Podcasts about Greenpeace

Tech companies are working with the fossil fuel industry to push unnecessary data center projects while misrepresenting the climate impact — and governments are letting it all happen. Ketan Joshi joins Paris Marx to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment, and how it's all playing out in Australia.Ketan Joshi is a climate writer and data analyst based in Oslo working with climate and environmental groups.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.Also mentioned in this episode:Click here to get your first month of Proton Mail for just $1.Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.Ketan wrote a report on how Big Tech is greenwashing their destructive climate impacts.Ketan worked with Greenpeace to put out a report on how NVIDIA is greenwashing to hide their climate impacts.Ketan worked with Greenpeace on a report that explores how Australia's data center buildout is completely derailing their renewable energy transition.Support the show

Greenpeace biedt vandaag een petitie aan in de Tweede Kamer. Ze hebben een duidelijke boodschap: belast de extra winsten van oliebedrijven die ontstaan door de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Waar komt die overwinst precies vandaan? Kun je die extra winst überhaupt belasten? En merken wij als consument de gevolgen van geo-politieke verhoudingen direct aan de pomp? Daarover praat Bemshi de Visser met energie- en olie-expert Ronald de Zoete en hoogleraar Fiscale Economie Ruud van den Dool. 

Folkebevægelsen Stop Datacentre blev officielt stiftet den 24. september 2026 til en fredelig demonstration mod Datacenterindustriens forum samme dag. Optagelsen her er lavet med en enkelt mikrofon og klippet lidt ned for overskuelighedens skyld. Mange organisationer var til stede og gav deres støtte: Folkebevægelsen Stop Datacentre, Abolish AI, Scientist Rebellion, Miljøforeningen NOAH, Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse, Klimabevægelsen, Kritik Digital, Cybernauterne, Public Service Agency, Questioning Creatives, Greenpeace, Fossilfri Fremtid, Analogiseringsstyrelsen, Nødbremsen, Byggestopbevægelsen, Ukrudt og Jordskred. Du kan melde dig ind her: https://datacenterinfo.dk/ - tryk på den grønne knap!

Daryl Upsall is founder and president of Upsall International, and a nonprofit leader with more than four decades of experience working with organizations around the world. Daryl grew up in a small town in England, but from an early age wanted to see the world. He found his way into social causes through music and activism, eventually working in international development, human rights, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. At the Terrence Higgins Trust, he built the first professional HIV/AIDS fundraising program in Europe, working with Elton John, Queen, and others during some of the darkest years of the epidemic. He later joined Greenpeace International, where he helped turn around its global income, pioneered digital fundraising, and helped create the modern face-to-face model. Since 2001, through Upsall International, he has advised and recruited leaders for nonprofit organizations across the globe. In this episode, we trace Daryl's remarkable journey through music, activism, HIV/AIDS, Greenpeace, and a lifetime spent working for causes — and explore what it has taught him about leadership, change, and making a difference.

Iniciamos la 4ª temporada de GREENFLAGS en el mar, sobre nuestro rompehielos el Arctic Sunrise. Y para este celebre ocasión hemos invitado por primera vez (y quizá por última por lo que se puede llegar a venir) a Sira Rego, Ministra de Juventud e Infancia. Hemos hablado de derecho a la protesta, de la Ley Mordaza, de la crisis de la vivienda y de Ceuta. Pero, sobre todo, de lo importante que es defender el activismo pacífico pues 11 de nuestras compañeras se enfrentan a una pena de 2,6 años de cárcel por haber realizado una acción directa no violenta en 2001 contra un barco de gas licuado procedente de EEUU. _________________ GREENFLAGS, el videopodcast de Greenpeace, con Climabar e Inés Hernand Siempre gratis en ⁠⁠todas las plataformas Súmate a Greenpeace: ⁠https://go.greenpeace.es/49mEZJR⁠ #podcast #videopodcast #medioambiente #cultura #sociedad #ecologismo

Hoy empieza en Valencia el juicio a los once activistas de Greenpeace que, hace 15 años, protagonizaron una protesta pacífica en el Puerto de Sagunto contra la llegada de un buque que venía con gas extraído mediante una técnica muy contaminante. Hablamos con Francisco del Pozo, uno de los miembros de Greenpeace que se enfrenta desde al juicio

Hoy empieza en Valencia el juicio a los once activistas de Greenpeace que, hace 15 años, protagonizaron una protesta pacífica en el Puerto de Sagunto contra la llegada de un buque que venía con gas extraído mediante una técnica muy contaminante. Hablamos con Francisco del Pozo, uno de los miembros de Greenpeace que se enfrenta desde al juicio

