#eco news

[icarusxxrising]

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.

(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj

This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.

If you don't know where to get started:

If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.

#anarchy #chevron #fuel #oil #news #health #healthcare #cancer #research #anarchism #leftism #anarchist #leftist #communist #socialism #socialist #eco #green #earth

[reasonsforhope]

It’s an open secret in fashion. Unsold inventory goes to the incinerator; excess handbags are slashed so they can’t be resold; perfectly usable products are sent to the landfill to avoid discounts and flash sales. The European Union wants to put an end to these unsustainable practices. On Monday, [December 4, 2023], it banned the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear.

“It is time to end the model of ‘take, make, dispose’ that is so harmful to our planet, our health and our economy,” MEP Alessandra Moretti said in a statement. “Banning the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear will contribute to a shift in the way fast fashion manufacturers produce their goods.”

This comes as part of a broader push to tighten sustainable fashion legislation, with new policies around ecodesign, greenwashing and textile waste phasing in over the next few years. The ban on destroying unsold goods will be among the longer lead times: large businesses have two years to comply, and SMEs have been granted up to six years. It’s not yet clear on whether the ban applies to companies headquartered in the EU, or any that operate there, as well as how this ban might impact regions outside of Europe.

For many, this is a welcome decision that indirectly tackles the controversial topics of overproduction and degrowth. Policymakers may not be directly telling brands to produce less, or placing limits on how many units they can make each year, but they are penalising those overproducing, which is a step in the right direction, says Eco-Age sustainability consultant Philippa Grogan. “This has been a dirty secret of the fashion industry for so long. The ban won’t end overproduction on its own, but hopefully it will compel brands to be better organised, more responsible and less greedy.”

Clarifications to come

There are some kinks to iron out, says Scott Lipinski, CEO of Fashion Council Germany and the European Fashion Alliance (EFA). The EFA is calling on the EU to clarify what it means by both “unsold goods” and “destruction”. Unsold goods, to the EFA, mean they are fit for consumption or sale (excluding counterfeits, samples or prototypes)...

The question of what happens to these unsold goods if they are not destroyed is yet to be answered. “Will they be shipped around the world? Will they be reused as deadstock or shredded and downcycled? Will outlet stores have an abundance of stock to sell?” asks Grogan.

Large companies will also have to disclose how many unsold consumer products they discard each year and why, a rule the EU is hoping will curb overproduction and destruction...

Could this shift supply chains?

For Dio Kurazawa, founder of sustainable fashion consultancy The Bear Scouts, this is an opportunity for brands to increase supply chain agility and wean themselves off the wholesale model so many rely on. “This is the time to get behind innovations like pre-order and on-demand manufacturing,” he says. “It’s a chance for brands to play with AI to understand the future of forecasting. Technology can help brands be more intentional with what they make, so they have less unsold goods in the first place.”

Grogan is equally optimistic about what this could mean for sustainable fashion in general. “It’s great to see that this is more ambitious than the EU’s original proposal and that it specifically calls out textiles. It demonstrates a willingness from policymakers to create a more robust system,” she says. “Banning the destruction of unsold goods might make brands rethink their production models and possibly better forecast their collections.”

One of the outstanding questions is over enforcement. Time and again, brands have used the lack of supply chain transparency in fashion as an excuse for bad behaviour. Part of the challenge with the EU’s new ban will be proving that brands are destroying unsold goods, not to mention how they’re doing it and to what extent, says Kurazawa. “Someone obviously knows what is happening and where, but will the EU?”"

-via British Vogue, December 7, 2023

#fashion #slow fashion #style #european union #eu #eu news #eu politics #sustainability #upcycle #reuse #reduce reuse recycle #ecofriendly #fashion brands #fashion trends #waste #sustainable fashion #sustainable living #eco friendly #good news #hope

[worldsportsboats]

Azimut Seadeck Hybrid

Welcome to the Seadeck, the first series of hybrid motor yachts designed by Azimut. A new line that embodies the ideal of a return to nature, thanks to technological solutions that reduce emissions by up to 40%, and the fun Island, a reinvented aft terrace that “embraces” the sea and defines a new lifestyle paradigm based on well-being. This innovative and holistic concept has been developed in…

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#Azimut seadeck #azimut seadeck 6 #Azimut yachts #Boat News #eco boats #Eco cruiser #Eco Cruising #Eco Motor Cruising #eco news #eco yacht #eco yachts #italian boat builder #Luxury yacht #power cruiser #seadeck 6 #seadeck 7 #seadeck 8 #sports cruiser #Watercraft #Yacht

[emostudent]

no way! this is totally something we have never done before!

imagine

different cultures around the world

using the power of the wind

to move across the ocean!

omg!

it's so innovative you guys!

totally not something we have been doing for thousands of years!

