Mastodawn

ESG Hound Apr 26, 2023

FWS statement on the SpaceX Launch Mishap.

My take is that they're flexing their jurisdictional muscle a bit and are certainly not pleased.

While I've got your attention, check out my latest post dissecting the SpaceX mess and regulatory issues to come

https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-caused-a-big

SpaceX's Texas Rocket Caused a Big Mess - What's Next?

Well, this has certainly been a wild week. Last Sunday, I posted a summary of some key environmental impacts to look out for during SpaceX’s first launch of Starship Superheavy from Boca Chica, Texas. The post did really well in the following days; it racked up a view count in the ~25k range, a big success for a Substack like mine.

ESG Hound

ESG Hound Apr 25, 2023

Calgary Climate Hub Apr 13, 2023

Can #BigTech #SaveTheClimate? Does it even want to? On the next Climate Of Change we'll ask Canadian tech writer @parismarx of "Tech Won't Save Us" & author of "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation."

#ElectricCars #Tesla #Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #Urbanism #WarOnCars #CityBuilding #NetZero

RSVP: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/acoc_5_2_paris_marx

ACOC 5.2 Paris Marx

The Climate Emergency is the biggest challenge humans have collectively ever faced. Will technology save the day? Can Silicon Valley lead us to safety and property? Are electric cars just another subsidy for the automotive industry? What are climate activists to make of Elon Musk these days and tech billionaires in general? Join us on April 26th for our latest 'A Climate Of Change' when we sit down with Canadian tech writer Paris Marx, author of "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation."

Calgary Climate Hub

ESG Hound Apr 24, 2023

Great Scoop from @lorakolodny on the latest into SpaceX's mishap last week.

Quotes from local Sierra Club, Center For Biological Diversity, and Yours Truly

Important subtext in this scoop is that FAA doesn't consider the exploded launch vehicle as the sole trigger for anomaly reporting and investigation, but the miles wide debris field from the nuked launch site as well.

Should be an interesting few months of regulatory intrigue

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/spacex-starship-explosion-spread-particulate-matter-for-miles.html

ESG Hound Apr 24, 2023

Terence Eden Apr 23, 2023

I found a bot which was hammering my site. So I asked the author if they could make it opt-in.

Apparently consent doesn't matter if it's for the greater good.

The #AI brainworms are strong!

https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293

Please make this tool "opt-in" by default · Issue #293 · rom1504/img2dataset

Some of my sites are being hammered by users of your tool. I don't understand why the onus is on me to add a new header to my sites opting out of this tool. Please can you change the default behavi...

GitHub

ESG Hound Apr 24, 2023

There are a LOT of Nazis on twitter, to the point where it ruins normal browsing. I've been bad about posting on mastodon, trying to fix this.

Tell me who I should be following (it's ok to nominate yourself 🙂)

I like law, climate, environmental policy, finance and cute animal pictures

ESG Hound Apr 23, 2023

Ann Lipton Apr 23, 2023

"[LeBron] James occupies a rarefied strata of fame where even getting his representatives to acknowledge you on some matter or another isn’t a given...consider what it must have taken for a reporter from the Verge,... to quickly get a concise, newsmaking response...."
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RT @alex_kirshner
I wrote about a new achievement in capitalism history: Getting celebrities from every walk of life imaginable to forcefully deny that they paid fo…
https://twitter.com/alex_kirshner/status/1650177647953993731

Alex Kirshner on Twitter

“I wrote about a new achievement in capitalism history: Getting celebrities from every walk of life imaginable to forcefully deny that they paid for your product on the same weekend, because they find it embarrassing https://t.co/kXmwqenFq1”

Twitter

ESG Hound Apr 23, 2023

AkaSci 🛰️Apr 23, 2023

Here are a couple of noteworthy accounts to follow for insightful writings on #space, #spacex, #law, #environment and #ESG (Environmental, Society and Governance).
@ESGHound https://blog.esghound.com/ https://twitter.com/ESGhound
@maxkennerly

ESG Hound | Substack

Sniffing out the latest in corporate compliance and sustainability. Click to read ESG Hound, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

ESG Hound Apr 22, 2023

Vivek Gani Apr 17, 2023

You should probably be reading @ESGHound 's substack in regards to #spacex #starship & #biodiversity & #endangeredspecies : https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to

SpaceX's Texas Rocket is Going To Cause A Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks

On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th.

ESG Hound

ESG Hound Apr 22, 2023

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Vivek Gani Apr 17, 2023

@mightyspaceman @ESGHound

re: 'wait and see what happens'

"SpaceX operations have *already* decimated local and regional populations of protected bird species." - via https://twitter.com/ESGhound/status/1455896706780958726 -> referencing Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program letter from Nov 1, 2021 ( https://2fea0d43-01a9-4ffc-8e3a-0d4e11c2f416.filesusr.com/ugd/d1db5d_23a21c53bc1f48fc809d67b45f44b3ff.pdf )

ESG Hound on Twitter

“SpaceX operations have *already* decimated local and regional populations of protected bird species. And they want a fast-tracked approval to massively expand operations and infrastructure, while claiming insignificant changes from the 2014 EIS (that itself was inadequate)”

Twitter

ESG Hound Apr 22, 2023

(javierarmentia se ha mudado)Apr 17, 2023

Sostenibilidad en los lanzamientos espaciales, contaminación, otros temas... normalmente se soslayan o directamente cierto #TecnoOptimismo los olvida. Pero existen. Dos enlaces que me han pasado por ahí:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522003800 "Environmental sustainability of future proposed space activities"
Y en concreto sobre #Starship: https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to "SpaceX's Texas Rocket is Going To Cause A Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks" por @ESGHound