#James Scott climate change

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Climate Justice: Addressing Inequality in the Fight Against Climate Change

by Envirotech Accelerator

Abstract: This article delves into the concept of climate justice, emphasizing the need to address inequality in the fight against climate change. By considering the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities, the article advocates for equitable solutions and climate policies. Three academic references are cited to support the information, and a quote by James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, is included.

Introduction

Climate change has emerged as an existential threat with far-reaching implications for ecosystems and human societies alike. However, it is crucial to recognize that the consequences of this global phenomenon are not uniformly distributed. Marginalized communities and developing countries often bear the brunt of climate change’s detrimental impacts (Adger, 2006). Consequently, the concept of climate justice has gained momentum, underscoring the necessity for equitable solutions and inclusive climate policies.

Disproportionate Impacts on Vulnerable Communities

The unequal distribution of climate change impacts is primarily driven by the intersection of socio-economic, political, and environmental factors. Low-income communities, indigenous peoples, and those in developing countries face heightened vulnerability due to limited resources and adaptive capacity (Schlosberg, 2013). These populations are more susceptible to climate-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves, which exacerbate existing inequalities.

James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, eloquently asserts, “Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a social one. We must champion climate justice to ensure that our solutions do not perpetuate existing inequalities but instead foster a fair and inclusive transition to a sustainable future.”

Equitable Solutions and Inclusive Climate Policies

Achieving climate justice necessitates addressing the root causes of inequality and integrating these concerns into climate action. Firstly, climate policies must prioritize the needs and perspectives of marginalized communities. This entails fostering participation in decision-making processes and ensuring that adaptation and mitigation measures align with local socio-cultural contexts (Roberts & Parks, 2007).

Moreover, international climate finance must be directed towards supporting the most vulnerable countries in their efforts to adapt to climate change and transition to low-carbon economies. Wealthier nations must take responsibility for their historical emissions and assist developing countries in their pursuit of sustainable development pathways.

Conclusion

In conclusion, climate justice is a critical aspect of the global fight against climate change. Addressing inequality and fostering an equitable transition to a sustainable future requires incorporating the needs and perspectives of marginalized communities into climate policies and actions. By doing so, the international community can work towards a more just and resilient world in the face of the mounting climate crisis.

References

Adger, W. N. (2006). Vulnerability. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 268–281.

Roberts, J. T., & Parks, B. C. (2007). A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. MIT Press.

Schlosberg, D. (2013). Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 37–55.

Read more at Envirotech Accelerator.

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On 11th June 1560, Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland, died.

A longer post than I am used to, but I think it is necessary to set the scene for the reign of Mary Queen of Scots and why she had such a torrid time as Queen.

Mary is perhaps best known as the Mother of Mary Queen of Scots but there was a lot more to her than this, she was a very powerful woman. From her description you can tell where her daughter got her looks and height, Mary at age of eighteen was tall and attractive with auburn hair, was married to Louis II of Orleans, Duke of Longueville, who held extensive estates in Normandy and the valley of the Loire. The marriage produced two sons unfortunately the Duke died of smallpox in 1537 leaving her a widow at twenty one.

Enter James V King of Scots who had also lost his spouse Madeleine of Valois, if you remember from a previous post Madeleine was a fragile woman prone to sickness, the harsh Scottish climate was blamed for her early demise aged just 16 but she had been a sickly child before moving to Scotland.

Also in the frame for Mary’s hand was a certain Henry VIII of England, Henry by now, he was now looking for wife number 4. An exchange between the two is said to have gone something like this, he remarked on her fine stature she retorted with the witty repartee that although her body was big, she had a very small neck, perhaps alluding to Anne Boleyn’s neck having the misfortune of connecting with and axe severing her head from her body!!

Mary was married to James of Scotland by proxy in Paris in May 1538 and at in person at St Andrews after her arrival in Scotland. The couple had two sons James born in 1540 and Robert a year later, the two died within a few days of each other in April 1541.

Meanwhile relations between James and Henry were at a low, Henry called James to meet him at York, Henry even sent his tapestries there in preparation of the meeting in September 1541, James snubbed him, saying his wife was pregnant and he did not want to leave her. The snub  might have been part of the reason that the armies of Scotland and England met at Solway moss the following year, it was a crushing defeat by the English and James died the following month, on his deathbed he would hear that his wife had given birth to Mary Queen of Scots. Although there were few soldiers killed at Solway Moss, more than 1200 of James’ army were taken prisoner, amongst them some of our top nobles. Henry was determined to impose his will on the weakened Scottish kingdom and permanently end its alliance with catholic France.The Treat of Greenwich was signed agreeing that the young Queen would be taken to England and brought up in the English court of Henry, then married to his son, it was largely agreed to by those nobles who were prisoners of the English, although not entirely.

The Scottish Parliament dissmissed the treaty out of hand and big bad Henry sent an army to lay waste to Scotland and force the treaty through, the phrase “I lyke not thys wooyng.” is said have derived from historian, Patrick Abercromby’s account of the war that followed, although it would not be popularised till many years later by Walter Scott, since then it was used regularly.

After a Scottish defeat at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in September 1547, French military aid weakened English resolve and increased the power base of Mary of Guise, who remained in Scotland, but to protect the young Queen Mary Stewart was sent to France in 1548.

The government of Scotland was first entrusted to James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, as Regent, like many before and after him he would change sides over the years, first being firmly encamped as a protestant before becoming a catholic and in 1554, he surrendered the regency to Mary of Guise. The Guises had trained her well in the craft of Government, but little could have prepared her to deal with the unreliable Scots, the reformation was in full swing and the Protestant Lords did not trust a catholic Regent. She had no confidante to turn to and communication with France took time. She had to rely on her family’s recognition of the strategic importance of a Scottish alliance for both France and the Catholic Church. Of course the Protestant Lords were unhappy that ties with the Catholics of France were becoming stronger but were encouraged by the crowning of Elizabeth I in 1548 and they hoped to gain advantage through this. The country was more or less in a state of Civil war as events leading to the Reformation took hold.

Among the Regent’s ambassadors were the Earl of Argyll and Lord James Stewart, Earl of Moray, both professed Protestants. When the Mary of Guise stationed French mercenaries in Perth, both abandoned her and joined the Lords of the Congregation at St Andrews, where they were also joined by John Knox. Even Edinburgh soon fell to them in July, as Mary retreated to Dunbar. On 25 July 1559 a truce and treaty promised religious tolerance, the truce did not last long.

The Lords of the Congregation had established a provisional government. However, Mary of Guise was reinforced by professional French troops, strengthening her hand and it looked at one stage as if she had the upper hand, victory was in her grasp. Fighting continued in Fife. All seemed lost for the Protestant side until an English fleet arrived in the Firth of Forth in January 1560, which caused the French to retreat to Leith. The following month the Scottish Lords of the Congregation signed The Treaty of Berwick and the Queen of England, sent an English land army into Scotland to join their Scottish allies in besieging the French at Leith.

She died of dropsy on 11th June 1560. Her body was wrapped in lead and kept in Edinburgh Castle for several months. In March 1561, it was secretly carried from the castle at midnight and shipped to France. Mary, Queen of Scots attended her funeral at Fécamp in July 1561. Mary of Guise was interred at the church in the Convent of Saint-Pierre in Reims, where Mary’s sister Renée was abbess. A marble tomb was erected with a bronze statue of Mary, in royal robes, holding a sceptre and the rod of justice in one hand. The tomb was destroyed during the French revolution.

