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What are some good resources for a new #ActOnClimate and #CleanEnergy jobs & training & service program administered through AmeriCorps?
by westurner 3y ago
What are some good resources for a new #ActOnClimate and #CleanEnergy jobs & training & service program administered through AmeriCorps?
- westurner 3y ago"Zero energy ready homes are coming" (2023-03) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064493
- westurner 3y agoYouTube channels / people who might have some ideas for a new Climate Corps program: Andrew Millison: https://youtube.com/@amillison https://youtube.com/@amillison Practical Engineering: https://youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel https://youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel Dr Elaine Ingham: https://youtube.com/@soilfoodwebschool https://youtube.com/@soilfoodwebschool Wranglerstar: "How the US Forest Service splits firewood" https://youtube.com/shorts/LgiIZBlRL1U?si=nEP3hYxBd9sxFwlk https://youtube.com/shorts/LgiIZBlRL1U?si=nEP3hYxBd9sxFwlk USFS RED bag https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBVX-KWsJ6I&si=BQSPctpVTN6Ynn-Z https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBVX-KWsJ6I&si=BQSPctpVTN6Ynn-Z "xPrize Wildfire – $11M Prize Competition": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657181 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-35657181 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-35657181
- westurner 3y agoFor information system Services: USDS US Digital Services Playbook: https://playbook.cio.gov/ https://playbook.cio.gov/ https://techfarhub.usds.gov/get-started/ https://techfarhub.usds.gov/get-started/ : - What is a digital service? - > Welcome to the newly refreshed TechFAR Hub, updated in January 2023, a resource to help government acquisition and program professionals buy, build, and deliver modern digital services while staying on the correct side of compliance! We have reorganized TechFAR Hub since its original release [...] Pre-Solicitation, Solicitation, Evaluation, Contract Administration USDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service 18F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F
- westurner 3y agoUSWDS US Web Design Standards > Implementations https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/implementations/ https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/implementatio...
- hindsightbias 3y agomaybe https://www.thesca.org/serve/ https://www.thesca.org/serve/
- westurner 3y ago"Drones that can plant 100k trees a day" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16260892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16260892 FWIU, to grow a forest to prevent and fight desertification, you have to plant more that trees; trees and all of the other little plants. Forest ecology > Matter and energy flows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_ecology Ecological succession > Succession by habitat type > Forest, Wetland, Grassland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Succession_by_habitat_type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Successi... /? desertification: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Desertification+ https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Deserti... TIL about residue mulching and no till farming. You can just mulch leaves around the trees with a lawnmower if you don't get into the roots (and that fertilizes the tree, prevents mud, and keeps the lawn from getting marshy from counterproductive leaf removal)
- westurner 3y ago(PBS) "Leave it to Beavers" [to irrigate the world; they are drawn to a walkman cassette of running water; they have bee airdropped] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738322