#sustainable+development

[reality-detective]

UN & WEF - Sustainable development control plan means.

Corporate control of all Earth’s inventory.

▪️Land

▪️Water

▪️Minerals

▪️Plants

▪️Animals

▪️Construction

▪️Production

▪️Food

▪️Energy

▪️Information

▪️Humans

Corporations & NGO’s supersede you. 🤔

[lily0819]

A big step forward for clean energy in the PA. ACPMember CCRSolar has completed construction of its 24 MW Erie Solar project in Erie, PA. The solar site will generate an estimated $2.4 million in tax revenues for Erie County over its 40-year lifespan. Take a look at this month’s project celebration with senatorlaughlin.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Sustainable Jobs for Autistic People

Autistic Qualia

[reasonsforhope]

"India’s announcement that it aims to reach net zero emissions by 2070 and to meet fifty percent of its electricity requirements from renewable energy sources by 2030 is a hugely significant moment for the global fight against climate change. India is pioneering a new model of economic development that could avoid the carbon-intensive approaches that many countries have pursued in the past – and provide a blueprint for other developing economies.

The scale of transformation in India is stunning. Its economic growth has been among the highest in the world over the past two decades, lifting of millions of people out of poverty. Every year, India adds a city the size of London to its urban population, involving vast construction of new buildings, factories and transportation networks. Coal and oil have so far served as bedrocks of India’s industrial growth and modernisation, giving a rising number of Indian people access to modern energy services. This includes adding new electricity connections for 50 million citizens each year over the past decade. 

The rapid growth in fossil energy consumption has also meant India’s annual CO2 emissions have risen to become the third highest in the world. However, India’s CO2 emissions per person put it near the bottom of the world’s emitters, and they are lower still if you consider historical emissions per person. The same is true of energy consumption: the average household in India consumes a tenth as much electricity as the average household in the United States.  

India’s sheer size and its huge scope for growth means that its energy demand is set to grow by more than that of any other country in the coming decades. In a pathway to net zero emissions by 2070, we estimate that most of the growth in energy demand this decade would already have to be met with low-carbon energy sources. It therefore makes sense that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced more ambitious targets for 2030, including installing 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, reducing the emissions intensity of its economy by 45%, and reducing a billion tonnes of CO2. 

These targets are formidable, but the good news is that the clean energy transition in India is already well underway. It has overachieved its commitment made at COP 21- Paris Summit [a.k.a. 2015, at the same conference that produced the Paris Agreement] by already meeting 40% of its power capacity from non-fossil fuels- almost nine years ahead of its commitment, and the share of solar and wind in India’s energy mix have grown phenomenally. Owing to technological developments, steady policy support, and a vibrant private sector, solar power plants are cheaper to build than coal ones. Renewable electricity is growing at a faster rate in India than any other major economy, with new capacity additions on track to double by 2026...

Subsidies for petrol and diesel were removed in the early 2010s, and subsidies for electric vehicles were introduced in 2019. India’s robust energy efficiency programme has been successful in reducing energy use and emissions from buildings, transport and major industries. Government efforts to provide millions of households with fuel gas for cooking and heating are enabling a steady transition away from the use of traditional biomass such as burning wood. India is also laying the groundwork to scale up important emerging technologies such as hydrogen, battery storage, and low-carbon steel, cement and fertilisers..."

-via IEA (International Energy Agency), January 10, 2022

Note: And since that's a little old, here's an update to show that progress is still going strong:

-via Economic Times: EnergyWorld, March 10, 2023

[thehotpilot]

i can’t wait for another full length bucktommy scenes/conversations!! like the bday party was sickeningly sweet but i can’t wait the see them talk and learn about each other like the first kiss and dinner scenes…so much backstory…so much material to work with..so much personality to develop…so many hurdles to overcome!! (so many more sexual innuendos?)

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Michinooku ~ Hitotsu Hachisu (Michinooku ~ A Single Lotus)

Here we go! Only a few days after the archive release and toumyu's ninth anniversary (congratulations!)

Michioku, or Michihasu, is a myu I have many conflicting feelings about, both positive and negative. However, I do believe that with the right amount of care in the next Mika-related story myu, the negative can still be cleared. Plus, I'm glad about a lot of things being re-established. The writer does need to step up her game a little on the plot-writing side of things, as well as the understanding-and-respecting-past-myu side of things, but as long as she does, this can still be given a proper place within what was already established.

Keep in mind that these are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku and the bluray respectively. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

You can find the subtitles and my TL notes document here!

