening, opening up new opportunities to monitor and inform forest restoration efforts around the world. ”
📱 🧠 Haven’t read it yet, but very something we hear often, curious to know if anything backs it. Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’.
🇸🇪 👀 Absolutely love Six N. Five’s “The Red Spot” at the top. Stockholm's First NFT Exhibition Goes Somewhere Ethereal. “… unlocks a transportive and otherworldly experience through works by such leading digital artists as Krista Kim, Snowfro, and IX Shells.”
🇹🇷 🤯 Sensational find in Turkey: Turkish archaeologists discover subterranean city of Matiate. “[T]he gateway to a huge underground city has been discovered. It was used for over 1900 years and could accommodate up to 70,000 people.”