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Aarne Granlund@aarnegranlund.bsky.social |
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Sufficiency, climate action, and nature restoration in Northeast Finland. Board work in district heating. At home on free rivers. 🤠🏕️🎣🇫🇮 IG: aarnegr
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
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This is increasingly my experience on Twitter/X as well, that replies are just rubbish and there's very little scope for discovery/learning/asking questions. Still one of the saddest outcomes about how I've spent my time over the last decade!
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POLITICO Europe
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So much for breaking with the French far right’s history ...
Read more live coverage of the lead-up to France's second round legislative vote here: www.politico.eu/article/firs...
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Jeff Berardelli
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As the world warms, certain basins are seeing a spike in rapid intensification(RI) due to hotter ocean water. In the Atlantic the trend on the strongest of hurricanes is upward. A recent study shows RI is increasing 4.4 mph per decade, adding ~18 mph over the last 4 decades.
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City Atlas
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This is at a time when universities also know how critical governance is, for a one shot chance to avoid the civilization-altering, or ending, impacts of climate change. No one in this loop is duped by anything, it's a pure corruption problem.
A recent talk from Stanford:
youtu.be/Q6rHtlmh7M4
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Aarne Granlund
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I don't have climate anxiety at the moment. I should do more gym for the rescue service part-time job but that's it.
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Aarne Granlund
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The outdoor watch is telling me to calm down. 800-900 power minutes per week for three weeks is serious. The Finnish health recommendation is 120.
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Adam P. Knave
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Just as fearlessness isn't "not having fear" it's "keeping going in spite of your fear" being hopeful isn't "being blind to the situation" it's "continuing to push despite the odds."
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Dr Michelle LaRue
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"Geologists digging into the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica have discovered the remains of an ancient river system that once flowed for nearly a thousand miles."
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www.space.com/giant-river-...
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Aarne Granlund
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When you do this for a long time, the heartbeat at rest is calm. It’s like not being on X
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Aarne Granlund
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Dr. Wadud added, "The important thing both at the policy and personal level is that we prioritize the relatively fewer longer distance trips—especially flights—in order to realize the largest reductions." phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Aarne Granlund
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The outdoor watch is telling me to calm down. 800-900 power minutes per week for three weeks is serious. The Finnish health recommendation is 120.
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Aarne Granlund
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Like it's intense, seriously. I've never caught fish like this before. There must be something to #Sufficiency otherwise I'd shut up and talk about consuming more energy and materials.
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Aarne Granlund
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If someone had told me in 2019, burned out from overwork and drinking too much beer, that I'd be teaching fly fishing to SOF-type friends in the Finnish Northeast, while almost being out of debt forever and trying to get into rescue service shape I would have not believed it, catching fish (...)
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Aarne Granlund
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I do remember all the big articles about me in the mainstream media three years ago. They should do a follow-up because life got exponentially better even from that.
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Aarne Granlund
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Yeah it's not that revolutionary to not have a hugely busy life flying around, I think
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Aarne Granlund
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Dr. Wadud added, "The important thing both at the policy and personal level is that we prioritize the relatively fewer longer distance trips—especially flights—in order to realize the largest reductions." phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Andrew D Thaler
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We're in the most dangerous moment not because we're doomed, but because we're at the razor's edge of a tipping point between the future we could have and the past that a bunch of losers are desperately holding on to, and just, like, the tiniest fucking thing could push it one way or the other.
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Aarne Granlund
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Move all end-use to electricity as the grid will eventually become lower-carbon and the prices go down. That is the direction where things are going and enough to build on.
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Aarne Granlund
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The state has come forward with benefits for households. It tends to increase the value of the unit when the air or ground source heat pump is installed.
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Aarne Granlund
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I don't know about any other commercial sector with continuous double-digit growth rates, maybe e-bikes. The heat pump craze is making folks drop off our district heat network because of the costs.
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Aarne Granlund
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Yeah, that's total bullshit, the efficiency is there also at these extremely low temperatures.
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Aarne Granlund
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@cityatlas.bsky.social It's been a rural experience for me but the location doesn't matter. Being part of society comes with the low-carbon living everywhere.
