Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of forest into “food and energy estates,” a move that coul...

Indonesia biofuels program targets 5.7 million acres of protected forests
Absolutely criminal - these wonderful animals will be left homeless, without food, with no future other than a miserable death
This is what bio fuels fanatics call green
news.mongabay.com/2025/02/indo...

COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

Finding the limits of “invention is the mother of necessity”

Something similar happened across the street from our condo townhouse in Haslett, Michigan in June 1997. There wasn’t much room on the lawn in front of the townhouses across the way - plus some large trees to watch out for. Amazing precision and big surprise.

Not to mention the externalities of harvesting & burning wood for energy.

Have there not also been earlier studies that also revealed the fundamental flaws in the BECCS concept? Hard to believe it still needs debunking, but if so, glad to see this latest work.

Only seen 2 of them here. One twice - the second time, its driver missed their left turn, improvising a U-turn across two opposing lanes to cut off someone making a normal left

The other backed in diagonally in a parking space at Costco - driver skill or attitude? Or it’s hard to park in reverse?

Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Insisting Upon Itself Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the community solar movement continues to grow in the US.

Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Growing Despite Tide Of Negative Federal Policy

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/18/l...

Meaning a majority, not a plurality.

Maybe this is too subtle, but you could include the degrees you do have in your sig. No PhD would omit that by mistake.

Also, if they ask for a bio, similar approach. In your letter, could say something like “Bio attached (NB- I do not hold a doctorate)”

High Gas Prices Are Boosting EV Sales Around The World. Will The U.S. Be Left Out? EV sales are going through the roof in Europe and Asia, driven by high gas prices. America's EV market is on shakier ground.

America's epic EV pullback may have left the country’s EV industry on the back foot at precisely the wrong time.

The energy version of “back to normal”?

And love. And justice. And love for all of the above.

This is indeed a significant process, especially in the increase of cleaner (“captured”) energy, solar & wind.

Bioenergy, which is included under the heading “renewables,” works on the same principle as fossil fuel - burning or combustion - so might usefully be separated out in analyses.

Could solar energy in the Sahara power a transformation of the Sahara itself?

No thank you to humanized robots: attitudes to care robots in elder care services The growing older population will increase the demands on the health and welfare systems, including elder care services. One way of meeting these growing service needs is to shift from traditional ...

And maybe not even that...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why do so many robot designers insist on bipedal locomotion? Wouldn’t there be more efficient and less error-prone designs for these machines to get around?

The Resistance of a Cow Podcast Episode · Radiolab · April 17 · 51m

Interesting exploration on @radiolab of dairy cow behavior and stray electricity
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Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The population dynamics of units of currency in extremely high numbers are entirely different than those of units of currency in small or middling amounts.

India hits 150 GW solar milestone The country added around 44.6 GW of new PV capacity in fiscal year 2026, according to new figures released by JMK Research.

With 150GW solar, India achieved its target of having 50% of its total installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources in June 2025, reaching this milestone 5 years ahead of its original 2030 deadline set under the Paris Agreement www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/i...

But a big asterisk in the form of bioenergy. The category “renewable energy” is problematically heterogeneous.

A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Is Coming into View Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the worl...

Sea level rise much worse than expected
Data from tidal gauges shows that actual sea levels worldwide are on average 9.4 to 10.6 inches higher than predicted by models
Tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation

e360.yale.edu/features/sea...

Yin yang diagram with "work" and "leisure"

If AI reduces time spent working on jobs, that frees up time not only for leisure, but for working on personal & community projects, citizen science, etc. - service broadly speaking

Work is more than employment & people are not given to idleness

In this sense, how do work & leisure fit together?

What would be the most effective antidotes / “vaccinations”? Education, exchanges, immigration, transnational associations, …?

Do very large countries tend towards insularity of mindset?

7.3% burned fuels

The science on biomass burning is clear: "biomass from forests cannot be regarded as carbon neutral".

The scientific community is expressing concern that carbon emissions released from burning biomass are being ignored because of an accounting loophole. #ForestsAreNotFuel

scienceonbiomass.org

Just say no to war crimes.

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org