Struggles From Below

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[Ollie Gordon @OllieGordon88]

Super honoured to be leading the reporting on this exciting new project for @ihrb, leveraging my #solutionsjournalism expertise (✍️ & 📷).

We're looking for just transitions that involve meaningful collaborations between institutions and communities. Do submit your stories🙏🙏🙏

[Ollie Gordon @OllieGordon88]

The #UK government is weighing up a £16bn project to put a #solarpower station in #Space. In my latest piece for @EnergyMonitorAI, I find out whether this pioneering #RenewableEnergy technology can power the race to #NetZero.

#EnergyTransition #cleantech

https://t.co/ARrEmAcBnC

[Energy Monitor @EnergyMonitorAI]

The #UK government is weighing up a £16bn project to put a #solarpower station in #Space. In his latest feature, @OllieGordon88 finds out whether this pioneering #RenewableEnergy technology can power the race to #NetZero.

#EnergyTransition #cleantech

https://t.co/lNhqosAzFe

[Energy Monitor @EnergyMonitorAI]

#SpaceBasedSolar power would be cost-competitive with other #energy sources at £26MWh, around a third of the cost of #NuclearEnergy and cheaper than both #wind and terrestrial #solar.

Read more: https://t.co/lNhqosAzFe

[Ollie Gordon @OllieGordon88]

Since the start of the #covidpandemic, 100 million people have lost access to #electricity. In my latest feature for @EnergyMonitorAI, I look at how #COVID19 has reversed #EnergyAccess in the #GlobalSouth.

🙏 @RockefellerFdn, @SEforALLorg, @SIMA_Funds

https://t.co/lv0uGlIWcm

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

Advocates for #communityforests argue the best chance for humanity to turn around rampant #deforestation is through a grassroots approach: giving power back to the people.

https://t.co/4iGePEdhre

#conservation #sustainability #nature #environment #naturebasedsolutions

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

"A recent report identified 3,000km of coastline in the Caribbean region where post-storm mangrove restoration – which could be paid for by insurance – would provide flood-protection benefits that outweigh the cost of rehabilitating the forest."

https://t.co/u2kzfJVcWc

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

@VPerkova @NiaTero Thanks Veronika! We totally agree - this seems like an easy win-win solution. Good that there’s noe empirical proof.

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

In our latest feature, Peter Yeung finds out that when #forests are managed by the people who live in them, #conservation tends to follow.

https://t.co/4iGePEdhre

#forests #conservation #solutionsjournalism #sustainability #nature #environment #biodiversity #communityforests

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

After #HurricaneDelta hit #Mexico's #MesoamericanReef in October 2020, a brigade of #volunteers spent the next 3 months repairing the #reef, stabilising 2,152 uprooted #coral colonies and re-attached 13,570 coral fragments.

https://t.co/u2kzfJVcWc

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

As the reality of #ClimateChange becomes more stark and the comfort and ease of #rail #travel becomes more attractive, citizens, companies and governments in Europe are getting on board with #trains as a better way to travel.

https://t.co/PvbAOuz36y

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

“The 30 million inhabitants of the Amazon basins have two paths before them. They can develop an economy based around the standing forest, or one that turns it into tropical ranchland. The scales are heavily weighted toward the latter.”

#agroforestry

https://t.co/6AEWS0XrUQ

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

Following two catastrophic hurricanes on #Mexico's #Caribbean coast in 2005, researchers at non-profit @nature_org wondered why #PuertoMorelos had come out relatively unscathed. Subsequent analysis pointed to the protection from the town’s #coralreef.

https://t.co/TiXzcsX971

[Solutions Journalism Network @soljourno]

6. 100 miles of the Mesoamerican Reef, the second largest barrier reef system in the world, is insured.

That means it can pay for its own conservation. And it might be the future.

From @OllieGordon88 @RTB_Cheerful #COP26 https://t.co/kif2DyoxPS

[TOPIA Magazine 🍄 @worldofTOPIA]

How are you all getting back from #COP26?

“We could be on the cusp of a new golden age of trains,” says @seatsixtyone as @SFB_Magazine shines a light on #sustainabletravel.

https://t.co/iLfqFGZRKm

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

Reducing Deforestation and Methane Emissions Take Center Stage at Glasgow, update from @YaleE360 highlighted by @SFB_Magazine "more than 100 leaders - from Russia to Brazil to Canada to Indonesia - pledged to end deforestation & land degradation by 2030" https://t.co/5z6J9DpK66

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

"Research by @LumoTravel found that 56% of UK flights before the pandemic were between London and Edinburgh, yet on average it was six times more polluting to fly than to take an electric train."

https://t.co/PvbAOuz36y

#trains #Sustainability #sustainabletravel #lowcarbon

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

#agroforestry systems maintain soil fertility and water quality nearly as well as wild Amazonian forests. They do not have the same level of biodiversity but they still harbour a multitude of native insects, birds, and wildlife.

Read on... https://t.co/6AEWS0XrUQ

[Struggles From Below @SFB_Magazine]

After Hurricane Delta struck the #MesoamericanReef, last October, Jacob, Arcelia and Melina were among a group of volunteer conservationists who set about clearing debris and re-rooting and re-attaching damaged #coral colonies.

https://t.co/u2kzfJVcWc

#NatureBasedSolutions

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

The Lost Generation of Ancient Trees @BBC_Future article by @Kath_La suggested by @SFB_Magazine as "one to ponder". Ancient trees provide needed habitat for many organisms but are disappearing. Is it ok to harm younger trees to create replacement habitat?https://t.co/26PMq62JFd