MarieVC

MarieVC, 28 days ago to random

Our house martins are back, and this is the first morning we've heard their distinctive calls. Soon we'll be enjoying our first coffee on the terrace, watching them. Our flat is on the same level as their nests, which are currently occupied by sparrows. In previous years, they had been able to reclaim them. Here we go for the next few months, living to the rhythm of our house martins! #Bliss

#ClimateDiary #HouseMartins #BirdsOfFediverse

MarieVC, 1 month ago to random

Yesterday I took part in a second day of citizens' deliberation organised by Real Deal (Brussels), this time with a feminist lens and the tools of the Women Engage for a Common Future team.

I wasn't able to attend the afternoon of proposals writing, but the morning of discussions and networking was fascinating and energising. It's so good to work on what brings us together, while drawing on our differences!

#ClimateDiary #WomenEngageForACommonFuture #CitizensDeliberation #RealDeal

MarieVC, 1 month ago to climate

Pollen in Luxembourg, the birch count is frightening (as I'm allergic, it's not a great time at the moment).

Does anyone know anything about 'standard' pollen concentrations? Do trees release more pollen to increase* their chances of survival in a world in climate crisis?

#ClimateCrisis #Luxembourg #Lëtzebuerg #Pollen24

MarieVC, 1 month ago to Europe

"Climate activists seek breakthrough human rights court ruling against European states"

via @Luigiprosperi (Bluesky)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-activists-seek-breakthrough-human-rights-court-ruling-against-european-2024-04-09/

#Europe #ClimateAction #ClimateInaction #ClimateDiary

MarieVC, 1 month ago to poetry

“Pas d’épanouissement individuel sans émancipation collective. Pas de scènes sans partage, pas de littérature sans slam, pas d’artistique sans éducation populaire, pas de culturel sans social, pas de démocratie sans paroles citoyennes, pas de poésie sans engagement, pas de vie sans poésie.” (Lisette Lombé, Poétesse Nationale de Belgique, 2024)

https://www.poetenational.be/lisette-lombe/

via @Sandg (Bluesky)

#Poetry #Poesie #LisetteLombé #Belgique #Belgium

MarieVC, 2 months ago to Germany

#SilentSunday #Saarschleife #Germany

Photo of the wooden structure overlooking the Saarschleife, which is best seen from a distance in winter when the trees are leafless. In summer, it's a great feeling to be a little closer to the canopy. In winter, we can observe the complexity of the branches, which is just as amazing.

MarieVC, 2 months ago to random

"The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud" @cloudanthro

"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes."

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

#ClimateDiary #DataCenterLife #DataCenter #Cloud #TheWeightOfOurData

MarieVC, 3 months ago to generativeAI

"Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret" @Katecrawford

#ClimateDiary #GenerativeAI

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

MarieVC, 3 months ago to random

"Why citizen scientists are gathering DNA from hundreds of lakes — on the same day"

#CitizenScience #Biodiversity #ClimateDiary

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00520-y

MarieVC, 3 months ago to random

Very pleased to have taken part in yesterday's European Citizens Deliberation Forum on the Green Transition, with interesting discussions with participants from 28 countries (24 EU member states).

Sharing our experience and knowledge at a European level is really important!

Self-organisation without governance remains difficult and not without limits (who speaks? to say what? for what purpose?).

#RealDealEU #ClimateDiary #GreenDealEU

Photo of Patrizia Heidegger, the EEB's Deputy Secretary General and Director for European Governance, Sustainability and Global Policies, answering questions on the European Green Deal.

MarieVC, 3 months ago to random

Have you heard about this day and are you going to take part?

European Citizens Deliberation Forum on the Green Transition, Brussels, Saturday 11 February 2024

https://www.realdeal.eu/2402_citizens_deliberation

#ClimateDiary #GreenDeal #GreenTransition

MarieVC, 4 months ago to random

It's really complicated to live in a world that can only have one meaning per concept. Analysing transport data is complicated for me (surveillance risks), but it's also useful for assessing collective needs. However, there are walkable cities that are already working on some of the principles of the 15-minute city. Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) has been around since the 1970s. And it's one of the towns where I see the most independent wheelchair users.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories

#ClimateDiary

MarieVC, 5 months ago to Brussels

Today I joined my home town (Brussels) and the 20,000 participants in the Climate March, to sing, to be together, to remind everyone of the urgency of the climate in this time of COP28, the solutions that exist, and that the planet doesn't give a damn about pauses in climate action.

#ClimateDiary #ClimateMarchBrussels #ClimateMarch #MarcheClimat #Brussels #Klimaatmars

Photo taken during the Climate March in Brussels, with a banner reading in French and Dutch "It's time for revolution, enough marching, local action and global resistance".

