Timelapse video shows construction of 3D-printed home (CNN)One Virginia family received the keys to their new 3D-printed home in time for Christmas.The home is Habitat for Humanity’s first 3D-printed home in the nation, according to a Habitat news release.Janet V. Green, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg, told CNN it partnered with Alquist, a 3D printing company, earlier this year to …
Court ruling upholding gas ban transforms U.S. fight
By David Iaconangelo | 07/08/202 E&E News A general view of the University of California, Berkeley, is pictured September 2020. The city of Berkeley in 2019 became the first municipality in the U.S. to enact restrictions on buildings’ use of natural gas. Image of Sport/Newscom An attempt to undo the nation’s first ban on natural gas was defeated this week in federal court, …
Varoufakis: Besides having captured the basic drama of capitalist dynamics, Marx has given me the tools with which to become immune to the toxic propaganda of neoliberalism
Wealth is collectively produced and then privately appropriated through social relations of production and property rights that rely, for their reproduction, almost exclusively on false consciousness. Yanis Varoufakis excerpt on Marx https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist …What caught my eye was Marx’s mesmerising gift for writing a dramatic script for human history, indeed for human damnation, that was also laced with the possibility of …
A Life Beyond Capitalism: Reimagining a Socialist Future With Yanis Varoufakis – Another Now, book summary
In the former Greek finance minister’s latest book, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present, he presents a humane alternative to financialised capitalism. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/04/yanis-varoufakis-capitalism-isnt-working-heres-an-alternative If cathedrals were the middle ages’ architectural legacy, the 2020s will be remembered for electrified fences and flocks of buzzing drones. Finance and nationalism, already on the rise before 2020, were the clear winners. The great …
Trees and reforestation. Where is all the unforested land?
Excerpts from Mongabay, 2021. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/is-planting-trees-as-good-for-the-earth-as-everyone-says/ In 2019, a paper titled “The global tree restoration potential,” published in the journal Science, created a furor. The authors of the study estimated, using remote sensing and machine learning, that the Earth had available land for about 900 million hectares (2.2 billion acres) of forest restoration. Foresting this tree-less land would help store 205 gigatons …
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