Healing Appalachia with Bison is the topic in Learning Lab 11 hosted by Sophia Rokhlin @maearth live now; do join :) great call as always from /maearth https://luma.com/LL11?tk=4epv00

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“At this point, it’s simply not feasible for humans to return the ocean to its preindustrial chemical base line because the cost, effort and material resources required are too gargantuan. A global effort would, however, help prevent further acidification. As a marine antacid, alkalinity enhancement will probably be more effective in select regions of the coast that are home to especially vulnerable fisheries and ecosystems, like coral reefs. Such defenses have a long history. The Indigenous peoples of western North America farmed clams in walled gardens along the shore to which they routinely added crushed shells. Research has since confirmed that doing so raises the pH of the water, improving the growth and survival rates of juvenile shellfish and, in combination with other benefits of the gardens, yielding two to four times as many adults.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/magazine/ocean-acidification-carbon-geoengineering.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Normal life still works, which makes it easy to ignore how fragile it has become -- even though today is the anniversary of the horrific fires in LA last January. I wrote a piece about what we build together now, before disaster forces the lesson on us. https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/what-we-build-before-everything-breaks-apart

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in 10 minutes The Kokonut Framework of @kokonutnetwork will be the topic in this live conversation @wasabi & Ben Birkholm https://x.com/milkmoney64209/status/2005663255813910742?s=46

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Should be bigger news: This climate model is forecasting a possible blue-ocean-event for the Arctic in September this year For the first time in human history, there could be little to no measurable sea ice by the end of summer in what's supposed to be the Arctic ice cap This should set off alarm bells around the world

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It's a few days before Christmas and it's 75°F in Denver, and most of the last couple weeks have been abnormally warm around 60-70° Much of the US is experiencing 15-30° above normal for this holiday week I'm not sure what's more disturbing — this intense heat wave during winter, or the fact that nobody else seems to be concerned...

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https://www.climatenobelprize.org Wondering if that might help.

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Hmm

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bioregional commons and bioregional credits are the topics right now in the presentation by Cheryl Chen - incorporating learnings from past capital structures https://farcaster.xyz/civilmonkey/0xb3c39828

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This company has converted a car to use hydrogen instead of gasoline. They claim a rather simple (for mechanical engineers?) procedure that could scale. The big hurdle is that hydrogen does not play well with aluminium, so needed a custom carbon tank. Great to see experiments. Remains the problem of sourcing hydrogen, which ends up pretty polluting fuel when considered its end-to-end life cycle. https://engineweb.jp/article/detail/3352637?page=1

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I wrote a little riff on building bridges between the edge and the center. By that I mean the world of Edge cities and shiny tech stuff and the world of dirt and water and concrete in the water utilities that I work with. Might be of interest to folks here interested in creative approaches to accelerate climate action

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The presence of mosquitoes detected for the first time in Iceland. It was the only place in the world, apart from Antarctica, where they were missing

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https://farcaster.xyz/civilmonkey/0x7491361d

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Rehydrating Landscapes for Resilient Land Stewardship Environmental engineer Erin Healy of Mulloon Institute will explore how rehydration projects can bring degraded lands back to life in todays Learning Lab 07 hosted by @maearth starting in 8 hours from now (6pm EDT) https://luma.com/LL07 via https://x.com/maearthmedia/status/1976013542735368533?s=46

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03313-z

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