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Aarne Granlund
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I would not bang on about #Sufficiency without personal experience. The only negative thing was the reaction of a few people I used to know. They are embedded in the consumer society and careers.
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Aarne Granlund
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Often people say that individuals have to give up something for the environment but for me, this new lifestyle is much better than anything I've experienced before.
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Aarne Granlund
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Yeah, nowadays I have local responsibilities and know so many interesting people close to where I live that traveling for novelty seems uninteresting.
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Aarne Granlund
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We tend to sleep in the winter. But in the short summer, we go out! bsky.app/profile/aarn...
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Aarne Granlund
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Haha, sorry mate the locals are not so much into Aurora Borealis, Midnight Sun is truly nice.
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Aarne Granlund
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I have a lot of experience with the issues I discuss, so happy to tell you about our work.
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Aarne Granlund
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When asked about individual lifestyles in public situations for decarbonization in the Nordics I say consume as much electricity as you want, the problem now is oil in transport.
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Aarne Granlund
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Great work. The smaller dams and other hindrances to fish migration can be removed without effects to the electricity grid.
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Aarne Granlund
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Electricity is so cheap in the Nordics that it attracts industry. Industry always has impacts, environmental and otherwise. ICT has been thoughtful of efficiencies and consumption but that seems to be changing with some end-use sectors such as AI and crypto-mining.
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Aarne Granlund
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You'll find the information here. Most of the land that has outdoor infrastructure is public and other places are accessible due to Everyone's Rights. www.nationalparks.fi
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Aarne Granlund
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I'm taking that compliment! I'm more known for work on sufficiency and the biggest accomplishments I've been involved with have been freeing rivers but the local politics on heating are truly complex.
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Aarne Granlund
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I'm happy about the direction where the electricity production system is going. More challenges in the transport sector but that's universal.
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Aarne Granlund
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In heating, it's about the district systems but also a huge growth of heat pumps. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
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Aarne Granlund
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The economics are currently driving it in Finland, as we are adding new wind power to an already low-carbon grid with nuclear and hydropower. You tend to get sector coupling to grid electricity from end-use applications that have traditionally consumed liquid or solid fuels.
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Aarne Granlund
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I'm on the board of the power plant that supplies district heat to our town, some thousands of people, and a few commercial properties. We use biomass but since that is unsustainable and the electricity is so cheap due to the grid mix, we'll likely move into a hybrid system or full-electric boiler
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Aarne Granlund
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The Swedish-speaking third-tier nobility created the image of the nation and went around codifying the language. Alongside there is an important story of the Indigenous Sámi people.
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Aarne Granlund
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Yup, we've been an underdeveloped peasant nation until Modernity after we beat the Soviet Union in the Winter and Continuation Wars. Migration was regular to the U.S. and Sweden mostly before we industrialized.
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Aarne Granlund
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The Norwegian DNT huts are nice, but we have three times more in Finland and some of them have saunas.
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Aarne Granlund
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Don't even get me started on open hut culture in the Nordics. bsky.app/profile/aarn...
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Aarne Granlund
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Looking at the footage now, yes. But it was a hard trip
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Harry Stevens
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How accurate is the weather forecast in your city?
Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Lissa Harris
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my brand is strong
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isaac
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Good stuff from @moira.bsky.social.
"Put another way: many places are already unlivable, and only becoming more so because of accelerating climate change; how do we de-risk for households, rather than for insurance companies?"
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Aarne Granlund
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I'd like to see this kind of thinking more in the climate realm. It's often just about technology and economics. bsky.app/profile/ipbe...
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isaac
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This is how we can think about many things as old paradigms begin to completely fail. It's not a matter of "going back" to some fictional past where everything worked. It's as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says about repair: the point is to eliminate the conditions that allow injustice altogether.
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Aarne Granlund
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It's the same with nature restoration: protection isn't enough because there is and will be rapid change anyway. We should develop relationships with landscapes and ecosystems that are restorative rather than extractive, but also interactive.
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Aarne Granlund
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It's four different rivers called Oulanka, Kitka, Kuusinki, and Hossa. The first three are some of the most beautiful in Finland and are mostly in protected forests.
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Aarne Granlund
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There's more on Instagram at aarnegr. I pushed it hard on this trip with my hip problems so the nice landscapes, fishing, and pictures feel earned.
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