Category: sustainability
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Air Renaissance: LPG Stoves, A New Dawn for Public Health and Pollution Mastery
Indoor Air Pollution: How bad is it really? When was the last time you cooked something that filled your entire kitchen with smoke? You had to open the windows, call the alarm company, and confirm that no, you hadn’t burnt dinner. Well…maybe. Of course, this is a disaster. Yet the even larger disaster is that…
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Urban Farming + Architecture: Outgrowing Urban Food Deserts
Agriculture is the basis for modern civilization. It is what once enabled us to settle down into a singular location rather than living as nomads, and what ultimately allowed us to then build larger communities. For the past 12,000 years, it has sowed the seeds of advancement. Now that advancement has led us to urban…
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How To Use Space Tech To Transition To Green Energy
Photo by Coernl on Pixabay Image Source: Unsplash The transition to renewable energy systems has become an imperative in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. Europe has set ambitious targets for renewable energy as part of its commitment to combating climate change and transitioning to a sustainable energy future. The European Green…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Green Transition: To Fossil Fuel Or Not To Fossil Fuel?
“To fossil fuel or not to fossil fuel, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the Earth to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous pollution, Or to take arms against a sea of emissions And, by opposing, end them. To die: to switch; No more; and by a switch to say we end…
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Cyber Rebels Unite: Hacking Inequality To Spark A Digital Revolution
Sofia Perez “We’re all just walking each other home.” -Ram Dass (Scroll to the bottom for a glossary on some of the jargon used in this article) I’ve come to the conclusion that there are two main reactions to words like “cyber”, “quantum”, and “AI”. Either these words make you shut down, overwhelmed by the…
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Time To Bleed The Room: Unlocking the Magic of Saying the Bloody Word
Sofia Perez It’s that time of the month when Auntie Flo comes around and you ride the crimson wave. It’s shark week… but also strawberry week…and also lingonberry week if you’re Swedish. It’s code red! Granny’s stuck in traffic! Les Anglais ont débarqué! If you think I’m describing a doomsday scenario with a side of…
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Not a Witch, Bitch Or Hag: The Art of Dance & Menopause
Sofia Perez “And for her true womanhood arrived here there is no growing old. Age refines and enriches, warms and illuminates, expands and exalts her. She is more and more Woman through it; not less and less. The noble life that has let her hither is her grand cosmetic. Her intellect, loosed from the golden…
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From Cloth To Comfort: A Menstrual Revolution In a Material World
Sofia Perez Contact with it [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, […] hives of bees die. Pliny the elder If you’re one of the lucky ones among us who menstruate- or ever has or will- you should know a decent chunk of the humans that have ever existed would…
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Menstrual Menstralas: Why Art Is The Path Out of Stigma
Sofia Perez if there is a rivermore beautiful than thisbright as the bloodred edge of the moon ifthere is a river more faithful than thisreturning each monthto the same delta if thereis a riverbraver than thiscoming and coming in a surgeof passion, of pain if there isa rivermore ancient than thisdaughter of evemother of cain…