Interesting findings on the #sustainability backlash, but the choice to include #Turkey as Asia-Pacific and not either #MiddleEast or #Europe is...quite a choice.

Also, more than half the world, by population, is in Asia-Pacific - makes it kind of a useless category to make any conclusions.

This year, we’re making a small change to our #NextcloudConf25:

💚 €10 registration fee = Less waste, more impact

🎁 Includes a Nextcloud T-shirt & tote bag!

Register now: https://nextcloud.com/conference-2025/

Thanks to the social.coop admins for all the help in getting us up and running on here at last! As an #introduction, we're a brand-new initiative from social enterprise Libre Digital, we’re going to be utilising multimedia to shed light on issues, spaces, and people from the margins, where insight can be found to help us all choose a different – better – way. We're also working on becoming a #cooperative in our own right. #safety #sustainability #democracy #cooperation #CovidIsNotOver

The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, a report has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/16/sustainability/39-trillion-economic-losses-wetlands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #wetlands #climatechange #environment

Talking about sustainability, has anyone found a good alternative to plastic washup-sponges? I used to buy the coconut coir sponges but found they used to disintegrate almost immediately.

#Sustainability

As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece have turned to a cheaper alternative: liquids in unlabeled bottles that contain products banned in the European Union. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/sustainability/europe-pesticide-farmers-costs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #pesticides #agriculture #greece #europe #eu

Exploring the inter-connections between Alternative Agrifood and Seafood Networks for building food systems resilience

Kristen Lowitt
Charles Z. Levkoe
Sarah-Patricia Breen
Lindsay Harris
Hannah L. Harrison
Jon MacDonald
Phoebe Stephens
Joshua S. Stoll
Bruna Trevisan Negri
Connor Warne
Philip A. Loring

#Agriculture#AlternativeFoodNetworks#Fisheries#FoodSystems#Sustainability

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/689

As 27 million Filipino students returned to school in June, teachers' groups said classrooms remained ill-equipped to withstand climate disasters and prevent learning loss due to insufficient funding for education. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/10/sustainability/philippines-green-schools-climate-risks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #philippines #climatechange #schools #environment #heatwaves #unesco

ENG: scroll down to The New Yorker article on renewable energies reshaping the world, whether autocrats like it or not.

ESP: "El año pasado, el noventa y seis por ciento de la demanda mundial de nueva electricidad se cubrió con energías renovables, y en Estados Unidos el noventa y tres por ciento de la nueva capacidad de generación procedió de la energía solar, eólica y de una variedad cada vez mayor de baterías para almacenar esa energía.

En marzo, por primera vez, los combustibles fósiles generaron menos de la mitad de la electricidad en Estados Unidos. En California, en un momento dado, el 25 de mayo, las energías renovables produjeron la cifra récord del ciento cincuenta y ocho por ciento de la demanda eléctrica del estado. A lo largo de todo el día, produjeron el ochenta y dos por ciento de la electricidad de California, que esta primavera superó a Japón y se convirtió en la cuarta economía del mundo. (... muchos más ejemplos en el artículo )

Esto sugiere que existe la posibilidad de una profunda reordenación de los sistemas de poder de la tierra, en todos los sentidos de la palabra "poder", ofreciendo un freno plausible no sólo a la crisis climática sino también a la autocracia. En lugar de depender de depósitos dispersos de combustibles fósiles -cuyo control ha definido en gran medida la geopolítica durante más de un siglo-, estamos avanzando rápidamente hacia una dependencia de fuentes de suministro difusas pero ubicuas."

Interesante, no solo lo dicho, sino que sea El New Yorker quien lo diga...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

Aqui sin paywall : (NO PAYWALL LINK) https://archive.ph/lv3eU

#renewables #renewableenergy
#trump2#TrumpDictator #foreverwars
#corporategreed #solarpunk #regenerative #sustainability#Corruption #greed #solarpower
#windpower #renovables#Energy

Since 2016 we have been working on the Five Pillar framework for commons-based business models. And while it has greatly evolved through practice in commons-collaborative economy programmes and platform coops and #SSE courses, we hadn't published too much about it.

Now here's an introduction with the necessary references: https://freeknowledge.eu/five-pillar-model-commons-business-models

thanks to @femprocomuns, Labcoop & many cooperative commons businesses

#businessmodels #opensource #commons #democratictech #sustainability

Insightful interview with Domagoj Boljar, co-founder of Croatia-based Earthbound eco sneakers (formerly Miret), talking about the challenges in the development and financing of sustainable footwear.

https://online.pubhtml5.com/aibts/tscp/

"We saw brands trying to use recycled materials, like recycled plastics, PET bottles, ocean plastics, etc. We saw this approach of using recycled materials as a moral hazard, which would exacerbate the problem by making people feel it's okay to create waste through their lifestyles, since someone else would take this waste and turn it into a useful product."
[...]
"This is not true, because only a small fraction of the waste we produce - and the plastic we produce and discard - can ultimately be used as raw material for new products. Most of it is 'forever plastic'. We decided to follow the only path we thought feasible, and that's nature's way."
[...]
"[W]e produce biodegradable sneakers, if left in nature, they will gradually decompose."

#Sustainability#EcoFriendly #buyeuropean#BuyFromEU

>>> Beyond international aid, how can we invest in community connectivity and make it self-sustainable?

Our session in Geneva and online, at #wsis20::

https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2025/Agenda/Session/338

#CommunityNetworks #financing#Sustainability

I built a free tool to help students compare the energy/water use of AI tasks—like a 3-sec video gen or 500-word GPT reply—to everyday ones like Netflix, Google, or cloud storage. Try it at https://what-uses-more.com

Adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local data centers to see how usage shifts. All data from sources in a public Google Sheet. Feedback and additional sources welcome!

#AIinEducation#AIliteracy#AIethics#Environment#Climate#Sustainability

Gardens, not roads! In my latest blog post, I talk about the limits of the digital infrastructure metaphor and how to design mechanisms to maintain open source that are based on a more accurate understanding of how FOSS is produced.

https://tarakiyee.com/gardens-not-roads-cultivating-open-source-communities/

#opensource #sustainability #infrastructure