A conversation with Ada Palmer about building the future with humility, the process of creating a science fiction world, and many spoiler-heavy deep dives into the world of Terra Ignota. Mentioned in this episode Books and works. Ada Palmer, Terra Ignota — Too Like the Lightning, Seven Surrenders, The Will to Battle, Perhaps the Stars · Ada Palmer & Jo Walton, Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy · Ada Palmer, And Loki in His Prison (forthcoming) · "Somebody Will" (song) · Bill Bryson, At Home · Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists · Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea · Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet · Boccaccio, Decameron. People and places. Tyler Cowen · Teresa Nielsen Hayden · Johannes Gutenberg · Francis Bacon · Michelangelo · Villa I Tatti (Florence) · Worldcon · the Terra Ignota Discord. Transcript Ada: Stop telling stories about a thing as if one person did it. Tell the story of how a whole team of people did this. And when we look at the major innovations of the past, recognize their plural and often anonymous origins and shapers — and ask: will we be content if we end up being the anonymous contributor to future generations having this wonderful thing? Introduction [00:00:26] Ben: Today I'm excited and grateful to share my conversation with Ada Palmer. Among many other things, Ada is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and the author of several books, including the science fiction series Terra Ignota, which now lives rent-free in my head. In the words of the inimitable Tyler Cowen, this is the conversation that I want to have — which means the vast majority of it is an extremely nerdy, extremely spoiler-heavy discussion of the Terra Ignota series. The spoiler warning comes around the one-hour mark, but rather than making you stop then, I'd recommend stopping right here, going and reading the entire series, and then coming back. We'll still be here. A podcast about the unwritten workings of a fictional future is a vaguely legitimate segue to noting that I've brought Idea Machines back after a very long hiatus, for a fairly specific reason. I'm still going to dig into the people and systems that turn ideas into reality, but with a particular focus on knowledge and stories that are in people's heads and aren't yet written down or recorded anywhere. Even in the age of the internet and LLMs, there is so much that can only be discovered through conversation — and that, I think, should be the point of podcasts. So with that, here's my conversation with Ada Palmer. "Somebody Will," and making peace with not seeing the end [00:01:57] Ben: This is actually a very selfish question. Your song "Somebody Will" is one of my favorite songs. Ada: I had to practice for six months before I could sing it without crying while singing it. It still requires great concentration. Ben: I sometimes cry a little when I listen to it. If you're listening to this and you haven't heard the song, you should stop and listen to it, because it's amazing, and we will be here when you get back. Okay — assuming everybody has now listened to the song. I think it captures the fact that ambitious projects take many lifetimes and the labor of many people who are only contributing indirectly, in a way that I feel nothing else does. And that fact feels very at odds with the cultural milieu today, where — at least for me — it feels like you personally need to be working on the thing, and if you can't get it done within your lifetime then you're a failure. So how do you internalize that personally? I constantly feel this tension: I believe the message of "Somebody Will" is true, and at the same time I cannot feel satisfied with it. And how would you get more people to internalize it? I feel like the world would be better if more people did. Ada: I have the advantage, as a historian, of being used to thinking on century and multi-century timeframes — of looking at how many of the things we celebrate or think of as important were multi-generational projects, and how few people, even among the ones we talk about as if one person achieved the thing, actually saw that achievement bear fruit, or even near-full fruit, within their lifetime. Lately I've been asked about Gutenberg a lot. From Gutenberg's perspective: I invented the machine, I used the machine, the machine worked great, the sales didn't, I went bankrupt, and I died in poverty. In the later part of his life he got to see other people starting to build printing presses and trying to print — and also going bankrupt. The books were starting to circulate, and everyone was saying, "I don't know about these new weird books, they're different from the old ones." So if he judges himself on his lifetime achievement, he judges himself negatively. The ongoing effects of the Gutenberg revolution mostly happen well after his death, and after the deaths of his first generation of apprentices, in the mid-1500s and moving toward the 1600s — and there are stages of it still happening in the 1700s as it democratizes access to knowledge, which is something one could anticipate it would do, but not see. So many of our best and biggest projects are like that. In fact, you very rarely have a project that comes to fruition within its beginner's lifetime. But it requires us to look at history to feel that. Another factor is that we're so often pressured not just to look short term, but to look very short term. My friend Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a brilliant editor, has a very apt saying that I think about a lot: we always overestimate what we can accomplish in a year, but underestimate what we accomplish in five years. If you look at yourself and ask, "What did I do this year?" you'll always judge yourself harshly and be disappointed. But if you make the list of "What did I do in the last five years?" you'll say, "Oh, wow, I accomplished a lot" — even though each individual year felt like you didn't meet your own standards. And another part of it is that yes, there is a melancholy to "Somebody Will." It's about a kind of surrendering acceptance: that you will not be there to enjoy the thing, that you are working on something so that others will enjoy it in the future. That requires remembering that the same is true of the people in the past who worked to give us what we enjoy — that there is a teamwork across the diaspora of time, in which we all have to love the future generations we are helping and accept that they will get benefits we will not. Because otherwise, what are we doing? Ben: Let me poke at this one more time — and the answer might be that it's impossible. How do you get to serenity with the fact that we're working on a very long-term project that needs many people who are not going to be the person remembered for the thing, and that this is important and worthy? What actually goes on in your head? Ada: Again, there is a mournful side to it. And we therefore need to encourage a culture that celebrates all the contributors. Stop telling stories about a thing as if one person did it. Tell the story of how a whole team of people did this. And when we look at the major innovations of the past, recognize their plural and often anonymous origins and shapers — and ask: will we be content if we end up being the anonymous contributor to future generations having this wonderful thing? Because what matters to me isn't that I get thanked for X. What matters to me is that I helped make sure X happens. That separation of credit is important. I remember thinking vividly about this after reading a book called At Home — by, I think, Thomas Madden, although I may have the name wrong [it's Bill Bryson] — which is a fun popular history about all the objects in your house and how they developed. The history of the table knife, and the chair, and the chest of drawers, and the kitchen; how houses were originally one room and came to be subdivided into multiple rooms, and what the front hall is. It's a really fun, light history, essentially a string of delightful anecdotes. But I noticed that he would sometimes talk about the inventor of something we have — the inventor of the egg whisk or whatever — and then, if the inventor of this useful thing didn't end up rich and famous as a result, he described that as a tragedy. His definition of tragedy was: somebody contributed something that benefited the human race, and they didn't become rich and famous as a result; they lived an ordinary life as X, Y, or Z. Ordinary life was the tragic outcome. I snagged on that. What are we doing if living the life that most people live, having also contributed to the sum total of human happiness, is your definition of tragedy? He had this very strong sense that it was an injustice for someone's name not to travel with their invention, and for someone not to become rich as a result of their invention. And it was such a narrow portrait of what it could mean to contribute to human thriving — one that assumes only the inventor contributes, and not the hundreds of thousands of people involved in the distribution and manufacture and improvement of the egg whisk, who also bring things that help our daily lives. It felt so un-Baconian and unscientific. Bacon, when first arguing for the scientific method, says there is no greater act of charity and love than to do something that helps every human being after you live a better life. In its original articulation, that is its own reward. But the idea that it should be a ladder to fame and social rise, as opposed to something one achieves and is proud of — I think that's where we get snagged, and where we get these stresses. To contribute to humans reaching the stars is to contribute to humans reaching the stars. It is not to be the name that becomes famous. Whose labor counts [00:11:27] Ben: It's an open question to me how you make more of a culture of that. Ada: Part of it is that we have to start evaluating contributions more equally, because we have a really unfair way of thinking about labor, where some types are celebrated and high status and others are low status. This goes way back. It's true in the Middle Ages: any job you do with your hands is low status, and any job that is intellectual work is high status. This is why Michelangelo's father was absolutely rabid against Michelangelo being a sculptor. They came from a banking family, and Michelangelo's father did intellectual work — banking — and it would be a shame upon the family for his son to work with his hands and be an artist. The outcome of this over the course of the Renaissance, via things like Vasari's Lives of the Artists, is that they make the argument for art being intellectual labor — for an artist like Michelangelo to shift status from being thought of as manual labor, like a carpenter, to being thought of as intellectual labor, a peer of a doctor or a scholar. And we now consider art to be a high-status intellectual occupation. But we still have these horrible terms like "unskilled labor." Go watch anybody doing so-called unskilled labor for an hour and you think: holy moly, this person is really good at this. The speed and the elegance with which they have optimized this set of skills is incredible. It takes many kinds of labor to do something. But at an academic institute, we do not celebrate the people maintaining the site or preparing the food in the kitchen as contributors to the thing — even though it's absolutely essential, and without it the thing can't happen. That is a terrible problem. And more and more I see people talking about the world as if only a tiny elite are serious contributors and everyone else is just a dot moving around. An NPC. I was being interviewed about the singularity — this idea of trying to maximize the computing power that Earth produces in order to speed up how quickly we create an AI god. The interviewer asked what one thing would contribute most to maximizing Earth's computing power. And I said: well, obviously it would be UBI, or another way of solving poverty. Because right now the majority of computing power on Earth is human brain cells, which vastly outnumber the computational power of computers. And a large share of that computing power belongs to people living in poverty, whose capacity is being diminished and sidelined onto worrying about where tomorrow's meal is going to come from. When you provide a safety net at a reasonable standard of living, so that people don't have the anxiety that poverty causes, people become way more creative and generative, and start new businesses. All of our UBI experiments show outpourings of art, discovery, entrepreneurship, increased generation — all of which contribute, second order, to Earth advancing. And the crowd who thinks about this was just blown away by thinking of, A, the human brain as computing power, and B, poverty as the largest drain upon the computational powers of the Earth. Ben: People don't think about second-order effects enough, period. Ada: There is no symphony hall without its janitor. There is no symphony hall without the workman in addition to the architect. And we celebrate one of these arbitrarily and not the others. Why is that? Is it because the construction worker is doing something athletic and manual? Well, we celebrate sports people, and they're doing something athletic and manual. It's a totally cultural construction, which of these occupations are celebrated and which are not. Ben: So we just need to celebrate everybody. Ada: Celebrate ninety percent of the occupations — and identify the ten percent where it's actually, this is a waste of a human being. Ben: This is a waste of a human being, and we should not have a human being doing this. That's where we bring in a robot. Ada: Right. But there's all this discussion of "let's have the robots replace everything everyone is doing." No — when human beings are doing things that are stimulating and creative and make them happy, leave it alone. But if we have a robot that cleans out the gutters, that would be great, because nobody is stimulated by cleaning out gutters. Ben: Or does boring paperwork. Ada: Oh, that's the dream. Where the Hives came from: a lunch table in Florence [00:16:44] Ben: Shifting toward Terra Ignota — but not yet to the spoilers. You spent a lot of time in Italy. How did that affect the creation of the Terra Ignota world? Ada: A lot, specifically via Villa I Tatti, an institute owned and run by Harvard but quite independent, in the outskirts of Florence. It's not on the hill where the Decameron takes place; it's on the hill next to the hill where the Decameron takes place — to anchor it in literary geography. It has fellowships, so scholars from all over the world come there, about two dozen a year, for a year-long residency. And one graduate student at a time. I was the graduate student. You're sort of there as a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed mascot. Ben: So it's a bunch of senior scholars and you? Ada: A lot of them are postdocs — they're starting their careers, they've finished their PhDs recently. There are usually two or three senior scholars resident, and then two dozen who are at the next stage from where you as a PhD student are, and from whom you can learn exciting stuff. Some are later career. And they're from all over the place — and they've usually gone all over the place, on similar postdocs and for research. I remember vividly being at a group lunch. There was a married couple there having a conversation with a couple of other people. The mom was Australian and the dad was Spanish. They had two kids, one of whom had been born in the US and another in the UK. They'd lived in France while the kids were little, and now the kids were medium-sized and in Italy, attending a polyglot school. And the parents were discussing the different citizenships the two kids were eligible for, and the benefits and drawbacks of each. "You get this with a UK citizenship, but you can't have that. You can have UK and then US, but you can't have US and then UK. These benefits versus those benefits. And if the kids have two different citizenships, is that bad for them relative to each other? Does it make them feel envious, or unspecial, or special compared to their sibling?" It was such a buyer's-market conversation about citizenship. They were strategically sitting down and asking: which ones do we want to apply for, which ones do they already have, what are the utilities of each one, how do we feel about the governments and the values that they advance? And it made me think: what if everybody had that conversation? What if it were normal, when you're coming of age, to sit down, think about all the citizenships in the world, decide which ones you think are best, and choose — rather than having it fall upon you by accident of birth? It made sense to me using the EU, where people have free movement, as the model. When you're in the EU, you may have been born in France, but your family is Polish and you feel Polish because you grew up with them and visited family and learned the language — or you don't, and you feel French, and that's up to you. That freedom of movement, where who you are isn't where you live, it's what group you identify with, felt so plausible for a future in which technology means mobility is getting faster and more natural, and we choose jobs and homes based on location rather than being limited by geography. Plotters, pantsers, and the tyranny of past you [00:20:42] Ben: I don't know that I've ever heard you talk about your writing process in any detail. Fiction writers — some are plotters, some are pantsers, some are in between. Where do you fall? Ada: I have an essay on Tor.com arguing that the difference is less binary than it feels. For those listening who don't know the definitions: a plotter is somebody who plans ahead, outlines, has a whole plan for the story before they start writing it. A pantser is somebody who plunges in and figures out the story, or the characters, or the details, as they're writing. Here's my argument that these are less different than they sound. If you're a plotter, you're spending extra time planning at the beginning — making your outline, revising your outline, thinking about order and structure, rereading the outline, getting a sense of how it flows and fixing that. Then you implement it, and you do comparatively less revision at the end. Whereas a pantser will plunge into writing six months earlier, figure out those structure questions as they go, get to the end, and then often do more revision — doing to the manuscript the revisions that the plotter would do to the outline. So you're doing the same steps, you're just doing them in a different order. Everybody still does the "hmm, let's think about the pacing; this character has too many chapters where they appear all together and then they don't appear for a long time; I have to think about the balance of that." Everybody does that step. But do you do it before you write the first draft or after? That's the real difference. And you can have a very meticulous story where you figured it out as you went and then went back and put things in earlier to make it all work. I am at the far extreme end of planner. I world-build for at least five years, and then I spend six months doing the outline before I sit down to write the first sentence. I outlined the entire series — chapter by chapter, all four books — and had a complete plan for the whole thing before I wrote the first sentence of the first chapter of the first book. I then followed that outline incredibly precisely. Often when I'm writing I'll get to a point and think, maybe this bit of the outline is wrong, maybe I should do this other thing instead. And I'll start doing the other thing, and work on it, and get more and more frustrated, and wonder why it's going wrong, and whine to my bash'mates about it. And then I'll go back to the outline and realize: oh, of course. Past me is always correct. And I repent of having strayed from the outline. Because past me was in the middle of six months of being zoomed out, looking at the whole structure, really understanding everything being set up short term and long term. Whereas present me, in the middle of writing something, is very immersed in that one chapter and its valences and its emotion, and can lose sight of the work it's doing to continue things from five chapters ago and set things up for five chapters later. I was fully aware of all that when I did the outline, and I might be less aware of it in the act of writing. Which is why the version of me that was outlining is always more correct about what the chapter needs than the version of me sitting down to write the chapter. That's what the outline is for. Five years of worldbuilding, mechanically [00:24:18] Ben: What do you actually do, mechanically, for the five years of worldbuilding? What does that entail? Ada: A lot of it is that I'll have a notion. I'll be sitting at that table at Villa I Tatti listening to the conversation and think, wouldn't that be neat — that would be a really cool thing to explore in a story. I will then take the worlds I'm building, because I'm always building several at once, for several successive series. I'm currently doing the worldbuilding for the series after the series after