Art from trash
Thomas Deininger highlights the amount of single use plastic and waste disposed of in the worlds oceans by making art out of the material he finds
The animals he sculptures are the same creatures threatened by this waste
👩🔬 My former colleagues at @UFZ_de are looking for a modeller to develop methodologies/tools to assess the potential impact of blue-green infrastructures 💦 for sustainable water management in urban and peri-urban environments. Could that be you? #sciencejobs@joshswaterjobs
Job Alert. Are you into open data? Are you at the start of your career? Apply for this position and grow our #openscience team @ETH_GHE.
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_e…
If you enjoy communicating online, and happen to be competent in #rstats, this is for you.
Pro tip: use clickbait commit messages to get your teammates to review your code faster
git commit -m “First she noticed a bug in production. What happens next will SHOCK you!”
Some lighter news for a change...
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years
Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it
theguardian.com/artanddesign…
More solar, not less, is the answer to make the UKs net-zero goals. Banning solar from underused farm land, is a step in the wrong direction, @Conservatives!
Shocking that "solar covers a smaller land area than airports, golf courses or Christmas trees".
theguardian.com/environment/…
We are hiring a German-speaking Data Analyst to work with our Data Team (which includes me) to help the hospitality sector become more sustainable.
We hate green washing and love holding our clients accountable!
#hiring#careers#recruiting#greenjobslinkedin.com/jobs/view/33026…
More than 3 decades after reunification, that's what income distribution looks like in Germany according to @zeitonline. Despite obvious urban-rural patterns, the stark division along the old inner-German border is shocking. More info [paywall]: zeit.de/arbeit/2022-09/gemei…
Back of house visit in a hotel today... That's the leftover soaps from hotel rooms being collected for #reuse/#recycling. Crazy to think that most bars appear barely used. Maybe next time, if you use the hotel soap, just take it he with you? 🤔 Better even #bringyourown.
Dürrefolgen für Stadt Land: "Wir brauchen Strategien, um mit Dürre, Starkregen und Hitze umzugehen, weil diese Extremwetter häufiger werden. Das sagt #UFZ-Schwammstadt-Forscher Roland Müller im Interview. @klimainitiative
➡️deutschlandfunk.de/duerrefol…
❓Over or under?
🤌 Many fierce debates are being held over toilet roll orientation preferences 🧻
⏩ So nice to see that our @WeWork office serves both sides of the aisle. A grand gesture for mutual understanding in these divisive time!
#toiletpaperorientation@TPOForg
ALT Two roles of toilet paper. One oriented under, the other over.
Would you like to have your hex logo appear on the hex wall at rstudio::conf()? If so, please fill out this form! ⬡ forms.gle/39fWMq8hGzTH7ATP9 ⬡ #rstats
🔬 Small kitchen experiment: this is how "completely compostable" #bioplastic by @vegware looks like after 3 months in a worm compost. Not even a dent.
⚠️ Compostable plastic is a scam*!
‼️ We have to move away from single use items, no matter what material they made of.
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* About that:
1️⃣ Compostable #bioplastic degrades only in industrial composting systems with well-managed conditions
2️⃣ PLA is compostable, but non-biodegradable
3️⃣ No international standard has been established to define home-compostable plastics
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