Cycling, designing,
coding, over-thinking.
Bit sweary.
Luddite trying not to be po-faced
in the face of so much pođ©
A JS trying to make his JS, CSS and HTML lean and kind.
âThe times are urgent.
Letâs slow down.â
âBayo Akomolafe
| Micturition interpreter | https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113175303993039170 |
| âNet zeroâ translated | https://youtu.be/HSD1d-6P6qI?t=18 |
âŠThe BBC quotes a government estimate that âof 1,600 deaths on UK roads last year, four were caused by cyclistsâ.
But I have looked pretty hard and I can find *no reference* to the source of that âestimateâ.
4/1600 is only 0.25% but that seems suspiciously high to me. I strongly suspect the government of *making shit up*.
Meanwhile, on average in the UK, more than one pedestrian is killed by a motorist every day and a cyclist is killed by a motorist every 4 days or so
On tonightâs regional news was an item about the new UK legislation on dangerous cycling, shortly to be introduced.
The focus was a tragic case of a man whose wife was killed by a cyclist 9 years ago and he has been campaigning for the law change ever since.
I donât have a problem with the law change but I do have a problem with the way itâs being reported by the BBC et alâŠ
#climateDiary
Iâm only half an hour into this 80 minute discussion between Kate Raworth, Indy Johar and James Lock, brought to me by the wonderful @Eceniâs Accidental Gods podcast.
Just over 15 minutes in thereâs a question asked of Kate, who asks Indy to provide an initial answer. And oh my.
*Everyone* should listen to where he goes in the 9 minutes that follow.
Itâs not easy to hear. But we need to hear it. (Time specific link below)
We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generationâs leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus. This is an unflinching conversation, but itâs absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where weâre at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmaps to get there: Itâs genuinely Thrutopian, not only in the ideas as laid out, but the emotional literacy of the approach to the wicked problems of our time. Now we have to make it happen. Kate Raworth is a renegade economist, author of the groundbreaking book, Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21st Century Economist and founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab which is seeing companies, cities and nations around the world working towards an economy that prioritises flourishing of people and planet ahead of growth for growthâs sake. Kate is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Universityâs Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the MastersâŠ
Who knew there was a "dark roof" lobby? I sure didn't â but it seems every bad-for-the-planet industry has lobbyists.
"The weight of the scientific evidence is clear: On hot days, light-colored roofs can stay more than 50 degrees cooler than dark ones, helping cut energy use, curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce heat-related illnesses and deaths."
So of course those making dark roofs don't want cities or states adopting cool-roof requirements.
https://floodlightnews.org/this-little-known-dark-roof-lobby-may-be-making-your-city-hotter/
âI asked Gemini.â
Could you just⊠NOT.
This isnât a game
About time eh!
Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing
Campaigners say the publication of key KPMG report must be a condition to MPs extending subsidies scheme
The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued, as MPs review the billions in renewables subsidies the North Yorkshire plant receives.
A delegated legislation committee will decide on Monday whether to pass the governmentâs plans to extend billpayer-funded subsidies to the countryâs biomass power generators, of which Drax is by far the biggest.
Universities aren't businesses afterall?
This will come as a major surprise to almost no one at all.
Jeri Dansky
Geheimorganisation
Pablo Martini (Geezer)
Reg