Aussie Enviro

> - Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is attending the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates. > - He says energy bosses should have their heads "put up on spikes" for not committing to phase out fossil fuels. > - It comes as some companies, including the national oil company of the UAE, defy calls for a wind-down of fossil fuel use.

Quote with context:

> And he took particular aim at the oil and gas bosses who were dismissing the calls, describing them as "selfish beyond belief". > > He said their actions were jeopardising the lives of millions of people in overwhelmingly poor countries who were at risk of "lethal humidity", or an inability to cool themselves down. > "If you can't cool yourself you're actually an oven burning around 100 watts all the time," Dr Forrest said. > > "If you can [sic] get rid of that heat energy, you cook. > > "And when these deaths occur — and they're occurring now, but when they occur at much larger-scale — I want these so-called people who are very smart to be held to account. > > "It's their heads which should be put up on spikes because they wilfully ignored and they didn't care."

> Key points: > - Bloop the white platypus was first spotted in the Gwydir River in 2021 > - Its white colour is due to the genetic abnormality leucism > - The animal became the 13th documented sighting of a white platypus in Australia since 1835

The Grove of Giants in the Huon Valley of Tasmania, Australia is renowned for its large trees.

A team of tree climbers and citizen scientists undertook a carbon assessment of a 2 hectare plot within the Grove of Giants.

The largest 16 trees in the plot (>2.5 m DBH) were measured by tree climbers allowing for accurate estimation of tree volume. Understory trees, coarse woody debris, root biomass and soil carbon were also estimated, making this study the most comprehensive assessment of forest carbon in Tasmania.

Total forest carbon was estimated to be 1312 tonnes per hectare.

Large trees had the highest carbon stocks, accounting for 44% of the total store. Coarse woody debris represented 19% of the forest's carbon, root biomass was 14%, while the understory trees accounted for 12% and soil carbon for 11%. This is the highest carbon stock recorded in Tasmania and is above the average estimates for temperate forest ecosystems in other parts of the world.

Protecting Tasmania's forests, especially mature wet Eucalypt forests, is important to avoid potential greenhouse gas emissions and ensure safe storage of the carbon in the land sector.

This will be a living document (and is a Work In Progress) so if readers are aware of instances/communities/magazines that suit the umbrella of the "environment", including "gardening" etc., please comment to add them. Use the browsers at the bottom to find your own. This was originally a Lemmy list but has expanded to the 'Fediverse'.

Lemmy Instances (visit to check their communities for suitability, the first 2 have a massive list of related spaces, far too many to list here):

• Mander.xyz- An instance dedicated to nature and science.
• SLRPNK.net - Solarpunk imagines a world in which today’s existential threat - the climate crisis - is being approached with camaraderie and adaptive ingenuity.
• https://thegarden.land/ - This is a home for gardeners and plant-lovers and anyone else who wants a warm place to thrive.
• lemmy.srv.eco - Self-sufficiency, mutual aid, collapse, and other subjects related to the environment and our place and role(s) within it.

Lemmy Communities:

• https://aussie.zone/c/environment - An Australian community for everything from your backyard to beyond the black stump.
• https://aussie.zone/c/gardeningaustralia - A community for all things relating to Aussie gardens. No problem too small. No question too unimportant. Come in and brag about your garden, show us what you’re doing, share that flower, ask that question.
• https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace - All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it’s animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.
• https://beehaw.org/c/environment - Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they’re not breaking news).
• https://midwest.social/c/environment - A community about our environment (Editor's note: the midwest America I presume)
• https://lemmy.ml/c/green - This is the place to discuss environmentalism, preservation, direct action and anything related to it!
• https://lemmy.ml/c/gardening
• https://lemmy.ml/c/nolawns - A community devoted to alternatives to monoculture lawns, with an emphasis on native plants and conservation. Rain gardens, xeriscaping, strolling gardens, native plants, and much more!
• https://lemmy.world/c/homestead - Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, wwoofers, bees, honey, wildcrafting, dairy, goats, nuts, berries, vegetables, sustainability, off grid, wood stoves, chainsaws, wood heat, tools, welding, green woodworking, farmers markets, composting toilets, straw bale homes, cob building…
• https://chat.maiion.com/c/environment - A community dedicated to environmental topics discussing climate change, renewable energy, ecosystems across the biosphere, and more.
• https://lemmy.world/c/gardening - Your Ultimate Gardening Guide.
• https://lemmy.world/c/permaculture - Permaculture theory and practice.
• https://lemm.ee/c/permaculture - Caring about the earth, that is what it’s about.
• https://lemmy.ml/c/naturalgardening - Natural gardening is for all; permaculture is often for upper middle class hipsters.
• https://lemmygrad.ml/c/eco_socialism - A community for talking about gardening, Eco news, and all things Mother Earth!
• https://lemmy.ml/c/beekeeping - Beekeeping, bee gardens, bee research, bee pictures, and honey appreciation.
• https://lemmy.world/c/vegan_gardening - A community for vegan gardeners to share their successes and learnings. Vegan gardening (or veganic gardening) is gardening without the use of animal agriculture including common inputs like manure, bone and blood. It also avoids chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Instead of these elements veganic gardening uses crop rotation, mulching, compost, green manures, etc to replenish the soil and minimize loss to pests.
• https://lemmy.ca/c/outdoors - A community dedicated to all things outdoors. Hiking, backpacking, cycling, camping, gardening, walking, any discussions surrounding outdoor activities you can think of are welcome here! Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!!
• https://lemmy.ml/c/collapse - This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment. (Editor's Note: has frequently posted environmental articles of worldwide issues.)
• https://sopuli.xyz/c/collapse - A place to share news, experiences and discussion about the continuing climate crisis, societal collapse, and biosphere collapse. Please be respectful of each other and remember the human.
• https://www.hexbear.net/c/gardening - (Editor's Note: defederated? Use as a single instance if so.)

