The Irish Government has launched Climate Actions Work, a programme of unding designed to encourage local and grass roots Climate Action and awareness programmes, complete with a map of current in-progress projects.
The Sony Computer Science Laboratories released an interactive 15 minute city map, showing a range of world cities dissected into grids, where each grid is scored based on its distance by foot and by bike to a range of amenities, services and infrastructure.
Desmog have published an eye-opening map of all the organisations, institutions, and individuals that make up the farming lobby in Ireland, that shows that "the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils.".
Google-backed non-profit Global Fishing Watch used AI models & satellite imagery to build a true map of ocean vessels and offshore infrastructure. The results show 30% of global vessels are not publicly tracked, and 75% of industral fishing vessels are not tracked.
Hannah Ritchie published another excellent piece, this time about how much waste will be generated by solar panels and wind turbines, which is miniscule compared to fossil fuel, plastic, and municipal waste.
In 1799, Edmund Fry published the book Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World. The digitised version of the book is now available to view on the Public Domain Review and contains some fantastic runes, include many Irish ones (p.164) I haven't come across before.
Gaya Herrington, the Sustainability and Dynamic System Analysis Lead at KPMG performed a study that analysed the 1972 Club of Rome Limits To Growth model and compared it to the current state of the world. Her study found that using the Business As Usual (BAU) scenario, the world is on track from societal collapse by around 2040, and using the Comprehensive Technology (CT) scenario, a halt to growth is predicted within the next decade or so. In her own words;
