Climate & Crypto. The blockchain will be used to fight the climate crisis

Sanneke Kloppenburg recently co-authored an extremely informative article (Climate & Crypto) in which she and her two colleagues conduct an investigation into what they dubbed “climate cryptocurrency governance.” They analyzed documents from various international organizations dealing with climate governance and found a large number of theses that underscore the immense transformative potential of the blockchain. Good plans galore, Paris Climate[…]

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Air traffic collapsed violently during the Coronavirus lockdown and also the pollution

The Coronavirus disease, also called the COVID-19, has been spreading rapidly across the world and affecting a large number of countries with more thousand confirmed cases worldwide. The Coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, and a hypothetical vaccine has been awaited for the next year. One of the few positive aspects due to the[…]

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Can the Internet Survive Climate Change?

In a tiny apartment in the Spanish coastal town of El Masnou, just outside of Barcelona, Kris de Decker runs a website completely powered by a small solar panel crammed into the corner of his balcony. With its light blue background and low-res imagery, the site for Low-Tech Magazine is intentionally retro—a callback to blogs and self-hosted sites from the[…]

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