kbin Magazines (same as Communities - list needs work):

• https://kbin.social/m/gardening
• https://kbin.social/m/houseplants
• https://kbin.social/m/Plants
• https://kbin.social/m/VegetableGardening
• https://kbin.social/m/environment
• https://kbin.social/m/climate

Mastodon Instances (click here for Instance descriptions - word count issue):

• https://regenerate.social/
• https://climatejustice.social/
• https://flipping.rocks/
• https://birds.town/
• https://urbanists.social/
• https://rail.chat/
• https://outdoors.lgbt/
• https://mountains.social/
• https://scicomm.xyz/
• https://ecoevo.social/
• https://fediscience.org/
• https://mastodon.green/
• https://eu.mastodon.green/
• https://sunbeam.city/
• https://growers.social/
• https://beekeeping.ninja/

Mastodon User Lists:

• https://fedi.directory/tag/botany/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/entomology/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/evolutionary-biology/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/earth-science/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/ecology/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/weather-and-meteorology/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/fishing/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/gardening/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/homegrown-food/
• https://fedi.directory/nature-animals/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/agriculture/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/urban-planning/
• https://fedi.directory/tag/environment-and-green-issues/
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Animals
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Environmentalists
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Nature
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Outdoors
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Plants
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Science
• https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Sustainability
• @notjustbikes
• https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ
• https://a.gup.pe/u/plants - https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/wiki/Guppe-Groups-FAQ

Credit for Instances and User Lists to @GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz - https://scicomm.xyz/@glennmagusharvey/

Mastodon Tips:

• Use #tags in areas of interest and search for @users that are posting your favourite content and follow. Search and favourite a list of #tags to populate your feed while you locate @users.
• You can follow Lemmy/kbin communities from Mastodon (e.g. search "@environment@aussie.zone" and follow, posts will come in from that point, including every comment which fills your feed poorly), post back into Lemmy (there is a specific way to do this), and reply to threads also. Federation isn't pretty between Mastodon and Lemmy, it's up to the user if they want to persist. Recommended to have 2 separate accounts for full usability at this point. kbin has "microblogging" built in which is Mastodon "tooting", only one account required if you are a kbin user.

The Lemmy instances listed have some activity, until Lemmy matures the list may grow or shrink. Please review the communities as you desire and let me know if you find something better or the listed ones have died.

Search Engines for Lemmy:

• https://lemmyverse.net/ - Search by Instance or Community - Click on the 'House' icon to set your 'home instance' e.g. aussie.zone

• https://browse.feddit.de/

• https://www.search-lemmy.com/ - using the "Find Communities" search by keyword will find active communities with more matches per word.

Bookmarklet:

!A screenshot of how to create a bookmarklet in Firefox

javascript:(function() { const home = 'aussie.zone'; /*replace this with your local instance's host name */ const url = window.location.href; let community = url.split('/c/')[1]; if( !community.includes('@') ) { community += '@' + url.split('/')[2]; } if( community.endsWith( '@' + home ) ) { community = community.substring(0, community.length - 1 - home.length); } window.location.href = 'https://' + home + '/c/' + community; })();

Click on the above bookmarklet once you've created it and placed on your toolbar (search on how to make one) when browsing another instance's community. It should open up the page where you can subscribe directly from the aussie.zone instance (or change your instance in code above). If "Subscribe" isn't working, "Create Post" and back out immediately click on the community name and reload page, Subscribe should now be clickable (give it a couple of clicks as per Lemmy 0.18).

An alternative to a bookmarklet on a desktop or mobile browser, install 'Violentmonkey' and a Userscript such as this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

An extension for modern browsers: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant