Aaron Bugaj
Growing Crops Under Solar Panels? Now There’s a Bright Idea
"It’s a new scientific (and literal) field known as agrivoltaics—agriculture plus photovoltaics—and it’s not as counterintuitive as it might seem." … more »
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Pew Research Center
Most Americans want major overhauls to the US economy, political system, and healthcare
"The findings [by a study by the Pew Research Center] show Americans are generally more dissatisfied than residents of other advanced economies. Eighty-five percent of surveyed adults said they want an overhaul of the country's political systems, while 66% said they want major changes to the US economy." … more »
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Rogena Walden
People Aren’t Evolved Enough to Talk This Much
"A lot is wrong with the internet, but much of it boils down to this one problem: We are all constantly talking to one another. Take that in every sense. Before online tools, we talked less frequently, and with fewer people." Most people are just not good at it or totally overwhelmed by it to the point of distraction and nonsense. … more »
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Stop Shopping
"Shopping has been marketed as a civic responsibility in America for more than a century. According to Tim Kasser, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Knox College who has spent decades studying materialism, the word citizen has slowly come to be replaced by the word consumer in newspapers and books. " … more »
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Rezilient
The latest thing in doctors’ offices: shipping containers in parking lots
"eef started out managing parking lots, but its business is now centered on turning its vast number of concrete pads into real estate opportunities. It’s using its footprint to support a booming ghost kitchen business, mini-warehouses for last-mile delivery, and vertical farms." … more »
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BIG and Bucharest Studio
Billionaire ex-Walmart exec and his planned $400 billion new city, 'Telosa'
"Former Walmart exec Marc Lore wants to build a futuristic utopia called Telosa. Telosa will be built on the concept of "equitism," a mash-up of equality and capitalism. There will be an application for the first 50,000 Telosa "settlers," who could move in by 2030." … more »
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Wolfram Schroll
Electric vehicle battery packs are poised to be one of the biggest polluters
"Although EVs do not release carbon dioxide during their use, their production exerts the same toll on the environment as that of conventional cars. But Lithium-ion batteries are bulkier and take more space than their traditional counterpart, lead-acid batteries, and can explode if not dismantled properly." … more »
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Zillow
Zillow Pauses Homebuying after buying and flipping 3800 homes in three months
You're not just competing against other "regular" home buyers in the market. You're competing, mostly, with mega-corporate "house flippers" like Zillow. … more »
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ITU News
The ‘mountain’ of electronics we discard in 2021 could weigh more than the Great Wall of China
"hen it comes to consumer electronics, their increasingly shortened lifecycles and our limited repair options are leaving a big, very literal mark: Nearly 63 million tons just in 2021 alone." … more »
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The Guardian
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side
"One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens’ movements demanding action." … more »