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Do you love 3D maps, worlds & visualisations? Here are 24 world creators, mapmakers, or visuals I've come across recently. Brilliant and creative minds using many different tools! PART 1 #dataviz #GISchat #3dmaps #map #gis #3d 1/🧵
Steven Kay | @stevefaeembra creates many original and cool #3dmaps such as this great visualisation of Windturbines in the British Isles. Follow him! #Blender3D and #QGis are his tools. #SDGs #Wind #b3d 2/🧵
Friends, something has been bugging me for a while. The world is burning. We have unsustainable habits that need to change. And changing old habits is hard, really hard. But has to be done. And yet, it seems we are also adapting *new* unsustainable habits ... 1/2
I find the rise of #cryptoart (& crypto-everything for that matter) mind-boggling. I've been looking for quantitative metrics re ecological cost - excluding production of works, & isolating minting, sales, transactions etc, but info seems sparse. I'm open to pters & thoughts 2/2
The fact that a single ETH transaction costs 25 kWh, and the fact that this is legal, seems to me a sign that we as a civilization just don't learn, or don't really care, and are doomed.
digiconomist.net/ethereum-energ… /via @JakubValtar
digiconomist.net/ethereum-energ… /via @JakubValtar
Thread. A friend just wrote me this message. Attn: @AmericanAir "I am sitting in an American Airlines flight right now. 1st class completely full. No empty seats. Zero social distancing. However, the rear of plane has hardly any people in it. All wearing masks to get on.../1 
2/ "But I see people taking them off now. No food or beverage service, so there should be no reason to take them off. Pilot did make an announcement at beginning of the flight to wear it or get off basically...
3/ "But the flight attendants are doing nothing about the people who are wearing their masks on their chins or off completely. Not a peep." @AmericanAir Please fix! (I want to go see my sick mom in Chicago but I can't fly as long as this goes on!) #flying #OrangeCounty /End
#Flying and #ClimateJustice: a contradiction. ✈️🌍⚖️
To keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees, emissions must be reduced to 2.5 tonnes CO2eq per person per year by 2030.
One long-haul flight alone can exceed this budget – per person!
To keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees, emissions must be reduced to 2.5 tonnes CO2eq per person per year by 2030.
One long-haul flight alone can exceed this budget – per person!
Air traffic is a major obstacle to climate justice. While it may seem normal for Western Europeans or Americans to fly, this "normality" has only existed for the last few decades and is still rare worldwide. Only about 10% to 20% of the global population have ever taken a flight.
But everyone suffers from the consequences of flying and the climate crisis, especially those in countries of the global south.
And not all flights are equally necessary. Particularly, privileged people should question their choices take sustainable ones and call for change.
And not all flights are equally necessary. Particularly, privileged people should question their choices take sustainable ones and call for change.
More airplane photos!
Last fall I went flying with my good friend Tony in a Champ. True low and slow fun flying at sunset.
One of those perfect, smooth as glass, quiet evening flights. #aviation #avgeek #flying #champ #tailwheel #flight #airplane
Last fall I went flying with my good friend Tony in a Champ. True low and slow fun flying at sunset.
One of those perfect, smooth as glass, quiet evening flights. #aviation #avgeek #flying #champ #tailwheel #flight #airplane
This flight is worth a thread.
Tony was always there to help me build my Sonex. This day was the first time I took him up in it. We started out in the Sonex.
He’s now building an RV and I love stopping by to help.
Tony was always there to help me build my Sonex. This day was the first time I took him up in it. We started out in the Sonex.
He’s now building an RV and I love stopping by to help.
So then we hopped in the Champ. Now, I love flying my Sonex....but there is something about puttering along at 1500’ AGL in a Champ that cant be beat. We headed southwest from Clow towards Newark, IL.
There’s a grass strip there - Cushing Field.
There’s a grass strip there - Cushing Field.
If govt goes ahead with this idea of only one passenger per row in early days of flights restart, low cost airlines will pretty much have an unwanted business class of sorts. @IndiGo6E @flyspicejet @goairlinesindia @AirAsiaIndian. #new #pangs. #just #imagining.
And that's how you will board your buses for flights. Patience will be a virtue @flyspicejet.
And the steps... #coronavirus #flying
