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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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These social enterprise guys in Australia produce stone-milled flour using ancient grains harvested locally for 60,000 years. Now, they could use our help to expand their space. Over to you. https://chuffed.org/project/yaamarra-yarral

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Got this? New EU EmpCo rule bans 'vague' claims that x is (for example) 'regenerative' - but remains vague on what regenerative *does* mean. Nice pic, though.

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Could EmpCo quash regenerative agriculture claims?

The EU's Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (EmpCo) aims to combat 'vague' environmental and ...

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"We don’t need to imagine computers trying to exterminate us: right now, our cars compel us to provide more and more of the oil that’s heating the planet" . Excellent journalism here by @Jeff_Sparrow

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Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

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nuclear revival faces scrutiny after "incidents" at flagship plant = a contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods nearly tipped over during refuelling @alastairmci

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US nuclear revival faces scrutiny after incidents at flagship plant

Michigan reactor restart is delayed as Trump administration champions nuclear energy to meet booming AI power demand

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