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Why Are Some Cities ATTRACTING Storms While Others REPEL Them?

Absolutely essential thing for planners and engineers to know about cities and extremes. Spread the word

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on November 15, 2024

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research – relation between Climate Change and Art practice

Academia’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research, believing in the power of science as a transformative lever for technological progress. I am using it quite often to find [and read papers and books about the relation between Climate Change and Art practice. The following are just the five latest examples. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on November 11, 2024

Architecture Climate Change and Society

Call for Course Proposals Submission Deadline: November 20, 2024 Education in architecture and urbanism is well positioned creatively and critically to address the exigencies of climate change. However, pedagogical methods that prioritize immediate applicability, often with a technological emphasis, can come at the expense of teaching and research that explore the sociocultural and geopolitical dimensions […]

Posted by Ivan Martinovic on November 6, 2024

Greenhouse gas concentrations surge again to new record in 2023

Greenhouse gas levels surged to a new record in 2023, committing the planet to rising temperatures for many years to come, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Carbon dioxide (CO2) is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than any time experienced during human existence, rising by more than 10% in just two […]

Posted by Ivan Martinovic on October 29, 2024

Seed Sovereignty and Indigenous Resilience

The films in Seed Songs for Palestine engage themes of seed sovereignty and Indigenous resilience, highlighting the intrinsic connections between land, culture, and self-determination. Delving into the symbolic and practical importance of seeds, plant life, and relations with land as forms of resistance and continuity for Indigenous communities, the films interrogate the dynamics of freedom […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on October 25, 2024

How Mainstream Climate Science Endorsed The Fantasy Of A Global Warming Time Machine

When the Paris agreement on climate change was gavelled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of things: a political victory for climate activists and delegates from the poorest regions of the world that, due to colonization by today’s wealthy nations, have contributed little to the climate crisis — but stand […]

Posted by Elaine Bradbee on October 15, 2024

How climate change is ‘supercharging’ extreme weather trends

“These billion-dollar disasters used to happen once every three months back in the 1980s. Over the last decade they’ve happened closer to every three weeks,” says Adam Smith, an applied climatologist at NOAA. “Climate change is certainly supercharging many of these trends.” Spread the word

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on October 10, 2024

Along Ecological Lines

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on October 8, 2024