Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the...

Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civ...

Global growth keeps slowing down. ... Sometimes an article will discuss how to kick the economy back into gear. All this takes as given that the economy’s ultimate purpose is growth. But does it need to be?

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and... Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Se... and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almos...
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre r ...
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Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove...
Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
by presenting the acade

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

Electricity consumption - Todd Moss
Todd Moss, vice president and senior fellow at the Cente ...
"I know I live an energy-intensive lifestyle," he writes ...

Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has w...

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
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Jugaad is an Indian word that means ingenious improvisat... scarce resources - or necessity is the mother of inventi... more grassroots innovations:

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons
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British Isles in 2100by JaySimons
Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other©2012-2014 Ja ...
... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland.

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
The trick i

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

Climate change is creating problems for American citizen... and costing the economy billions of dollars, as extreme ... flooding, droughts and other disasters to every region o... federal advisory panel concluded in a report released Tu...
The congres

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

This article summarises the issues in conducting corpora... research in rural locations covering logistics to resear... communities are far from homongenous.

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de