https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBvXjtaPkeRhYcrujccIM7NNPX8-GxQhIwnOmtyAsx6WpXaEjxCn0nif4LGI7qme6fmUNn1OAd5hUaQwNt1KyNsxSv_FHafFzWNq1Z4O08a1jJfCTZocjEa6oyN8d8XLLrkGW4UvrbLErf/s1600/2018-12-18_22-06-43.jpg Sponsored Links Sponsored Links This article titled “At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts” was written by Bill McKibben, for The Guardian on Sunday 16th December 2018 17.37 UTC Sponsored Links I remember well the first institution to announce it was divesting from fossil fuel. It was 2012 and I was on the second week of a gruelling tour across the US trying to spark a movement. Our roadshow had been playing to packed houses down the west coast, and we’d crossed the continent to Portland, Maine. As a raucous crowd jammed the biggest theatre in town, a physicist named Stephen Mulkey took the mic. He was at the time president of the tiny Unity College in the state’s rural interior, and he announced that ...
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEied73Md5_SRBCg0RQh_P2DU4QucC7EQSnS4o-EGHiTecKZoP4W2bp0ManndDNF5o7NSlj8xoa_NAD3kDbHGTRDIIlM72MPAdgT3294-U8r8IGX47IGef9erTvP1SF0P0L3cTPj5z5zWph_/s1600/2018-02-23_7-13-16.png This article titled “Spacewatch: Nasa planet hunter will target the rock zone” was written by Stuart Clark, for The Guardian on Thursday 22nd February 2018 21.30 UTC Nasa’s next planet hunting mission has arrived at the Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida, for final checks ahead of its April launch. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will spend at least two years studying more than 200,000 nearby stars and looking for planets. The mission is expected to discover thousands of previously unknown worlds by detecting the small drops in light which occur when each planet passes across the face of its parent star. This approach, known as the transit method, was employed to great effect by Kepler, a Nasa mission which has detected, so f...
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfOtdNeOE-UAMwopvCEdrYmtWx4rk0kXLjIIM2w2Rql852FZnzcsPGREubd94haeJqc9NRAC0AED_nYO0B64fBbDTJfvxZZDF_QNKa9z3oRKUZPh9RLIb2oI9foe483-rRYY-KTnvH2eQ/s1600/2017-11-21_8-55-28.jpg This article titled “Reduce, reuse, reboot: why electronic recycling must up its game” was written by Lucy Siegle, for The Observer on Monday 20th November 2017 06.05 UTC Tech powers many things, including cognitive dissonance. A few years ago I was travelling through Agbogbloshie, the commercial district in Accra , known as a graveyard for electronic waste, a hotspot for digital dumping. I tutted and shook my head in sorrow as I surveyed the charred keyboards and plumes of toxic computer smoke wafting across the landscape. My Ghanaian colleague looked with some amusement at the tech spilling out of my handbag. My laptop, phone, iPad – where did I think they might end up? Despite my relatively puritanical approach to upgrades (I can remember...
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