Of Mary’s five children, only her daughter Mary survived her, and we all know what happened to her……..

This blog post here gives more detail on Marie here https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2012/10/01/marie-of-guise-queen-of-scotland/

Pics are of the Lady and plaques remembering her at Edinburgh Castle and South Leith Parish church, the stained glass is at The Magdalen Chapel in The Cowgate, the only the only stained glass that survived the Scottish Reformation in its original location.

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The Conversation: The importance of shining a light on hidden toxic histories

Indianapolis proudly claims Elvis’ last concert, Robert Kennedy’s speech in response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the Indianapolis 500. There’s a 9/11 memorial, a Medal of Honor Memorial and a statue of former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning.

What few locals know, let alone tourists, is that the city also houses one of the largest dry cleaning Superfund sites in the U.S.

From 1952 to 2008, Tuchman Cleaners laundered clothes using perchloroethylene, or PERC, a neurotoxin and possible carcinogen. Tuchman operated a chain of cleaners throughout the city, which sent clothes to a facility on Keystone Avenue for cleaning. It was also the location where used solution was stored in underground tanks.

Inspectors noted the presence of volatile organic compounds from leaking tanks and possible spills as early as 1989. By 1994, an underground plume had spread to a nearby aquifer. By the time the EPA became involved in 2011, the underground chemical plume had seeped more than a mile underneath a residential area, reaching a well that supplies drinking water to the city.

When geographer Owen Dwyer, earth scientist Gabe Filippelli and I investigated and wrote about the social and environmental history of dry cleaning in Indianapolis, we were struck by how few people outside of the dry cleaning and environmental management fields were aware of this environmental damage.

There are no markers or memorials. There is no mention of it – or any other accounts of contamination – in Indianapolis’ many museums. This kind of silence has been called “environmental amnesia” or “collective forgetting.”

Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But where in public memory is environmental harm? What if people thought about it not only as a science or policy problem, but also as a part of history? Would it make a difference if pollution, along with biodiversity loss and climate change, was seen as part of our shared heritage?

The slow violence of contamination

Environmental harm often takes place gradually and out of sight, and this could be one reason why there’s so little public conversation and commemoration. In 2011, Princeton English professor Rob Nixon came up with a term for this kind of environmental degradation: slow violence.

As underground storage tanks leak, shipwrecks corrode, coal ash ponds seep and forever chemicals spread, the creeping pace of poisoned soil and water fails to garner the attention that more dramatic environmental disasters attract.

Certain interests benefit from hiding the costs of pollution and its remediation. Sociologists Scott Frickel and James R. Elliott have studied urban pollution, and they highlight three reasons for its pervasiveness and persistence.

First, in cities, small factories, auto repair shops, dry cleaners and other light industries sometimes only stay open for a decade or two, making it challenging to regulate them and track their environmental impacts over time. By the time contamination is discovered, many facilities have long been shuttered or purchased by new owners. And the polluters have a direct financial interest in not being connected with it, since they could be held liable and forced to pay for cleanup.

Similarly, urban neighborhoods tend to have shifting demographics, and local residents are often not aware of historical pollution.

Finally, it can simply be politically expedient to look the other way and ignore the consequences of pollution. Cities may be concerned that publicizing toxic histories discourage investment and depress property values, and politicians are hesitant to fund projects that may have a long-term benefit but short-term costs. Indianapolis, for example, tried for decades to avoid mitigating the raw sewage flowing into the White River and Fall Creek, arguing it was too expensive to deal with. Only when required by a consent decree did the city start to address the problem.

Toxic legacies are also difficult to track because their effects may be hidden by distance and time. Anthropologist Peter Little traced the outsourcing of electronics waste recycling, which is shipped from the places where electronics are bought and used, to countries such as Ghana, where labor is cheap and environmental regulations lax.

Then there are the toxic traces of military conflicts, which linger long after the fighting has stopped and troops have returned home. Historian and geologist Daniel Hubé has documented the long-term environmental impact of World War I munitions.

At the end of the war, unused and unexploded bombs and chemical weapons had to be disposed of. In France, at a site known as Place à Gaz, hundreds of thousands of chemical weapons were burned. Today, the soils have been found to have extraordinarily high levels of arsenic and other heavy metals.

More than a century after the end of the war, little grows on the contaminated, barren land.

Toxic tours and teaching moments

There’s a growing movement to make toxic histories more visible.

In Providence, Rhode Island, artist Holly Ewald founded the Urban Pond Procession to call attention to Mashapaug Pond, which was contaminated by a Gorham Silver factory. She worked with community partners to create wearable sculptures, puppets and giant fish, all of which were carried and worn in an annual parade that took place from 2008 to 2017.

Cultural anthropologist Amelia Fiske collaborated with artist Jonas Fischer to create the graphic novel “Tóxico,” which will be published in 2024. It depicts petroleum pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon, as well as the struggles of those fighting for environmental justice.

Toxic tours can educate the public about the histories, causes and consequences of environmental harm. For example, Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, New Jersey, offers a tour of severely contaminated sites, such as the location of the former Agent Orange factory, where the sediment in the sludge is laced with the carcinogen dioxin. The tour also goes by a detention center that’s built on a brownfield, which has only undergone industrial-level remediation because that’s the standard all prisons are held to.

In 2017, the Humanities Action Lab organized “Climates of Inequality,” a traveling exhibit co-curated by more than 20 universities and local partners exploring environmental issues affecting communities around the world. The exhibit brings attention to polluted waterways, the impacts of climate change, ecological damage on Indigenous lands and the ways in which immigrant agricultural workers experience heat stress and chronic pesticide exposure. The exhibits also explore the affected communities’ resilience and advocacy.

These stories of pollution and contamination, and their effects on people’s health and livelihoods, represent only a sampling of current efforts to curate toxic heritage. As sociologist Alice Mah writes in her foreword to “Toxic Heritage”: “Reckoning with toxic heritage is an urgent collective task. It is also unsettling work. It requires confronting painful truths about the roots of toxic injustice with courage, honesty, and humility.”

I see public commemoration of hidden toxic histories as a way to push back against denial, habituation and amnesia. It creates a space for public conversation, and it opens up possibilities for a more just and sustainable future.

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MultiTraction Orchestra - Reactor One

Reactor One is the debut album from MultiTraction Orchestra, a networked ensemble with a fluid line-up of experimental musicians brought together by composer/guitarist/producer Alex Roth and including members of GoGo Penguin, Supersilent, Melt Yourself Down, Crash Ensemble, Sly & The Family Drone, and Hen Ogledd. The Orchestra was formed as a creative response to the first coronavirus lockdown, and debut single "emerge entangled" was constructed from improvisations recorded remotely by 27 musicians from 15 cities in 8 different countries. The 10-minute track was released to widespread critical acclaim in May 2020, hailed by Jazzwise as "powerful, immersive and intense" and featuring on radio stations around the world. Now, two years in the making, Reactor One brings together a dream team of internationally renowned improvisers, each of whom created their own parts in response to atmospheric guitar pieces Roth shared as musical prompts. From hours of material, the Orchestra's founder produced six tracks that span a range of soundworlds, from plangent trumpet melodies and ambient string textures to heavy synth drones and saturated beats. As with "emerge entangled", the album title borrows from particle physics. Where the earlier single nodded to what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", Reactor One suggests an imaginary site where energy is produced through a process of experimentation and fusion under extreme conditions. What better metaphor for an album forged during a global pandemic, with an energy crisis unfolding and intensifying climate change underpinning it all?