the series of which the first book comes out next summer. Ben: That's so cool. Ada: I've already fully done the worldbuilding for this series and the series after it, and I'm worldbuilding the series after that, and a couple of others. They're sort of on a conveyor belt: the most assembled, the medium assembled, and the less assembled, as they move forward. I'll take the notion and go to my most assembled world, the one I intend to do soonest, and ask: does this notion fit? Does it combine well with the other stuff I already have in this world? Do they synergize? Are they compatible with each other? And if they are, I'll plop that new idea into the world. So I'll be working on a world where the key ideas are the flying car network, and voluntary citizenship, and a kid who can bring toys to life with a touch, and a revival of eighteenth-century ideas about gender. And then I'll independently get the notion of somebody being a professional living doll. And I'll ask: could that happen in that world? Yes, it could. What would that mean? Well, celebrity culture in a global world would have neat characteristics; the stuff I'm doing with gender would intersect with it in nifty ways. Neat. That notion, totally independent when I came up with it, can live in that world. Or I might have another idea, look at it in that world, and say: you know what, this isn't compatible with this world. The society of Terra Ignota — it doesn't fit. I'm going to take this idea and move on to the next world. And the first world it can go in is where that idea then lives. So worlds accumulate multiple different seeds. You'll notice that it's not that the living doll is derived from the other stuff — it's an independent idea. But once put in, the two connect to each other, the way trees in a forest develop shunts that send sugar to each other and keep each other alive and support the entire forest ecosystem, even though they began as individual and indeed competitive trees. The whole world develops from multiple different central seeds. Ben: Sorry, I'm very interested in the details of this. Are you writing these down on index cards? Ada: A lot of it will just be in my head. I also use OneNote, where I'll jot things down. There will be notes in OneNote that are sometimes a whole table with a chronology that develops over time, but also just a list of words I found evocative, or a reminder note to myself. I also email myself ideas so that I remember them, and there they are, searchably, in my email. I also sometimes write them on Post-it notes and leave them around the house. Sometimes something came to me and felt evocative from a picture — a work of art, or a postcard, or an image. Ben: You have your mood board. Ada: I'll put those by my bed, or in other places, and they'll make me chew on those ideas over time. But the majority of this will be in my head. Nobody could reconstruct the world from those notes. The notes are chaos, until I get to the late pre-outlining stage. I was probably working on the Terra Ignota world for four years before I started writing down the chronology. I do have a long timeline of events, from the present to the completion of the terraforming of Mars, with the dates of when everybody was born, when different cultural movements happened, when this or that historical war that's mentioned began and ended, and so on — a long, color-coded timeline. I'll probably share it at some point, but it's in OneNote, which is hard to export. I also have a custom Google Map which shows the Hive majorities in every major city on the globe, so you can see the distribution of the population. One thing I did deep into the worldbuild, preparing to think through the latter half of the series, was go through all the cities with a population above — I think it's ten million — that exist on Earth now, to figure out the future of each one, and then create several new cities that would be above that threshold by then. Making sure I wasn't skipping any cities. That I did Africa. That I did the Pacific Rim. That I had a global plan for this and not a non-global one. OneNote lets you combine text and note-taking with images, so for example there's one page that is a map of ancient Rome with my own notes on what is in each building in the reconstructed version of Rome in Romanova, where so many events take place. So the note-taking is extensive, but chaotic in my case. Ben: That is incredibly cool. I feel like there's a through-line in great artists and makers of things, where the thing that you see is the tippy-tip of an iceberg. Ada: It has to feel like that — especially for a built world. It has to feel real, it has to feel deep, it has to feel like it has all those things. Big beats, connective tissue, and the management of mood [00:30:35] Ada: Another thing about outlining, briefly. A word I've known a number of authors to use, that I kind of use too: when you're developing the story, there will often be a point at which you know what the big beats of the story are. Let's imagine we're outlining Romeo and Juliet. A big beat is when they meet. A big beat is when they get together. Then there's a sort of midpoint crisis, when the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt result in crisis and Romeo has to be kicked out. And then there's the dramatic ending in which they die. And then you ask: okay, what other stuff do I want in this story? Well, I need to develop the characters of Mercutio and Tybalt, and that has to happen before the midpoint. And I need some comedy scenes — this is Shakespeare — so I need to put those in at some point. So you can imagine Shakespeare saying: I know what the big beats are. Where am I going to fit the Mercutio characterization scene? Should it be right before his death, or earlier, so that we're invested in his character for a while? I want a comedy scene between this sad major serious beat and this sad major serious beat, to vary the mood. Who can be in that scene? I need a lighter scene between Romeo and Juliet meeting and Romeo and Juliet getting together — what can I put there that will change the mood, so we don't have two passionate romantic sequences in a row? So you figure out the big beats, and then you figure out the in-between connective tissue. And sometimes you'll be aware that there must be a speech: I have this idea for Mercutio making this passionate, weird speech about Queen Mab, it's a lot of fun, where do I put it? There's some flexibility — it can be at any point before his death. It can be early, it could be at the beginning, it could be just before his death. How does the audience — or in my case the reader — feel about Mercutio's death differently if we've just come to love him right before, versus if we came to love him really early on and we like him almost more than Romeo because he had more character for half the play before this crisis comes? Many technically-pantser authors I know have figured out the big beats before they start, and then are filling in and improvising the in-between stuff, and might move it around at the end. So if Shakespeare were a pantser, he might have been writing along, and then: Mercutio's dying soon, I get to give him a speech — oh, this speech is so awesome, I want to move it earlier. And he'd move the Queen Mab speech from right before his death to substantially earlier, so that we care about this character for a longer period of time. That's exactly the kind of revision that a pantser does, and that I would do at the outline level, where I have everything on screen in front of me and I'm thinking: these three Mercutio scenes are really all in a cluster. Do I want that? Do I want a character who gets introduced and then, the moment we love them, they're gone? Or do I want to stretch this out, so this is a character with whom we have a longer emotional relationship? So that's core to the outlining process. We have these big beats. At some point we need to meet Saladin — when do we meet Saladin? Is it before or after the revelation of what Mycroft really did? How does it feel if it's before? How does it feel if it's after? Let's settle that. Because many things that happen in a story are not causally related. Some are: Romeo committing murder has to be before the Romeo banishment scene; those can't be reversed, because one causes the other. The "Juliet is sad because Romeo has been banished" scene follows from those. Those have to be in an order. But Romeo meeting Juliet versus the Queen Mab speech — those can be reversed. They aren't causally related. They're independent, except inasmuch as they both have to be early. And then the author gets to think through which is first and which is second, and what the effects of that are. So a lot of the outlining process is putting in the big beats, figuring out what has to be before and what has to be after, and what can go at any point, and then situating it in the right place — and also realizing when mood needs to alternate. One principle of reading is that we notice changes in mood and tension much more than we notice the absolute level. If you write a book with five super-high-stakes action chapters in a row, the reader gets tired of super-high-stakes action. It all feels homogeneous. It doesn't feel exciting anymore. The beginning will feel exciting, but it will then flatline experientially. Whereas if you have a high-paced action sequence, and then a low-mood piece where people are relaxing and something silly happens, or we cut away to the cooks preparing the banquet who are not at all invested in the action that's going on — then when we return to that high-stakes thing, it feels high-stakes again. You need to alternate sad with happy. You need to alternate tense with relaxed. You need to alternate fast-paced with slow-paced, so that people feel all of them more, compared to having a homogeneous mood. So sometimes I'll be going along and think: we've just had three or four chapters in a row where Mycroft, our narrator, is freaking the heck out and overwhelmed and in despair. We need a nice, calm Martin Guildbreaker chapter here, where he's patiently investigating something and explaining his investigation, because that will let us escape the mood — so that when we return to it, the grief being experienced by our narrator is vivid and exciting again, because we had a break. And also so that the complexity of trying to understand what the hell this narrator is actually saying is enjoyable again, in a puzzle-box way. If you do a puzzle box, you want to then coast and not do a puzzle box next — have something as a break, and then do the next puzzle box. I don't want to give you nothing but puzzle-box chapters in a row. I'm also going to give you a nice linear fidget-toy chapter, where you're enjoying manipulating the thing but there's not a puzzle challenge goal. Ben: Noticing the change in mood rather than the mood itself — I see that across many areas of how people notice things. People notice a thing changing more than the absolute level. Ada: You notice color in places where there is very little color. You notice beauty in places where there's very little beauty. Ben: Or changes in prices. People don't go around thinking "ah yes, this is expensive" all the time while the price stays the same. But all of a sudden a price changes and people react. Ada: Exactly. We very much operate logarithmically, and notice the change — the integral rather than the absolute amount, or the absolute speed at which something's moving. Designing the Hives [00:38:20] Ben: Related to worldbuilding — and if you've talked about this somewhere and I missed it, I apologize — how did you come up with the Hives in the first place? They feel so specific. Ada: When I had this idea at Villa I Tatti of "what if you choose your citizenship," I was thinking about it as deriving from transit — transit becoming easy. And then I thought: okay, what kinds of organizations would these be? If transit is suddenly really easy, if you can go anywhere on Earth in two hours, people are not going to want to put up with the frustrating, slow passport system. They're going to want that streamlined. I was thinking about the Global Entry program. This is a thing you sign up for, and it vets you, and it's trusted, and it's a third party but semi-governmental and semi-not, and it facilitates you being able to go much faster through the border. What if one of those became even more so, so that when you're a member you really can skip everything and zip around the Earth really easily? Well, if one of those developed, competitors would develop. What other kinds of focuses might a transit thing have? One of the things people would want to travel for is sports matches — people already do that. So there would be something whose whole shtick is: do you want to go see that game on another continent? We will facilitate that so it's easy. I also thought about CouchSurfing, which — I think people do it less now — but you sign up to say "I've got a couch," and others sign up to say "I'm traveling to a place," and the thing itself facilitates being friendly, and there's trusted-person vetting. And that idea became the Cousins: the idea of having a cousin in that town, who you may never actually have met, but they're not going to be too weird, because they're your cousin. You have this slight bridge of trust. So what if there was a company that stepped in to capitalize on what CouchSurfing is, but make it more formal, and called itself the Cousins network, and its motto was "what if you had a cousin in every town — we will hook that up"? I could see that company having started out more like CouchSurfing, where it's about where you're staying, and then branching into facilitating your ticket. And then Gordian being the one that really was just like Global Entry — a simple profit-seeking company that would do this. And then when the moment of the Great Renunciation comes — this is all background to the book, of course — these suddenly become political associations, when they had just been memberships. The way you might have a membership in Costco. The European Union is already this. But if people have a membership in Costco, often that means they have certain values, as well as desiring to buy cheap bulk things. So you could imagine that if suddenly there were a major global crisis, and Costco said, "Okay, everybody who has a Costco membership — we kind of trust you, and we believe you share our values of paying people a living wage and making sure things flow. Do you want to transition to being a politically active group?" And everybody who has a Costco membership would say, "Well, actually, yeah. In fact, it does make sense at this weird juncture in human history to transition my Costco membership into being part of a political association that's in favor of a living wage and making sure people eat." And you could see Costco transforming itself in a real crisis into a big series of pop-up mutual aid and new community kitchen things. That could totally happen. Ben: They already make a lot of hot dogs. Ada: The infrastructure is there, and the number of people with a connection to this thing is there. So it's the sort of thing that in the moment of the Great Renunciation could do that. And I imagined lots of other Hives being born like that. And then I asked: what new ones would be born, when suddenly this is political? Well, one of them would be the Masons — because there's always this sort of "oh no, I'm not in any of these groups, I feel left out," among the large slice of the population that feels drawn to strength and claims of tradition and claims of strong authority. And here are all of these legends about this being that. So if somebody cunning steps in and mobilizes it, they could make the Masons be born at that moment. And meanwhile, science fiction nerds are really well connected with each other. We all have community groups that organize Worldcon and all of this, and authors who can speak up and say, "Hey, all my fans — this thing, it's time to act." So it was plausible to me that Utopia could form very quickly in that moment of crisis as well. So part of it was: what groups and corporations and things that already exist could do this? And I remember wanting a really corporate one — this is the Mitsubishi in the end. What kinds of things last over time? The obvious choice would have been to be like Google or something. But when you look over time at corporations that really last multiple centuries, they tend to do very plural things. They tend to be consortia of multiple corporations rather than one. And they tend to be defined around a market or a world ethic rather than a product. Look at IBM, which has not become one of the giant Earth-owning corporations, but has sure steadily existed and never had a crisis. A big part of that is that IBM defines itself as: we make products for corporations. Whatever new thing needs to be made for corporations, we will start making that. If people develop a completely unprecedented new technology, that is what we will do, and we will orient it around having an established, clear relationship with corporations. So even if the computer ceased to matter economically tomorrow because it was replaced by the genetically modified super-eggplant, they would transition into corporate-focused genetically modified super-eggplants. And they would make that transition fine, in a way that Apple — which defines itself as an electronics company — would have struggled with at the time. Though Apple now is also a media and entertainment company, which is broader. So the Mitsubishi Group, which is not one corporation but dozens and dozens of corporations that make a wide variety of things and are a consortium with each other, is a corporate structure that's likely to withstand multiple multi-decade, multi-century tech tumults and still be coherent. That's why I picked that. Ben: Were there any Hive ideas that got the chopping block? Any that almost made it in? Ada: None got the complete chopping block, because of course one of the structures of this is that there have been fewer over time and they've merged. So the other ideas are the ones that are mentioned briefly as existing — like OBP, which stands for One Big Party. Ben: Which merged with the Humanists. Ada: They merged with the Humanists. But that was globe-trotting so that you could go to concerts and parties and get-togethers, rather than sports matches. There's enough overlap between those ideas — because you're traveling to enjoy an event — that it makes sense those two could merge, with a focus on both sports and art, concerts and performances: a focus on wanting to go enjoy and behold a human being doing something excellent. So you could see how they'd share a compatible ethic. Similarly Greenpeace, merging later with the Mitsubishi — but not fully yet. Would there be a group that would form centered on environmental custodianship, and wanting to take care not of people but of baby elephants? What would that be like? What countries would it have — not just a bunch of enthusiastic members, as it would anywhere, but massive, systemic, big cultural buy-in as opposed to small cultural buy-in? In the same way that sports fandom is bigger in some countries than others, or science fiction fandom is bigger in some countries than others even though it's present everywhere, personal investment in land and the value of land and land custodianship varies a lot. I was interviewing friends from all over the place, and it sounded, from talking with them, like India was the place where people had a very strong cultural investment in land. One interesting quality of India in the international world is that people in India are much more reluctant to sell land to a foreign owner than in most cultures. There is lots of land in India owned by corporations, but they're Indian corporations much more so. And people are likely to turn down a foreign buyer making an offer on property — whether it's large-scale property or even just a house or a bungalow — because of this sense that India's land should belong to India's people, which is stronger than in many other cultures. And this isn't a "we don't want foreigners dwelling here." We'll happily rent to a foreigner. It's the idea that the land should stay in the hands. I thought that would be an interesting place for Greenpeace's big nest of power to be centered, as it values land and land custodianship. And then I was thinking through: in this global future, who inherits all the national parks? If the nation-states are giving way to successor states, do the national parks dissolve, or does one of these say, "We're going to be the one" — and have what become global parks, and a huge portion of the unpopulated world in their ownership and custodianship? [Sponsor break — Seedhouse. "Buying a house is a big decision. Planting one isn't." 