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Chinese Greenhouse Design for Winter Gardening – Mother Earth News in c/farming@slrpnk.net

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago

I was looking at the source and found this. not sure if it has more or less information:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-greenhouse

Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon – study | Report says cutting emissions should still be key priority as it cautions against mass monoculture tree-planting in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

are you going to put it on arxiv or similar? It seems like an interesting read!

EU poised to water down new car pollution rules after industry lobbying in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that most people's Ecological awareness is such a complete total joke that even for those who believe themselves as ecologically-minded ends at the point were they're faced with, say, walking to take their kids to a school less than 1km away instead of going by car

This tracks. Whenever I visit Portuguese relatives I'm always surprised by how quickly they default to the car. Once, it was literally to just take us to a train station that we could see with our eyes from where we were staying.

Weren't a bunch of politicians caught in a scandal there recently about deals with fossil fuel companies?