#Environmental

Beware when "resilience" is used to replace "grit".I believe resilience is a powerful trait that a school community can embody.But asking individual Ss to "be resilient" can be just as
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.@EPA's own Science Advisory Board out with a strong critique of the pending proposal "Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review and Cost Review"https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Loo
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This week's energy wonk-thread: Why discussions about "when renewables will reach cost parity?" and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) calculations are nothing but - per Antonin Scalia - "interpretive jiggery-pokery&quo
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Friends, be very careful before donating to so called NGOs. You never really know where the money will end up. There are many cases in point. Alt-News receives anonymous funding
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Having read Robert Jenrick on his "radical and necessary" planning system reforms, my thoughts are:1. No sense that planning is always a trade-off. The more "automatic" you want approval to
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Excellent thread on the problems American political culture poses for dealing with a public health emergency 1/https://twitter.com/KeithNHumphreys/status/1259828752516706304 One thing I've noticed over the years is that there's a segment of
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Hey it’s Saturday in quarantine land and I thought I’d share with you a method I used to dispatch a troll. Hopefully you find this helpful if, like me, you
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Whose land are you on?https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/this-app-can-tell-you-the-indigenous-history-of-the-land-you-live-on-20180416 You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre
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1) I don’t think Tesla’s battery day is about CATL, LG or Panasonic or even just Maxwell tech, it will be the reveal of Tesla’s in-house “Roadrunner” cell - likely
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*** Thread *** OnUse of Firecrackers in Hindu Festivals in Medieval India. Persian official Abdur Razzaq while visiting the Court of Devaraya
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Untreated wastewater discharged by Settlements onto crops destroys vegetation in QaryoutQaryout is a Palestinian village located 26 kilometers southeast of the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank which lies
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A query – Do you seek to discern the right tools for a #JustEconomy rather than being guided by ideology? (A thread with some thoughts – that I would welcome
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Comrade Fidel’s life was devoted to the cause of the working people of Cuba, of Latin America and the world. He gave his entire life to the fight for national
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A thread on the Great Man-Made River Project and why it was not the solution for Libya's water supply: The objective of the project was to deliver water from deep
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Sometimes you just be thinking while dumping mulch around blueberry bushes Matt, what do you be thinking about while mulching a row of blueberries?Thinking about Life Fence painting and mulching
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I know it seems like I pick on the War Room a lot, but goodness, it's almost like they're asking for it. Take this latest piece of content they've pushed
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