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Ada: I think it holds up an example of a future worth having and worth living in, with lots of exciting things one can push for. And a future of strong and respect-worthy values. One of the things about Terra Ignota is that, with very few exceptions, all the characters are philosophically self-examined and noble and have good ideals — ideals worth fighting for. And even though people come into strong conflict with each other, you respect and love both sides, because these are great people and they're fighting for great things. Ben: It's not a "there's a bad guy," which is so common. Ada: It's a neat vision of the future: what if everybody, even the people we fiercely disagreed with, was awesome, and we were disagreeing about important implementation or values — but underneath that, everybody was great? What if we have this high portrait of what humanity is and could become? Because one metric of progress is how rich we are, and another is how long we live. But what if another metric of progress is how excellent our conflicts are — so that we only have conflicts when it's about some really important, worthwhile cause? We don't have conflicts about grievance, or oil, or profit, or moral panic. We have conflicts about important philosophic principles and fundamentals. Wouldn't that, even though there's still conflict, be a form of progress? Ben: Peace is one form of progress, but moving to "this is a war worth fighting" is another form of progress. That's fascinating. Ada: And "I respect my enemy" is a form of progress. I love when Terra Ignota readers embrace and really want to live by some of these principles. I do sometimes feel like we could organize into a political advocacy group and crowdfund a lobbyist who advanced the values of this. Ben: Let's do it. I think that would be really cool. Ada: I would love to see it happen, because there are very important values in it — including the "what if we love the future and work for the future, but aren't vain about it, and do so with humility?" Now, one thing I sometimes run across— Ben: No, say what you were going to say first. Ada: No, I want to hear yours. I'll say what I was going to say anyway. Ben: Okay. The thing that also almost surprised me is how it really has something for everybody — there's a Hive that everyone feels kinship with. The obvious opposite would be Harry Potter, where of course you want to be in Gryffindor; Gryffindor is awesome, maybe Ravenclaw, but everybody else is kind of meh. When I interact with other people who love Terra Ignota — I'm a Utopian, and at first I assumed everybody else who likes this is going to be a Utopian. But no. I've run into people who identify with every Hive. Ada: And also sometimes people who say they would be a Graylaw, or who say "my religious identity is so core to me, I think I'd live in a reservation." I do run into that as well. And — great, there's space for you in this cool world. The world needs to respect you too, and have room in it for that, and needs that population, and needs to interface with them more as the narrative unfolds. I worked hard for there to be breadth. And I worked hard to think through: if these Hives were the Hives that formed from other Hives merging with each other, if there used to be dozens and now there are seven— Ben: What's the spanning set? Ada: Exactly. And what bigger and bigger ideas came together under umbrellas? Ben: Okay — what was the thing you were going to say? Ada: I sometimes run into people who say, "Oh, I'm a big fan of Too Like the Lightning," and who haven't read further. It's a little perplexing to people who are completionists and read the whole thing, but there's a not insignificant swath of people who read book one and haven't read the rest, who are very excited by the glimpse it shows of this future, but didn't continue on to see the way it then critiques the imperfections in this future — and shows the future recognizing its own problems and critiquing itself and becoming dynamic, and by the end being on the path to incremental improvement. I find it interesting talking with people like that, a lot of whom are Silicon Valley people. When you're an author, one thing that's the case is that you can log into Amazon and it'll show you this little map of America with how many copies of your book have sold in each region. So I know how many copies of Terra Ignota have been bought in New York City versus Arkansas versus elsewhere. For practically all books, the largest sales are New York City — New York City is very big, very populous, and they read a lot of books — and usually Silicon Valley is second. With Terra Ignota it's the other way around. So it is disproportionately popular among a world of people who see their technology transforming our lives and want an apparatus for thinking about what its future will be — one that is not just yet another cautionary tale about how the thing they're making could be used by a dystopia to make the world worse, but also how it could be used by a positive future to make the world better. I love that it's popular there, and I love talking to tech people who are eager to talk to me about it. But every so often I'll get this chilling thing, where one of the things in the world-build that for me is definitely negative and should be raising your alarm bells, they will have seen as positive. Ben: I'm sure you know the meme: "Ah yes, we have built the Torture Nexus from the book, Do Not Build The Torture Nexus." Ada: Yes. With its much-needed sequel, No, I Meant Don't Build the Torture Nexus. I had a conversation not long ago with a person who said they loved how Terra Ignota was basically a world without crime — an interesting thing for them to observe, because of course we know that's not the case— Ben: That's not the case, and that's not the mechanism by which it's not the case. Ada: And this was, in their reading, because of the trackers and universal surveillance: that it was an exploration of how universal surveillance could be great and could cause the end of crime. And I said: well, firstly, there is crime. But secondly, the reason the universal surveillance isn't that bad in Terra Ignota is that the governments are so good — because the buyer's market for citizenship holds governments to great degrees of accountability. If they misused this data, there would be public outcry, and then a mass movement against the government that did it, as citizens switched to other Hives. That accountability means that when the data is misused — as indeed it is, as we see over the course of book two — there is a consequence, speedily, for that misuse. The governments, being accountable, cannot abuse it. And the person just looked really sad. Because clearly, to this person who worked for a surveillance tech company, this was a hope that a surveillance tech future could be good, not bad. They hadn't thought through that it's the political change and the levels of political accountability that make it plausible that in such a future, surveillance tech would not do the harm it can do in a future where governments have a lot of power and not a lot of accountability. So I always find it interesting to see people who see a particular thing they're looking for in a future in Terra Ignota — at least in book one — and then didn't follow that journey forward to be challenged by it. But I love the people who read all of the books and followed me through the journey of: what if we have this future, and it's a great future, but it's not a perfect future, and it recognizes that, and it has to go through growing pains and work to become even better? Because one of the things about a utopia in the classic sense is that it's static. It's achieved this perfect state and it's unchanging. A book that is a true classic utopia basically feels like you have arrived in the city and they say, "Hello, stranger! Would you like to learn about our perfect public transit system? Now would you like to learn about our perfect public education system?" Welcome to Finland — we would like to lecture you on the superiority of all of our social and technological institutions. And you're like: actually, Finland, you're really great at all these things, and I wish we could elect you to rule the world and implement all of these things in most of our countries in many ways. But it feels weird getting these tours of perfect worlds that then aren't also self-examining and dynamic. So Terra Ignota is a hopeful future, but not a utopian future, because it has flaws. I remember when the first book came out, a lot of the initial discourse — the first blog posts of its earliest readers — was arguing about whether it was a utopia or a dystopia, trying to put it in one bucket or the other. "It has to be a utopia, everyone's happy, the lifespans are long." "No, it has censorship and surveillance, it has to be a dystopia." People would talk with each other before thinking through that it's an in-between. It has a lot of things that are better than our present and a few things that are worse than our present, and a lot of great achievements and a lot of stuff that still really needs to change. And a realistic future is one that is still changing. ⚠ The spoiler line [01:00:44] Ben: I'm going to transition us to speak about that realistic future. So — this is the spoiler warning. Anybody listening after this point: we expect you have read all the books. You will learn what happens in them. We will not explain anything. This is the part I'm very excited about. Also, sidebar: the fourth book is actually my favorite one. Ada: It's the best one. I needed all the other stuff before I could do that. Ben: The speech about the Trunk War, and the in-path and the out-path — that got me. Ada: Like the composer of a symphony, I needed to introduce all the leitmotifs and establish everything so that I could then do the final movement, in which everything happens at once. So I do setup, and I do more setup, and I do more setup — and then I have the full resources of those three books' worth of background, so that I can jump in and do things with an enormous complexity and depth that can only work when you have built that far. How the economy works [01:01:51] Ben: Something you don't talk about very much in the books, but that I assume exists in the giant iceberg: how does the economy work? There are little hints — clearly there are still black markets, clearly there's some form of buying and selling — but beyond that it's really not explained. And we get hints that it works a little differently for different Hives. Ada: We also know that the Hives resolve police conflicts with each other: when a member of one Hive has committed a crime against a member of another, the Hive that the person in the wrong came from pays the other Hive, and then punishes their own person by their own techniques. So a Mason receives the punishment a Mason normally gets, which might be much harsher than what the Cousins would normally do — but the Cousins get a certain amount of money that is standardized for the crime. So money is used among the Hives to balance out their frictions. That means Hives are incentivized to discourage crimes by their members against other members, because it costs them a certain amount of money. But they're not super-mega-over-the-top incentivized. They would never spend half their budget on policing, because it's resolved. Within that, the economy works quite differently for different Hives. The Mitsubishi and Humanists are on a very capitalist, more corporate model. The Utopians are space communists. Everything you earn goes to space, and you receive back what you need to live. The constellations process things around, and there is enough for everyone to live in comfort, but you do not have private assets and private income. It's set up the way a monastery runs. If you have a job and are a monk, this is just true: if you're a monk and you also have a professorship, your salary goes to the monastery, and you still receive the same meals and support and housing and stipend that any other monk does. It doesn't matter whether you're in a high-profit or low-profit job — you're doing a worthwhile job, therefore the Hive supports you, or the monastery supports you. So they're fully space communists: everything goes into the Hive and comes back out. The Cousins have much more of a safety-net thing, where everybody has a guaranteed income, but you can also have additional income on top of that. And if you do have earned income, the Cousins take a very large slice of it in taxes, because they pay for so many services which both you and the world benefit from — and you feel good that, in a charitable way, you have funded schools and hospitals all over the world in a massive transformation. So that also appeals to somebody who, if they had supplementary income, would choose to give a lot of it to charity. You're sort of signing up in advance to have your income largely routed to charity, while you keep enough to live on and some more, so there's an incentive to earn more, but not a huge one. The Masons have a complicated thing — this is why it's not in the book. It's calculated: the value of your contribution to the empire. How valuable a subject are you to Caesar? A number is put on that. And if you have a job or occupation that earns less than that, then you receive a stipend from the empire in credit for the services you've done to the empire. And if you're working directly for the empire, as the Guildbreakers do, then you receive a stipend from the emperor. What it means is that a lot of Masons will fluctuate during their lifetime between "100% of my income is coming from a salary" and "now half my income is coming from a salary and half from the fact that I am a Masonic traffic guard, or whatever it is, working for Caesar." So Caesar pays this slice of my income, and my salary for something else pays another slice. And it's a point of pride to have more and more of it be your value from the empire — because then you're serving the empire better and doing more. Though there's also a point of pride in having a hundred percent from salary, so that you're not draining Caesar's purse. Ben: I bet there are the two different groups of people — the one high status and the other high status — and they beef a little bit. One currency, and the currencies underneath it [01:07:06] Ben: All of that implies some kind of single cross-Hive currency. Ada: You'll notice all the prices are in euros throughout the book. Whenever any price is named, it's in euros. And the presumption is that Romanova administers a kind of central bank — and that the Censor's office is key to the administration of that central bank. The Censor's office is fundamentally doing economic analysis as well as social analysis. Ben: Which sort of implies that Hives cannot operate like a lot of modern governments, where they print their own currency. Ada: They can and they can't. You can still do currency exchange with the reservations, which are very intentionally not discussed very much in the first three books, so that we're sort of curious and slightly alarmed. And then they become so vividly present at major key moments in the last book, and you have this sort of backwards — I've been thinking of this as the marginal barbarians. Wait a minute, that's the United Nations. That's me. We are those marginal remnants — that's the evolution of the way we live now. The other thing is that Hives can create internal fiat currencies of different sorts, that are tradable only among them and that only they would really care about. So for example, the Mitsubishi have this: you get one vote for owning different amounts of property. Property and votes move together, and there's a unit which is one vote's worth of property — a significant value of a thing. And the Mitsubishi pay a lot of attention to those circulating. So it's not a small currency, in that you would never buy a sandwich with it. It's a currency in which the smallest unit is $300,000 or $200,000, because it's the value of a condominium, basically. But people pay a lot of attention to it, care about it. They can't just generate more without building architecture — but they can generate more by the act of building architecture or buying property. And if Mitsubishi buys property, that transforms it from a thing that has cash value to a thing that has cash value and a vote's worth. And then it moves around. So it operates in a complex way, like a non-fiat currency — a currency where there is a real thing attached to this unit of currency — but they only change hands for big deals, not small deals. And then people commit their vote to a voting bloc, which supports a higher voting bloc, so you're delegating your voting power rather than exercising it independently. The campus system [01:10:26] Ben: I feel like I could talk about this for a very long time, but I have more spoiler questions. How does the campus system work? Ada: A campus is referred to a number of times but never really explained. It's not quite a university, because it's a cluster in one area of multiple educational options. A campus might have a major research university, and three different colleges with different focuses, and several trade schools. So you might choose to go to that campus to attend a research university. Or you might choose to go to that campus to get a trade school degree as an artisan and be a master glassblower. Or you might choose to go there and say: I like the mood of this campus. This is the Romanova campus, so everybody who goes here really cares about politics — but they want to do different things in politics. Some want to go to journalism school, some want to be lawyers and complete law school, some really want to be politicians, some really want to observe, some might want to be architects but are interested in political thought and how it informs architecture, so there's an architecture school there. And you might be going for different lengths of time, because you might be doing different successive degrees. You might say: I really love political thought, I want to be in the city where it happens, I want to be in the community of other people where all my fellow students are into politics. So even though I want to be a doctor, I'll choose to go to medical school there, and make friends with somebody who's there to do architecture, and another friend who's there to get a polylaw degree and wants to be a polylaw. But we get to mix and mingle and enjoy debating and discussing and observing politics, united by that shared ethic for my bash'. And then I made another place that's like: this is a campus designed for people who really love water sports. We're going to have fifteen different educational options — there will be a medical school, and a law school, and small liberal-arts-focused colleges, and a large research university here also — but all of them are structured around a bay that has really good surfing and where there are lots of boats. So if you're somebody who loves that kind of thing, and you think you probably want to have a bash' with people who share that passion, then you might choose to go to that campus. You choose based on the campus and its mood, not based on which school is best for law. You can choose any campus and get a law degree there. So it's more about expecting that this is a personally formative phase of your life, in which you're going to find your bash' and find your bash'mates. So you go to the campus where you expect shared interest with those bash'mates. And there are a few campuses that are dominantly Masons, where you go — you grew up a Mason, you're expected to be a Mason, you want all of your bash'mates to be Masons, and they do Masonic things, and probably you're going to join a hereditary Masonic bash'. But you still do need to go about finding your bash'. You might therefore choose to go to one that's dominantly Masons. But you could also go to the Romanova campus and be in the college that's a Masonic college at the Romanova campus, where one part of your social world is mostly Masons and another part is very mixed. Ben: Administratively, are they all one organization, or just a bunch of co-located organizations? Ada: Co-located organizations, with a central organization that maintains the campus as a whole. That organization doesn't do the admissions, or decide who's there, or what programs there are. But they collect money from all of the schools that benefit from the presence of this campus, and use that to maintain the grounds and the infrastructure and the safety and the boats. Or, in the case of the Romanova one, to have lecture series where they bring in statesmen to talk to the students. So the central organization organizes the infrastructure and incentives that make the campus desirable, but it doesn't run the individual universities and schools. Those are still independent. When a new campus is formed, it buys up a bunch of land and then either sells or leases that land to individual schools that want to develop there. Most often the format would be a hundred-year lease. And then after a hundred years we'll evaluate whether this school actually still is a major contributor to the thing or not — so that it's not constantly uncertain. There's a symbiosis between the campus umbrella organization and the individual schools, but the individual schools are themselves separately run. Ben: I love that. Ada: There are already parts of the world where there are three or four colleges really near each other — like Cambridge, Massachusetts, where there are people from Harvard and people from MIT mixing with each other, and one of the things the two schools do is benefit from each other. And the more your educatio