MarieVC, 5 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

MarieVC, 5 months ago to climate

The planet's limits as an annoying inconvenience to be removed.

"Frieden aims to empower the government to reach these targets without resorting to "unpopular measures." He has even instructed the new Minister for the Environment, Serge Wilmes, to talk to his civil servants to encourage them to "change their state of mind."."

https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/2141911.html

#ClimateDiary #LuxPol #OstrichEffect #ClimateCrisis #Luxembourg

MarieVC, 6 months ago to environment

"En même temps, il conviendra d’éviter que des procédures fastidieuses, des conditions excessives et une bureaucratie dissuasive n’entravent les progrès dans d'autres domaines importants. La politique de protection de la nature ne doit pas devenir une politique d’entrave que les citoyens considèrent comme arbitraire." (Programme de coalition CSV-DP, 2023)

This is fine.

https://www.reporter.lu/luxemburg-politik-das-programm-der-csv-dp-koalition/

#ClimateDiary #Luxembourg #ClimatePolicy #Environment #luxpol

MarieVC, 6 months ago to environment

We've got a new Minister for the Environment, time to read his portrait by @laschmit

"Politikstil von Serge Wilmes erinnert an das „en même temps“, das der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron in seiner ersten Amtszeit prägte: die sozialen Angebote der Stadt ausbauen und das Bettelverbot durchboxen, eine autogerechte Stadt verteidigen und nachhaltige Mobilität fördern."

https://www.reporter.lu/luxemburg-stadt-portraet-serge-wilmes-buergermeister-eventuell/

#ClimateDiary #Luxembourg #Environment

MarieVC, 6 months ago to random

"(1/4) However much one laments and even wishes somehow to atone for the loss of life and suffering visited upon innocents because of Palestinian violence, there is still the need, I think, also to say that no national movement has been so unfairly penalized, defamed, and sujected to disproportionate retaliation for its sins as has the Palestinian."

(Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine, 1992: Preface to the 1992 Edition)

#FreePalestine #CeasfireNow #EdwardWSaid

MarieVC, 6 months ago to random

"I apologize to my library, filled with the memories of many years, because the Apache pilot only gave me a few minutes’ warning to save myself before they sentenced my small apartment to death.

My heart aches for my apartment, which I built brick by brick with my own hands. I painstakingly selected each material, each tile, treating them as companions that would accompany me through life." (Tawfiq Abu Shomer, writer in Gaza)

https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/25/letters-from-gaza-part-3/

#FreePalestine #TawfiqAbuShomer

MarieVC, 7 months ago to random

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

MarieVC, 7 months ago to random

What are the evidence-based recommendations about booster after covid infection?

In Luxembourg, the vaccine is available from doctors and pharmacies, depending on demand. If I have to wait 3 months, it will be in January, when no-one will be looking for the vaccine. I read that the CDC says that the booster can be obtained as soon as recovery is complete. Any data/info on this?

Thank you!

#CovidIsNotOver

MarieVC, 7 months ago to Bretagne

Alignements du Toulinguet ou alignements de Lagatjar, Camaret (2023)

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8816

#StandingStoneSunday #Brittany #Bretagne #Camaret

Photo of the Toulinguet alignments. The photo shows 6 of the almost 90 stones in the alignments, on a sunny summer's day. At the top right of the photo, the ruined towers of the Manoir de Saint-Pol-Roux can be spotted.
Photo of the Toulinguet alignments. The photo shows 16 of the almost 90 stones in the alignments on a sunny summer's day.
Photo of the Toulinguet alignments. The photo shows some of the roughly 90 stones in the alignments and reveals its u-shape.

MarieVC, 7 months ago to random

On top of that, I caught covid for the first time since the start of the pandemic. So far, the symptoms are manageable, apart from the toothache, why didn't anyone warn me?

#CovidIsNotOver

MarieVC, 7 months ago to random

Elections in the country where I live and where I cannot vote. 10% of people voted for the far right and almost 30% for the Conservatives. The party leader boasts: "Voters opted for a different policy". Promising the impossible, refusing to see the reality of the climate crisis, increasing suffering and postponing solutions, really???

#ClimateDiary #Luxembourg #Lëtzebuerg #Elections2023

MarieVC, 7 months ago to Bretagne

Tumulus de la Pointe de la Torche (2023)

https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=9041

#Bretagne #Brittany #StandingStoneSunday

Photo of the path leading to the top of the tumulus. The mound was once made of shells, a trace of the first occupants (Mesolithic period).
Lower part of the tumulus, passage grave in the extension of the lower cairn.
View from the top of the tumulus, over the sea and its strong waves much appreciated by surfers.