Valentines Day, Rupi Kaur. Surplus energy, the elixir of life. The economy isn’t based on money it’s based on energy. What if surplus energy is on the decline (and it is)

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/247-the-surplus-energy-economy-part-two/

https://apnews.com/article/theft-business-c5d9abbb9ca64c23419951c28380a534

https://ourfiniteworld.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/04/california-bald-eagles-nest-tribal-communities-activists-pacific-gas-electric

Aussie renewable generation hits a mileston. Great video satire on Australian EV policy. Water moving away from melting glaciers changes the Earth’s centre of gravity. Plug and play swappable truck E-batteries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLflYkgnNBY

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-climate-shifted-axis-earth.html

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/196-the-price-of-self-delusion/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90627224/levis-wants-you-to-stop-buying-so-many-jeans

NZ Climate Politics, between the devil and the deep blue overheated sea. From the can you believe it? files, kite-surfing cargo ships Reversible rusting batteries. Socio-fixes are more critical than techno-ones. Being part of the huge A-team for critical social change.

https://www.airseas.com/seawing

https://time.com/6240085/iron-rust-batteries-decarbonize-energy-grid/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1900577117

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.1009234/full

Government must heed the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations – importance of the arts and climate story telling – Joe Biden on Covid could be Biden on Climate – Greening our cities, seeing the wood and the trees https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30307-7/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300205902/how-to-build-a-home-with-the-best-climate-credentials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYpldIadPc

Climate Friendly New Year’s Resolutions – Electrifying everything quiz – How can we do better processing harvested timber? – New York illustrates need to upgrade our existing buildings – Satellites “pass the baton” on measuring sea level rise - Bloomberg interactive historical graph on global warming

https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13021-020-00144-5 - https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-does-your-driving-speed-make-any-difference-to-your-cars-emissions-140246

LESS IS MORE-Is less regulation more sensible for getting wheels turning? less industrial ag, more regenerative ag. Truck isn’t a 4-letter word - less traffic = more livability. A tip top tap tip for tip top taps. less inequality is more important than ever https://pureadvantage.org/campaigns/ourregenerativefuturecampaign/ https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018744950/3mm-anna-mickell-on-building-a-reduced-car-future https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-93194-4

Lockdown issue - If you’ve walked or biked in town in the last month - we’re being more careful with food - how do the Covid crisis and climate crisis compare? - We don’t need the economy to grow, we need it to grow up. Covid-19 and climate the same only different: controlling a runaway existential threat https://drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste - https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062332 - https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/04/26/1141709/a-message-for-the-timid-fearful-and-selfish

Calling out Shaw on his response to Greta Thunberg calling out NZ - Building the right things in the right places like there’s no tomorrow - are we building the right (or wrong) things in the wrong place? - And Tesla goes from strength to strength

https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/ - https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/tesla-shares-hit-record-high-as-it-joins-s-p-500-on-monday-10-facts-to-know-11608348853203.html https://www.resilienz.co.nz/climate-matters

Trees – Urban trees get a hand in Sierra Lerone and a handicap in NZ – “The Age of Wood and village-scale forestry - electricity from wood? Yeah Right! - the Wall of Wood, pests and fires – a billion trees in context

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-small-scale-loggers-can-help-save-africas-tropical-forests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station -

NZ and Aussie, must be climate heroes, not zeroes – Surprising facts on Australasian uptake of Nate Hagens - Striking facts on Light, and heavy electric vehicles – QHP, a timely reset of a Kiwi meme - Improve the chances of a White Christmas: think 'P' for your Yuletide menu! - Aussie leapfrogs NZ in still-pitiful climate commitment

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/19-islands - https://quarterhourparadise.nz/ -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3kjy