parkewilde.bsky.social
Food policy research and demand-side climate innovation.
https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/parke-wilde
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Both transportation and climate are major topics of Boston governance and politics.
Logan Airport is in the jurisdiction of the city council's Committee on Planning, Development and Transportation.
And even if aviation policy is federal, the city is empowered to report emissions accurately.
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I hesitate to add, for clarity, once the parents speak the truth about the existence of racism, the point is to take an editorial position.
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Yes, an editorial position against.
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Yes, Boston is an inspiration in some critical aspects of climate action. Thanks Mayor Wu!
(While I am a big fan, I do hope Boston starts including Logan Airport in its greenhouse gas reporting. You can see Logan is currently excluded from the city inventory: www.boston.gov/departments/...).
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I'm not joking about the algorithm. Since 2018, my typical posts went from 10% to 0.1% engagement, and here are the next few posts FB recommends to me 😳
It seems quite clear the algorithm is actively promoting climate denial, perhaps because that gets the clicks + shares.
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It makes no sense. bsky.app/profile/park...
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Annual GDP in $ trillions for the defense:
-- Germany (4.53)
-- UK (3.38)
-- France (3.05)
-- Rest of W. Europe (12.04)
-- Ukraine (0.18)
And the aggressors:
-- Russia (2.02)
-- N. Korea (unreported in official statistics but under 0.03)
The USA has many reasons to side with the defense. (2/2)
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And Dr. David Williams' talk in the next session was fascinating and rhetorically effective. The goal is not an "agenda." The goal is to understand health science, which in turn requires understanding racial inequity in income, wealth, education, and ... above all ... neighborhood of residence.
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Inspiring ad!
(It is a character flaw that I first puzzled over the image of a breathing newborn, while voiceover described the billions of tons of pollution to be emitted "before she takes her first breath." I had to rewatch to see the momentary image of an ultrasound, which cleared things up.)
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Today's nice update may please @jeffsseidman.bsky.social.
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Yes, I wonder which of Trump/Musk's attacks on regulation may cause enough harm to shake people awake from their fever dream: a new disease that NIH cannot cure, a food safety pathogen that FDA inspectors cannot recall, a factory explosion with OSHA absent? Aviation safety failures are on the list.
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For detailed data sources on blue and green water footprint and co2e footprint per unit weight by food category, I can make suggestions.
For broad themes suitable for lay audiences, I can make suggestions.
For a magic wand that is both perfectly simple and precise, I would lack what you seek.
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It's just one piece of the puzzle, but a lovely option for both climate action and climate justice is a combination of policy initiative and personal restraint to reduce unnecessary flying. The good news is, with a bit of imagination, the alternatives are better than folks think. flyingless.org
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Your feed is a good education. I had to use Google. Concepts on point.
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Good one. Got it. I don't quite know how to answer without spoiling it for other readers. Perhaps ... Census Code 36.
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And of course ... while working out the details of the best estimate of the ratio of impacts from #flyingless and #socialaction ... it adds confidence that you are both doing both of these.
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I have found much of the interpersonal part of what your essay wishes for in climate action circles rather than forums that describe themselves specifically as "left."
From an intellectual left that is contemporary and moves beyond stale quotes from Marx, I wish for more price analysis.
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Right ... although the turn of phrase "if there is no market" would give heartburn to friends in farming (ha). I think these farmers can be reassured that there will still be plenty of market for corn.
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Do you think SAF from U.S. cane sugar is safely not food-competing?
WRI may not *assume* SAF comes from corn ethanol, but just says tax credits should not go to corn ethanol and other food stocks.
I think Brazilian and other foreign cane sugar already is ineligible for those tax credits.
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For Ed's specific question:
The identical "dent" corn, also known as "field" or "commodity" corn, is used for animal feed, biofuels, and food uses such as corn oil, corn syrup, cornmeal, tortillas, whiskey.
Fresh sweet corn, a different product, is a tiny market.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn
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Not in the Sunday sermons of the megachurches, but in the humble Wednesday night Bible sessions across the heartland, I pray that one night soon the plain words of the Sermon on the Mount will shake some people awake from their dark dream.
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Of my childhood family of four, my father Ted Wilde, an economist, church official, and a pastor, passed away in 2018. My sister Rachel died of an overdose in 2020. With my mother's passing, this week I'm feeling rooted but resilient like this tree. theculturetrip.com/north-americ...
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When I was nine, Mom moved us to Asuncion for half a year while she was working to document human rights abuses during the Stroessner regime. Later, from DC, she ran the small nonprofit Paraguay Watch. State department cables on Wikileaks describe some of her work. www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables...