Discus Institute

Creating a sustainable world by empowering individuals & companies to develop innovative social & environmental solutions to global challenges.

[Discus Institute @DiscusInstitute]

Want a positive social & environmental impact? It’s easy to get started with our 3-step approach to #Sustainability: 1 IDEATE to get inspired, 2 PARTICIPATE in initiatives & 3 INNOVATE with our impact challenges. https://t.co/GHY4FuQ8zz #SDGs #SocialImpact #ClimateImpact

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Denial is not working. Start taking steps to use less petroleum and high energy products.

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Greece’s agricultural breadbasket.

“Can’t happen here” has become “Happening here, there and everywhere”

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We can work on fire prevention and wear masks but that's only the short term.

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This is green and fun! We could do more of this with decent bike paths.

[Harman Idema @HarmaninToronto]

It’s back to school again for Dutch kids as well!

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It is important to have them be protected and quality bike paths too

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Protect your environment and the cars from sun and snow!

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This medical facility in Indiana got a #solarpower upgrade. It's the first carbon neutral medical facility in the state.

RT if you think more parking lots should go #solar.

We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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@ECOWARRIORSS While people just sat there eating as the furniture washed away.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

The Thessalian plain in central Greece has literally turned into one enormous lake.

~70,000 hectares of land are under water.

Devastating.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Human-caused climate change -> record-high warm ocean water -> much, much faster hurricane intensification (as well as a greater proportion of stronger storms that dump more rain and move more slowly). For more, see: https://t.co/kWHmX6QPSr

[Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell]

Extreme heat is by far the deadliest climate disaster, but FEMA won't fund relief or hazard mitigation because it's humans that are harmed, not infrastructure. How fucked up is that? Excellent piece by @dharnanoor

https://t.co/PCPlk4waUM

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Need to prepare for flooding as much as you can!

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Greece earlier today. A year’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours. This is what the #ClimateEmergency looks like, in real time.

HT: @99blackbaloons

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Every step adds up.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via @thediscourse study.

This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.

#citymakingmath

[leanahosea @leanahosea]

Floods across Europe: climate change driving severe weather events, & destruction of upland peats, loss of wetland, deforestation, building on flood plains, over-abstraction, dams & sand mining destabilising river basins, degraded soils, unsafe mining...

https://t.co/2a7MhlwIyw

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@TheJerzWay The same Athens drainage system that was sufficient for thousands of years is not enough now. Ergo something has changed in the climate.

[Reto Knutti @Knutti_ETH]

If these charts showed inflation or unemployment, any government would rush to act within weeks to try to fix it.

But we‘re lucky, it’s not about money: It‘s just showing how quickly we are boiling the planet we live on.
The only one we have by the way… 🤪

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

If you built the Empire State Building in Jacksonville today: (@CarFreeAmerica)

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

Our first house out of grad school was a Money Pit so we did every cheap energy-saving trick we could. Plastic film on the (single-pane original) windows + rolling out insulation in the attic + caulking all the cracks in the walls made a HUGE difference! https://t.co/xYJMjal1yZ

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

If you made $53,000 a day or $20 million per year since Jesus was born you would still not make the profit Shell made in 2022.

It’s time for Shell to Stop Drilling and Start Paying for the climate damage they’ve caused.

#MakeShellPay #actonclimate #climate #energy #renewables