@aarnegranlund
Sufficiency, climate work, and river restoration in North Karelia. I fly fish, hike, and ski. Cube e-MTB owner. Equality is essential for sustainability. 🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🐟🌲 Medium: https://aarnegranlund.medium.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aarnegranlund
“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!”
The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
Even Russians themselves do not expect anyone to do that, especially in national security.
It’s raining now here up north. I’m not too sad because the new e-MTB arrives tomorrow and the stone flies will get an early chance for hatching. 🤔
“We can take them at their word.”
Recent weeks show our reliance on cars, but cycling can help. Most 2024 journeys were under 5 miles, ideal for cycling. Swapping short car trips saves £, pollution & fossil fuel use. Safer roads matter, which is why backing #MyRideOurRight helps everyone.
cyclinguk.org/my-ride-our-right
It was! Mastodon also did not have almost anyone from the mainstream in my field, such as journalists and research institutions.
There is a decent global fly fishing scene. I can’t remember many interactions from Mastodon. I still have it if something happens to Bluesky.
I mentioned that I feel spiritual on rivers and got an angry message from the keeper of the instance or whatever, threw me out of there. He didn’t like those vibes
Now I'm thinking about the bikepacking setup instead of the rack that feels a little clunky: Handlebar pack, triangle pack and a seat pack.
"A frame pack, seat pack, and handlebar bag—aka the bikepacking trinity—can carry most of the gear you’ll need for an average trip, with accessory packs adding extra capacity."
I've been looking at #BikePacking packs and bags. The rear rack feels clunky on an e-MTB.
bikepacking.com/bikepacking-...
X has no moderation, and Mastodon networks have too much moderation. Bluesky is in the middle, so it enables the discussion to proliferate a little more.
6/ "🇵🇭 Philippines has said it will shorten the work week for government offices to save energy
🇧🇩 Bangladesh has limited the illuminated decorations festooning streets during the holy month of Ramadan. They’ve also shut fertilizer production"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"Switching to electric transport means cleaner air and reduced toxic exposure. It also creates cooler, less polluted and quieter cities. This reduces respiratory and cardiovascular disease, reduces heat-related injuries and deaths."
#Health #ClimateAction
theconversation.com/four-ways-to...
🇫🇮 Finland: kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic Sea
Unusually thick ice this winter in the Pargas archipelago has meant some children are travelling to school by hovercraft, replacing the ferries that usually take the children
#geneu_AFP
🇺🇦 During a counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces reclaimed more than 400 km² of territory. And restored control over nearly the entire Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/ukraine-rest...
💧 Hydrology insights from the February 2026 #C3S Climate Bulletin: pronounced contrast across Europe, with much of western & southern Europe wetter than average, while most of the rest of the continent was drier than average.
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/precipitatio...
#CopernicusClimate
”The Cold Response 26 exercise involves around 25,000 Nato troops from 14 countries, in northern areas of Finland, Norway and Sweden.”
#Defence
yle.fi/a/74-20214397
Russia warns of missile firings north of Norway as NATO begins #ColdResponse26 exercise.
As gas & oil prices shoot up again due to geopolitical instability, Europe's answer is clear: renewables & electrification are our declaration of independence.⚡
🔴 EU oil import dependency: 97%. Gas: 85%.
🟢 Meeting our EU 2030 targets could cut variable costs by up to 57%.
Luin tästä että luonnontilaiset lähteet ja purot ovat tosi harvinaisia Suomessa. Puroista toki tiesin ennestään.
like.fi/kirjat/veden...
”February 2026 was the fifth warmest on record, at 1.49°C above pre-industrial levels, with extreme rainfall and widespread flooding in western Europe and the third-lowest sea ice extent in the Arctic for this month.”
#ClimateHeating #Europe
climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-e...
Cartoon of an energy label with a colourful scale of A-G, and a person climbing up the scale saying 'Energy efficiency should always be the first step'. The cartoon is highlighting the principle of Energy Efficiency First.
Electrification 💚 energy efficiency
Energy efficiency must be a guiding principle of electrification – they go hand-in-hand.
It already saved €120 billion in the EU in 2023 – and there's a lot of potential for more energy savings 👇
ecostandard.org/publications...
Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in #Tehran this weekend have exposed millions of Iranians to harm.
In this post we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental consequences: ceobs.org/black-rain-t... 1/3 #IranIsreal #Iran #IntLaw
Heat pumps:
♨️ 3x more energy efficient than gas boilers
💨 No air pollution
❄️ Work in cold weather - just ask heat pump mega-fans Norway, Finland, and France
A much warmer than normal spring in Northeast Europe.
A rare spring in which I wait for warm weather and the snow to melt, because then I get to ride my new e-MTB! And go #FlyFishing the stone fly hatch.
charts.ecmwf.int/products/ext...
A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested.
Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%!
yle.fi/a/74-20214134
"Mit Blick auf Katherina Reiches #Energiepolitik, muss man längst keinen Teufel mehr an die Wand malen. Der steht da schon längst und schlürft Biofuels."
Warum aus der Abkehr der Energiewende eine Staatskrise wachsen könnte, in meiner @surplusmagazin.de Kolumne.
www.surplusmagazin.de/heizungsgese...
Graph showing average price for jet fuel in Europe per week in dollarcents per gallon since start of 2020. Starts at 190, decline to week 18 of 2020 at 45. Followed by a bumpy rise to 430 week 28 of 2022. Decline to 220 in week 16 of 2023. Followed again by a rise to now around 300 in week 36 and a decline to 260 at the end of 2023. First four months of 2024 hoovering around 264, then decline, couple of weeks around 200 and now risen to 220 in week 9 and now jumped to 388 in week 10.
Jet fuel (kerosene) price Europe.
How often you reckon it runs through the cassette and other parts of the drive train?
Yup, eebs are the most efficient way to move 🙃
That's the biking replacing the grocery store walk and the bus to the gym. Will definitely ride it more on local trails and bike pack, but that's more of a hobby than a utility thing.
