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CATL Zero-Carbon Teahouse Xiadang, 2024

I never noticed that there's a CLIMBING WALL on the side of COPENHILL!

From field to table in 36 hours

Finally, a week into Michigan's archery season, the August-like heat broke and the deer, already wearing their winter coats, started moving.

On Wednesday morning, at first light, I killed an adult doe. I skinned and quartered it and made use of the cottage refrigerator, which, by the way, continues to loiter in our pole barn.

“Civitas,” Harbor Town, Memphis, Tennessee, USA,

Civitas is the first Zero Energy and Zero Carbon building in the world to achieve ILFI certification, and is certified LEED Platinum for Homes.

The global shipping industry is enormous — thousands of ships carry billions of dollars of goods each year across nearly every ocean on the planet.

Those ships run mostly on a particularly dirty type of fuel known as heavy fuel oil, or bunker fuel. It's thick and sooty, and when it burns, it emits sulfur and particulate matter that can cause respiratory illness. It also emits greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, which trap heat in the atmosphere and cause global warming.

"If shipping was a country, it would be the sixth-largest polluter in the world," says Nerijus Poskus of the shipping technology company Flexport. "About 3% of global emissions are released by ocean freight shipping."

The industry is growing so steadily, he says, that it's projected to produce more than 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury if ships continue to burn the same fuel, which is a real possibility considering that most cargo ships are designed to last at least 30 years.