https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-02/we-already-have-the-world-s-most-efficient-carbon-capture-technology

"Empress trees mature several times faster than your average oak or pine and absorb about 103 tons of carbon a year per acre."

HackerNews
The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, but Lots of Data

A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
Article, Comments

What if we stopped pretending we can prevent climate apocalypse?
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"If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope."

yessss - re: technologist cooperatives

This actually sounds like a vision for the future.
Nowadays everyone is turning into freelancers and temporary workers, disconnecting from their usual workplaces and becoming autonomus (and thus vulnerable).
Obvious next step is for these numerous autonomous self-entrepreneurs to unite into collective structures. And these will be like the firms before, but they will have a key difference — everyone is now an owner, and a decision-maker

Australian biome climates compared to other countries
https://redd.it/cyg82v
@r_mapporn

I meant like a pizza party
https://redd.it/d1bxoh
@r_latestagecapitalism