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Does anyone have any recommendations for books, websites, podcasts, and/or videos regarding sustainability solutions for commercial buildings?

I've got some general ideas but want to research more in case there are solutions that I've missed.

Thanks!

A note of caution about the 3.5% rule that has received a lot of focus in recent years:

People will, of course, find reasons to explain away why one or the other of the protest movements don’t count – but what’s important is that both show there is nothing magical about a 3.5% threshold, even in exactly the context to which it was originally applied.

The animating theory of modern protest, then, has been extended well out of the context of its original research, and doesn’t hold up even in its original context when we look at the biggest non-violent protest movements of the last decade. And yet this goes entirely unexamined.

I am working off not enough sleep, so this may already exist or be a bad idea, but this thread got me thinking and so I posted this idea on Mastodon:

What if there was an interoperability commerce-focused protocol (built like ActivityPub does for content) where sellers could connect their single listing/post/etc. to many websites without having to manage the item individually on each website and the websites made money by commissions through a sort of affiliate program if the purchase was made through them?

I'm not a tech/programmer person, I'm more of a systems person, so I'm a bit out of my element.

Does anyone have any recommendations for CBD oil (for sublingual use, not vaping) in the UK? I want to pick up something, but I know that quality/accuracy can be an issue with the stuff you can get in shops without a prescription.

Just sharing a book recommendation for explaining the topic to kids. I highly recommend the book Climate Change and How We'll Fix It by Alice Harman. I got it last year for my 8-year-old and was very impressed with it. I'd even say its approach would work well for explaining things to adults who aren't very informed on or engaged with the topic.

My 8-year-old was inspired by it to write and design a flyer to hand out to his classmates about climate change with 10 simple things that they could do. We heard from several parents that their kids came home telling them to change some things they were doing at home.

For anyone curious about the book's content, here is the table of contents:

• Part 1: What We Know
  • The greenhouse effect
  • Energy and fuel
  • Food and farming
  • Too much stuff
  • Evidence of climate change
  • Impact of climate change
• Part 2: The Problems
  • Why aren't we fixing it?
  • The 'Just one more cookie' problem
  • The 'That's not fair' problem
  • The 'Would I lie to you' problem
  • The 'Smelt it, dealt it' problem
  • The 'You always take their side' problem
  • The 'They made me do it' problem
  • The 'Goody-two-shoes' problem
  • The 'Magical homework machine' problem
  • The 'La la la, I can't hear you' problem
  • The 'I won't until you do' problem
  • The 'Why should I?' problem
• Part 3: The Solutions
  • What we have to do
  • Do your best
  • Think BIG
  • Ask questions
  • Try to understand
  • Make things fair
  • Listen carefully
  • Use your imagination
  • Keep it simple
  • Work together
• Glossary
• Index

I just finished listening to The Santiago Boys podcast about the attempts to use cybernetics to run the Chilean economy under Allende in the early 70s. It was very interesting and got me wondering what kinds of technology (hardware or software) that you have come across that you think would be good for managing resources/efforts and democratising society.

What tools do you think could empower people?

What would you folks recommend as a good introduction to Murray Bookchin's ideas?

I saw a post from a couple of months ago recommending Make Rojava Green Again by his daughter, but I think that's focused on how it has been implemented in Rojava and based on Öcalan's works, as well. I'd like something focused on Murray Bookchin's writing, either by him or by someone else about his ideas.

Thanks!