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Did you know we have a news letter? In our latest one we are talking about: ⛈️ The “ESFM” weather model to improve the forecasting of extreme weather 🍄 A new map shows the global extent of underground fungal networks 👩‍🚀 We explore data centres in space 📱 AI meet-ups to reduce inequality

Modern #satellite monitoring systems have transformed our understanding of #climatechange. From orbit, the health of a forest can be read almost in real time. Read more here 👇

🛰️Do you think sending data centres into space could be a good solution for our planet? Or is it sweeping another problem on earth under the galactic carpet?

Mit Mäusen aus Zuckerrohr und Refurbished-Servern geht es weiter bei unserem Podcast #Klicks&Klima 🤓 In Folge 3 haben wir mit Susanne Jordan von #NagerIT, Jens Gröger vom @oekoinstitut.bsky.social und Christopher Sweetsir von #Techbuyer gesprochen! 🎧👇 reset.org/faire-mause-...

Thinking about getting a new laptop soon? Read this article first - Refurbished vs Recycled 💻⬇️

This year at IFA Berlin, we spoke to Cradle to Cradle NGO co-founder Tim Janßen about the potential for a circular economy using Cradle to Cradle principles, particularly in the electronics sector. This is what he had to say 👇

Folge 2 von unser neuer Podcast „Klicks & Klima”: Sechs Wege, KI wie ChatGPT, Mistral oder Claude energiesparender zu nutzen. 😍 Warum Höflichkeit Strom kostet, was Kezia (RESET) zu KI-Antworten bei Google sagt und was Edgar Linscheid zu „Sustainable Prompting” rät. 🤔

Neue Folge von „Klicks & Klima”: Mit Moderatorin Lydia Skrabania, Ralph Hintemann (Borderstep Institut) und den RESET-Redakteur:innen Indra Jungblut und Benjamin Lucks klären wir, warum du deine KI-Nutzung reduzieren solltest – wegen Klimafolgen und unsichtbarer Arbeit.

📖 Check out this new article Effective fine-scale drone monitoring of wild Asian elephants for conflict mitigation and ecological research 🐘 🌴 🚁 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/89Pxruz

We spoke to Nicolas Réhault from @fraunhofer.bsky.social about what alternatives are out there for cooling buildings, aside from energy-intensive air conditioning. And this is what he had to tell us 👇

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🍄 From mystical mushroom structures to improved weather forecasts, in our latest news letter we explore the sustainable solutions that leave a positive impact on our whole planet 👇

🛰️ What if we sent out data centers to outer space? Aside from alleviating the ecological impacts of thirsty, loud #datacentres, they’re also promoted as a #sustainable solution for processing and storing data. Read more here ⬇️

In this economy of budget cuts, one has no choice but to become creative 👇 en.reset.org/onlymarms-co...

The power of wind in the fight against climate change ⬇️

If you buy a smartphone in 2026, they will most likely contain lithium-ion batteries. Lithium mining comes with a wide range of environmental consequences. Scientists have therefore been researching an interesting alternative since the 1970s: sodium-ion batteries. 👇

Could we use mushrooms to eat our trash?

An oldie, but still relevant article from the RESET archives Mushrooms are replacing leather in eco-friendly fashion ⬇️

🍄Would you live in a mushroom house? 👇

Staying in a #Fungi theme this week, we wrote about biodegradable fungal batteries 👇

An international research team has investigated the global scale of these vast underground networks for the first time and the result is an incredible digital map of the world’s fungal networks. We spoke to @spun.earth about this interactive unique system 👇

From 🌡️ to ⛈️ This esfm AI model can predict extreme weather and potentially save lives 👇

Europe launches two climate observation satellites

If you're a coder, perhaps its a good idea to check out this tool by Claude, developed by Gaëtan Wittebolle shows your carbon footprint and gives tips on how to reduce your code's emissions 👇

Re-reading this gem of an article, where we interviewed @ketanjoshi.co about the grossly unreported harm of AI on our planet ⬇️

🐋 Could we use #AI to protect life in our oceans? 👇

Would you join an #AImeetup?

A new AI-powered model developed by @ethz.ch, @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, @conservation.cam.ac.uk and MeteoSwiss can forecast extreme weather events with more precision than existing methods. We spoke to some of the team working on the Earth System Foundational Model 👇

Up-cycling is more fun together ⬇️

August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C).

Apertus is the largest fully open language model available today, but do the current limitations mean that we should throw the baby out with the Swiss lakewater? And what can the story of smaller AI models tell us about the complexity of labelling AI as “good” or “bad”? 👇

From a living room to a movement 🏃 This is how organisations like the AI Collective aim is to give space for people to discuss what AI means for their jobs, their communities, even on their continents—without waiting for regulators or corporations to fill in the blanks. 👇

El Niños are stronger now than at any point in the last 1,000 years - scientists say climate change is to blame www.newscientist.com/article/2586...

Big Tech keeps showing us where its priorities lie — fossil power, closed data, and profit over people. EU-Alternatives work differently. In this article sponsored by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social we share our recommendations on EU alternatives you can start using today ⬇️

Great article by @cal-innes.bsky.social talking about the contradictions and different arguments on why we should avoid using AI 👇

do the current limitations of Apertus mean that we should throw the baby out with the clean, Swiss lakewater? And what can the story of smaller AI models tell us about the complexity of labelling AI as “good” or “bad”? Find out 👇

"The sooner we can use AI to identify problems such as wildfires or drought in forests, the sooner we can respond." -Stephen Wehner, managing director @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social Find out how they are solving these problems by building their own Gen AI platform 👇

Is #FollowFriday a thing on @bsky.app? If not, we are going to take the initiative by sharing some organizations we 💚 @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social @heigit.org @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @cleancitiescampaign.org @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social Go show them some 💚 too!

What if the AI platform you use wasn't designed to trick you into using it more than you need to? Welcome: Aim2Balance.ai, Gen AI that is made with a holistic, environmental and social approach to tech by the same people behind @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social Learn how it is made and how to use it 👇

We wrote about the first large-scale model built to meet the transparency, data-traceability & copyright requirements of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act. But is Apertus a serious alternative to ChatGPT, or something else entirely? We took a 👀 at some of the claims & misconceptions 👇

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire