Development and governance
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Sam retweeted
Solar will win
Good morning with good news: New solar is cheaper than running existing coal at nearly all US coal plants, even assuming solar is built near each coal plant. Median cost of new solar is $24/MWh, while median marginal cost of coal is $36/MWh.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/01/…
Sam retweeted
This picture might not look like much, but it represents a new answer to the question, ‘how can I do the most good?’
It's taken over 3 years and 10,000 hours of research to get here.
What am I talking about?🧵to explain.
Please read, then AMA about this research!
Sam retweeted
I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
Sam retweeted
New ep! w/ @a_vansi
The ideology of constant growth destroys the ecological foundations of life, produces alienating ways of living and working, gives rise to undemocratic productive forces, and mismeasures our lives, standing in the way of well-being and equality of all
RT @[email protected]
I see quite a lot of #Science posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' #TwitterMigration over on here.
Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's (1/2)
mine:
mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss
Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
mstdn.social/tags/Science.rs…
Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.
mstdn.social/@rysiek/1092888… (2/2)
Sam retweeted
So what is the evidence that persistent single-digit inflation, even in the 5-9% range, is damaging to the real economy, if it is accommodated? Or is the argument that inflation is never stable in that range? What is the evidence for the latter?
Marshmallow anyone? Eurasian jays shun reward for tastier delayed treat, study finds | Birds | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…
Here are the best Mastodon apps to download for Android (via @Pocket)
9to5google.com/2022/11/03/be…
@cblatts @bill_easterly @owenbarder there was this interesting community of development bloggers. The comments were real, but respectful debate, mostly. This became more a townsquare with google reader.
Sam retweeted
🚴🛵🛴 vs. 🚗
People are increasingly adopting more sustainable commuting methods across the globe.
Discover why micromobility is here to stay and which countries are getting on board :
Sam retweeted
I had enough of the unjustified claims about SoupGate so I wrote a blog post about the empirical evidence behind radical tactics. To summarise: Little evidence that these actions are OVERALL harmful for the climate movement - and they could help too 🧵
jamesozden.substack.com/p/wh…