Ran Boydell
Australian architect working in Aus+UK, pioneer of sustainable homes, built environment research, posts on #climatechange #netzero #architecture #housing #ecoart #leadership
"The limit on action is culture not capacity."
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#allmyownwork
- "In this more sober market environment after the “tech wreck”, now is the time for that money to do something more useful in the financial system." Katieml Martin
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellGrid scale batteries are booming. The Middle East alone deployed almost 12GWh of battery storage last year.
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A major win for the ocean ✊✊ An Australian company’s bid to mine the seabed off Aotearoa, New Zealand has been rejected after regulators found it would cause serious harm to marine life, including whales and penguins. 🌊🌊 - Reposted by Ran Boydell[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ran Boydell2 of Aotearoa New Zealand's 10 cheapest new cars are electric, the "EVs are too expensive" attack line is dead (even more so when you take into account the far lower maintenance and running costs too) #kikorangi
- Reposted by Ran Boydellso called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input futurism.com/advanced-tra...
- Reposted by Ran BoydellYou may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
- Some great betting opportunities on #climate change at @kalshiofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ran BoydellBack in 2020 it wasn't a good career move in the climate space to shit talk Bill Gates' and point out his climate hypocrisy. I was the only person quoted in an article on that issue in a VICE piece. And that was before we knew of the Epstein connections. However, I was right.
- "he has conjured up an astonishing $2.5tn in value (what the public and private markets think his main ventures are worth), despite his companies’ relatively modest cash flow." Value = what others think something is worth and compared to conjuring trick? No wonder we have boom + bust cycles...
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellAnother area where the EU is finally thinking about its shared leverage. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Ran BoydellJust a few weeks ago some Very Serious Climate People said that Exxon’s CEO was too rational to want to go into Venezuela. I am literally BEGGING those people to learn something about oil company greenwashing, not to mention other forms of fossil-fuel propaganda. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
- Reposted by Ran BoydellTrump and the normalisation of deviance ft.trib.al/uRQthsz | opinion
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellListen to the second installment of the Lost Women of Science podcast series Layers of Brilliance digging into the life of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who began her career at the "House of Magic"
- Reposted by Ran BoydellSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellWe shouldn't write off Peter Thiel comparing Greta Thunberg to the Antichrist because targeting climate scientists and activists will likely be in the upcoming chapters of this fascist regime. We stand in direct opposition to their plays to ramp up fossil fuel and beef production.
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellNEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellI'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
- "Collective action is crucial. We can all seek out allies, organise among peers and build powerful coalitions, rather than hoping science will passively translate into change." @thierryaaron.bsky.social
- "historian Achille Mbembe introduced the idea of “necropolitics” to explain how some lives come to be treated as more expendable than others. This does not imply intent to kill, but rather the routine political acceptance that some people will be exposed to harm." Aaron Thierry
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellI’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
- Reposted by Ran BoydellLast week @climatemajority.bsky.social & Climate Courage Schools released The Hardest Lesson, a video of a teacher covering the #ClimateEmergency in class. It's a hard, but necessary watch. @thierryaaron.bsky.social's article explains the uncomfortable truth on why #ClimateInEducation is now vital 👇🏽
- I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
- Reposted by Ran BoydellHi, when you go out of your building into the city, please remember that nearly all of this was created by coal, then by oil and gas. And it's built so naively inefficient that it had to be heated with these very fuels. Freedom huh?
- Reposted by Ran BoydellFossil fuels are the source material for most plastics & synthetic fabrics & foams & the chemicals added to them to make them flexible, durable, less flammable, while other materials are energy-intensive to make. Alternative building materials are a huge part of tackling climate change + pollution.
- Reposted by Ran BoydellStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by Ran BoydellThis event is today - how can you not want to join an event that talks about the Politics of Dry Feet?? www.iss.nl/en/events/po...
- Join us online on 4 February between 13-14 CET for a discussion on 'The Politics of Dry Feet: the Political Economy of Flood Risk Management in Indonesia' (fabulous title). Sign up here: www.iss.nl/en/events/po...
- Reposted by Ran Boydell"Help is not on the way. Even the best-governed societies aren’t responding at the pace demanded... there’s less sign than ever that someone else — the government, markets, activists — is coming to the rescue. We have to rescue ourselves." alexsteffen.substack.com/p/we-thought...
- Reposted by Ran BoydellMany people assume solar PV degrades quickly. Long-term evidence suggests otherwise. This paper in EES Solar uses rare multi-decade field data to show that PV systems can retain a high share of their initial performance after 30 years, with lower degradation than often assumed. Link in comments.
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- Reposted by Ran BoydellFor the sake of balance, maybe we should remain open to the possibility that replacing grass with blades of plastic coated in chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid, liver + kidney disease, + inviting our children to play on it is a good idea?
- Reposted by Ran BoydellSomebody created an Reddit clone exclusively populated by personal digital agents and let them interact with each other. It’s bonkers, fascinating and terrifying in equal measure. www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...
- Reposted by Ran BoydellMoving more electricity use off-peak could save the country up to $3 billion and transform the energy system in the process. The study found New Zealand could, through fully exploiting modern technologies, lower electricity use at the busiest times by up to 25%. www.eeca.govt.nz/about/news-a...
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- Reposted by Ran Boydell427.97 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 31-Jan-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