Arve Henriksen – trumpet, piccolo trumpet James Allsopp – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone Kate Ellis – cello Rhodri Davies – electric harp Ruth Goller – electric bass Jon Scott – drums Alex Roth – electric guitar, synths (Click the individual tracks to view the specific line-up on each one.)

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Envirotech Accelerator Announces Congressional Roundtable on Carbon Capture & Removal Technologies

In a world where the echoes of climate change reverberate through our very existence, the Envirotech Accelerator emerges as a beacon of hope, launching the Coalition for American Leadership in Carbon Capture and Removal Technology. This groundbreaking initiative heralds a new dawn in environmental stewardship, uniting industry pioneers, policymakers, and researchers in a collective mission to revolutionize carbon capture technologies on a national scale.

James Scott, founder of Envirotech Accelerator, encapsulates the essence of this transformative endeavor with a profound quote: "In the symphony of innovation and policy, harmony is found in our commitment to shaping a sustainable legacy for generations to come." These words resonate with a call to action, urging us to transcend boundaries and forge a path towards a greener future through collaborative efforts and visionary leadership.

The Coalition for American Leadership in Carbon Capture and Removal Technology stands as a testament to the power of unity and innovation in confronting the challenges of our time. By convening a Congressional roundtable of experts, this coalition seeks to empower legislative endeavors with unparalleled expertise and strategic guidance, propelling the United States towards a future defined by environmental resilience and technological ingenuity.

As we embark on this transformative journey, let us heed the call to action embedded within James Scott's words and embrace the opportunity to shape a more sustainable world. Together, we have the power to redefine our relationship with the environment and pave the way for a brighter tomorrow through the Coalition for American Leadership in Carbon Capture and Removal Technology.

Join us in this momentous endeavor as we embark on a collective mission to catalyze change, inspire innovation, and champion environmental leadership for the betterment of our planet and future generations.

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W8 - AGI Open 2023

On Monday I had the privilege of attending the Alliance Graphique Internationale with a free ticket from AUT! This was a super exciting opportunity and I walked away from it with lots of insights and ideas (and freebies). Below are the notes I made for (most) speakers, a well as some highlights which I will expand on further:

Day 1 - 18/09/23

Taku Satoh

Hodo hodo - just enough

Balance and elegance when just right

Furoshiki

Everything in moderation

Knowing when to stop

Leave room for things to resonate

Water-based glue

Changing the rep of chewing gum so packaging design cannot look like gum

Astrid Stavro

Leap before you look

Curiosity and doubt

Eli wiesel

Interview magazine

Penguin education - type as image

Grid notepads

Fear and making mistakes

Dont work for money

Azimuth festival - saudi arabi

Keep it simple stupid

Starting over

Irene Pereyra

Anton & irene ux

To seel something new, make it familiar and to sell something familiar, make it new

M+ museum - hong kong

We judge usability by its beauty and aesthetics

Atm interface study

Aesthetic usability effect

We dont mind making the effort

Shantelle martin

Henrik Kubel

Important to have a clear brief in kahoots with client

Paul Garbett

Seeing things book

We create whatever we observe

Paredolia - seeing faces in things, seeing meaninful images in objects and patterns

Presence - paying attention with intention

The act of observation is an act of creativity

Dean Poole

Nz’s elemental nature

Raw sophistication

Humanism

Culturistic rituals

Meaning in materials

Doesnt have to be loud

Design is about making decisions

Diecut leaves

Tracing shapes in landscape photography

Southern hemisphere snowman

Good shit soda

Ahn Sang-soo

Gaphis magazine

Anthropocene

PATI - students are taught to design their own lives and let their lives be completed by design

Pur ideas should stem from our hands

Elongate design by bodily experience

Just play!

A flower flourishes, spring comes

Alejandro Paul

Roma cafe in buenos aires

Balneario

Inspiration - travel - photography

Varietta

Rigatoni - bodoni

Sudtipos design agency

Paul Boudens

Fun is fundamental

Eddie Opara

The landcape, origin, history, life around really is what egins a bespoke desing process

Rectilinnear

The Joslyn, scott Pavilliam, hawks

Each building only uses the typeface desinged for it

Also desinging glyphs for omaha-ponca - native american language of the region

Animations

Regenerative narratives

Book Showcase

James Goggin

Ubi sunt

Titus kphar ted talk

Redaction.us - free typeface

Irony of this typeface being used in the legal system - unauthorised

Book is soft-bound bc hardcover still considered contraband in prisons

Cold glue vs hot glue

Minmin Qu + Qian Jiang

Stuart Geddes

Need to take advantage of books that are thick enough to write sideways on the spine

Jumping He

Carpets from art

Designing the life cycle of a book - another reading

Arch MacDonnell

Inhouse design

Books with john reynolds - “cloud of new zealand language”

Climate change - apocalypse o’clock

I want you to panic

Nikki Gonnissen

Thonik

Phil bloom - first naked woman on int. Tv

Inspirational women

Day 2 - 19/09/23

Paula Scher

marking something recognised + understood

silk-screen theatre posters

Public Theatre

page of scribbles - type made from scribbles

'banal'

digital, moving billboards

dingbat/scribble 'library' to use in system

find something and run with it

Stefan Sagmeister

the critic with bad news is seen as smarter than the critic with good news

embedding blocks of statistics in old paintings

mosaic insects on bike path

kids' hospital tunnels - Toronto

Now is Better - book

design should have a function

Lars Müller

Super Normal - book

sensations of the normal

Thomas Widdershoven

Thonik

the power of design

social

strategic

experimental

best iconic building award for their studio

Yah-Leng Yu

how do you get people to come into your museum?

look at the city - what do people like doing?

drawing the people of Singapore like to shop, so give them something they can shop for

what makes something look childish?

Kris Sowersby

Matarongo typeface with Johnson Witehira

Tatai Kapu Toi = typography

type is so subtle

distilling the essence of a rich culture and history into type

glyphs = wh, ng in cap-cap, cap-lower, lower-lower

Jonathan-Castro Alejos

Peru -> Netherlands

Panel

nomads set free + being a tourist

taking on international clients

cultural sensitivity

global climate

global market

country's politics

country's history

balance between corporate/client projects and projects that we do for ourselves

making money vs making things that make you happy

student = authenticity, purity

graduating = getting corrupted

how to stay relevant

where would you go first upon landing in a country where you don't know anyone and you don't speak the language?

Kenya Hara

'un-know the world'

using squares + circles to make sense of the universe

Re Design - daily products of the 21st century

long-life design

becoming

visualise + awaken

rhetorical figures

fruits disguised as other fruits

make things unknown and visualise it

muji

"frugal, but not feeling inferior to luxury"

muji 'concept' applied to other things

humans + cleaning

global vs local

"architecture must be the interpreter of the richness of the land"

cream knit turtleneck with yellow edges -> like working military gloves

mango (clothing brand) book

Stanley Wong

AnotherMountainMan

MTR: 'there are some things in life you can always count on'

Asaba's Diary - posters!

self-talking

"time will tell" - Einstein

creativity x values x time

Ariane Spanier

known knowns

known unknowns

unknown knowns

the free brief

feelings mixer app - Heavy Mental

colour

Fukt magazine

having facial blindness and drawing portraits

Highlights

It was really neat to see how real designers are always using what they know and what they are good at to influence their design process, no matter if it is a commercial or personal project. It was comforting to me to see that there doesn't always have to be this immense pressure to try something that you don't know anything about, or that you aren't good at, just for the sake of going out of your comfort zone. Although this is useful and can really expand a designer's horizons, it is not always necessary to be uncomfortable at all stages of a design process. Drawing on your interests and strengths is also a good way to create a successful outcome.

