We've just added a podcast by @riffreporter.bsky.social to the Environment & Society Portal; it discusses linalool extraction from rosewood in the Amazon rainforest.
Listen to it for free: www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/can-fore...
#trees #fragrance #envhum #envhist #gardens #IndigenousPeoples
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
I enjoyed this recent @mattpolprof.bsky.social piece on Habermas, which makes the sympathetic observation that Habermas *wanted* philosophy to be dull and difficult, if by that you mean modest and respectful of the arguments of others www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
Wow.
The Green Party aren't just in second place on 21%.
They are FIVE points ahead of Labour.
The Gorton and Denton by-election is convincing Labour voters the Greens aren't a wasted vote.
And they're just 2 points behind Reform!
"The YouGov weekly voting intention poll puts Reform UK on 23%, down one, Greens on 21%, up four, Labour and the Tories tied on 16, both down two, and the Lib Dems unchanged on 14."
♻️ Today’s highlight is “Recycling Cultures in India: Studying Electronic and Textile #Waste” by Anwesha Borthakur.
#Recyclable waste in India is dealt with in traditional ways and could serve as a model for #sustainable #wastemanagement in the Global North.
👉 springs-rcc.org/recycling-cu...
The Greens polled ahead of Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party, in data that will deepen grumbling about the British prime minister’s leadership.
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM"
"We need a radical reset, fundamental change"
"The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you"
"Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop
Reform UK"
Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV
Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.
"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."
🎁 🐟 On the eleventh day of Fishmas...
Eleven Leafy Seadragons (Phycodurus eques)
I'm soon to embark on preparing a third edition of my Ethics and Public Policy book. If anyone has used it in teaching (or even read any of it) and has suggestions for changes I'd be very interested.
And yes, I do know, that, sadly Obama isn't President of the USA any more.
The revenge of the entitled. From Zack Polanski to Zohran Mamdani, the angry bourgeoisie is in revolt against populism
Entitled to lower bills.
Entitled to a liveable planet.
Entitled to make hope normal again.
Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.
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Ross Barkan writes that Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo and his cutthroat style of politics he tried and failed to bring from Albany to New York City.
Mamdani wins New York as Democratic US electoral sweep deals blow to Trump on.ft.com/4oZ8jLz #FTEdit
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We can't keep up...
Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.
Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
My life changed when I first read "The Sea Around Us." Rachel Carson's words captured my 13-yr old sense of wonder for a place I barely knew but felt for so deeply, the ocean. Honored to speak to her legacy @agu.org and grateful to my colleagues for the nomination 🌊💙
www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
Look at this incredible whale museum that opens in 2027 in northern Norway (north of the Lofoten Islands)
dortemandrup.dk/work/whale
NAVARRO: Are tariffs price hikes or tax cuts? I say they're tax cuts
EISEN: I mean, many economists would say they are tax hikes because ultimately a consumer will pay for some of those increased prices
NAVARRO: Most economists just don't agree with us. Who has credibility here?
Is today the day Putin finally became the US President?
