Climate Matters

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

Little things – The Little Blue Penguin and energy - coffee and atmospheric sensitivity – E-reefs – Signs of the times – More signs of the times – DoC and small things – Hot Tip: Low Carb presents.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2018864969/what-feathers-can-tell-us-about-the-past-lives-of-seabirds https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00173-5/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audi

Time - A mountain pioneer becomes a climate pioneer - A treaty whose time has come: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty - from the “can you believe it?” files: Climate and real time natural selection - Catching up from falling behind on getting ahead – good news and bad news

https://www.ted.com/talks/tzeporah_berman_the_bad_math_of_the_fossil_fuel_industry https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-climate-question/id1538415261 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475786/waitaki-boys-high-s

Climate Matters, an audio version of Lindsay Woods' Climate Matters newsletter that gives intriguing insights into climate breakdown and climate recovery.