The calibre of presentations were top tier - they were engaging and 'guided your eye', and embodied all the tips we go over in class, such as limiting the number of words on a slide.

I was pleased at how this international conference still allowed for freedom of the hosting country to incorporate any necessary traditions or honours that are encouraged in that country. The conference opened with a Mihi and Waiata, which communicated to me that it was important for Alt Group and AGI to create a safe Māori space.

Kris Sowersby's talk was a huge highlight of mine. He broke down a new typeface that his is collaborating on with Johnson Witehira, called Matarongo. It was fascinating to see their process (iteration on iteration on iteration), right from the deep, rich research they did through to the varied typefaces that were created. So many things were considered - lower/upper case, sans/serif, extra glyphs, etc. I found that I gained a whole new appreciation for typography through watching his talk.

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Mutual Life by Scott Lowery

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What are the #familiar, vital connections that maintain community? What’s at stake when those ties are strained to the breaking point by pandemic anxiety, climate disasters, and the politics of resentment? This collection offers a free-ranging chronicle of everyday life during the upheavals of the past few years. Shifting from rural to urban, angry to quizzical, lyrical to conversational, Lowery’s poems look for answers in close observation of nearby nature (the honey bee and sandhill crane, “the oak leaf that still holds on”), or the shared rituals of #family and personal sustenance. Against odds, these nuanced poems voice hope for the common good—for Mutual Life.

Scott Lowery is a poet, musician, and teaching artist from the Upper Midwest. His work can be found in a wide variety of literary journals and several anthologies, with two poems nominated for Pushcart and Best of Net awards. A long-time public school teacher, Scott loves guiding poetry workshops for young writers, inside and outside of classrooms. He and his wife recently moved from rural Rollingstone, Minnesota, magnetically pulled toward their grandchildren in Milwaukee.

PRAISE FOR Mutual Life by Scott Lowery

These poems are full of music and witness—keenly felt and keenly observed. Each delivered with a quiet playful mastery that’s dazzling in the best possible way. Each one brings you into a moment lived and felt, whether it’s a moment of horror, rage or wonder. Fierce, funny, tender and ultimately hopeful, Lowery has transformed the dumpster fire of our recent past into poems you want to visit again and again.

–Naomi Cohn, founder of Known By Heart Poetry, author of The Braille Encyclopedia

Mutual Life, Scott Lowery’s stunning new collection of poems, strips away the thin veneer of contemporary American life to reveal the many fissures between hope and despair, dream and reality. The result is a remarkable book that speaks to the immediacy of our own moment, and reminds us again that we are all bound, in our mutual lives, by love and compassion.

–Robert Hedin, author of At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations

Scott Lowery’s poems practice “vigilant listening,” as he puts it. Lowery applies his deeply moral imagination to the daily press of events. But whether addressing the shock of climate change, the difficulties of campaign door-knocking in a conservative neighborhood, or the joys of a newborn granddaughter, his poems also show an allegiance to verbal elegance and careful construction. This book faces the world’s difficulty and offers it something beautiful in return.

–James Armstrong, author of Empire and Blue Lash

Scott Lowery explores the political and personal urgencies of the last few years, using an astonishing variety of forms and ingenious rhymes and rhythms that remind readers that he is, after all, a musician as well as a verbal magician. Lowery’s poems ask us, finally, to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder among our fellow mortals.’ Readers, step forward.

–Connie Wanek, author of Rival Gardens

In an America and world dizzy with change, the poems in Mutual Life find both solace and luscious liberation in the depths of interconnection. It is a celebratory, generously communal vision both fortified by and dissatisfied with the yesteryear landscapes of William Stafford and William Carlos Williams. How to celebrate the golden sunlight and also be a good person, family member, and citizen?

–Ed Bok Lee, author of Mitochondrial Night and Whorled

Pogo said “We have seen the enemy and he is us.” Scott Lowery is telling us the same thing in his chapbook Mutual Life. No, it’s not a book about life insurance, or is it? Lowery expresses anger and frustration at what we have created for ourselves. The poems are razor-sharp and they take no prisoners, but without the overblown rhetoric one often encounters in poems about “issues”.

–Ken McCullough, author of Broken Gates and Dark Stars

In Mutual Life, Scott Lowery brings a fine attention to detail and tender wisdom as he shows us our shared communal lives with nature, parses the challenges of politics, and sings the rescue and bright shine of family in these times. A book of vigilance, hope and humor, these poems are both luminous and unsentimental, and filled with grace that lifts you up into a wild spiral of wings.

–Diane Jarvenpa, author of The Way She Told Her Story

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Quantum Leap Technology Trade Mission Series

Quantum Leap Technology Trade Mission Series by the Embassy Row Project

embassy row project "The Quantum Leap Technology Trade Mission Series is designed to offer public and private sector stakeholders direct access to the most hyper-evolved technologies in the energy, infrastructure, and net zero space," explains James Scott, Embassy Row Project founder. Scott continues, "And to offer clean energy technology innovators, and net zero-focused platform providers a direct audience with the government and commercial sector stakeholders who can utilize these next-generation solutions." They've been telling you for years that technologies were in development to accelerate the reversal of climate change. But where are these innovations? The wait is over!

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Through its network of international institutes, think tanks, research labs, and institutes, the Embassy Row Project works with labs all over the world, and we're going to begin introducing these technologies right now, from the top down to the agency and ministry stakeholders to commercial sector c-suite in more than 47 countries. Are you interested? "Environmentally focused NGOs have been doing the same thing for years and with no long-lasting results, says Scott, "It's time to think, differently."

The Embassy Row Project has a strategy in motion to internationalize a selection of the most hyper-evolved technologies ever designed to combat the impact of climate change, and we are also working with international stakeholders to launch carbon reduction education programs in heavily polluting industries, with measurable, and immediate results.

We've been told that clean, cheap, and abundant energy is a myth. Yet there are several next-generation technologies that not only exist but have been waiting to be deployed. You will hear that there are no carbon capture and removal technologies that can draw down carbon into the gigatons, but these technologies also exist. And ERP is going to show them to you. These, and several other climate technologies, as well as carbon reduction education and training programs, will be launched in 2023 as the Embassy Row Project introduces the international Quantum Leap Technology Trade Mission Series.

The Embassy Row Project is meeting with public, and private sector stakeholders to introduce the next generation of climate and clean energy technologies. Through the Netzero Incubator & Accelerator, we're launching our global, commercial-sector carbon reduction training programs throughout the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. The Embassy Row Project's Quantum Leap Technology Trade Missions will launch clean energy and sustainable infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe. And through the Envirotech Pre-Accelerator, we will be taking next-generation technologies on trade missions throughout the United States, Southern, and Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus region for public and private sector presentations, introductions, commercially focused networking, strategic partnering, and rapid deployment of technology in real-world infrastructure projects.

