Sand Stories.org

Raising awareness of a looming global 🌏 #sandcrisis
⏳Building connections within science, policy, and industry to find and promote solutions #sandstories

[Sand Stories.org @Sand_Stories]

Join @KateEDaws and @kiranpereira in this 2-part episode

@SustainableTall @MavrogianniAnna, Alia Bengana @TweetEco, Shriti Pandey, Jukka Nieminen, Dr Ralf Jung share critical insights & ground-breaking approaches to building 'Cities Beyond Sand'

https://t.co/LhRmQqkult
#sand

[the reporters' collective @reporters_co]

1. We are thrilled to announce our inaugural TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship. It is an opportunity to produce top-grade investigative work in English. We are awarding one grant of Rs 80,000 to the selected fellow. Details on how to apply here:
https://t.co/4W7cmLbyUj

[#SaveMaldives Campaign @SaveMaldivesMV]

Sand extraction is illegal in #Maldives.
For Maldivians.

Sand is reserved for pillaging by transnational corporations living on a diet of debt & ecological destruction and their governments who facilitate these 'deals' with corrupt politicians.
#StealingParadise
@Sand_Stories

[Vince Beiser @VinceBeiser]

Justice at last! *Ten years* after the murder of anti-sand mining activist Pale Ram Chauhan, his killers are sentenced to life in prison. Bravo to his courageous son Akash. This case inspired my book on the sand crisis. https://t.co/dw7ZkoiwRK #sandcrisis

[BakerBrown @bbrown_studio]

It's taken me nearly 3 yrs to write, involving over 80 hours of interviews with some of the world's leading #circulareconomy thinkers, practitioners & enablers. Now the Second Edition of @RIBA RE-USE ATLAS is finally complete. #Reuse

Pre-Order now
https://t.co/WBtkgbq52X

[💧Marc Goichot🌎💦 @marcgoichot]

#Sand has many values to the economy once it is extracted from the river, yet it has greater value when it stays in the rivers and coasts as if offers there the most cost-effective protection from the effects of climate change.
#adaptation @WWFAsianDeltas

https://t.co/zay3BX9Yuy

[Lukas Ley @Granularlukas]

Amazing book on the dismemberment & destruction of beaches! I’ll sadly miss the book discussion as I’ll be surfing in the Atlantic, well south of #LaRochelle where residents oppose expanding offshore mines that suck up sand with dredging barges @Sandworldsgroup #latetedanslesable

[Lukas Ley @Granularlukas]

The S.AND research group at the @MaxAnthropology is delighted to launch its twin account on twitter. We’ve established a presence on mastodon as well - https://t.co/QUGFyZ9JIJ - loads of sand-related posts and more there! Stay tuned.

[Anthropocene.A.S @AnthropoceneAS]

Generosity thus far has gotten us 35% of the way to our goal!

If you’ve ever been inspired by our impacts or made use of the resources we curate & those we share, please do consider giving if you can.

Any & all help is much appreciated.
https://t.co/YUogF5DJ0i

[UNEP/GRID-Geneva @GRIDgva]

Marine Sand Watch is launching tomorrow! The first global data platform that tracks and monitors #sand and sediment extraction in the #MarineEnvironment @WRFSwitzerland @GENetwork
📅 6 September 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 CEST
📷 https://t.co/7z3lnd2a0j

Register today!

[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

#Haryana: -This report shows how every monitoring effort regarding #illegalsandmining in #Yamuna Nagar hs failed or hijacked by mining mafia wth collusion of official agencies. https://t.co/xtrqFUdTb8 @byadavbjp @mlkhattar @cmohry @csharyana @moolchandbjphry @anilvijminister

[Ramesh Pathania✒️🇮🇳सर्वश्रेष्ठ भारत @rameshpathania]

Whatever is left of the river Beas near kalaath. JCB and tippers are seen so often in the river. Where are we heading .? #Save the Rivers #Beas #flashfloods #Kullu#

[GENeva Environment Network @GENetwork]

Marine Sand Watch, a global data platform that monitors #sand extraction in #MarineEnvironment, will be launched at @WRFSwitzerland.

This event with @GRIDgva discusses steps to identify good practices on extracting standards & environmental policies.

▶️ https://t.co/6Yn0PxsThQ

[Chris Hackney @DrChrisHackney]

@AndyNcl We argue that under scenarios of rapidly increasing rates of #SandMining, there is an urgent need for studies of local-scale impacts & resistance, capturing socio-economic characteristics of communities, to better plan for future scenarios of resource extraction & exploitation.

[Chris Hackney @DrChrisHackney]

How do villages in different parts of the #RedRiver Delta, #Vietnam, respond to & resist the impacts of #sandmining? New paper led by @nuact_NCL @NCL_Geography @livingdeltas PhD student Hannah Runeckles reveals all #Sand #ExtractiveIndustries #deltas
https://t.co/LGdBH9hABZ

[Vince Beiser @VinceBeiser]

Oman mandates prison for illegal sand miners https://t.co/kUHc7BK1Z1 #sandcrisis #sandstories

[The Third Pole @third_pole]

West Bengal-based non-profit @veditum has launched @indiasandwatch, a new platform that aims to monitor every stage of both legal and illegal sand mining operations in India.

✍️ @shalineekumari_

@RainmatterOrg @AronTWhite

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[Vince Beiser @VinceBeiser]

Happy sand-day! Today is the fifth anniversary of the publication of my book, The World in a Grain. The audio version is currently available for FREE if you sign up for Audible. Just sayin'... https://t.co/PROlR4lGlJ

[Siddharth Agarwal @sidagarwal]

Join the launch of - @indiasandwatch by @veditum - built in partnership with Ooloi Labs, supported by @RainmatterOrg

India Sand Watch is an open-data project enabling collection, annotation & archiving of data related to sand mining in India

Register: https://t.co/UzTyH1vxTP

[B&C Editors @BuildingsCities]

New Briefing Notes! Building within planetary boundaries: moving construction to stewardship By M Kuittinen

A new hierarchy for solving spatial needs is required: avoid making new buildings, where and whenever possible. https://t.co/oHNuOelGpm

[SANDRP @Indian_Rivers]

#Telangana:- When admin fails to enforce prohibition on sand mining during monsoon period.

"19 sand workers had narrow escape when they wr trapped in Manair #river floods nr Gopalpur on July 27. 1 excavator washed away." @Collector_PDPL @TelanganaCMO @MinisterKTR @TelanganaDGP