In our progress roundup, a close look at the unique impacts of daily life on women resulted in new policies in Malta, and a recommendation in Kenya and Senegal that women entrepreneurs deserve funding and support. #solutions #kenya #women

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0805/Womens-tax-solar-Korea-Colombia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Early nurturing before being released into the wild can make all the difference for endangered animals. Northern red-bellied cooters, a freshwater turtle species in Massachusetts, are one example of this. #turtles #endangered #solutions

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/0804/northern-red-bellied-cooter-turtles-massachusetts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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“Frugal tech” ... are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose top-down “solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely innovative technology really can set people free."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation

“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation>

In our progress roundup, two changes give people more agency at home: California’s Yurok tribe doubled its land holdings, and in Poland, councillors repealed a municipal resolution on families and children that courts said violated the dignity of LGBTQ+ people. #solutions #poland #LGBTQ

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0725/California-China-Honduras-Poland-Morocco?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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https://www.europesays.com/2268419/ Nestle Health Science offers customized nutrition in first South Korea retail store #7g #access #account #addition #AI #america #big #Businessmen #Center #concept #Connectivity #DEVICES #Digital #do #edge #engaged #example #format #gpt #including #income #information #interest #market #marketer #Mobility #network #personalized #science #search #solutions #tech #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #value #Virtual

From the volcanic fjords of Tufi in Papua New Guinea, researchers have described a new-to-science species of a coral reef fish called a dwarfgoby with an unusual purplish-black color.

The tiny fish is the “darkest of all described dwarfgobies,” the researchers say in the study, naming it Eviota vader after the Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

by Kristine Sabillo
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/darkest-ever-dwarfgoby-fish-gets-named-after-darth-vader/

NIH Is Far Cheaper Than the Wrong Dependency

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718.html

Some random thoughts about #journalism, #journalists #media, #socialMedia as echo chambers, and our ability to change from #nagScrolling to #solutions.

Have you ever noticed that people get upset about bad journalism or claim that ‘the’ media are not reporting something? They post (supposed) evidence. Who gets the attention? (a good question before boosting!)

In advance: Yes, if we analyze something bad for learning, we need these links and proofs. But I don't talk about that. I talk about

SOLVING
for more than one problem

In our progress roundup, researchers looking for climate solutions find that building codes can reduce loss from severe storms, and that specific rice strains have a “switch” that makes them more resilient to heat. #solutions #climate #hurricanes

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0707/rice-China-hurricane-Guatemala-EU?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Reposted from @malcolmxpower “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even begun to pull the knife out much less heal the wound. They won’t even admit that the knife is there.”
#MalcolmX

In our progress roundup, the impact of scientific research ranges from Brazil’s emergence as an agricultural superpower, to the new discovery of how a microbe makes its own detergent. #solutions #brazil #Climate Change

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0630/science-germany-brazil-orange-county?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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"The human response to the #climateCrisis is being obstructed and delayed by the production and circulation of misleading information about the nature of #climateChange and the available #solutions.
The findings of this #study indicate that powerful actors—including corporations, governments, and political parties—intentionally spread inaccurate or misleading #narratives about anthropogenic climate change."
Study: https://www.ipie.info/research/sr2025-1
Article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinformation-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report