Fast Company
This startup turns hills into giant batteries
2 min · · You don’t need a lot of lithium when you have gravity. · Shared by 257, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Stephan Woodtli, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, LARRY ELKAN, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Christian Fauteux, Faik Ersoy, Pascal Sulser
MIT Technology Review
The Green Future Index
3 min · · Efforts to combat climate change have been taking shape for more than a decade, but until now many have largely generated “empty words, loopholes, and greenwash,” in the sharp words of climate… · Shared by 80, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Gerd Leonhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Pascal Sulser, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech
Aeon+Psyche
Organisms are not passive recipients of evolutionary forces
15+ min · · Organisms do not evolve blindly under forces beyond their control, but shape and influence the evolutionary environment itself · Shared by 91, including Dr. A.S. Barwich, Alf Rehn, Pascal Sulser, [B]ad omen 👻, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Dr. Walter Veit, Jason Silva
Vox
The world’s pollution will finally be tracked in real time. That’s huge.
8 min · · The new Climate TRACE Coalition is assembling the data and running the AI. · Shared by 124, including Katja Evertz, Jan Peterka, Dr. James Canton, Matthias Lampe, Sumeet Kumar, Pascal Sulser, Brooks Rainwater, Terence Mills
The Guardian
Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists
4 min · · Major review reports recovery of marine life but a redoubling of efforts is still needed · Shared by 200, including Pascal Sulser, Sébastien Bonset, nicolatwilley, George M 🇪🇺, Connie Ragen Green, Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matthias Lampe
NASA
Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth
4 min · · A new study using data from NASA satellites reports a counterintuitive finding that China and India – the two emerging countries with the world’s biggest populations – are leading the increase in greening on land through planting of trees and intensive crop cultivation. · Shared by 21, including Sebastien Meunier, Pascal Sulser, tjalve, Vinny Lingham, Max Roser
The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
6 min · · Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen… · Shared by 631, including Mike Maples, Jr, John Hagel, Jonathan Kogan, Jeff Atwood, Keith Rabois, Anand Sanwal, Jeff Richards, Fred Scharmen, Xose Alberte Cea, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Naval, John Nosta, Sachin Rekhi, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Antonio Vieira Santos, John Carmack, Ryan Selkis 🪳, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, Tim Soulo 🇺🇦