Peter Wyrm @PeterWyrm@social.wxcafe.net

My son has a fever. He's loudly shouting "I'm not 38 degrees, I'm two!"

5 full days with solar panels, mixed weather (one rainy day, the rest partly cloudy or sunny).
Total consumption: 123 kWh and only 5.4 kWh from the grid, >95% reduction.
It saved almost 2000 CZK ($83) in just 5 days and I can't even sell surpluses yet.
Last but not least: 55kg of CO2 saved.

Before the tiny Greek island of Tilos became a big name in recycling, taverna owner Aristoteles Chatzifountas knew that whenever he threw his restaurant’s trash into a municipal bin down the street it would end up in the local landfill.

The garbage site had become a growing blight on the island of now 500 inhabitants, off Greece’s south coast, since ships started bringing over packaged goods from neighboring islands in 1960.

Six decades later, in December last year, the island launched a major campaign to fix its pollution problem. Now it recycles up to 86 percent of its rubbish, a record high in Greece, according to authorities, and the landfill is shut.

Chatzifountas said it took only a month to get used to separating his trash into three bins — one for organic matter; the other for paper, plastic, aluminium and glass; and the third for everything else.

“The closing of the landfill was the right solution,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We need a permanent and more ecological answer.”

Tilos’ triumph over trash puts it ahead in an inter-island race of sorts, as Greece plays catch-up to meet stringent recycling goals set by the European Union (EU) and as institutions, companies and governments around the world adopt zero-waste policies in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“We know how to win races,” said Tilos’ deputy mayor Spyros Aliferis. “But it’s not a sprint. This is the first step (and) it’s not easy.”

The island’s performance contrasts with that of Greece at large. In 2019, the country recycled and composted only a fifth of its municipal waste, placing it 24th among 27 countries ranked by the EU’s statistics office.

That’s a far cry from EU targets to recycle or prepare for reuse 55 percent of municipal waste by weight by 2025 and 65 percent by 2035.

Greece’s Islands Are Zero-Waste Laboratories

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#inspiration #lol

Now we're talking. This velomobile has some serious style.

I'm a couple days late because things have been busy, but I just passed my four-year anniversary of moving to Belgium! 🇧🇪

As Laurie Paul would say, it's hard to evaluate a transformative experience: I'm just clearly not the same person I was four years ago. (Même simplement apprendre une deuxième langue garantit ça.)

But this really has been spectacular: great colleagues, great projects, great financing, university support, an incredible city (Brussels, I mean, not LLN, ahem). 1/

It's all fun and games until you mess with Germans

Vic Labor voted AGAINST this bill that would help reproductive health be more accessible and affordable.

Labor siding with the Libs for publicly funded religious institutions to be able discriminate against those in need is bloody shameful. #auspol

If you go to a tyre makers convention, do they have, like, a ban on calling your presentation "Reinventing the wheel"?

Y'all know The Hunger Games was never meant to be an instruction manual for government, right?