Environment

John Gibbons Puts The Valencia Floods In Context

#398
John Gibbons wrote an excellent but sobering piece in The Journal about the floods in Valencia, and how political will is what is needed for us to limit the coming damage. "The system that is churning out more and more flying, more SUVs, more throwaway consumerism and ever more meat-rich diets is the very system that is accelerating humanity and much of the natural world towards the climate abyss."
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Life

Cloud-milking

#398
The Life Nieblas project in the Canary Islands uses a plastic mesh to imitate how pine needles trap water, and is used to milk the clouds of fog on the islands for water. The captured water is used to irrigate reforested tree saplings until they are big enough to capture water from the air themselves. The system is also used in Chile to provide drinking water and water for irrigation.
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Innovation

Green FaaS

#395
NTT Data of Japan are working on a Green Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that will allow deployment and provisioning of functional based cloud computing in n environmentally friendly way, to prioritise low power and emissions timeframes, cloud hosting regions, and efficient hardware, while also embedding monitoring and calculation of Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)
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