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Rund um die Meerenge von Hormus gibt es laut Greenpeace mehrere Ölteppiche, offenbar durch ausgelaufenes Öl von beschossenen Tankern. Viele Schutzgebiete seien an der iranischen und der omanischen Küste akut bedroht. Nina Amin mit den Hintergründen

In the headlines today, new DTV requirements leave applicants scratching their heads as different rules seem to apply at different embassies, then, more than 200 brits have been detained in cannabis smuggling cases linked to Thailand, in Nonthaburi, a woman pursues a case after a violent confrontation with her lawyer neighbor, also, a major protest involving Greenpeace broke out against Thailand's continuing investment in fossil fuels, and a little later a singer in Lampang is facing legal troubles after a performance parodying the now infamous ex-monk.

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"Ginel" es una banda madrileña formada por 5 artistas con un bagaje musical diverso, que desemboca en un sonido cargado de Soul, Reggae, R&B y Dub. Vienen al programa con su primer trabajo grande: "Borde Vivo", grabado en Madrid y mezclado en Londres por Oli Barton-Wood, productor premiado recientemente. El resultado es una propuesta personal y sumamente atractiva, en la que los miembros de "Ginel", resaltan la esencia orgánica de la música. Hablamos con Marta G. cantante y compositora y con Ramón Paz, guitarra solista y anuncian próximos conciertos.""Con motivo de la celebración el pasado 18 de agosto, del Día Mundial de la Prevención de Incendios Forestales, la organización ecologista "Greenpeace", recuerda que, para abordar la nueva era de grandes incendios forestales, se requiere, ante todo, una voluntad política clara para adoptar las medidas ya consensuadas por numerosos expertos y profesionales de la extinción de incendios y de la sociedad civil. El año 2025 fue terrible para España en materia de incendios y todo apunta a que este 2026, será todavía peor. Los incendios forestales constituyen un problema muy complejo, poliédrico y por ello hay que combatirlos con diferentes soluciones y en varias direcciones. Faltan medios técnicos y humanos, falta voluntad política y la prevención, a diferentes niveles, es fundamental para encontrar soluciones. Hablamos de todas estas cuestiones con Miguel Ángel Soto, responsable de bosques de "Greenpeace" y con Ferran Dalomau, ingeniero forestal y experto en incendios."Escuchar audio

Almost a year on from the previous Canterbury Regional Council declaring a 'nitrate emergency', a new report pointing to high nitrate levels across the region has been presented to councillors. The council also heard from Greenpeace, Health New Zealand and the water regulator, Taumata Arowai, who have proposed an additional limit on nitrate to protect people from possible long-term health effects. Keiller MacDuff reports.

Dono das segundas maiores reservas mundiais de minerais críticos, o Brasil acaba de aprovar no Congresso um projeto de lei que cria a política nacional de desenvolvimento do setor. O potencial da exploração desses recursos, cobiçados por potências como os Estados Unidos e a Europa, é estimado em centenas de bilhões de reais. Entretanto, o país ainda tem lacunas importantes a superar para se tornar uma liderança global. Lúcia Müzell, da RFI em Paris O projeto de lei, que seguiu para sanção presidencial, visa liberar investimentos de longo prazo, de até R$ 7 bilhões em incentivos governamentais e contribuições privadas para impulsionar projetos de exploração dessas riquezas. "Sem dúvida, o projeto é um avanço, principalmente porque o Brasil finalmente começa a tratar minerais críticos como uma política de Estado. Agora, quando nós estamos falando de futuro, precisamos discutir se os instrumentos criados por ele serão suficientes para mudar a nossa posição na cadeia de produção, ou apenas ampliar a nossa capacidade de produzir”, pondera Jaques Paes, executivo da indústria minerária, pesquisador e professor em MBAs de Sustentabilidade e Estratégia na Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). "A partir do momento em que nós fornecemos o recurso, o retorno de curto prazo pode reduzir o incentivo para construir um retorno industrial de longo prazo." Uma vez adotada a lei, virá a etapa crucial da regulamentação, com o detalhamento de prioridades, procedimentos e controles da atuação das empresas. Um dos principais objetivos é desenvolver a cadeia de refino no próprio Brasil, na esperança de romper com a dinâmica histórica de o país ser apenas exportador de matérias-primas. Avançar no processamento e industrialização "É aí que eu acho que o Brasil tem que mirar. Ele tem que ter como alvo a industrialização e usar a etapa de processamento para ir ganhando espaço no mercado internacional, e conhecimento para chegar na parte de industrialização”, ressalta Rosana Santos, diretora-executiva do Instituto E+ Transição Energética. "Temos um parque incipiente, mas temos as condições de absorção de um parque mais complexo." O projeto de lei (PL) enquadra a atuação de empresas ou governos estrangeiros no país e cria um conselho, controlado pelo Estado, para homologar mudanças no controle societário de empresas do setor – o que pode acabar sendo um freio para os investidores, à mercê das mudanças no Planalto. A segurança jurídica é crucial para atrair os investimentos que a cadeia carece. O escopo do texto é amplo, ao incluir não apenas terras raras e os minerais críticos, com baixa disponibilidade no mundo, mas também os minerais estratégicos, importantes particularmente para o Brasil e sua balança comercial, como o minério de ferro.  O risco do modelo minério de ferro  Hoje, a China é, de longe, a maior potência global em produção e exportação desses elementos, com reservas estimadas em 44 milhões de toneladas. O Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos (USGS) aponta que o Brasil possui cerca de 23% das terras raras mapeadas no planeta, com 21 milhões de toneladas, concentradas principalmente nos estados de Minas Gerais, Goiás, Amazonas, Bahia e Sergipe. No entanto, o país produz menos de 1% do consumo global desses materiais, fundamentais para as indústrias de tecnologia, de defesa e a transição energética. Leia tambémOCDE vê oportunidade para Brasil e América Latina com demanda mundial por terras raras O Brasil, afirma Paes, está "muito distante” de conseguir explorar o potencial que os minerais raros representam. A capacidade instalada de processamento e refino no país é quase nula.  "Nós temos um processo muito importante e muito bem avançado na lavra, que é a primeira parte. Só que na mineração, quanto mais distante nós vamos ficando da lavra, maior é o valor agregado que nós temos. Pegue o exemplo do minério de ferro: nós exportamos minério e importamos aço”, salienta o executivo. "Para mim, essa é uma das lacunas que o PL poderia explorar mais: as parcerias públicas e privadas. As empresas que estão aqui no Brasil têm competência para isso, só que elas precisam de uma segurança para fazer”, reitera. PL não direciona para política industrial clara Os dois analistas ouvidos pela RFI avaliam que o projeto de lei falhou ao não determinar as condições para incentivar uma política industrial para o setor, em meio a uma acirrada concorrência internacional. A mineradora americana USA Rare Earth acaba de concluir a aquisição da Serra Verde, a única produtora de terras raras no Brasil, em Minaçu (Goiás). "Na criação do fundo, não se diferenciou o dinheiro que vai para exploração, o que vai para o beneficiamento ou para industrialização. Se isso não for especificado na regulamentação, eventualmente essa alocação de dinheiro vai ficar toda na fase de exploração”, alerta Rosana Santos. A especialista em transição energética ressalta que o contexto eleitoral vivido no Brasil traz riscos à futura regulamentação, que poderá ser concluída só no ano que vem, pelo próximo governo. "A indústria bélica, de alta tecnologia, de chips nos Estados Unidos depende umbilicalmente de acesso a terras raras e minerais críticos. Há um interesse gigante de controlar esses minerais aqui do Brasil”, afirma. "Se você não tiver um governo muito antenado de que não é para entregar tudo, [que] é preciso sentar na mesa de negociação, você pode, de novo, replicar o nosso modelo, de sermos o segundo maior exportador de minério de ferro do mundo para a China.” Sustentabilidade  Outro aspecto negligenciado é o da sustentabilidade. Após a aprovação do PL no Senado, organizações como o Observatório do Clima e Greenpeace denunciam a ausência de salvaguardas ambientais para uma atividade que comporta riscos graves de contaminação do meio ambiente e de populações. Também exigem garantias para os municípios e comunidades locais de que os recursos beneficiarão as regiões que abrigam terras raras. Santos explica que as salvaguardas existem, previstas na legislação ambiental e regras de licenciamento. O que faltou é garantir que o Estado, em nível federal ou estadual, aplicará licenciamentos rígidos e efetivará a fiscalização das atividades mineradoras. "Faltou uma linha para deixar muito claro que Brumadinho e Mariana não podem acontecer mais”, diz Santos. O encaminhamento dos recursos dos futuros royalties desses minerais também deveria já estar claro no PL, frisa a diretora-executiva do Instituto E+. “Dinheiro de royalty não é para pagar churrasco, é para preparar a economia do município e a população para o momento em que esses minerais não existirão mais”, observa. Jaques Paes aponta ainda que o aspecto da rastreabilidade da cadeia, embora mencionado no texto, é insuficiente. "Nós poderíamos ter relacionado melhor essa parte. Se o Brasil pretende vender minerais, produtos processados para uma cadeia global, que é cada vez mais exigente, a rastreabilidade pode ser uma vantagem comercial, social e ambiental”, indica.

