Veronika Wild

Dandelions were used in the World Environment Day Opening ceremony. When I was little, it was said that dandelion seeds blowing in the wind were wishes  Image by ArtsyBee from Pixabay This post is a bit rough and ready. I only just found out that it was World Environment Day two days ago and I am going away early in the morning.  There was nothing on the news. Microsoft no longer posts alerts for UN days at the bottom of my taskbar, so I almost missed it. Even the video of the opening ceremony in host country Azerbaijan was so quiet that I could barely hear it, no matter how much I fiddled with the volume, though I did get glimpses of an amazing culture and scenery and catch some exciting snippets about what Azerbaijan is doing to become more Earth-friendly.  It is creating more conservation areas, generating more renewable energy, taking action on plastics, pollution and waste, especially food waste which contributes to methane — one of the most powerful gree...

  -Image by Copilot If cables are the arteries of the Information Economy upon which we are ever more dependent, then Data Centres are the brains and nerve centres behind it. A data centre is a physical building or group of buildings which house large numbers of computers, servers, storage systems and networking equipment which store, process and distribute digital information. They are the superstructure of the internet and cloud computing and handle everything from websites, email, streaming services, banking transactions and artificial intelligence (AI), to government records and company data.  They also face much the same challenges as other infrastructure in a changing climate -an increasing number of adverse weather events – excessive heat, flooding, more severe storms and wildfires and so on, for which the remedies remain much the same. Because we have covered this quite a bit in previous posts, this one will be not so much about how climate change will affect ...