📢 New paper publication on "Defining growth dependence" in the Journal of Sustainability Science!

With the goal of contributing to conceptual clarity and a common language in the growing field of growth dependence research, we propose a four element framework for defining/operationalizing growth dependence and apply it to labor markets, social insurance and public finance.

👉 Link to article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-026-01808-w

#postgrowth #greentransition #degrowth #sustainability

Sunday, February 22, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/sunday-february-22-2026/

"China’s railways have in recent days been ferrying about 20mn passengers a day, with half a billion train trips expected over the 40-day lunar new year period.

It is part of what demographers refer to as the world’s largest annual human migration, when workers in China’s coastal cities return to their families to celebrate the most important holiday of the year.

Increasingly, this migration is happening faster than ever.

Nearly three-quarters of passengers will travel at speeds of greater than 200kph, streaking across the country in the white and silver high-speed trains that have become a defining symbol of China’s industrial might.

In December, China reached 50,000km of high-speed rail, enough track to circle the globe, compared with 8,500km in the whole of the EU as of 2023. Just over two decades after it was launched, the network now links 97 per cent of cities with populations of more than half a million."

https://www.ft.com/content/3c15be3c-bb91-49e9-8fb4-6388b948ad2d

#China #Trains #Railways #Transportation #GreenTransition

Now, what I would like to see is way more European political parties proposing measures for at least remediating the effects of climate change. This should be a GLOBAL PRIORITY. Not some racism and xenophoby-infused issue such as immigration. Not prioritizing climate change should be by now seen as the equivalent of civilizational suicide. This should have drastic implications in the way we move, work, eat, and keep warm.

"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.

At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”, scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery.

The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #TippingPoints #GreenTransition

https://transitiontelford.wordpress.com/seed-swap-28th-february-repair-cafe/

#seedswap #repaircafe #GreenTransition

Freecad object tested with Code Saturne CFD // Objet Freecad testé avec Code Saturne

Vitesse/speed

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