'Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How #Namibia’s #sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future, by @WinstonMwale https://open.substack.com/pub/africabrief/p/not-the-kind-of-life-a-human-being?r=26mx0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Recalling my 2008 #dotearth story on 2.4 billion people with no place to defecate: https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/26-billion-with-no-place-to-go-to-the-toilet/
#Namibia #sanitation #dotearth
So important indeed. As I proposed on #dotearth some time ago, Will California ever let Sierra Nevada forests burn? Posting my first @columbiaclimate #sustainwhat #wildfire chat Friday at 9 a.m. ET - with the #XPRIZEWildfire leads! Show will pop up here: http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive
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RT @MichaelWWara
Burning next to critical energy infrastructure to better protect it. The west has lots to learn from the southeast when it comes to be…
https://twitter.com/MichaelWWara/status/1648435650008588288
#dotearth #sustainwhat #wildfire #xprizewildfire
Great to see fresh eyes on the epic, immersive paintings of Isabella Kirkland - of species both gone and back. My #dotearth post from, gasp, 2007... There was an astonishing online version the viewer could zoom into long ago. Still around? https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/paintings-of-natures-comeback-kids/ #artmatters…
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RT @erleellis
Conservation Optimism!
48 species brought back from the brink of ext…
https://twitter.com/erleellis/status/1643622657995227136
"Not likely" is an understatement given trends in cooling-tech demand and efficiency. Recalling Michael Sivak's projected air conditioning demand for Mumbai back in my #dotearth days (2011): "the potential cooling demand [just] in metropolitan Mumbai is about 24 percent of the…
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RT @dewit_andrew
@revkin @adam_tooze Need 50% increase in cooling efficiency by 2030 to reach IEA's NZE goals, but not likely and "globally, space cooling…
https://twitter.com/dewit_andrew/status/1640162470894632962
My 2016 #dotearth call for pre-1912 press coverage of CO2-driven #climatechange produced amazing results, particularly from @backwards_river.
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RT @revkin
News Coverage of Coal's Link to Global Warming, in 1912 http://nyti.ms/2etza0y @dotearth Seeking older stories.
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/789523448112484352
A neat visual milestone on the path to #earthrise, #bluemarble, @StationCDRKelly's #yearinspace @winonearthphotos and more... Context in my old #dotearth post hoping Earth imagery doesn't get boring: https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/heres-hoping-earth-imagery-isnt-too-routine-to-inspire/?ref=opinion
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RT @Astro_Cady
#OTD 12/30/1930: The first photo to show the curvature of the #Earth was taken from a p…
https://twitter.com/Astro_Cady/status/1608879556894806016
#earthrise #BlueMarble #yearinspace #dotearth #otd #earth
I wrote about the #megofactor in newsrooms facing climate news (or biodiversity news, or...) back in 2010 on #dotearth: https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/the-mego-factor-and-climate-coverage/
Gauging Twitter under Musk, revisiting a remarkable Vatican statement on "the media of social communication"- from 1963! More from me on where the basket of capacities we now call Twitter can live on is on my Substack dispatch. I hope you'll sign on: https://bit.ly/sustaintwitter
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RT @revkin
Still love stumbling on this statement from the Vatican on "the media of social communication." Wait to see the year. Relevant #dotearth story of mi…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1435064280546676740