Inês Costa
@circularinpt.bsky.social
#circulareconomy champion and #doughnuteconomics believer | Former State Secretary of Environment Portugal| S&C associate partner @ Deloitte.
Pena que as medidas que foram desenvolvidas no passado, e que funcionaram, não sejam vistas como opção. Apresentar um plano sem espaço à regeneração e à floresta autoctone, com a introdução de apoio a práticas agro florestais regenerativas, criando os mosaicos necessàrios e que fixem as pessoas…
August 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Pena que as medidas que foram desenvolvidas no passado, e que funcionaram, não sejam vistas como opção. Apresentar um plano sem espaço à regeneração e à floresta autoctone, com a introdução de apoio a práticas agro florestais regenerativas, criando os mosaicos necessàrios e que fixem as pessoas…
Desumano. www.publico.pt/2025/07/10/m...
Gaza: dez crianças mortas na fila para receberem suplementos alimentares
Enquanto prosseguem as negociações para um cessar-fogo com o Hamas, IDF atacaram um grupo de civis à espera de ajuda junto a um posto médico.
www.publico.pt
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Desumano. www.publico.pt/2025/07/10/m...
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Listen to AOC. Repost ad infinitum. Call your Representative (202-224-3121).
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Listen to AOC. Repost ad infinitum. Call your Representative (202-224-3121).
This didn’t aged well.
What is happening? Why are we so passive in the face of such a wave of pushback on essential societal and environmental goals? Are we at the bottom? Or is it possible to drop even lower?
May 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This didn’t aged well.
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I remember how important it was when Pope Francis posted these messages on Twitter back in 2015. Passionate messages on sustainability, #climatechange & equity. @pontifexes.bsky.social #LaudatoSi #PopeFrancis
April 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I remember how important it was when Pope Francis posted these messages on Twitter back in 2015. Passionate messages on sustainability, #climatechange & equity. @pontifexes.bsky.social #LaudatoSi #PopeFrancis
@kateraworth.bsky.social today is a good day for some donuting 😁
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@kateraworth.bsky.social today is a good day for some donuting 😁
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New research 🏭📈:
Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined.
But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity?
Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border.
Check it out:
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Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined.
But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity?
Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border.
Check it out:
🧵 1/n
April 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New research 🏭📈:
Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined.
But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity?
Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border.
Check it out:
🧵 1/n
Bitcoin mines in the U.S. used more electricity in 2022 than all of Los Angeles combined.
But who breathed the air pollution from generating all that electricity?
Our answer: mostly people in New York City, Houston / Austin, NE Texas, and IL / KY border.
Check it out:
🧵 1/n
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🚨New report: The State of the European Steel Transition
Half of EU steel production is still reliant on coal blast furnaces and transition plans are urgently needed for those without a retirement date.
Read the report published in partnership with civil society:
🔗 www.e3g.org/publications...
Half of EU steel production is still reliant on coal blast furnaces and transition plans are urgently needed for those without a retirement date.
Read the report published in partnership with civil society:
🔗 www.e3g.org/publications...
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨New report: The State of the European Steel Transition
Half of EU steel production is still reliant on coal blast furnaces and transition plans are urgently needed for those without a retirement date.
Read the report published in partnership with civil society:
🔗 www.e3g.org/publications...
Half of EU steel production is still reliant on coal blast furnaces and transition plans are urgently needed for those without a retirement date.
Read the report published in partnership with civil society:
🔗 www.e3g.org/publications...
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
“The courts have no mechanism to enforce their orders other than through the United States Marshals Service, and that's through the Department of Justice, thus through the executive branch.”
Fatality.
Fatality.
February 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“The courts have no mechanism to enforce their orders other than through the United States Marshals Service, and that's through the Department of Justice, thus through the executive branch.”
Fatality.
Fatality.
What is happening? Why are we so passive in the face of such a wave of pushback on essential societal and environmental goals? Are we at the bottom? Or is it possible to drop even lower?
February 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What is happening? Why are we so passive in the face of such a wave of pushback on essential societal and environmental goals? Are we at the bottom? Or is it possible to drop even lower?
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«Research collaborators from the Catholic University of Portugal placed F11 in sealed flasks with no carbon source aside from 10,000 micrograms per liter of PFAS. (...) analysis revealed that F11 had degraded some of the PFAS.»
Bacteria found to eat forever chemicals — and even some of their toxic byproducts
A strain taken from contaminated soil breaks apart the strong carbon-fluorine bonds of PFAS.
www.buffalo.edu
January 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
«Research collaborators from the Catholic University of Portugal placed F11 in sealed flasks with no carbon source aside from 10,000 micrograms per liter of PFAS. (...) analysis revealed that F11 had degraded some of the PFAS.»
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Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries
might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable.
In this Review, we expl...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Is building in green areas - as decided by the Portuguese Government - really a solution to tackle the #housing crisis ?
Experts say no, and stress that there are "far more sensible ways" to do so without harming #nature.
Critics say this is an excuse to build more homes for the rich. More 👇
Experts say no, and stress that there are "far more sensible ways" to do so without harming #nature.
Critics say this is an excuse to build more homes for the rich. More 👇
New Portuguese law foretells nature’s next big problem: the housing crisis
New Portuguese law foretells nature’s next big problem: the housing crisis
Opponents say the Portuguese government’s arguments are “fallacious” and the result of “blind, populist politics”
The post New Portuguese law foretells nature’s next big problem: the housing crisis appeared first on Euractiv.
dlvr.it
January 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Brasil: dados da plataforma do MapBiomas revelam que mais de 20,9 milhões de hectares foram queimados entre Janeiro e Dezembro de 2024. Um aumento de 79%. Mais da metade da área queimada fica na Amazónia. 🔥
Brasil: área queimada em 2024 equivale a mais de três vezes o território de Portugal
Dados da plataforma do MapBiomas revelam que mais de 20,9 milhões de hectares foram queimados entre Janeiro e Dezembro de 2024. Um aumento de 79%. Mais da metade da área queimada fica na Amazónia.
www.publico.pt
January 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Brasil: dados da plataforma do MapBiomas revelam que mais de 20,9 milhões de hectares foram queimados entre Janeiro e Dezembro de 2024. Um aumento de 79%. Mais da metade da área queimada fica na Amazónia. 🔥
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Paris was smart to initially brand @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s strategic steps around urban biking & walking, greening, place-making and kid-friendly streets as solutions to URBAN POLLUTION, something people understood. It worked, dramatically improving air quality. But they did MUCH more than that.
January 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Paris was smart to initially brand @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s strategic steps around urban biking & walking, greening, place-making and kid-friendly streets as solutions to URBAN POLLUTION, something people understood. It worked, dramatically improving air quality. But they did MUCH more than that.
This was the movie that made me discover David Lynchs work. Sad with news of his loss.
January 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This was the movie that made me discover David Lynchs work. Sad with news of his loss.
Sinto falta de um programa de discussão que possa fazer um dialogo sobre os temas atuais sob a lente da sustentabilidade. Em Portugal, não conheço. Alguém tem sugestões?
January 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Sinto falta de um programa de discussão que possa fazer um dialogo sobre os temas atuais sob a lente da sustentabilidade. Em Portugal, não conheço. Alguém tem sugestões?
I sincerely hope that bluesky does not loose momentum. Right now its the only place we can at least have a resemblence of a discussion.
January 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I sincerely hope that bluesky does not loose momentum. Right now its the only place we can at least have a resemblence of a discussion.
De olhos postos no horizonte.
December 31, 2024 at 9:23 PM
De olhos postos no horizonte.
Best book I read this year.
December 23, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Best book I read this year.