#cnn #never heard of this one before! #twitter #they don't know what to say anymore #environmental impact #environment #naval ships #pirates of the caribbean #they were eco friendly #new! #ecofriendly #alternative dropped! just cosplay a pirate #sailboats

[witchyplantmc]

i tried something new

#i found a new server #farmers market mc #i originally wanted to do eco brutalism but wood was easier to get #solar punk #green architecture #minecraft #mineblr #minecraft house #minecraft build #aesthetic minecraft #minecraft smp #minecraft village #minecraft town #minecraft java #minecraft survival #witchyplant

[intersectionalpraxis]

And the fact that minutes after she posted about her new album, she had 2 million likes already. We already know the power she has. One example is the surge in voter registration among her devout fanbase just a short while ago because of HER encouragement. This is probably the third or fourth time I've spoken about Swift on my page. And apart from wholeheartedly believing celebrity culture needs to be dismantled entirely -billionaires are never ethical, no matter how beloved they are. Like the fact her and her team are going after a 21 year old for exposing her beyond egregious use of her private jet is just wild to me. Swift must be held accountable for things like this. It's ridiculous she's not.

#feminist #social justice #current events #current news #taylor swift #celebrity culture #united states #free palestine #tiktok video #tiktok #eco terrorism #co2 emissions #climate justice #climate action

[wachinyeya]

#good news #nature #science #environmentalism #environment #animals #climate change #conservation #climate legislation #climate law #climate #climateaction #climate activism #global climate change #climate crisis #portuguese #portugal #europe #eco anxiety

[bonefarm]

this website is free

#what can one tractor cost michael? four dollars? #i hear the new kubota comes with a cutting mode #also tractors... famously very eco friendly

[keepingitneutral]

Forest Retreat, Washington Depot, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States,

Scalar Architecture,

All images courtesy of Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

#art #design #architecture #interiors #new england #retreat #cabin #washington depot #lichfield conty #connecticut #millwork #woodwork #eco-friendly #sustainability #sustainable architecture

[hope-for-the-planet]

Examples of positive change are elusive, not because positive change doesn't exist, but because it does not capture our attention and fails to meet media criteria for news

Sarah Jaquette Ray

#quote #inspiration #hope #climate anxiety #eco anxiety #environment #good news

[20ctrl]

i like that

#bandcamp #music #aesthetic #dreamcore #weirdcore #artists on tumblr #2000s #early 2000s #webcore #liminal spaces #frutiger eco #frutiger aero #yabujincore #yabujin #new artist #new album #new music #20ctrl #oddcore #strangecore #softcore #internet core #2000s nostalgia #2000s aesthetic #2000s emo #y2k #00s

[reasonsforhope]

"At HarperCollins, a lot of attention and thought is given to deciding exactly what combinations of margin measurements, font, and layout feel most appropriate for the genre, and writing style.

But in a case of do-your-part environmentalism, designers at the publishing house have now standardized a series of subtle and imperceptible alterations to normal font style, layouts, and ink that have so far removed the need for 245 million book pages, totaling 5,618 trees.

Telling the story in Fast Company, representatives from HarperCollins, one of the four largest publishing houses in the world, explained that the idea first arose in Zondervan Bibles, HarperCollins’ Christian publishing division. Being that the Bible is 2,500 pages or sometimes more, saving ink and pages was not just an environmental consideration, but one of production costs.

A new typeface called NIV Comfort Print allowed Zondervan to shave 350 pages off of every Bible, which by 2017 had amounted to 100 million pages, and which, as Fast Company points out, would be four times higher than the Empire State Building if stacked.

The production and design teams then wondered how much they could save if they applied the same concepts to other genres like romance and fiction. Aside from the invention of the eBook, publishing hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years, and the challenge was a totally novel one for the teams—to alter all their preconceived ideas and try and find a font and typeface that resulted in fewer pages without being harder to read.

They eventually standardized 14 different combinations their tests determined were the most environmentally friendly, and which delivered an unchanged reading experience.

But the challenge didn’t stop there. Printed books, one might not know, are printed in large sheets which are then folded into sections of sixteen pages, meaning that Leah Carlson-Stanisic, associate director of design at HarperCollins, has to calculate the savings of space, words, and ultimately pages with the help of her team to fall in multiples of sixteen.

Nevertheless, they have been successful with it so far, and in the recent print run of one popular book, 1 million pages (or a number near 1 million that coincides with the 16 times tables) were saved.

“We want to make sure our big titles, by prominent authors, are using these eco-fonts,” Carlson-Stanisic said. “It adds up a little bit at a time, saving more and more trees.”"

-via Good News Network, April 4, 2024

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Note: Great! Waiting to see this on the rest of their books and at the other big publishers!

Actually, though, it's worth noting that this may not come quickly to the other large publishers, because Harper Collins almost certainly owns that font - meaning that other publishers would have to pay HarperCollins in order to use it, on an ongoing basis.

More on publishing shit and more realistic solutions here below the cut!

What I'm hoping for and think is more likely is that this will inspire the development of open source eco-friendly fonts, which would be free for anyone to use. That would make it far more likely other publishers would adopt eco-friendly fonts.

I'm also hoping it would inspire other publishers to create similar eco-friendly fonts of their own.

Ideally, there would be a whole new landscape of (hopefully mostly open source) eco-friendly fonts. And/or to see calculations of the eco-friendliness of popular existing fonts, compared to each other.

If we could have a publicly accessible list of calculations for different fonts, including fonts designed to maximize eco-friendliness, I really do think that it would affect which fonts publishers choose to use. Here's why:

Most people in publishing are on the left (notoriously, actually) and really do care about the environment

People in publishing are plenty aware of these issues re: paper and trees, I promise

Shorter books means smaller production costs - and possibly smaller shipping costs as well, over time! So it would save them money too.

Eco-friendly fonts could also be combined with other measures for greater effect, such as bamboo paper (already in use for a lot of projects where page color/quality is more flexible) and thinner paper (aka paper with a lower weight) that uses less trees.

Don't expect books to all move to just one or two different fonts, though. Publishers and typesetters and font designers will innovate to create more options instead, though it will take longer. This is because different books really do use different fonts for various different reasons - one new font to rule them all isn't really a solution here.

"Every book is in the same font" may sound like a "whatever" deal to a lot of people, but as someone who works in publishing - trust me, it would actually make your reading experience worse, even if you could never quite put your finger on why.

#publishing #books #book publishing #bookblr #harper collins #fonts #font design #eco friendly #sustainability #conservation #trees #deforestation #good news #hope

[nathandiary]

Late night research: eco-anxiety, solarpunk, new urbanism

#eco anxiety #solarpunk #new urbanism #21/10/2023

[thejadecount]

I love how with each new installment of TMNT Donnie just becomes more unhinged. Like we’re gonna cut to the Mutant Mayhem movie and Donnie’s online human persona is going to be some cyber-terrorist who’s a known war criminal in at least 24 countries.

#he’s gonna have his own calling card and Wikipedia page and everything #Big ‘The Barking Glass’ energy if you get that reference #he does shit. #it would be hilarious #12-14 year old kid as acting eco-terrorist #he has a big phase where he’s like ‘save the turtles’ and proceeds to bomb 14 different plastic factories #this is a joke I should say that #but also. #like 2003 Donnie was a sweetheart #2012 Donnie had his infamous moments of sarcasm and slight bloodthirstiness #Rise Donnie. #nothing else just rise Donnie he’s insane #and now i’m have expecting the new MM Donnie to somehow one-up him in levels of insanity #be really funny if he had a high-pitched voice like tawog Darwin #rottmnt #rise tmnt #tmnt #tmnt mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem #2023 tmnt #2023 donnie #mutant mayhem donnie #so yeah im excited for the movie #mostly for donnie #but also Leo with braces #can’t wait #tmnt donnie #tmnt donatello

[fyjjong]

shiny foundation will be holding their annual bazaar (2023 shiny's eco bazaar) from december 11th - december 15th. "cherished items" from a variety of celebrities will be put up for auction throughout this timeline. these celebrities (and the dates associated with them) include: monday, december 11th: nct's haechan + jonghyun tuesday, december 12th: exo's suho + jonghyun wednesday, december 13th minho + jonghyun thursday, december 14th: key + jonghyun friday, december 15th: taemin + jonghyun (source)

#shinee #jonghyun #minho #key #taemin #exo #suho #nct #haechan #shiny foundation #2023 shiny eco bazaar #news #translation #e: hard

[rainymoodlet]

hey, brownies don’t pay all the bills! 🌵 another successful night for dallas (stagename “dee”) ended with a strange phone call…

#they/them for dallas! 🌵 #ts4 #ts4 screenshots #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #;tjol #sim: dallas #|| #the owner of this bar is such a seedy piece of garbage and i cant wait to show him to youuu~ #but yeah i refuse?? to believe #that the percentage on this chance card #is anything less than 50 #bc legit all of my sims have gotten it at one point or the other #now that i have eco lifestyle dhdhdh #brooklyn got it and wren got it and now dallas got it #(benny fallout new vegas voice) h’what in the goddamn… #now originally dallas was going to meet back up with teddy #on a blind date once ivory aged up into a teen #once the strangerville mystery was solved (by circe hadley in a cameo) and he got outed and subsequently divorced and disgraced #but NOW… #the blind dates system is coming back in 😎 #which is great bc cliff just started getting whims about #asking dallas to be his partner dhshd #(the game still says girlfriend even though dal has no gender 🙄 annoying) #sorry cliffie 🥺 #but yeah also??? #don lothario comes to literally every show dallas puts on #he is their biggest fan dhshdhs #dallas thinks he’s VERY unattractive sjelocoqbfksn #KARMA DON THATS KARMA FOR YOU