The Embassy Row Project is introducing tomorrow's technologies today, in the sectors of hydrogen, battery storage, small modular reactor, decarbonization, carbon capture and removal, environmental commodities platforms, blockchain, big data, biotechnology, aerospace, artificial intelligence, agritech, and other tested and proven climate technologies that can be utilized as solutions to climate change problems globally. To join our trade mission or to gain access to our briefings and technology presentations, contact the Embassy Row Project at www.embassyrowproject.org

[lastfrontierh]

Heli-skiing And Heli-boarding In Chamonix Valley

“Temperatures will remain heat until Sunday with a freezing line round 2,000m, nevertheless, meaning this can still fall as rain on decrease floor. The freezing line will plummet on Sunday, meaning extra snow will fall across all elevations, offering welcome relief to many areas. Austria has the next variety of resorts which may be at present Heliski closed while in Switzerland, 16 are closed and in Italy, eleven are closed. Block misplaced his life on the age of fifty five after the snowmobile he had been using on up a steep slope upended and landed on him. These high-performance funky piste-freestyle hybrid skis have superb grip and turn brilliantly. Available in four lengths, they're 87mm broad with a brief 13m radius for tremendous reactivity.

Police said Block was using a snowmobile on a steep slope which then upended and landed on prime of him. The Greek Emerald Island of Lesvos , greets you with incomparable natural beauty, historical historical past and tradition of hospitality spanning over centuries, treating you to an unforgettable holiday experience. Greece is one of Europe’s hottest tourist destinations and is nicely favoured with watersports enthusiasts who get pleasure from superb situations for windsurfing and sailing. Try these fun and exhilarating sports at two of our seaside resorts; Levante Beach Resort and Lemnos Beach Resort. Our firstclass experienced RYA certified instructors who're right here to assist and to take care of your security while you're out on the water.

Meals are a family affair, sharing tables with the guides, lodge workers and different visitors, tales of the day being shared and one of the best jokes retold. Canadian Mountain Holidays are absolutely conscious of the necessary Heliski ritual of regular and hearty meals. Up on the mountain, just as the glutton’s breakfast of pancakes, eggs Benedict and Bircher muesli wear off, brownies or cheese scones magically seem out of your guide’s backpack.

Diving headfirst into Livigno’s backcountry is a superb determination. Not only will you glide via the delightful powder off-piste, but costs are less exorbitant on the jap end of the Alps – especially should you join a number of drops. Heliskiing remains to be in its infancy right here, and meaning you’ll find much more seclusion than at a better famed vacation spot.

By clicking Sign up you confirm that your knowledge has been entered correctly and you have got learn and comply with our Terms of use, Cookie coverage and Privacy discover. Shell jacket – Arctery’x Airah jacket was great for deep snow and for all temperatures and activities due Heliski to the ability to layer appropriately beneath. Snow goggles – the variable lenses and broad angle on the Dragon AllianceLumalens goggles meant higher imaginative and prescient in quite so much of lights, great for the ever-changing mountain climate.

There are many ‘all-mountain/freeride’ skis to select from and we additionally recommend skis from Salomon, Dynastar, Movement, Black Crows, Trab Skis, Scott and Volkl. Look for a ski that's the proper measurement in your height, sometimes the tip of the ski should be someplace around your nose top. As properly as news and information on Zermatt, these give particulars of special offers for vacation accommodation in the resort. Yet, there is no leaping from a hovering helicopter skis-on James Bond style. At the bottom of every run, skis are taken off, bundled along with poles and put in a basket on the facet of the helicopter.

[astranemus]

Folklore and traditional mytho-historical narratives offer an alternative approach to framing anthropogenic and other causes of environmental change, one that has existed since the dawn of humans capacity to historicize their lives and place in the cosmos. These narratives arguably have much to teach us about framing our understanding and contingent responses to environmental change over time and across spaces. They remind us of the futility of a managerialism that governs only for control and stability without proper consideration of relational feedbacks and the dynamic and anarchic forces in nature. As James Scott (1998) observes in Seeing Like a State, human social and environmental disasters that arise from even well-intentioned state-initiated managerialist efforts all too frequently involve the pernicious combination of four elements: (1) dangerous adherence to the administrative ordering of nature and society; (2) a commitment to a "high-modernist ideology" involving undue self-confidence about the value of scientific and technical progress; (3) the intervention of a powerfully centralizing or increasingly non-democratic forms of political organization; and (4) weakened civil society organizations. Prevailing discourses of "managing" climate change in the face of looming ecological disasters contain elements of all four of the above set within the broader narrative framework of crisis, which, as Edelman (1988) observes, often serves to mitigate resistance to, and helps to build popular support for, extraordinary interventions by social and political elites.

The tenor and rhetoric of the prevailing discussions of climate change and the Anthropocene are at odds with an alternative heuristics circulating in many indigenous communities that are instead shaped by the shared understanding that humans are but a small part of a relational universe that cannot be fully cognized, much less managed, by any one species. Raven tales of the Pacific Northwest and East Asia from the early Holocene, for example, celebrate the trickster-demiurge who excels at "improvisation in the face of unpredictability" (Scott 1998: 6), as a driver of, or respondent to, environmental shifts. Although Raven frequently appears as either the harbinger of or an active agent provoking extraordinary ecological events, they are nonetheless not cast in the rhetoric of crisis. Instead, Raven adapts, innovates, and transforms with Earth's changes, sometimes by relying upon his intimate knowledge of local species, sometimes by cunning and wiles, and sometimes by happenstance as a result of his ulterior manipulations, and, at times, buffoonery. In contrast to the overtly mechanistic cause and effect models that prevail in popular and scientific discourse today, the lessons Raven can and does teach offer a multivalent understanding of the place of human activity in the world. Taken collectively, Raven tales disseminated among and between indigenous communities across the Northwest coast of North America, Alaska, Japan and Siberia today emphasize a moral ecology of mutual dependence, intersubjectivity, survival, resilience, feedbacks, and adaptation in the face of ceaseless and open-ended ecological change.

Thomas F. Thornton and Patricia M. Thornton, The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial: Raven Narratives and the Anthropocene

[envirotechaccelerator]

Carbon Credits and Offsetting: Balancing Act or False Solution?

by Envirotech Accelerator

Abstract

Carbon credits and offsetting schemes have emerged as popular tools for tackling climate change. However, the effectiveness of these mechanisms remains a subject of debate. This article assesses the role of carbon credits and offsets in climate change mitigation, discussing their potential benefits and pitfalls.

Introduction

The concept of carbon credits and offsetting has gained traction in recent years as a means of balancing greenhouse gas emissions. James Scott, founder of the Envirotech Accelerator, provocatively states, “Carbon credits can be both a boon and a bane — while they may foster emission reduction, they can also create a sense of complacency, inadvertently slowing down genuine progress.” This article scrutinizes the efficacy of carbon credits and offsets, weighing the benefits and drawbacks of these mechanisms in the fight against climate change.

Carbon Credits and Offsetting: An Overview

Carbon credits represent tradable permits that allow the emission of a specified amount of greenhouse gases, typically one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (Anderson & Newell, 2004). Offsetting, on the other hand, involves compensating for emissions by investing in projects that reduce or remove an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases elsewhere. Examples of offset projects include reforestation, renewable energy installations, and methane capture from landfills.

