A pleasant morning, all traces of human activity have briefly disappeared.

* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.

Ist Friedrich Merz der schwächste Kanzler aller Zeiten.

Wenn mich eins wirklich ankotzt, über alle politischen Grenzen hinweg, dann ist es Feigheit. Insbesondere Feigheit von Leuten mit Macht. Wer sich einer Wahl stellt und ein demokratisches Votum bekommt Menschen zu repräsentieren darf nie feig sein. Wir erleben leider ein Europa der Feigheit.

The only people that can stop Trump and the GOP are the American people. But their window to be able to do so continues to close.

And most importantly, your biggest emissions comes from your bank account and super/insurance if you are not yet with a sustainable institution. Maybe now is the best time to do the switch! Any 1000$/y in a "normal" account means investment into FF equivalent of a flight from NY to Seattle.

The simple (split AC) heat pump in the straw bale insulated house from 1729 will be using ~9kWh today. Let's see if we can harvest that.

When I started building with straw, there were only a handful of people doing it. To put it mildly, universities had very limited interest in it. Now that is changing; #strawbuilding can no longer be ignored. But at the working end, there are still only a handful of people doing it. New papers list🧵

We need to get the basic needs right. One of which is (affordable) shelter. Which means for the majority of Europe, renovation of existing housing with healthy technology. Or we risk people getting manipulated by fear of energy poverty and unfair distribution of affordable living space. Sign:

If your response to this in the next days-years is: But my landlord... then we will have lost everything that is worth protecting.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I wish the smart people here would talk more about this basic manipulation mechanism instead of the 1001th AI/techbro/floodthezobewithshitrepeatthemedia post.

I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.

Die Luftangriffe der USA auf die Hauptstadt Venezuelas sind ein Bruch des Völkerrechts & gefährliche militärische Eskalation. Die Bundesregierung muss das verurteilen & sich unmissverständlich ggü. den USA für Deeskalation, Einhaltung des Völkerrechts & Achtung staatlicher Souveränität einsetzen

We will examine the test candidates at the end of January (hempcrete 1 year exposed to weather). Any predictions?

Paris is full of beautiful old buildings, but it was a cool, new construction project that caught my eye while biking this morning. The mass timber is super cool, but this combines a number of additional things that we can't/don't do in the U.S: First, it's a series of (4?) single-stair buidings.

Surely that's the key message that needs emphasising again and again, against a tsunami of misinformation about protein. Protein experts without vested interests (in a powerful industry worth a huge amount of money) keep stressing: "Nobody's truly, in our societies, deficient in protein."

Always striking to me how "range anxiety" is still part of our EV discourse, while images like these are standard fare for every catastrophe.

When I started building with straw, there were only a handful of people doing it. To put it mildly, universities had very limited interest in it. Now that is changing; #strawbuilding can no longer be ignored. But at the working end, there are still only a handful of people doing it. New papers list🧵

"Der deutsche Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz ist registrierter Nutzer einer App, die für Kinderpornografie, Verschwörungserzählungen und die Anstiftung zu Rassenhass und Gewalt genutzt wird."

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

In the UK more cereal crops are fed to livestock than directly consumed by humans. Poor feed conversion ratios mean much of this is not turned into food, which is very wasteful. Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)

Uh-Oh! 🧵 (long term test of #hempcrete blocks, industrial and DIY)

The simple (split AC) heat pump in the straw bale insulated house from 1729 will be using ~9kWh today. Let's see if we can harvest that.

Trump the terrorist warmonger rapist pedophile is illegally bombing the city of Caracas in Venezuela

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

In Germany 3 storey multi family homes are #strawhouse #passivhaus territory. This way building itself is 'green'.

This could rescue the ICE car in the 30ies.

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

#Kharkiv. Residential area. A large European city. My native town. Russia attacks it constantly. 30 people injured, including a baby. The number can grow as rescuers continue working. Russia must answer for its crimes. It won't stop on its own.

Increase in self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity in Germany. Money that doesn't go into the pockets of fossil fuel polluters. Freedom from that, true freedom.

Weird how the attention is so low for this ultra important topic. 1 million signatures needed for a petition about LAWS TO PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE CLIMATE. There are around 450 million people in the EU. Takes only one minute: www.houseeurope.eu

straw house magic

That's a really slim straw panel from verdantpanel.com in the US. #strawbuilding #strawhouse

In Germany 3 storey multi family homes are #strawhouse #passivhaus territory. This way building itself is 'green'.

That's a really slim straw panel from verdantpanel.com in the US. #strawbuilding #strawhouse

Weshalb die CDU/CSU so begierig ist, neue Atomkraftwerke zu bauen: Weil sie korruptionsanfälliger sind. Während bei PV & Wind selten mehr als 10% Mehrkosten auftreten, sind es bei der Atomkraft öfter mal 200% und mehr. Viel lukrativer Spielraum für "Berater", Mittelsmänner, Wucherer, Amigos.

Hollywood actor Zac Efron putting industrial hemp firmly in Australian spotlight, with ambitious off-grid home, NSW Northern Rivers. It will incorporate hemp everywhere from walls & insulation to joinery, rugs, curtains & even the mattress Efron sleeps on. #TheFuture hempbuilding.au/structures/i...

2026 is starting by blasting rain vs my garden earth plastered straw bale insulated 300 years old house. Look how the earth is barely getting darker (wet). The drying potential is stellar. We may talk about this in the short free #earthbuilding seminar on Jan 9th: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Da es historisch KEINEN Verlass auf Einzelne und Organisationen geben kann, was das gewollte oder ungewollte (durch Doofheit) Steigbügelhalten für den stetig lauernden Faschismus angeht, MUSS er durch die gelebte ( = tatsächlich durchgesetzte) Verfassung in der Demokratie ausgeschlossen werden.

Print this out and hang it on the wall. Let it be the only single-pane window in the house. It's 2026.

I’ve been appointed as a Non-Executive Commissioner to the Forestry Commission. Very much looking forward to this additional role given more wood in more buildings is predicated on planting and felling more trees. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The decision to go for bio-based construction is usually very easy. Especially in 2026. Why do I say that? These building material samples here are already 10 years old.

2025 has been a record year for solar ☀️ our 6.39kWp PV system produced nearly 7MWh of clean electricity ⚡ Consumption has gone up from the previous year mainly due to EV charging (738kWh) Here's to more clean electrons in 2026. Happy New Year!

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Just befriend the first and second piggies. Foto: Zimmerei Grünspecht