México vende más de 129 mil vehículos en agosto Recuperan 41 inmuebles por despojo en TecámacUltraderecha gana elecciones regionales en SajoniaMás información en nuestro podcast#grc

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von Anna Wallner. Live-Podcast mit Erste-Chef Bosek. Er zieht Bilanz der Polen-Übernahme, vergleicht KI mit der Erfindung des Buchdrucks, äußert sich pessimistisch zum Ukraine-Krieg und stellt sich unbequemen Publikumsfragen zu Kohleausstieg und Ölgeschäft.

"Her starter de døde fjorde" står der på et banner, som klimaaktivister har hængt på Landbrugets hovedkvarter Axelborg i København. Landbruget selv har indkaldt til krisemøde i Odense, mens regeringen er på vej med nye kvælstofkrav til landmændene, landbruget skal gøde mindre for at redde havmiljøet. Internt i Venstre er der uenighed om de nye krav om at gøde mindre og lægge marker brak. P1 Debat tager kvælstof og landbrugs-debatten Du kan blande dig i debatten ved at ringe på 7021 1919 eller send en sms til 1212. De medvirkende er: Mikael Petersen, Danske Gartneriers formand Peter Nyegaard Nissen, sektordirektør Landbrug & Fødevarer Marie Bjerre, Venstre, miljø- og natur-ordfører Carl Valentin, SF, Grøn Trepart ordfører Emil Bejer-Pedersen, kampagneleder Greenpeace, landbrug, natur, skov Amy Rasmussen, økolandmand, Kiselgården Selma Montgomery, klimaaktivist, Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse Tilrettelægger: Louise Reumert Vært: Gitte Hansen

En este episodio de Creadores Podcast conversamos con el Dr. Marcos Mazzuka, experto en toxicología y desintoxicación celular con más de 30 años de experiencia, sobre por qué millones de personas se sienten enfermas, cansadas y envejecidas aunque sus análisis salgan "perfectos". Hablamos de los "enfermos ocultos": cómo la pérdida del 46% de los micronutrientes en los alimentos (dato de Greenpeace) y el aumento de 50 veces en la cantidad de tóxicos ambientales están acelerando el envejecimiento celular de toda una generación.Si te has sentido agotado, inflamado o "viejo antes de tiempo" sin explicación médica clara, este episodio te da un mapa concreto de por dónde empezar. Suscríbete a Creadores Podcast y déjanos en los comentarios qué cambio vas a hacer primero.Shownotes00:00 — Por qué nos sentimos enfermos si los análisis salen perfectos02:05 — Qué son los enfermos ocultos y la generación hipertóxica04:02 — Los 5 errores en la industria alimentaria que bloquean tus células07:03 — Cómo funciona la metáfora de la cocina celular y el envejecimiento prematuro11:21 — Por qué los tóxicos están en la base de la pirámide de la salud15:03 — La verdad sobre por qué la medicina tradicional no enseña toxicología18:22 — Qué hace un tóxico dentro del cuerpo humano y cómo se acumula20:04 — Cómo saber si tienes la mutación del gen MTHFR y no puedes desintoxicarte24:24 — Por qué el colesterol es clave para la reparación de la membrana celular27:40 — Cómo el mercurio y los metales pesados desencadenan enfermedades autoinmunes31:46 — La razón por la que hay tanto mercurio en los océanos desde 197339:22 — Qué relación existe entre el mercurio, el intestino permeable y la cándida44:06 — Lista de alimentos y productos de uso diario cargados de toxinas45:13 — Cómo eliminar el arsénico del arroz con este truco de 5 minutos50:35 — Tipos de analíticas esenciales: Mineralograma de cabello y Tox-Check55:30 — Cómo prevenir infartos e ictus desintoxicando tus vasos sanguíneos1:00:16 — Lista de síntomas para saber si tu cuerpo está intoxicado1:05:42 — Cómo funciona la quelación intravenosa y oral para expulsar metales1:13:54 — Qué hábitos de desintoxicación y ayunos funcionan realmente1:18:38 — Cómo empezar a limpiar tu hogar y tu cocina sin gastar una fortuna1:25:28 — Tipos de alimentos ricos en cisteína y azufre para desintoxicar el hígado1:27:30 — Los 3 peores aceites proinflamatorios que debes eliminar de tu dieta1:29:26 — Por qué el exceso de ejercicio aeróbico puede acelerar el estrés oxidativo1:35:55 — El mensaje final del Dr. Marcos Masuca para vivir sin miedoSi te gustó este episodio, te recomendamos ver:- https://youtu.be/Bz5x-7JyzUU- https://youtu.be/HBlq73DzAPE- https://youtu.be/Bg0_zMYSdSM- Recibe 5% de descuento en tu suscripción de los mejores suplementos utilizando el código CREADORES en https://belevels.com/- Recibe acceso gratuito a mi lista de los 100 libros que transformarán tu vida aquí: https://www.creadores.co/newsletter- Únete a la lista de espera para nuestro proximo evento presencial en CDMX: https://creadores.co/eventos/- Invierte en bienes raíces en EE. UU. con nosotros en Creadores Capital y genera retornos promedio del 20% anuales. Aplica aquí: https://www.creadorescapital.com/Redes del Dr. Mazzuka:- https://www.instagram.com/drmazzukaCreadores- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creadorespodcast- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creadorespodcast- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chelozegarra- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcelozegarrac- Twitter: https://twitter.com/chelozegarrac- Email: https://www.creadores.co/contacto#Creadores #Toxicos #MetalesPesados #Desintoxicacion #SaludCelular #MedicinaFuncional #Longevidad #CreadoresPodcast

Der Extremsommer 2026 hat Deutschland nach Berechnungen von Greenpeace mindestens 36 Milliarden Euro gekostet. Lukas Sander vom Forschungsunternehmen Prognos sagt, die Produktivität nehme ab, Menschen würden häufiger krank und das Unfallrisiko steige.

With the record heatwaves subsiding & El Nino on its way, Havering council decides this is the perfect moment to announce the UK's largest datacentre build.  Plus: We interview the authors of a new book on Israel's lobby, and Greenpeace send a scorched earth message to Andy Burnham. With Steven Methven, NoJusticeMTG, Eli Clifton & Ian Lustick.

Este noche el Faro de Verano lo dedicamos a 'Historias de vecinos'Laura Piñero entrevista a Xavier Xortó, vicepresidente de Greenpeace y voluntario en brigadas forestales de Cataluña, para hablar de la situación de los incendios en España. Xortó explica que el cambio climático y el abandono del mundo rural están favoreciendo incendios cada vez más intensos y difíciles de controlar, mientras que medidas como la gestión forestal sostenible, el uso de rebaños para reducir la vegetación combustible, la vigilancia tecnológica y el apoyo a la actividad agrícola pueden reducir significativamente el riesgo.Caminamos con la actriz Irene Escolar, que regresa al Teatro Español con la obra "Personas, lugares y cosas", que girará también por varias ciudades de España. En ella encarna a Emma, una actriz en rehabilitación que, entre la lucidez y la alucinación, busca redimirse a través del arte y de la palabra compartida.En el Cine de Verano, Nerea Pérez de las Heras nos trae Babadook (2014), dirigida por Jennifer Kent. En ella se analiza la historia de una madre viuda y su hijo, que creen estar siendo acosados por una presencia sobrenatural vinculada a un inquietante libro infantil. En el Feed del Faro charlamos con 'Al Pil Pil', Adrián Melero y Lucas Pulido, sobre humor, actualidad y su trayectoria en redes y fuera de ellas.

Laura Piñero entrevista a Xavier Xortó, vicepresidente de Greenpeace y voluntario en brigadas forestales de Cataluña, para hablar de la situación de los incendios en España. Xortó explica que el cambio climático y el abandono del mundo rural están favoreciendo incendios cada vez más intensos y difíciles de controlar, mientras que medidas como la gestión forestal sostenible, el uso de rebaños para reducir la vegetación combustible, la vigilancia tecnológica y el apoyo a la actividad agrícola pueden reducir significativamente el riesgo.

