Links: here comes the sun

[sonia]

Santa Rosa cyclist on cross-country adventure rescues kitten, rides him hundreds of miles to safety — and a new home by Kerry Benefield. *teeny* *kitten*!

Mojave phone booth

a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California. It attracted online attention in 1997 for its unusual location – it was located at the intersection of two dirt roads in a remote part of the Mojave Desert, 12 miles (19 km) from the nearest paved road (Interstate 15 to the northeast, Kelbaker Road to the southwest) and miles from any buildings.

The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution by Rebecca Solnit.

[I]n the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar concentrator power plants, the kind where rings of mirrors reflect sun onto a central tower, which I think is now an outdated model, but it was striking to see the literally dazzling array; the second was a big field of solar panels around the town of Mojave t hat appeared to be tipping toward the setting sun; and then a long array of wind turbines just before the desert ends as the road heads uphill into Tehachapi

Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way by elbiotipo.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

A food designed for astronauts now fuels first responders and new moms by Madeline Taub. "Oakland resident Ryan Dowdy came up with the idea for READYBAR while working on food systems for the International Space Station." Kind of an ad, also a cool success story. No, I haven't tried them.

Comments

Speaking of solar futures

[jesse_the_k]

...one of the many hopeful take-aways from Deb Chachra's eminently readable book, How Infrastructure Works: Transforming Our Shared Systems for a Changing World is how abundant energy will be once we've transitioned to sustainable resources. One day's worth of sunlight on our planet is more than all the coal and oil humans have consumed so far. Her basic summary: matter is limited, energy is unlimited.

Re: Speaking of solar futures

[sonia]

That's good to know!

[silveradept]

I'm glad the kitten is okay and was able to get taken care of.

Renewable energies are definitely the future, although I've heard about some concerns about the rarer materials needed to manufacture batteries and the like still meaning that exploitative consequences fall on the places that have the mining parts of it. (And things like those who put together such things that others purchase and enjoy.) Still a better result than the fossil fuel climate change disaster.

Alongside TANG, then, we have READYBAR, so that you can have both food and drink that was initially designed for astronauts. Wonder what kind of meal that would taste like.

[sonia]

Probably depends on hunger and exercise levels. Even Gatorade is palatable after I've been biking long enough.