Dr Chandra Clarke

‘In Romania now, you don’t see a bottle anywhere’ A deposit return scheme for used drinks bottles and cans in Romania has ‘made the impossible possible’

www.positive.news/economics/ro...

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: Review of Joe P.L. Davidson’s Saving Utopia Chandra K. Clarke Under Review:Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times. Joe P.L. Davidson. MIT Press, March 2026. Like many people, I came to SF fandom by way of Star Trek. As a…

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: @chandraclarke.bsky.social reviews Joe P.L. Davidson's SAVING UTOPIA (@mitpress.bsky.social)

How a 1930s house was turned into a carbon-negative home - Positive News New regulations promise zero-carbon-ready homes, but the real work lies in retrofitting Britain’s ageing and inefficient properties

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This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Less traffic, less noise: Green axes cut noise levels in cities The implementation of green axes and the reduction of motorized traffic in cities is effectively consolidating itself as a strategy to significantly lower environmental noise levels. A study conducted...

phys.org/news/2026-03...

#plantmoretrees

"Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it."

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Where did all the starships go? | Datawrapper Blog In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.

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#scifi #writing #spaceships #starships

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Regenerative agriculture sows success in Kenya A grassroots regenerative agriculture initiative is helping Kenyan smallholders cut crop failure, reduce chemical reliance and dramatically improve yields

www.positive.news/society/rege...

Animals’ perception of time is linked to the pace of their life – new study For a starfish, most of life is literally a blur.

theconversation.com/animals-perc...

How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences ‘We actually have a worse dark money problem in Canada than they do in the U.S.’

theijf.org/article/how-...

#cdnpoli #onpoli

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Per Fix the News: “…solar panels provide an unanticipated service to agriculture: shade. Strawberry growers taking advantage of 'agrivoltaics' are reporting 18% increase in yields, and South Korea has incorporated the growing of cabbages around solar arrays into their food security strategy.”

Could we please
stop writing
social media posts
like this
line after line
of two
or three words
and LinkedIn
style platitudes
its
annoying
and
overdone.

These Worms Use Static Electricity like a Sci-Fi Tractor Beam For microscopic worms, physical laws we seldom notice take on life-or-death importance

File under: well that's cool

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stat...

Your monthly reminder:

Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026 I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

The Kids Party Pact | Sustainable Kid's Parties | No Crap Parties A community of parents who want to make children's parties more affordable & sustainable. Sign The Kids Party Pact & help change the culture.

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Uh huh.

Nonsense. We haven’t begun to tap rooftop capacity, and you need to go ‘do your research’ on agrovoltaics. And in the meantime, stop being an unpaid propagandist for oil and gas billionaires.

All of human existence requires extractive processes. We need to manage those properly and use energy that doesn’t f*ck up the climate as well.

Same as your oil pipes, tanker ships, rigs, tanker trucks, refineries, oil rigs, pump jacks, tanker rail cars, drills…

That wasn’t the gotcha you thought it was.

A mountain covered in removable and recyclable solar panels providing cheap clean energy vs setting the actual ocean on fire.

China’s Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Huge Mess That Might Save the World A global onslaught of cheap Chinese green power is upending everything in its path. No one is ready for its repercussions.

www.wired.com/story/china-...

America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?

The next phase of grift/content monetization / enshitification www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Timeline break: New blog post up

www.chandrakclarke.com/hearing-thin...

#relatable #aging #hearing

How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...

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#cdnpoli The best thing on Threads right now is this series of jokes: