catrionagold , to AcademicChatter group
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An academic/activist crowdsourcing request:

Who is critically researching, writing or doing cool activism on the environmental impacts of AI?

I’m particularly interested in finding UK-based folks, but all recommendations are appreciated 💕 🙏

@academicchatter

be4foss , to KDE
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MacBook Air owner?

2018/2019 models are losing support.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-case-for-and-against-macos-15-sequoia-being-the-final-release-for-intel-macs/

with / to keep your device in use! These machines will run beautifully for many years to come.

Not only wallet friendly, keeps CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. Ca. 75% of Apple's emissions comes from production alone (details in alt text).

Sustainable, independent : Better for users, best for the .

@kde

Title: "The most environmentally-friendly device is the one you already own." The image shows a pie chart with Apple Corporation's CO2 emissions. In the center are the total emissions from 2018: "25.2 million metric tons of CO2". The pie chart illustrates the following (from lowest emissions to highest): - End of life treatment accounts for less than 1% of emissions - Corporate facilities account for 2% of emissions - Product transport accounts for 5% of emissions - Usage accounts for 19% of emissions - Production accounts for 74% of emissions The original report from Apple is: "Environmental Responsibility Report: 2019 Progress Report, covering fiscal year 2018": https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Responsibility_Report_2019.pdf. The full KDE Eco leaflet from which the image was taken is available at: https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco/opt-green/-/blob/master/materials/leaflets/kde-eco-umweltfestival-flyer-EN-8.jpg
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    🇳🇴 Inside the Extreme Plan to Refreeze the Arctic | WSJ Future of Everything

    “A method normally used to create ice-skating rinks is now coming to the rescue of melting sea ice in the Arctic. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic sea ice has shrunk by around 13% per decade. Could making more ice be a potential solution to this issue?”

    length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebVUj2lh9U

    @science @climatechange @environment

    faab64 , to palestine group

    Israeli media reports that 32 fire units have been working to extinguish the flames in northern , but are hampered by poor weather and the sheer size of the .

    Videos available on telegram: t.me/newsvideofa/2462

    @palestine @israel

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    Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration by Laura J. Martin, 2022

    An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of ecological restoration.

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    Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats. But restoration has not always been so intensively practiced. It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts. Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism since the beginning of the twentieth century. Diverging from popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and conservation, the managed use of natural resources, restoration emerged as a “third way.” Restorationists grappled with the deepest puzzles of human care for life on earth: How to intervene in nature for nature’s own sake? What are the natural baselines that humans should aim to restore? Is it possible to design nature without destroying wildness? Laura J. Martin shows how, over time, amateur and professional ecologists, interest groups, and government agencies coalesced around a mode of environmental management that sought to respect the world-making, and even the decision-making, of other species. In Wild by Design, restoration’s past provides vital knowledge for climate change policy. But Martin also offers something more―a meditation on what it means to be wild and a call for ecological restoration that is socially just.
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    Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

    Get behind the community that is really fighting to curb climate change:

    https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

    @kde

    Poster announcing KDE Eco's monthly meetings, in which like-minded people, like yourself, get together to work on reducing computing's impact on the climate.

    Screenshot of a headline of the Verge. A photo shows Satya Nadella talking about Copilot at some bullshit Microsoft event and the headline itself reads: "Microsoft’s Al obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions" The introductory paragraph reads: "After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI."
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    2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

    “Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

    This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”

    https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html

    @climatechange @geography

    attribution: Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summer_thermometer.jpg

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    2023 was the northern hemisphere’s hottest summer in 2,000 years

    “Looking back at the past 2,000 years, the team searched for the warmest summers on record to see how they compared to 2023. They found that the hottest June to August in the pre-industrial era was in 246 CE when temperatures were around 0.88⁰C above average.

    This record stood for over 1,000 years, before being broken repeatedly since the late 1990s.”

    https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/may/2023-northern-hemisphere-hottest-summer-2000-years.html

    @climatechange @geography

    attribution: Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Summer_thermometer.jpg

    livus , to Asklemmy in What some Lemmy communities that are dead or very low number of new posts that you would like to get more active?

    Hey, neat! Thank you! It's an "imagination engine" - the original mod @Arotrios kbin.social wrote a detailed description here.

    I never really fully got my head around it but it seems to be a combination of art, poetry, music, cinema, mythology, etc and a lot of the posts in it bounce off other posts in it.

    I don't think Lemmy uses hashtags but it still gives you an idea:

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    What happens when the permafrost thaws? | The Royal Society

    "Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change."

    length: 8 minutes 14 seconds

    https://youtu.be/SUxsAZKx-94

    @science @climatechange

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