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Energy & Transportation

• Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.
• China powers up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm
• Down Under: World’s ‘largest solar precinct’ approved by Australian government
• Volvo Cars dumps 2030 all-electric target, to ramp up hybrids as it weakens climate goals
• Middle East oil states announce four mammoth solar projects totaling 7.5GW 
• Wind turbine feeds directly into electrolysers in hydrogen first, paving way for off-grid production
• Solar and battery microgrid saves Lord Howe Island $1.5m in diesel fuel costs in two years
• The massive new projects propelling South Australia towards 100 per cent net renewables

Ecological Design

• Understanding Permaculture (Whole System design)
• More Bees, Please! Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities
• Can Zigzag patterns on  walls help cool overheated buildings?

Public Health

• How Lush Hillside Farms Are Protecting Nairobi’s Water Supply
• These vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses
• In 10 seconds, AI model detects cancerous brain tumor often missed during surgery
• How greener schoolyards benefit kids — and the whole community
• World-first lung cancer vaccine trials launched across seven countries
• San Francisco middle school gets free grocery store
• Federal officials are sending millions of dollars to states in an effort to provide better housing options for people with disabilities.
• ALS patient’s voice restored by text-to-speech brain implant.

Info-Comm

• Sora: Game Changer
• Another Giant Leap for Humankind
• Publishers Weekly Editor: The Freedom to Read
• No debt Degrees in Massachussetts?
• UK TV Presenter Vorderman: TV played a role in the riots
• Schools in England now teaching students Critical Thinking and how to spot misinfo.
• Free Software Assn Europe intervenes for free software movement in Apple vs. EU Commission
• The decline and end of cable TV

Understanding Disruption

• During the 2020s, key technologies are converging that will disrupt and transform the fabric of our civilization
• Disruptions that benefit humanity
• How these three disruptions can eliminate more than 90% of Green House Gas Emissions
• Disruptions occur when new ideas, products or services weaken or transform existing industries
• Understanding Moore’s Law
• Disrupting Food and Agriculture
• Disruption: Transportation

A safer Web and Security

• Top Ten EFF Digital Security Resources for People Concerned About the Incoming Trump Administration 
• This Bill Could Put A Stop To Censorship By Lawsuit
• FTC Rightfully Acts Against So-Called “AI Weapon Detection” Company Evolv
• Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive?

Localization

• Energy revolution: A community-based approach to socio-ecological transformation
• Unqueezing the Land
• Putting local foods on local menus
• New report outlines ‘People’s Route to African Food Sovereignty’

Finance and Ecological Economics

• A global public banking ecosystem breakthrough
• Why we need public power and energy democracy for feminist futures
• Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families
• EVONOMICS: One thousand critiques of neoclassical economics are not going to be effective unless the critiques hang together.
• Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid
  

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Food Systems

• Environmental benefits of alternative proteins
• Plant-based foods dominate China’s protein supply
• More ethical, more sustainable and more healthy Swiss chocolate
• Bumper harvests in wheat, corn and soybeans mean food prices are falling.

Materials & Resources

• Overconsumption leads Earth to exceeded 2024 annual ecological limits
• Mine No More
• Busting Waste: These companies on a mission to design out waste
• Big battery connection “squads” to the rescue as NSW scrambles to fill grid reliability gaps
• Will cheaper, more efficient and powerful battery enable a cleaner energy grid?
• Shell: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County

Technological Innovation

• Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
• This app developer is giving displaced young Nigerians an educational lifeline

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Uncovered

• Nature’s Days in Court
• Inside Big Oil’s war against transparency
• Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
• Business Lobby Reached Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks
• Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization’
• Meet Teneo: The Global PR Firm Promoting COP29 Host Azerbaijan as a Climate Champion
• Desmog’s library of public relations firms that continue to push fossil fuel misinformation
• Holding the Advertising and Public Relations Industry Accountable for Greenwash and Climate Misinformation
• Green Queen Guides/Report on The Complete Ultra-Processed Foods and Plant-Based Meat FAQ Guide

Ethical Leadership

• Finally, What took them so long? FTC to ban fake online reviews, inflated social media influence.
• Reports: Benefits of Second Hand Recommerce

• Carnegie Hall Helps Young People of Color Explore the Music Industry
• Descendants of a Brazilian coffee plantation that enslaved people in Brazil have taken over, centuries later.
• John Lewis statue to replace Confederate statue in Georgia
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Smarter Cities

• How Local Governments Can Leverage Smart City Indicators to Enhance Urban Competitiveness
• Report: circular cities key to Europe’s economy, environment
• ‘This is the first one’: Completely free grocery store set to open in the Bayview
• Sacramento plan to transit buildings to electric appliances
• Oakland School District Transitions to 100% Electric Bus Fleet
• Smarter City Transition in action