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Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

Ein - Filmtip für alle, die gerade auch angesichts des Scheiterns der COP30 - niedergeschlagen sind: (2016) bietet beeindruckend tiefe um die Frage eines Raumschiffes bzw. einer mit überhitzten Lebenserhaltungssystemen. Herzliche Empfehlung für einen auch noch unterhaltsamen mit und mit ! 🤩🚀💡🖖 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/solarpunk-arche-filmtip-passengers-von-2016-von-morten-tyldum-jon-spaits/

what heat recovery ventilators or energy recovery ventilators have, which is the unique and special thing about something that’s different from a heat pump, which can provide heat, or sometimes people will have mini splits or AC units that are sitting up and they’re circulating the air in the room and they’re heating or cooling it, but they’re not exchanging air from the outside. The really unique and efficient thing that energy recovery ventilators do is they bring in outdoor air. They do this heat transfer, so you’re really efficiently heating or cooling the air, you’re filtering it, bringing it inside, and then you put it back outside and you create this loop that does both ventilate and filtrate.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-indoor-air-quality

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/opinion/immigration-global.html

cutting while forcing the poor to repay loans as they scramble to feed people ( ) makes EVERYTHING worse and displaces even more people.

In "A New Faith", this debate between so-called nativists and plays out in -
https://tinjar.ghost.io/anf/a-new-faith-part-2-chapter-18/

Chapters 18-21

Now this. This is .

A true community-owned gardening project. So many stadiums and sports intitutes are just left to rot once they're no longer profitable, instead of being reused for the greater good. Remember, repurposing is always easier than recycling.

Image source: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1oatw62/taipeis_old_stadium_turned_into_a_community_garden/

A picture of Taipei's derelict Zhongshan Stadium taken from inside, showing a community garden emerging on the viewing decks filled with greenery

What are your favorite books on repairing things? What about books on making things?

As the internet gets filled with AI slop I've been putting together a personal library for friends and neighbors.

I have a book on bike repair, two books related to making, altering, and mending clothes, a book on home repairs, a book about electronics, and the book I used to study for my Ham radio exam.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/16/climate-crisis-or-a-warning-from-god-iranians-desperate-for-answers-as-water-dries-up

The protagonist of "A New Faith", a , is Alia (police detective) who is a from

This is the reason why.

Other key characters are also refugees:
Sara - the killer responsible for the 2nd murder is from
Sonia - police chief is from
Tozi - Alia's colleague is from