Potential Benefits

Incentivizing Emission Reduction: Carbon credits create a market-driven approach to emission reduction, encouraging businesses to adopt cleaner technologies and practices (Stavins, 1998).

Funding Climate Projects: Offsetting initiatives can provide vital financial support for climate mitigation and adaptation projects in developing countries (Bumpus & Liverman, 2008).

Raising Awareness: Carbon credits and offsetting programs can raise public awareness of the need for emission reduction and promote sustainable consumption patterns.

Challenges and Pitfalls

Additionality: Critics argue that some offset projects would have occurred regardless of the offset market, leading to no real emission reductions (Schneider, 2009).

Leakage: Emission reductions achieved in one location may inadvertently cause increased emissions elsewhere, undermining the intended environmental benefits.

Moral Hazard: The availability of offsets may discourage more substantial, systemic changes needed for deep decarbonization (Spash, 2010).

Conclusion

Carbon credits and offsetting schemes present both opportunities and challenges in addressing climate change. While they can incentivize emission reduction and finance climate projects, concerns about additionality, leakage, and moral hazard persist. To ensure the effectiveness of these mechanisms, robust monitoring, reporting, and verification systems are crucial. Ultimately, carbon credits and offsets should complement — rather than substitute for — comprehensive climate policies and actions.

References

Anderson, S., & Newell, R. G. (2004). Prospects for carbon capture and storage technologies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29, 109–142.

Bumpus, A. G., & Liverman, D. M. (2008). Accumulation by decarbonization and the governance of carbon offsets. Economic Geography, 84(2), 127–155.

Schneider, L. (2009). Assessing the additionality of CDM projects: practical experiences and lessons learned. Climate Policy, 9(3), 242–254.

Spash, C. L. (2010). The brave new world of carbon trading. New Political Economy, 15(2), 169–195.

Stavins, R. N. (1998). What can we learn from the grand policy experiment? Lessons from SO2 allowance trading. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(3), 69–88.

Read more at Envirotech Accelerator.

[fatehbaz]

We live on Twana and S’Klallam land in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. This ecosystem -- once a dynamic forest tended to by people, elk, bears, eagles, beavers, and salmon -- is now a patchwork of tree plantations, off-grid homes, and clearcuts (results of logging practices in which all trees in an area are uniformly cut down). A century of white settlement, logging, and cattle grazing on the land we now tend has resulted in a wetland dominated by invasive grasses, stands of second-growth conifers, and a west-facing slope clearcut in 2014. Above us lies a commercial tree plantation owned by Rayonier, a timber company which exploits 2.7 million acres. [...]

Gardening here is an experience of contradictory timescales. On the one hand, the disintegration of the American empire, strained food systems, and accelerating climate change create a visceral urgency to grow food and unlearn dependencies on ecological and cultural devastation. On the other hand, we are engaged in a long, slow project of gardening this place.

It takes time to know the soil, to orient toward the long-term viability of plant, nonhuman animal, fungal, microbial, mineral, and human life.

We could grow more food, faster, if we indiscriminately cleared and tilled the land. Instead, we are urgently insisting on our relational techniques: facilitating decay, storing rain, plucking slugs off cotyledons. We strive not to force the land to be what it isn’t. We are urgently trying to feed future people, cultivating what we call, citing James C. Scott, “fugitive biodiversity.”

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Our efforts take place in a sloping clearcut -- the sunniest spot on the land, damaged by logging. As beneficiaries of extractive colonialism, the least we can do is attempt repair. Slopes are difficult to farm; standard practices lead to rapid topsoil loss, erosion, and water runoff. Our guiding principles are to instead build soil and retain water. Growing food is secondary, in the short-term sense, but primary in the longer [...]. We clear terraces on contour, planting them with trees and shrubs that build soil, retain moisture, and add leaf-litter and shade. By hand-clearing, we can remove invasive blackberries, but preserve the still-present native plants. The red huckleberry, mahonia, and nettles that grow here are as much a part of our present and future food system as the apples, hazelnuts, and serviceberries that we introduce.

Terracing with our footsteps reminds us that the trees are terracing with their roots, shifting our ontology of land.

Being in good relation to this place requires observation and commitment. This spot, where stumps left by logging have slowly decomposed, is rich and moist with humus; this other spot, compacted by logging trucks, is anaerobic clay.

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Growing food in this way is aspirational and experimental. Ironically, the slowness of our future subsistence tethers us more to the present capitalist food system. We feel the pinch of inflation as we are forced to purchase what we cannot produce, while our earliest crops won’t bear for years. It is disorienting and contradictory [...]. Perhaps our best intentions of undoing the culture we live in will wither through the contradictions of ownership; perhaps the hazelnut trees will die, or the winters will be too warm for the apples to fruit. In our best dreams this land becomes a vibrant food forest, its bounty accessible through knowledge, entanglement, and responsibility, unmarketable but nourishing, rooted in sharing. If we fail, we hope that our trees, the soil sponge and leaf litter, the flowering currant and the huckleberries, will contribute their nutrients, their energy, and their slow decay to the ongoing subsistence and metabolism of this place.

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Text by: Anonymous Gardeners in the Olympic Mountains. In a compilation of stories contributed by authors listed as: Anonymous farming collectives. In: “Planting and Becoming”. e-flux journal #128. June 2022.

[yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere]

Representation matters!-in YA novels/books

-i am, obviously, not able to type ALL here, but the ones i know and love dearly+the ones I think are most important for the readers♥- I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS WHEN NEEDED♥) +obvi not in any important-order!!

-BUT FIRST BOOKS THAT HELP FIGHT RACISM/EDUCATE/INFORM ABOUT BLACK LIVES:

-White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

-Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

-The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

-The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

-The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

(thank you for this list Dakota Johnson!)

+

-The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

-Becoming by Michelle Obama

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE/CRISIS list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=climate-crisis

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT AIDS/HIV list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv

1. BISEXUAL-BI-REPRESENTATION (as a bi person myself I still think this should be represented more in media everywhere)

-bi boys: Isaac Sullivan (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End), Nathan Allan (I Wish You All The Best), Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Nick Nelson (Heartstopper), Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue), Kit Fairfield (The Pairing), Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno), Jonah Collins & Dylan Ramirez (They Hate Each Other), Ash Ashton Taylor (The Law of Inertia), Will Tavares (Only Mostly Devastated), Enrique “Quique” Luna (This Is Why They Hate Us), Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle Series), Will Solace (Percy Jackson Series), Andy Fleming (We Could Be So Good), Seth (Coffee Boy), Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics), Mason Kane (The Dark We Know),

-bi girls: Violet Saunders (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Nina Zenik (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Maribelle Lucero (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Vivi Duarte(TheCruelPrince-The Folk Of The Air), Imogen Scott (Imogen, Obviously), Cleo Ferrara (The Girl Next Door), Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue), Lara (Only Mostly Devastated), Jules Lu (The Charm Offensive), Lea Li Zhang (How to Find a Missing Girl), Sutton Spencer (Those Who Wait), Dayana (London on My Mind), August Landry (One Last Stop), Chloe Green (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Isa Isadora Chang (The Dark We Know),

-bi nonbinary: Theo Flowerday(The Pairing),

BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM: https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well

.https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/ &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#scans &https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co/#about

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q--nIkJu0OS0BgiyZmdKVwOVg1G90SFzWijNDWFTt58/edit#heading=h.wqkaxpi7o5je

https://www.instagram.com/the_bi_library/ & @ the-bi-library here on tumblr!!

