Rainforest Alliance Certified Tea
This should be the only (Camellia Sinensis) tea that we buy https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/rainforest-alliance-certified-tea See CNN article UPDATE: But first watch: The Dark Side of the Tea Trade
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The Uninhabitable Earth
audio – Guardian interview with the writer, David Wallace-Wells https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/feb/05/is-climate-change-way-worse-than-we-realise-today-in-focus-podcast He expanded the original NY magazine article into a book
QtWebEngine
It’s an interesting alternative to Gecko, KHTML and WebKit and a semi-alternative to Chromium (though based, like Chromium on Blink)
Life on the breadline
Life on the breadline: ‘I am sick and tired of trying to be a cheerful poor person’ by Nijole Naujokas. She’s a talented writer!
JD Salinger’s unseen writings to be published, family confirms
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/jd-salingers-unseen-writings-to-be-published-family-confirms ‘My father was writing for 50 years without publishing. That’s a lot of material’
Stoppage of USAID funding to West Bank, Gaza set to hit Palestinians hard
USAID, US NGOs leave Gaza, West Bank over terrorism law ‘It really hurts’: US aid cuts hit most vulnerable Palestinians The Demise of USAID Efforts in the West Bank and Gaza Trump admin to end all USAID projects in West Bank and Gaza by January 31 USAID to end all Palestinian projects on Jan. 31st …
Belgian student climate protests snowball
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Thousands of Belgian students skipped classes for the fourth week in a row on Thursday to protest against global warming, part of a growing youth protest around the world. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-belgium-climatechange-protests-studen/belgian-student-climate-protests-snowball-idUKKCN1PP29K A hopeful sign.
SRP – a natural technique for rice productions with higher yields, less emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/30/miracle-method-sustainable-rice-scientists-dismissed “technique developed by a Jesuit priest is producing bigger harvests – and reducing emissions of a crop responsible for 1.5% of greenhouse gases” In The One Straw Revolution, Fukuoka too championed his method of growing rice with much less water, which was similarly ignored.
The benevolent bureaucrats of military occupation
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/benevolent-bureaucrats-military-occupation “Israeli occupation bureaucrats shamelessly exploit Palestinian patients from Gaza to present their military rule over a besieged people as benign or even benevolent.” thanks to Richard M. Stallman for sharing.
Worse than plastic waste: the burning tyres choking India
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/worse-than-plastic-burning-tyres-india-george-monbiot The British government is already flouting its own rules, allowing scrap tyres to be sent abroad for burning – what will happen post-Brexit? Amazing, shocking article