At the Scheuerberg of Eberbach in the Odenwald a roughly 250 million years old footprint with a length of 28 cm was found, that may have belonged to an erythrosuchid.
[Professional travels] How can we combine participation in #conferences, #scientific meetings, with #reducing researchers' carbon #footprint? By reducing the number of such meetings? By generalizing virtual meetings? By optimizing the location of these meetings?
I've just computed that if you want to #offset ONE #travel by #plane#Paris to #Rio (about 2880 tCO2, according to @labos1point5), by not sending #email (without attachment), I need to completely stop sending emails for the next ...
272 YEARS !
assuming an average of 10 mails per day, each working #day. The #carbon#footprint of an email is considered to be 4g CO2eq.
"The environmental #footprint of social media #hosting": fascinating and absolutely read-worthy thoughts into #sustainable social networking, both environmentally and socially.
"If each launch requires 717 tons of methane, then the total amount of methane emitted for the rocket launches required to deploy the full Starlink constellation would be approximately 502,900 tons of methane." (1/2)
Expect more from life than dystopia, demand more from your life than fear. Reach out and up with strength and confidence, and live your life with freedom, grace, and great expectations.
Every email you send consumes #electricity and adds a tiny amount of #CarbonDioxide to the atmosphere. Since there are so many of us, and each one sends many emails a day, our combined email #carbon#footprint is enormous.
Our collective “thank you” emails are adding to #ClimateChange by 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year! These are the emails you send when you just want to say thank you in response to another email. #ClimateDiary
I see reports from admins of large instances having a rough time with the mass influx and old twitter habits, whereas smaller instances are islands of tranquility.
I’m not an admin, but it seems like a no-brainer to me. If you aren’t trying to profit in some way from running an instance, keep it small.
What is small? That depends, but 1000 active accounts might be a good maximum.
In the grand scheme of things, I’d favor supporting the admins who keep #overhead and #energy demands as low as possible. #Limits on everything! Accounts, toot characters, images, posts duration, … The name of the game would be #minimalism. That would fit my sense of #economy, #ecology, and #community.
I guess the #mastodon software is a big #footprint. That’s a different problem.