Dans une étude publiée par RFI et sourcée par l'ADEME, The Shift Project et Greenpeace, on apprend que le numérique représente 4% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde. Ce chiffre veut dire que si Internet était un pays, il serait le troisième consommateur mondial d'électricité, derrière les Etats-Unis et la Chine. De plus, le numérique est un émetteur de gaz à effet de serre plus important que…le transport aérien ! Rien que ça. Prenons un exemple d'utilisation du numérique qui nous concerne toutes et tous : les e-mails. C'est quoi un data center ? Comment ça jusqu'en 2022 ? Donc les mails qui polluent ce sont des idées reçues ?  Écoutez la suite de cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez". Un podcast Bababam Originals, écrit et réalisé par Maële Diallo. Première diffusion : mars 2023 À écouter aussi : ⁠Que sont les “polluants éternels”, qui contaminent la France et l'Europe ?⁠ ⁠Qu'est-ce que la sobriété numérique ?⁠ ⁠Qu'est-ce qu'un capteur de CO2 ?⁠ Retrouvez tous les épisodes de "Maintenant vous savez". Pour rester informé et recevoir le meilleur de “Maintenant vous savez” chaque semaine, abonnez-vous à notre newsletter. Suivez Bababam sur Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Während die Folgen der Klimakrise vor aller Augen eskalieren, verliert der Schutz von Klima und Umwelt politisch an Bedeutung. Darüber könnte man verzweifeln! Die Juristin Baro Gabbert hat jahrelang die Klimabewegung begleitet, gründete die erste Rechtsberatung für Klimaaktivisten. Bis heute setzt sie sich für bessere Gesetze ein, inzwischen vertritt sie bei Greenpeace das Thema sozial-ökologischer Gerechtigkeit. Mit ihr sprechen wir darüber, was ihr Hoffnung gibt. Und was dieses große Wort ganz praktisch für sie bedeutet. In jeder Folge von Auch das noch? – Der freundliche Krisenpodcast sprechen ZEIT-Politikredakteurin Petra Pinzler und Wissenschaftsredakteur Stefan Schmitt über eine Krise der Gegenwart: Es geht um die Klimakrise, das Artensterben, die Energiekrise und Kriege. Jedes Mal hilft eine Expertin oder ein Experte zu verstehen, wie alles zusammenhängt. Nicht um zu verzweifeln, sondern weil Verstehen der erste Schritt zur Lösung ist. Und um Lösungen geht es natürlich auch. Die Links zur Folge: - In diesem Buch greift Baro Gabbert zusammen mit Fabian Grischkat die aktuell entmutigende Lage bei Ökologie, Klimaschutz und sozialer Gerechtigkeit auf und argumentiert dafür, sich dennoch zu engagieren. Keine Hoffnung ist auch keine Lösung (Piper, 2025). - Was wir meinen, wenn wir Hoffnung sagen heißt die bei Oekom erschienene Essaysammlung verschiedener Autoren aus diesem Frühjahr, in der Baro Gabbert ihren Hoffnungsbegriff erklärt. - Bei Greenpeace Deutschland ist Gabbert Sprecherin für sozial-ökologische Gerechtigkeit. - Die Climate Clinic ist ein Zusammenschluss von Juristinnen und Juristen, die mit ihrer Expertise zum Beispiel Klimaaktivistinnen und -aktivisten unterstützen. - Die Website des Bundesjugendkuratoriums, dessen Mitglied Gabbert gewesen ist. - Als eine von hundert »Hoffnungsträgerinnen« hat Der Spiegel Gabbert Anfang 2025 ausgezeichnet. Zu den Stichworten Überreichtum und Milliardärssteuer sind dies die beiden versprochenen Links zu früheren Episoden: mit Martyna Linartas sprachen wir. - Und in diesem Frühjahr erschien das ebenfalls erwähnte Gespräch mit Heinrich Strößenreuther über lokale Verkehrswende- und Klimainitiativen.   [ANZEIGE] Mehr über die Angebote unserer Werbepartnerinnen und -partner finden Sie HIER. [ANZEIGE] Mehr hören? Dann testen Sie unser Podcast-Abo mit Zugriff auf alle Doku-Podcasts, Bonusfolgen und unser Podcast-Archiv. Jetzt 4 Wochen kostenlos testen. Und falls Sie uns nicht nur hören, sondern auch lesen möchten, testen Sie jetzt 4 Wochen kostenlos DIE ZEIT. Hier geht's zum Angebot.

Before he ever sat across a table from UN delegates, Matthew Gianni spent 10 years working as a commercial fisherman up and down both US coasts. Gillnetting for Spanish and king mackerel in Florida. Bottom trawling off central California, New England, and Florida for sole, redfish, hake, sablefish, shrimp, and other groundfish. Hook-and-lining for salmon and albacore tuna in Oregon and California. Running pots for Dungeness crab and dredging for deep sea scallops on Georges Bank. In today's episode, I trace how that decade on deck, watching coral and glass sponges get shoveled back overboard from trawls that dragged the seafloor a thousand meters down, planted the seed for a career that would eventually take him to the UN General Assembly. Two fights as a working fisherman pushed Matthew toward advocacy. First, he helped organize fellow fishermen to halt a $110 million plan to dump San Francisco Bay dredge spoils directly onto prime fishing grounds off the Southern California coast, a fight that eventually moved the disposal site off the continental shelf. Second, he represented the fishing industry in efforts to block new offshore oil and gas leases along the central California coast. Both wins showed him what organized advocacy could accomplish, and they set him on a path toward Greenpeace International, where he helped launch the international fisheries campaign, worked on the UN's 1991-1992 moratorium on high seas driftnet fishing [VERIFY dates], and eventually ran Greenpeace's global Ocean Program from Amsterdam. In the early 2000s, Matthew co-founded the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, an international coalition of organizations working to protect deep sea biodiversity from harmful activities, where he now serves as political and policy advisor. What started as a fight against deep sea bottom trawling on seamounts has, since 2014, expanded to include deep sea mining, an industry Matthew argues is moving to tear into the seabed before scientists even have a baseline understanding of what lives there. This is the first episode in a week-long series on the deep sea, building toward my full interview with Matthew, airing Friday. Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube  

Last Saturday over 30 protests against the conservation amendment bill were held across the country.  While the government has already made changes to the bill due to public lash back, removing a clause which would allow for the sale of large amounts of conservation land, protestors believe the bill still places an unnecessary prioritisation of economic development on conservation land. With protests continuing next month with the Auckland march on nature, pressure on the government looks set to continue until significant changes are made To discuss the protests against the conservation amendment bill, producer Thomas spoke to Greenpeace policy advisor Gen Toop.  

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Shut down science. Close the EPA and Greenpeace. Forget all that climate hoax stuff! We still get hotter faster. Seas rise higher, sooner. Expect more super-storms, wildfires, and closed down rescue services. Disaster management specialist Dr. Samantha Montano joins us. “Stand Up for  …

Tout au long de l'été, des rediffusions des meilleurs épisodes ! Belles écoutes estivales.Paul Watson est un des premiers lanceurs d'alerte sur la cause environnementale, un pionnier de l'engagement en faveur des baleines et de l'Océan, il a créé l'ONG Sea Shepherd et co-fondé Greenpeace. Il a été libéré après 5 mois de détention au Groenland, sous la menace d'une extradition au Japon. Il nous raconte comment il a vécu cette détention, ses prochains projets et bien sûr les enjeux de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur les Océans en juin à Nice sans oublier la Seine... accessible aux baigneurs. Bonne écoute avec Impact Positif.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Jeetje, wat kan het humeur snel omslaan. Jantje lacht, Jantje huilt. Gelukkig lacht Jantje ook weer, maar het kan ook zomaar zo zijn dat Jantje weer huilt. We kunnen het niet volledig op de hormonen afschuiven, maar we kunnen ons wel wapenen tegen de afwisselende humeuren. Daarvoor gaan we terug naar onze persweeën. Lies was erg bezig met haar adempresence toen ze moederziel alleen haar eigen stem moest dubben in een geluidsstudio. Aaf heeft haar zonnebrandgame helemaal op orde. Ze kan nu voorkomen dat het moederbruin op haar borstbeen nóg bruiner wordt.Een sfeerclowntje met waarschijnlijk ook de nodige humeurschommelingen heeft een probleem ingestuurd. Het enthousiasme zorgt voor een bittere nasmaak. Een doodgewone vogel die helemaal niet zo doodgewoon is, zit deze keer in het natuurhoekje.

Andy Stirling is emeritus professor in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. His many interests centre around issues of uncertainty, diversity and power in science and technology.  Andy has played a leading role in many project areas, including social justice, democratic politics and respect for the natural world. In the 1980s he was a volunteer with Greenpeace and took part in campaigns around nuclear disarmament and energy challenges. https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p7513-andrew-stirling

Lies is ALTIJD in groepen, Aaf alleen als ze zich daartoe wil verhouden. Maar hoe gedraag je je nou het beste in een groep? En wat willen we eigenlijk uitstralen in een groep? Er is niets zo ingewikkeld als een groepsdynamiek en daarin je plek vinden. Maar goed nieuws: naarmate we ouder worden, leren we dat je beter kunt volgen en je je makkelijker kunt terugtrekken als je daar zin in hebt.Aaf beleefde deze week iets nieuws. Ze was in een adult only-hotel (niet te verwarren met een adults only-hotel

Asbestfunde melden https://greenpeace.at/anders-engagieren/asbest-melden/ // Die Dunkelkammer ist ein Stück Pressefreiheit. Unabhängigen Journalismus kannst Du mit einer Mitgliedschaft via Steady unterstützen https://steady.page/de/die-dunkelkammer/about Vielen Dank! Michael Nikbakhsh im Namen des Dunkelkammer-Teams

Check the episode transcript hereABOUT BEN MURPHYBen has a proven track record of successfully closing approximately $600 million in multifamily transactions in Oregon and SW Washington since 2014. His outstanding market relationships and reputation are best in class and will significantly enhance our existing reach across all divisions that we work. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Ben is a dedicated supporter of environmental causes, actively contributing to organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and Greenpeace. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Multifamily Northwest Government Affairs Committee.  THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: ·         Ben Murphy's outlook on the Portland multifamily market.·         Why today's market favors disciplined buyers.·         Rent growth, NOI, and operating cost trends.·         Comparing today's cycle to the 2008 downturn.·         Why operational efficiency matters more than ever.·         Supply, demand, and Portland's path to recovery.·         Top-performing and struggling Portland submarkets.·         How rent regulations are reshaping investment strategies.·         Five-year outlook for rents, cap rates, and interest rates.·         Actionable advice for multifamily buyers, sellers, and operators.   KEY QUOTE: "Great operators create value in every market."  ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK   The Westside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.     The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to real estate professionals that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.    We would like to thank our Sponsors:  OffsitePros and MyMoneyWorksForMe  #RealEstateInvesting #MultifamilyInvesting #ApartmentInvesting #CommercialRealEstate #PassiveInvesting #PassiveIncome #CashFlowInvesting #RealEstateInvestor #MultifamilySyndication #InvestmentProperty #PortfolioGrowth #AssetManagement #PropertyManagement #NOI #CapRates #RentGrowth #MarketUpdate #CommercialBroker #RealEstateMarket #RealEstateEducation #DealAnalysis #ValueAddInvesting #BuyAndHold #CashFlow #AccreditedInvestor #InvestorEducation #FinancialFreedom #CREInvesting #PortlandRealEstate #WealthBuilding #RealEstatePodcast CONNECT WITH BEN MURPHY:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-murphy-35968935Email: ben.murphy@cinw.com CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  ·    Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/   For information on Portland Property Management:  ·    Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  ·    Youtube | @UptownProperties     Westside Investors Network  ·    Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  ·    Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  ·    Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  ·    LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  ·    Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Tiktok| @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork  

Climate activists have blocked highways, scaled oil rigs and even thrown soup at master artworks. But have protests ever made a difference? The modern green movement started in the 1970s when Greenpeace sailed a fishing boat towards a nuclear test site in Alaska. It now encompasses everything from bake-ins and marches to Radiohead concerts. A small minority of activists even favour breaking the law to raise awareness about climate change. Some of them have superglued themselves to railings and blocked bridges. BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt has made a new podcast series about the green movement – and the heated splits among activists about tactics. He talks to Climate Question hosts Graihagh Jackson and Jordan Dunbar about the past - and future - of climate protest. You can hear Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybblGot a question for The Climate Question? Email us: theclimatequestion@bbc.comProducers: Simon Watts, Diane Richardson and Ellie House Sound Mix: Mike Regaard Editor: SImon Watts

Waar is de tijd gebleven dat kinderen van elf nog gewoon speelden en niet bezig waren met een intense skincareroutine? De nieuwe generatie loopt in ieder geval erg voor op alle 4-2-4-stappen die wij nu pas leren. We komen in de wereld van skincare tot de conclusie dat je niet zoveel nodig hebt. Misschien wat gemalen paracetamol of mummie (als je dat voorhanden hebt natuurlijk).Aaf ondervond dat als je op een grote verjaardag bent, je het beste mee kunt doen in de catering. Al poetsend kwam ze tot rust in de grote menigte. Lies moest ook even kalmeren toen ze eindelijk haar schaftkeet bij haar huisje zag staan. Het gevaarte heeft nog wat liefde nodig om er een zenparadijs van te maken.Geitenkaassalades zijn de trigger die heteromannen tot waanzin drijven. We weten inmiddels dat onze luisteraar die zijn ovenschaal terug wil, een beroep kan doen op zijn medeluisteraars. Mensen, groepeer en haal voor elkaar spullen op bij je ex.

