Sixty-six

Comics and trees.

1. xkcd: Driving PSA

   

   I agree, that wave is terrifying. Avoid it. Just say no.

2. xkcd: Doppler Effect

   

3. The Communal Plot (perthirtysix.com)

   A new step in the morning routine?

4. See how much nature you have access to in your neighborhood and city

   I tested it below.

   

   One factor this map overlooks is walkability. This area is green because there are lots of trees and there are a few parks and the beach and intracoastal waterway are nearby. But you have to drive to all of those. None of it can be accessed during the normal course of a workday or by walking out your front door.

5. Marc Benioff’s Plan to Save 1 Trillion Trees Is Getting Complicated

   Bloomberg Green found that more than a fifth of the 85 companies’ pledges make use of the carbon offset market. Companies buy credits on the market to cancel out, or offset, their own climate emissions. Numerous offset-generating projects have promised climate benefits that crumbled upon scrutiny. Although proponents of offsets say they are the only viable way for some companies to hit net zero, many experts say they should not be used to cancel out emissions that can be reduced other ways.

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6. No one will read your book - by Elle Griffin - The Elysian

7. Public Search - Safe Cosmetics (ca.gov)

8. How 3M Execs Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

   Almost as soon as Hansen placed her first transparency on the projector, the attendees began interrogating her: Why did she do this research? Who directed her to do it? Whom did she inform of the results? The executives seemed to view her diligence as a betrayal: Her data could be damaging to the company. She remembers defending herself, mentioning Newmark’s similar work in the ’70s and trying, unsuccessfully, to direct the conversation back to her research…

   After that meeting, Hansen remembers learning from Bacon that her job would be changing. She would only be allowed to do experiments that a supervisor had specifically requested, and she was to share her data with only that person. She would spend most of her time analyzing samples for studies that other employees were conducting, and she should not ask questions about what the results meant.