New Briefing Notes! Building within planetary boundaries: moving construction to stewardship By M Kuittinen A new hierarchy for solving spatial needs is required: avoid making new buildings, where and whenever possible. buff.ly/3OGNc14

Join the launch of - India Sand Watch by Veditum India Foundation - built in partnership with Ooloi Labs, supported by Rainmatter Foundation India Sand Watch is an open-data project enabling collection, annotation & archiving of data related to sand mining in India Register: veditum.org/iswlaunch

Happy sand-day! Today is the fifth anniversary of the publication of my book, The World in a Grain. The audio version is currently available for FREE if you sign up for Audible. Just sayin'... amazon.com/The-World-in-G…

West Bengal-based non-profit Veditum India Foundation has launched India Sand Watch, a new platform that aims to monitor every stage of both legal and illegal sand mining operations in India. ✍️ Shalinee Kumari Rainmatter Foundation @AronTWhite 🧵1/6

Oman mandates prison for illegal sand miners timesofoman.com/a/134801 #sandcrisis #sandstories

The S.AND research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is delighted to launch its twin account on twitter. We’ve established a presence on mastodon as well - hcommons.social/@sandworlds - loads of sand-related posts and more there! Stay tuned.

How do villages in different parts of the #RedRiver Delta, #Vietnam, respond to & resist the impacts of #sandmining? New paper led by Newcastle University Academic Track Newcastle University Geography GCRF Living Deltas Hub PhD student Hannah Runeckles reveals all #Sand #ExtractiveIndustries #deltas sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Andy Large We argue that under scenarios of rapidly increasing rates of #SandMining, there is an urgent need for studies of local-scale impacts & resistance, capturing socio-economic characteristics of communities, to better plan for future scenarios of resource extraction & exploitation.

Marine Sand Watch, a global data platform that monitors #sand extraction in #MarineEnvironment, will be launched at World Resources Forum. This event with UNEP/GRID-Geneva discusses steps to identify good practices on extracting standards & environmental policies. ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN6Sep23Sand

Whatever is left of the river Beas near kalaath. JCB and tippers are seen so often in the river. Where are we heading .? #Save the Rivers #Beas #flashfloods #Kullu#

#Haryana: -This report shows how every monitoring effort regarding #illegalsandmining in #Yamuna Nagar hs failed or hijacked by mining mafia wth collusion of official agencies. tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/c… Bhupender Yadav Manohar Lal CMO Haryana Chief Secretary Haryana Moolchand Sharma Anil Vij Ambala Cantt Haryana, India

Marine Sand Watch is launching tomorrow! The first global data platform that tracks and monitors #sand and sediment extraction in the #MarineEnvironment World Resources Forum GENeva Environment Network 📅 6 September 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 CEST 📷 tiny.cc/GEN6Sep23Sand Register today!

UNEP/GRID-Geneva releases long-awaited data platform to monitor #dredging operation🙌 This will provide a massive boost to efforts to put #sand on the ocean sustainability agenda Stockholm Resilience Centre Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance Report: shorturl.at/amv56 📑 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Generosity thus far has gotten us 35% of the way to our goal! If you’ve ever been inspired by our impacts or made use of the resources we curate & those we share, please do consider giving if you can. Any & all help is much appreciated. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/anthropocene…

Amazing book on the dismemberment & destruction of beaches! I’ll sadly miss the book discussion as I’ll be surfing in the Atlantic, well south of #LaRochelle where residents oppose expanding offshore mines that suck up sand with dredging barges S.AND #latetedanslesable

It's taken me nearly 3 yrs to write, involving over 80 hours of interviews with some of the world's leading #circulareconomy thinkers, practitioners & enablers. Now the Second Edition of Royal Institute of British Architects RE-USE ATLAS is finally complete. #Reuse Pre-Order now ribabooks.com/The-Re-use-Atl…

#Sand has many values to the economy once it is extracted from the river, yet it has greater value when it stays in the rivers and coasts as if offers there the most cost-effective protection from the effects of climate change. #adaptation WWF Resilient Asian Deltas🐬 mekongeye.com/2023/11/06/vie…

Justice at last! *Ten years* after the murder of anti-sand mining activist Pale Ram Chauhan, his killers are sentenced to life in prison. Bravo to his courageous son Akash. This case inspired my book on the sand crisis. tinyurl.com/5y4pbutk #sandcrisis

Sand extraction is illegal in #Maldives. For Maldivians. Sand is reserved for pillaging by transnational corporations living on a diet of debt & ecological destruction and their governments who facilitate these 'deals' with corrupt politicians. #StealingParadise Sand Stories.org

1. We are thrilled to announce our inaugural TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship. It is an opportunity to produce top-grade investigative work in English. We are awarding one grant of Rs 80,000 to the selected fellow. Details on how to apply here: reporters-collective.in/trc-investigat…