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Biodiversity of meadows degraded by fossil fuel machinery and fertilisers

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/09/switzerland-botany-biodiversity-grassland-agriculture-alpine-meadows-study-aoe

Technology assessment could be defined as "a form of policy research that examines short- and long term consequences (for example, societal, economic, ethical, legal) of the application of technology."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_assessment
#biodiversity #meadows #progress #monoculture #industrialised #agriculture #farming #grazing #machines #chemicals #technology #TA

TRANSIENCE Mar 23, 2024

The #HorizonEU strategic plan, 2025-2027, is published!

#Cluster4 of the new strategic plan aims to accelerate the #twintransition of heavily #industrialised urban areas, achieving a leap towards #circularity and #carbon #neutrality, involving stakeholders.

@transience_project is devoted to this priority!

The project will inform #assessments and transition #strategies, at EU and country level, at global level, and within 4 heterogeneous regional industry clusters in Europe.

Manly Blog Jan 4, 2024

Three-tonne diesel tractor removes rubbish at night.on Sydney beaches.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/05/enter-sandman-the-beach-cleaner-raking-sydneys-busiest-and-most-beaches
#FossilFuel #BeachMachinery #Noise #Light #pollution #industrialised #beaches

Enter sandman: the cleaner raking 50km of Sydney’s famous beaches into morning neatness

Michael Weeks and his huge tractor remove tissues, cigarette butts, cans and other rubbish from Bondi, Bronte and Tamarama at night

The Guardian

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Godfrey642 Aug 27, 2023

@steveirons @moir_alan@bird.makeup @quentindempster@bird.makeup
Can i just say... since the day we used #FF for the first time and #industrialised #agriculture, we have been heading towards a massive #climate problem.

We have now reached the can we have ALL kicked down the road.
Putting it in the bin is going to be hard and very very very unpleasant.

There IS no easy neat or cheap way to clean up the #environment.

It WILL be hard and we WILL be pissed off with what we ALL have to give up and go without.

#GlobalGovernance has let us all down by delaying truth and hiding the obvious: WE are the #virus.

Toni Aittoniemi Jun 12, 2023

Remember when #socialmedia was still good? What was different? One major difference was that people weren’t #performing to make a living.

What’s really changed our communication fundamentally, is that #gamification combined with #industrialised #marketing has made it a career to perform a character online.

The new generation is not sending messages, it is making careers. And that produces a wholesale different language than just exchanging information.

#podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1hRI3b14MQsBBAugXcJFFX

The Influencer Industry Is Built on Precarity w/ Emily Hund

Listen to this episode from Tech Won't Save Us on Spotify. Paris Marx is joined by Emily Hund to discuss the creation of the influencer industry, how it’s been formalized by companies who profit from it, and what can be done to make it fairer for the people who work in it. Emily Hund is the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media. She’s also a research affiliate at the Center on Digital Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Follow Emily on Twitter at @emilyadh.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:An excerpt of Emily’s book was published in Wired.After Elon Musk took over Twitter, a menswear account was suddenly in everyone’s feeds.Instagram is offering a paid subscription service that includes customer service.Countries have begun regulating the influencer industry. For example, Norway requires retouched photos to be labeled, while France has an even stricter law that regulates the types of products that can be promoted along with other requirements.Support the show

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