The US government is moving toward the world's first commercial deep-sea mining lease sale, and it's happening in federal waters off American Samoa. In this episode, Andrew breaks down how we got here: a California startup's 2025 request to mine polymetallic nodules, the Request for Information process that followed, and the 75,000-plus public comments that came in during the 30-day comment window, with 80 to 98% opposed to mining. Despite that opposition, and despite a standing moratorium from American Samoa's own governor, the federal government expanded the proposed mining area from 18 million to 33 million acres and pushed the lease sale forward, currently projected for August 2026. Andrew walks through who's actually bidding on this, including Impossible Metals, The Metals Company, and a handful of smaller entrants, and digs into what the peer-reviewed science says about the risks. That includes a 2025 Nature Ecology & Evolution study showing a 37% drop in seafloor animal density after a single test mining pass, a Nature study finding measurable impacts still detectable four decades after a 1970s test site, and research on the socioeconomic stakes for Pacific fisheries and tuna-dependent economies. The episode closes with the question that matters most: do American Samoans actually want this? Spoiler, no, based on every available measure of public sentiment, though the picture isn't entirely uniform. Andrew also unpacks the deeper pattern here, indigenous Pacific communities being asked to shoulder the risk of an untested industry with little say in the outcome. Takeaways: Sign a petition opposing the lease sale Follow and support Earthjustice, Greenpeace, and NRDC as they track legal action Follow Future Swell for ongoing updates If you're a US voter, remember this fight runs through the midterms Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube  

A recently released study from researchers at the Otago, Canterbury, and Massey universities has found an association between nitrate concentrations in drinking water, and pre-term births. The study is the first of its scale to investigate the health impacts of nitrate on health, involving the birth records of over 735,000 babies born between 2008 and 2021.  It comes after the Ministry of Health launched a review into the health effects of nitrate in drinking water earlier this year, with groups such as Greenpeace long-arguing for a reduction in the maximum acceptable value of nitrate in drinking water for Aotearoa New Zealand. So, to learn more about what the study found, Producer Theo spoke to its lead author, the University of Canterbury's Associate Professor Tim Chambers.

[REDIFFUSION] Découvrez l'incroyable histoire de Paul Watson. De ses débuts au sein de Greenpeace à la création de Sea Shepherd, il a consacré toute sa vie au combat pour l'écologie. Considéré par certains comme écoterroriste, il est pour d'autres l'incarnation du combat de toute une génération contre le désastre écologique. Explorez la vie de cet homme à travers 4 épisodes passionnants.  L'ennemi public des braconniers  Paul Watson, fondateur de Sea Shepherd, consacre sa vie à protéger les océans et ses espèces menacées. Enfant déjà, il s'insurgeait contre la violence faite aux animaux, une révolte née d'un choc durant une partie de pêche avec son père. Ancien de Greenpeace, il crée sa propre ONG en 1977 pour agir concrètement contre le braconnage maritime. Sabotages de baleiniers, mandats d'arrêt internationaux, exils : rien n'a jamais entamé sa détermination. En 2024, après six mois de détention, il retrouve enfin la liberté… et continue son combat. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Clément Prévaux  Production : Bababam (montage Célia Brondeau) Voix : Florian Bayoux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[REDIFFUSION] Découvrez l'incroyable histoire de Paul Watson. De ses débuts au sein de Greenpeace à la création de Sea Shepherd, il a consacré toute sa vie au combat pour l'écologie. Considéré par certains comme écoterroriste, il est pour d'autres l'incarnation du combat de toute une génération contre le désastre écologique. Explorez la vie de cet homme à travers 4 épisodes passionnants.  Massacres et sauvetages  Sur la banquise, des dizaines de bébés phoques immobiles sont massacrés à coups de gourdin pour leur fourrure blanche, très prisée sur le marché du luxe. En 1976, Greenpeace décide d'alerter l'opinion publique avec une opération choc initiée par Paul Watson. Mais face à la colère des pêcheurs locaux, l'action vire au fiasco, provoquant une fracture au sein de l'ONG. Paul est exclu, Bob Hunter se retire, et Greenpeace vacille. De cette rupture naîtra pourtant un nouveau chapitre radical de l'activisme écologique. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Clément Prévaux  Production : Bababam (montage Célia Brondeau) Voix : Florian Bayoux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[REDIFFUSION] Découvrez l'incroyable histoire de Paul Watson. De ses débuts au sein de Greenpeace à la création de Sea Shepherd, il a consacré toute sa vie au combat pour l'écologie. Considéré par certains comme écoterroriste, il est pour d'autres l'incarnation du combat de toute une génération contre le désastre écologique. Explorez la vie de cet homme à travers 4 épisodes passionnants.  La bombe mentale  Été 1975. Treize militants de Greenpeace, menés par Bob Hunter et Paul Watson, s'élancent dans le Pacifique Nord pour défendre les baleines, cibles d'une chasse industrielle sanglante. À bord de zodiacs, ils s'interposent physiquement entre les cétacés et les harpons soviétiques, offrant aux caméras des images spectaculaires. L'une d'elles, montrant Watson mesurant le cadavre d'un baleineau, marquera les esprits. Cette action fondatrice inaugure une nouvelle ère : celle des « bombes mentales » médiatiques au service de l'activisme. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Clément Prévaux  Production : Bababam (montage Célia Brondeau) Voix : Florian Bayoux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[REDIFFUSION] Découvrez l'incroyable histoire de Paul Watson. De ses débuts au sein de Greenpeace à la création de Sea Shepherd, il a consacré toute sa vie au combat pour l'écologie. Considéré par certains comme écoterroriste, il est pour d'autres l'incarnation du combat de toute une génération contre le désastre écologique. Explorez la vie de cet homme à travers 4 épisodes passionnants.  Combat contre l'Apocalypse    En 1971, en pleine Guerre Froide, les États-Unis prévoient un essai nucléaire colossal sur l'île d'Amchitka, en Alaska. Douze activistes canadiens embarquent à bord d'un bateau rebaptisé « Greenpeace pour tenter de l'empêcher. Leur mission échoue, mais l'écho médiatique est mondial. À leur retour, ils sont accueillis en héros et leur action force l'arrêt du programme nucléaire. C'est la naissance d'un mouvement international pour la paix et l'environnement. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Clément Prévaux  Production : Bababam (montage Célia Brondeau) Voix : Florian Bayoux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Helicopter” - an activist yells. Then gun-wielding agents in balaclavas abseil down, onto the Greenpeace ship, to tow it to Russia. This is the story of a campaign against oil drilling in the arctic that takes a dangerous turn. And the debate it sparks within the movement - should the organisers have better anticipated the risks of their campaign? Who is responsible for activists' safety?Presenter: Justin Rowlatt Producer: Alix Pickles Series Producer: Ellie House Editor: Matt Willis Sound Design and Mix: James Beard Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele, Brenda Brown, Sabine Schereck Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Archive: Prirazlomnaya Gazprom Oil Rig Protest in the Pechora Sea, Russian Investigative Committee, 18/9/2013 Other archive footage provided by Greenpeace

We're raising money for Greenpeace, and yeah, nah, yeah, this one has a lot of good Aussie accents mate? And we also invented a revolutionary (no pun intended) new air cooling system. Stick around for both of those things. And don't forget, head on over to YouTube to hear the songs that we can't put into the podcasts! In this episode, Bernard played Let's Stay Together (Al Green), Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel) and Teardrop (Massive Attack). Join us next week, when we'll be raising money for the World Wildlife Fund! Watch on YouTube here.And you can still donate to this week's campaign by going to this link hereSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gaslit – PosterCourtesy of SolarPR On today's show, I'll speak to senior policy and campaign manager for Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Faraz Rizvi about the legislation, SB 1259, moving through committee in Sacramento to protect Californians from the fossil fuel industry's price gouging at the pump via artificial intelligence to paying the cost for remediation of oil wells.  We'll switch gears and hear from friend of the show, Dr. Leslie Joseph, professor of civil engineering at Liberty University to get his take on the impact of data centers.  Then we'll close out the show with Greenpeace documentarian Katie Camosy on her latest endeavor entitled, “Gaslit” starring activist and actor Jane Fonda which makes it Bay Area debut at the Landmark Piedmont theaters  July 15th. The post New Documentary Gaslit & More appeared first on KPFA.

The artist and sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor talks to John Wilson about his career and cultural influences. Renowned for his innovative, often monumental works, Kapoor gained international recognition in the late 1980s. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and won the Turner Prize the following year. His public artworks include Cloud Gate in Chicago, the Orbit sculpture next to the London Arena, commissioned to mark the 2012 Olympics, and the 110m-long structure of giant rings and connecting wires known as Temenos in Middlesborough. In 2025 a piece called Butchered, a collaboration with Greenpeace, was installed on to an active Shell oil rig in the North Sea as a protest against the fossil fuel industry. The Hayward Gallery in London is one of several cultural institutions around the world that is hosting major exhibition of the work of Anish Kapoor in 2026.Producer: Edwina Pitman

It's the final instalment in M&B's Pride Month charity streams, and we're so close to hitting a £700 milestone... will we cross that threshold this episode? (Spoiler: yes, obviously, or we wouldn't have mentioned it).Be sure to head over to YouTube to hear the songs! Cut from this podcast, but featured in the live stream were Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (Queen), Make Me Feel (Janelle Monae) and Life On Mars (David Bowie). Join us next week, when we'll be raising money for Greenpeace. Same time, same place! Watch on YouTube hereAnd if you want to contribute to this week's LGBTQIA+ charities, you can do so here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Somewhere in the North Pacific, 1971. A ragbag crew of environmentalist hippies sets sail on a rickety fishing boat in a last ditch effort to stop a nuclear weapons test. Their tumultuous voyage would birth the modern green movement. The men on board wanted to save the world, but spent much of their time at each other's throats. Presenter: Justin Rowlatt Producer: Rachel Naylor Series Producer: Ellie House Editor: Matt Willis Sound Design and Mix: James Beard Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele, Brenda Brown, Sabine Schereck Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Archive: Irving Stowe announcing Greenpeace concert, provided by Robert Stowe ‘The birth of Greenpeace', CBC Radio Canada, 11/10/1971 Argument on Greenpeace boat, AM925 , City of Vancouver Archives