1b. ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION

Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tolya Yul-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Tori Spring (Heartstopper),  Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Raphael Santiago (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),

1c. PANSEXUAL-PAN-REPRESENTATION

Parisa (The Charm Offensive), Iris Blackthorn (How to Find a Missing Girl), Diana (London on My Mind),

2. GAY/ LESBIAN REPRESENTATION

-gay: Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse),  Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series),  Griffin Griff Jennings(History Is All You Left Me), Brendan and Winston (Shatter Me Series), Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue), Amir Azadi(How It All Blew Up), Charlie Spring (Heartstopper), Orion Pagan(The First To Die At The End), Valentino Prince (The First To Die At The End),  Clark Huckleton(If I See You Again Tomorrow), Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow),  Baz Pitch-Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch (Simon Snow Trilogy), Reynolds ^ Bartholomew Brimsley (Queen Charlotte), James (The Law of Inertia), Ollie-Oliver (Only Mostly Devastated), Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle Series),  Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson Series), Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper as for now), Nick Russo (We Could Be So Good), Mark Bailey (You Should Be So Lucky), Eddie O’Leary (You Should Be So Lucky), Kaleb (Louder Than Words), Kieran (Coffee Boy), Benjy (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Wes & Isaiah (One Last Stop), Simon Spier ( Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda),  Alec Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),

-lesbian: Arriane Alter (Fallen Series),  Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Nadia Zhabin (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones (Heartstopper), Charlotte Thompson (Those Who Wait), Jane Su (One Last Stop), Georgia (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Morgan Matthews (Some Girls Do),

2b. Non-Binary Representation

-Ben Benjamin De Backer (I Wish You All The Best)

-Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)

-Wyatt Fowler (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Jude Ricci(Okay, Cupid)

-Ash (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

3. TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

- Wyatt Croft (The Witch King)

- Felix Love (Felix Ever After)

- Neil Kearney (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

- Noah Byrd (The Borrow A Boyfriend Club)

-Enzo Truly (Godly Heathens)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Yadriel (Cemetery Boys)

-Huy Trinh(Okay, Cupid)

-Peter Darling/ Peter Pan (Peter Darling)

-Kieran (Coffee Boy)

-Niko (One Last Stop)

-Aaron (Some Girls Do)

-Otto Vandersteen (The Dark We Know)

-Valentina Castillo (Shatter Me Series)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

4. ASTHMA REPRESENTATION

- Arthur Penhaligon (The Keys To The Kingdom Series)

4a. DISABLED CHARACTERS REPRESENTATION (AUTISM/OCD/MORE..)

Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck (Grishaverse-Six Of Crows), Genya Safin & David Kostyk(Grishaverse-Shadow And Bone), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Harper Carlisle (The Devouring Gray,The Deck Of Omens), Griffin (History Is All You Left Me) (OCD),

-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)

also for AUTISM : Jessie (Something More by Jackie Khalilieh), Harriet Manners (Geek Girl),

4b. EPILEPSY in Literature(Thank you for the list The Cameron Boyce Foundation)

-100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

-The Idiot by Dostoevsky

-The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

-Dings by Lance Fogan

-What the Wind Can Tell You by Sarah Marie A.Jette

-Mustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown

-When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

-How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein

-The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle

- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

5. DIABETES REPRESENTATION

- Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts)

6. ADHD REPRESENTATION

- Jesper Fahey (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

- Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue)

- Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)

- Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)

+ How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain-Jessica McCabe

  7. DYSLEXIA/ DYSGRAPHIA REPRESENTATION

- Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

- Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler),

8. BLACK PEOPLE AS THE LEAD REPRESENTATION

-The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas

-Pride- Ibi Zoboi

-Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow)

-Jesper Fahey(Grishaverse-Six Of Crows)

-Memphis Campbell(The Diviners Series)

-Jordyn Jones (Louder Than Words)

-Smith Parker (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)

8b. LATINX MAIN CHARACTERS-REPRESENTATION

Jude & Taryn Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series starting with The Cruel Prince),

Alex Claremont-Diaz  & June Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),

Lila Reyes ( A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow ),

Infinity Son-Infinity Cycle Series, (many!)

This Is Why They Hate Us, 

The First to Die at the End,

Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End), 

Cemetery Boys

9. THE PROTAGONIST WEARING GLASSES REPRESENTATION

-David Kostyk (Shadow And Bone/Grishaverse)

-Emma Morley (One Day)

-Lewis Barnavelt (Lewis Barnavelt Series)

-Harry Potter (Harry Potter Series)

-Mateo Torrez (They Both Die At The End)

-Elle Argent (Heartstopper)

-Dev Deshpande (The Charm Offensive)

-Mark Bailey (You Should Be  So Lucky)

-August Landry (One Last Stop),

-Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),

10. MUSLIM REPRESENTATION

-A Very Large Expanse Of Sea/AVLEOS-Tahereh Mafi

-An Emotion Of Great Delight/AEOGD-Tahereh Mafi

-All My Rage-Sabaa Tahir

-An Ember In The Ashes Series-Sabaa Tahir

-How It All Blew Up-Arvin Ahmadi

-Other Words for Home-Jasmine Warga

-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga

11. NARCISSISTIC/ABUSIVE PARENT REPRESENTATION

-Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series)

-Adam Kent (Shatter Me Series)

-Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

-Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)

-Evie O’Neill (The Diviners Series)

-Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series),

-Maxon Schreave (The Selection Series)

-Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk Of The Air Series)

-Jude Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series)

-Sydney Sage (VA-Bloodlines)

-Adrian Ivashkov (Va-Bloodlines)

-Prince Kamran of Ardunia (This Woven Kingdom Series)

-James & Lydia Beaufort (Maxton Hall Trilogy, Save Me Series)

-Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno),

-Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics),

+The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke

+The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

12. VEGAN REPRESENTATION

-Luce Lucinda Price (Fallen Series)

-Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)

-Bea (The Law of Inertia),

13. JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Sam Lloyd/Sergei Lubovitch (The Diviners Series)

-Mabel Rose (The Diviners Series)

-Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue),

-Just One Day-Year-Night series by Gayle Forman

14. ASIAN PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-James (The Law of Inertia),

-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata

-Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

15. LOSS/ GRIEF REPRESENTATION

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-History Is All You Left Me + Infinity Cycle Series-Adam Silvera

-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-The Pairing- Casey McQuiston

-The Shadow Of The Wind- C R Zafón

-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera

-This Woven Kingdom Series- Tahereh Mafi

-One Day-David Nicholls

-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer

-Airman-Eoin Colfer

-Fallen Series-Lauren Kate

-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery

-Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno-Marie Lu

-London on My Mind-Clara Alves

-You Should Be  So Lucky-Cat Sebastian

-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata

-As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow-Zoulfa Katouh

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

-The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud-Ben Sherwood

15b. BAD MENTAL HEALTH/ DEPRESSION/ SUICIDAL THOUGHTS/SELF-HARM

-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-History Is All You Left Me-Adam Silvera

-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera

-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera

-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-One Day- David Nicholls

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead

-Unforgiven-Lauren Kate(From Fallen Series) WHOLE Fallen Series actually!

-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi

-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga

-The Law of Inertia-Sophie Gonzales

-Verona Comics-Jennifer Dugan

-Anne Of Green Gables Series-L M Montgomery

-Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

16. WRITERS/AUTHORS REPRESENTATION

-Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

-Daniel Sempere (The Shadow Of The Wind-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Julian Carax (The Shadow Of The Wind)

-Emma Morley (One Day)

-David Martin (The Angel’s Game-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Memphis Campbell (The Diviners Series)

-Orion Pagan (The First To Die At The End)

-Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue)

17. FRIENDSHIP/ FOUND-FAMILY REPRESENTATION

-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-The Folk Of The Air Series-Holly Black

-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera

-GRISHAVERSE-Leigh Bardugo

-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer

-Airman-Eoin Colfer

-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead

-Fallen Series- Lauren Kate

-The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke

-The Keys To The Kingdom Series-Garth Nix

-The Supernaturalist-Eoin Colfer

-One Last Stop- Casey McQuiston

-I Kissed Shara Wheeler- Casey McQuiston

-I Wish You All The Best-Mason Deaver

-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery

-The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton

-Just One Day & Year & Night-Gayle Forman

-The Midnight Palace- C. R. Zafón

-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee

[narrativedisorder]

the only reason climate change is a "wicked" problem is because of the constraint we have put on the solution: that it not require us (the relatively wealthy of the world) to change our lives in any significant way.

That is why we keep getting stories about plastic-eating bacteria and carbon capture and planting a billion trees, anything that will take care of it at let the rest of us continue as we are. Not that we shouldn't be doing those things; at this point, we'll need them anyway. But we KNOW how to stop, or slow climate change. We just don't want to. and by "we", yes I mostly mean the very rich, corporations, major industry. But we are all complicit and over-comfortable. That's why we create and cling to those technology myths. (See: Peeters, Paul; James Higham; Diana Kutzner, Scott Cohen; Stefan Gössling; "Are technology myths stalling aviation climate policy?", Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 44, 2016, Pages 30-42).

The problem we need to solve isn't "How do we slow/eventually stop climate change?" It's "How do we support vulnerable people through the drastic societal changes that will slow our environmental damage to reasonable levels?"

It's not even a $ issue, given how absurdly wealthy the major offenders are. But I'll admit it's a fairly wicked set of problems to figure out, e.g., how to make it possible for people to live where there is literally nothing non-residential in walking distance without a car. Would it make sense to requisition a house every couple of blocks and turn it into a grocery store/low-key restaurant/community kitchen? set up bike relays for the people who don't qualify for emergency vehicle use?

Or, to take another: restructuring global trade so that vital non-local goods, like medicines and medical technologies, get through under the new far more restricted means of transport, while things like plastic garfield phones do not. this is how we have squandered our times of plenty.

In any case, there is plenty of money, these problems are solvable, if interesting (and certainly not cookie-cutter, will need strong local leadership). There is no impossibility here but those we have made for ourselves.

Of course, the problem we've ended up needing to solve instead is: how do we make this happen against the selfish interests of the rich and powerful in a society where we value wealth, power, and individual incentives over health, creativity, and planetary well-being?

(reposting a twitter thread from a year ago)

[thejusticewarrior]

The Book Club - Non-Fiction

The Non-Fiction Book Club TBR list:

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

21 Lessons For The 21st Century by Yuval Noah Haran

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly

Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Between The World And Me by Ta-Neisi Coates

Beyond The Pill by Jolene Brighten

Boundaries In Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

Calm The F**k Down by Sarah Knight

Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Confessions Of A Political Hitman by Stephen Marks

Confessions Of A Sex Kitten by Eartha Kitt

Declutter Your Mind by S.J. Scott & Barrie Davenport

Decoded by Jay-Z

Devil In The Grove by Gilbert King

Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh

Feminists Don't Wear Pink And Other Lies by Scarlett Curtis

first, we make the beast beautiful by Sarah Wilson

Girl, was your face by Rachel Hollis

Heal Thyself For Health And Longevity by Queen Afua

Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Haran

Hormonal by Martie Haselton

Hormonal by Eleanor Morgan

How The Pill Changes Everything by Sarah E. Hill

How To Be Single And Happy by Jennifer L. Taitz

How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Maybe It's You by Lauren Handel Zander

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray

Milk And Honey by Rupi Kaur

Misjustice: How British Law Is Failing Women by Helena Kennedy

Moody: A 21st Century Hormone Guide by Amy Thomson

Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire by Akala

Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization by Anthony T. Browder

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

Red Notice by Bill Browder

Sacred Woman by Queen Afua

Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Haran

Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James

Sweetening The Pill by Holly Grigg-Spall

The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Art Of Happiness by The Dalai Llama

The Art Of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Chimp Paradox by Prof. Steve Peters

The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Little Book Of Hygge by Meik Wiking

The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker

The Miracle Of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Thinking, Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman

This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

Vilnius: City Of Strangers by Laimonas Briedis

When We Ruled by Robin Walker

White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Womancode by Alisa Vitti

Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Women, Race And Class by Angela Y. Davis

A Massacre In Mexico by Anabel Hernandez

Putin's People by Catherine Belton

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla et al.

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullon & Asha Bandele

It's Not About The Burqa by Mariam Khan

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Blueprint For Revolution by Srdja Popovic

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

Fake Law: The Truth Abiut Justice In An Age Of Lies by The Secret Barrister

The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees Of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas

Underground by Haruki Murakami

The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

Pharma by Gerald Posner

The Truth About The Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.

Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels

Blood Feud by Kathleen Sharp

The Future We Choose by Christiana Gigueres & Tom Rivett Carnac

There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault

Discipline And Punish by Michel Foucault

Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

If They Come In The Morning by Angela Y. Davis

Tiny, Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing The Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride

[wipbigbang]

Welcome to round three of art claims for WIPBB! We have 58 fics left for claiming, and you may claim up to four fics this round.

UPDATED CLAIMS LIST | CLAIM FORM FOR ROUND 3

Star Trek AOS #095 Title: Discovered Truths (subject to change) Pairing/Characters Eventual James T Kirk/Spock, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Nyota Uhura, Original Characters Rating: Mature Warnings/Tags: Graphic violence, alternate universe, horror, blood, gore, medical experimentation, forced solitude Summary In an alternate universe where first contact of Vulcans with the humans of Earth resulted in a massacre, Starfleet drafts Federation Citizens to fight in their galactic war. Some people, like James Kirk, have long suspected things are not what they seem when it comes to Starfleet. But it isn’t until he’s sent to Mars and uncovers a secret testing facility that he learns the full truth of what’s been hidden around them all along. [A Starfleet AU where Jim was drafted into Starfleet and years later works helping those affected by the war. Story opens with him and McCoy being put onto a new assignment at a Starfleet Martian base, but there’s a secret facility within it that is performing invasive and horrible tests on captured Vulcans. Spock is one of them. Inspired by Au/Ra’s music video for their song “Panic Room” which was also reworked for the story and serves as the first meeting between Jim and Spock. Eventually, the political climate changes and Jim breaks Spock and the others out of the facility, bringing them to safety.] Star Trek AOS/BBC Sherlock #098 Title: To Fight For The One You Love Pairing/Characters Khan Noonien Singh | John Harrison/Molly Hooper Rating: Mature Warnings/Tags: Potential violence in later chapters Summary Something is peculiar about his flatmate, Molly Hooper. In a new world where nearly everyone has a superhuman ability of some sort, Molly seems...different. And she arrives home early in the morning all beat up to Hell. What is she doing? Khan is determined to find out.