[askagamedev]

In multiplayer games like Call of Duty and Apex Legends, I see many complaints about SBMM (Skill-Based Matchmaking). The main criticism is that it doesn’t allow strong players to play casually in non-ranked matches because there are already ranked modes for competitive play. However, even in casual modes, SBMM makes them face players of the same skill level, which can be stressful. What’s your opinion on this? How do SBMM algorithms work, and do you think it's reasonable for players colmplainit

Here's the thing - lopsided (blowout) games are a lot more frustrating for the players getting blown out than they are fun for the players winning. They are a net negative experience - there's very little to gain or learn from getting blown out, but a lot of bad vibes that have a significant increase in the number of lesser-skilled players that quit playing the game because they've been blown out repeatedly by higher-skill player groups.

The Call of Duty team actually released a [research white paper] in July of this year about an experiment they ran in Modern Warfare III with a control group and an experimental group with loosened skill-based matchmaking criteria. When they reduced the skill-based matchmaking requirements, 80% of participating players were more likely to quit matches early and 90% of them were statistically less likely to play again. When they ratcheted skill-based matchmaking up so that it played a larger factor in matchmaking, they saw the inverse effect - players quit less and were more likely to play again.

This shouldn't be a huge surprise. While playing against better players usually increases skill level over time, it must be balanced against the frustration of that play experience or players on the losing end won't want to come back for more. From the developer perspective, we want players to keep playing the game so that we can keep paying the bills and making more content. We want the game to be sustainable. Players usually come back for more when they have closer matches.

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[sadclowncentral]

the problem with modern politics from an aesthetic standpoint is that it’s swagless. as a society we went wrong when powerful people started wearing suits and ties in desaturated colours instead of being adorned with pelts, brightly dyed drapes and huge ass spears. and i don’t mean some middle age royalist bullshit bring back the bronze age air of respectability. where are my peltheads at

[appalachianfuturism]

“It is simply impossible to overstate both the importance of the buffalo to the Indian people and the damage that was done when the buffalo were nearly wiped out,” ITBC President Ervin Carlson said in a statement. “By helping tribes reestablish buffalo herds on our reservation lands, the Congress will help us reconnect with a keystone of our historic culture as well as create jobs and an important source of protein that our people truly need.”

[screebyy]

babygirl (affectionate) vs babygirl (derogatory)

[icedbatik]

Two days straight of Penguins social media showing personality!

[khizuo]

you guys are seriously not close to doing anything revolutionary if you can't change your fucking consumption habits lol

[lily0819]

Clean energy is driving a U.S. manufacturing renaissance: 42 new facilities are online & operating & 119 are under development across America. These domestic manufacturing facilities are spurring the creation of 100,000 good-paying American jobs.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Research in degrowth is interested in a “socially sustainable and equitable reduction (and eventually stabilisation) of society's throughput” while ensuring wellbeing. Currently postgrowth/degrowth scenarios, while politically complicated, are humanity’s best bet to avoiding a devastating 1.7 degrees of warming by 2030, as predicted by the latest IPCC report. This is because “degrowth scenarios minimize many key risks for feasibility and sustainability compared to technology-driven pathways, such as the reliance on high energy-GDP decoupling, large-scale carbon dioxide removal and large-scale and high-speed renewable energy transformation”. Importantly, the focus of degrowth lies in limiting the economic expansion of the Global North to give people in the Global South the chance to meet their material needs for wellbeing within the bounds of the planet. Degrowth is thus about reorienting the economy towards societal welfare – this might even entail nominal economic growth in the Global South in the short-term, as material and energy expansion is needed to provide for human needs. However, the key point is limiting economic expansion beyond what is needed for societal welfare to avoid ecological collapse – starting with the affluent North. Degrowth in the Global North is needed most of all for the “buy-in” of the Global South to long-term social-ecological sustainability. Current lifestyles in the Global North are deeply unsustainable and unjust. Replicating the old pattern of industrial development of the Global North in the Global South will place all (both Global North and Global South) outside the safe operating space for humanity with planetary boundaries.

From “Decent work and economic growth” to “Sustainable work and economic degrowth”: a new framework for SDG 8

[officialbruciewayne]

Waynetech promised an electric car by 2023. I put a deposit down.

Where’s my goddamn electric car Bruce??

Don't ask me, tee hee, I'm just a silly Brucie Goosie.

[wuntrum]

yknow, maybe i need to become the gnc butch in tech that i wanna see (date) in the world