The Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan is challenging a state permit approving construction of a gold and metals mine that would tunnel under the Saksaia Glacier on 6,100-foot Flower Mountain near the headwaters of the Chilkat River watershed https://alaskabeacon.com/2022/12/18/chilkat-indian-village-says-alaska-mine-poses-risk-to-watershed/
Traditional knowledge that comes from having a balanced spiritual, cultural, and respectful relationship with the land isn't a trick Mother Jones.
Call it what it is: #Indigenous Science.
Reading about Oceanix, a prototype floating community that's planned for Busan. One of the more frustrating things about ideas like this is that it sells the notion as long as you throw enough clean technology at the problem, there doesn't have be any decrease in the standard of living. On our current chaotic climate course, where resources are dwindling and life support systems failing, it doesn't work like that.
(image by Oceanix)
Decided to find out what would happen at that other site if I mentioned a #mastodon recently acquired by my museum.
May be on here more often very soon...
#P22 was a reminder that there's no clear distinction between cities and nature. But as walls and highways go up, the landscape becomes fractured. Our job is to reconnect it.
Fun fact: Homes that were in the way of the planned telescopes and buildings were moved to other locations and got new owners, instead of being demolished.
(photo by NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Every episode will be about fighting unionization on a new planet, and every week a character gets replaced by automation.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/jeff-bezos-michael-strahan-blue-origin-space-rangers-1235457120/
A big obstacle to finding a solution is that lawmakers don't have any knowledge about what's actually happening. They can give canned speeches drafted by lobbyists about access to space, but they're clueless about what it takes to manage it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/space-debris-expert-orbits-will-be-lost-and-people-will-die-later-this-decade/
Greta Anderson, the deputy director of Western Watersheds Project, authored the petition. ...
“We have no idea how many wolves are actually killed for the same reason but the suspect is never found or the wolf is never found or it wasn’t wearing a collar,” Anderson told NM Political Report in an interview on Monday.
#MexicanWolves #EndangeredSpecies #coyotes #biodiversity #conservation
Western water is precious and limited. The thirstiest crop, alfalfa, has no real place in the West. It’s great to see the Editorial board of @sltrib calling for an end to water guzzling alfalfa in Utah.
87% of Utah water goes to farming - largely alfalfa, much of which is exported. In the drought impacted West, growing livestock feed, draining water reserves for cows, isn’t viable
We need to protect western watersheds for wildlife, for people, for life in the West.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/12/04/why-its-time-utah-buy-out/
A rosemary tree is a pretty cool idea.
https://www.zmescience.com/other/how-to/how-to-green-christmas-tree/
I'm not a rocket surgeon, but I'm not convinced that they've thought this idea fully through.
https://gizmodo.com/space-space-junk-think-orbit-think-platform-1849887942
It should *not* be possible for a rando crypto bro to lose $32B. We need a net worth cap. An individual should in no way ever be allowed to amass $1B in personal worth. After $1B, any remaining amount gained needs to go back into community and planetary well-being. Period. How can we live with all these rando idiots hoarding our planet’s wealth when they don’t even know how to manage or distribute it?
A safety engineer doing his part to make the world a slightly better place. Bigfoot, multiverse, space plane, and telescope enthusiast. Adrift.