In terms of legal structures, look to see if your local jurisdiction has a social benefit or public benefit corporation that you can legally register as. They’re like an LLC, but place a social mandate of some kind above profit making. This is legally built into the charter of the business, meaning it can be enforced in the courts if later on the business attempts to violate that mission. It also allows such businesses to qualify for certain grants.

A go to lunch for me is overnight oats. The night before I throw half a cup of oats and water into a container, add a spoon full of peanut butter, a tbsp of chia seeds, and handful of frozen blueberries

When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.

Wait until you get into food preservation!

Nuclear could be useful in applications that need a high energy load on-site, like steel, cement, and nitrogen production

I definitely recommend looking into some of Dr. Fowlers history, he’s such a cool person and his work with Crop Trust was so cool.

The only disease to be fully eradicated, 5 million people can live every year who otherwise would have died had we not defeated this disease

In 2008, the most likely projections had us around 4.5 degrees of warming. So, there is progress. Insufficient progress, we need to double down, but progress nonetheless

I disagree. To unlock workable solar and wind powered electricity, you need something to carry you energetically through the ‘tech tree.’ I simply don’t think you can get to that level of technology without some fossil fuel use.

To an extent, but we have the chance of transitioning into a solar and wind society and remediate that damage. Subsequent species would not have that potential.

Unfortunately, I don’t know if it would be possible for another species to reach our level of technology or civilization. We built up our society off of easily accessible energy resources (surface-level coal being our first source of industrial energy). This energy excess allowed us to develop other sources of energy, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. But if you tried starting from zero again, you could never get to this point, at least along the same path, as you need a high level of technology to access any available energy resources. Thus, if any new species took our place, they could only ever rise to the level of the pre-industrial revolution.

Im not saying they’re apples to apples, I’m saying that I was just wondering if we could design tires that were less conducive to creating microparticles

Yeah, but bikes and buses still use tires. I was just wondering how the tires we will need to use in the future can be manufactured to reduce the pollution problem

Plus China is repeating our mistakes and building out a massive amount of car-centric infrastructure. Huge disappointment given the amount of resources and wonderful transit they have in major cities

Even in raindrops!

I wonder if there’s any data on how much bus tires pollute in this way on a per-passenger mile basis. I’m sure it’s better than cars, but if it’s still a major problem, I wonder if there’s another way to manufacture less problematic tires. Maybe biodegradable?

Yeah, I feel this is an early report to decide if a larger study is warranted

If you ever find yourself with small logs or large branches, I recommend looking into Hugelkultur, which similarly involves building mounds of compostable organic material around large pieces of wood, which allows for the slow breakdown and release of nutrients over time