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Offshore robotics research hub secures £2.5m of funding from UKRI

Envirotec Magazine

He takes over from Professor David Lane, founding director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, who will continue to support the Hub as an advisor to its independent steering committee. UK Government Minister for Scotland Iain Stewart said: “Advancements in robotics will be essential to meeting the UK’s ambitious climate targets.

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Gas Group That Calls Climate Goals ‘Pie in the Sky’ Got $1.2M from BC Government

DeSmogBlog

The LNG industry in northern British Columbia has had a catastrophic impact on the integrity of the environment insofar as the fracking sites are concerned,” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, told DeSmog. You can’t greenwash the fracking impacts of LNG.” Then there’s the climate impacts.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

One was the Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, an influential counterculture magazine. David Yaden, a soon-to-be professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins, describes it as simply “awe,” an overwhelming and complicated emotion triggered by a “perception of vastness.”

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Like other well-known environmentalists of his day, including Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Muir believed that wildlands existed to help “tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people” suffering from “the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury.”

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'Clean technology is just better technology': Netflix calls on suppliers and viewers to embrace net zero transition

Business Green

Speaking at the Net Zero Festival this afternoon, Netflix's sustainability officer, Emma Stewart, said tackling emissions across the entire value chain - known as Scope 3 emissions - was a challenge all businesses needed to tackle as a priority. "A Stewart advised all businesses should now embrace Scope 3 emissions targets.