[GWSG] Rise (poem); lego roof; Florence 50% wetter; Jerry Brown's pickets; exponential hope; farming practices

[Tilley, Al]

1. Rise: A Poetry Expedition to Greenland’s Melting Glaciers is a six-minute video of a joint poem by two poets from the Marshall Islands and Greenland. Bill McKibben’s essay accompanies the video.  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/12/high-ice-hard-truth-a-poetry-expedition-to-greenlands-melting-glaciers-bill-mckibben
[https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVF.udAIKpQE2Mw9kuHcYhcnPg&pid=Api]<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/12/high-ice-hard-truth-a-poetry-expedition-to-greenlands-melting-glaciers-bill-mckibben>

High ice and hard truth: the poets taking on climate change<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/12/high-ice-hard-truth-a-poetry-expedition-to-greenlands-melting-glaciers-bill-mckibben>
www.theguardian.com
Greenland poet Aka Niviana’s way of life is disappearing as her country thaws, while the subsequent meltwater threatens Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and her fellow Marshall ...



2. Lego-style panels which click together to form a weather-tight roof carry away the heat generated by the solar cells, improving the efficiency of the solar conversion and heating water for the building. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-lego-style-solar-panels-energy-bills.html
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Lego-style solar panels to smash energy bills<https://phys.org/news/2018-09-lego-style-solar-panels-energy-bills.html>
phys.org
Ready-made snap-together solar panels that turn waste heat into hot water are being developed at Brunel University London in a £10 million sustainable energy scheme starting next month.



3. Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more water on the East Coast because of global warming. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/climate-change-means-hurricane-florence-will-dump-50-more-rain
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Climate change means Hurricane Florence will dump 50% more rain<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/climate-change-means-hurricane-florence-will-dump-50-more-rain>
www.theguardian.com
Scientific study finds diameter of storm heading for US east coast will be 50 miles wider due to human-caused warming of planet



4. California’s governor Jerry Brown has organized the Global Action Climate Summit for cities, regions, and business to talk about plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Thousands of people gathered to protest Brown’s support for fossil fuel drilling in his state. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/san-francisco-global-climate-action-summit-protests
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Thousands of protesters challenge Democratic governor at climate summit<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/san-francisco-global-climate-action-summit-protests>
www.theguardian.com
Activists attempted to barricade entrance at the summit and criticized Jerry Brown for allowing over 20,000 drilling operations



5. At the Global Action Climate Summit Christiana Figueres and Johan Rockstrom reported that we are experiencing exponential growth in wind and solar installations, and in green bond investments. “There’s never been such a reason to be hopeful.” https://grist.org/article/a-concept-you-learned-in-middle-school-math-could-save-us-from-climate-disaster/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily
[https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/sunshine-smokestacks.jpg?w=1200&h=140&crop=1]<https://grist.org/article/a-concept-you-learned-in-middle-school-math-could-save-us-from-climate-disaster/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily>

A concept you learned in middle school math could save us from climate disaster<https://grist.org/article/a-concept-you-learned-in-middle-school-math-could-save-us-from-climate-disaster/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily>
grist.org
Keeping the planet at a low simmer will require massive change. Here’s some good news.



6. Sustainable intensification is already practiced on 10% of the world’s farmlands. A collection of simple procedures raises productivity, reduces atmospheric carbon and increases soil carbon, and lowers costs. Such practices, along with a biochar program, have the potential to lower the average global temperature almost half a degree C, or a little less than half of the warming so far (assuming we bring our emissions under control). https://mailchi.mp/climatenewsnetwork/farms-can-grow-more-and-slow-climate-change?e=ea792e87f2

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