ok - any news on who I should vote for in the St Paul ward 4 city council race? My absentee ballot is arriving today.

This seems to be the really useful kind of "AI" application - providing data-based decision support to people facing real challenges. Whether it improves govt. tree planting in Himachal remains to be seen, but its a start.

Drawing on data from over 400 forest plantations in Himachal Pradesh, India, we show that improved forest outcomes forest cover, forest-based livelihoods) are strongly associated with long-term participation by local people in decision-making iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

#ICYMI Report on how "verified carbon credits" is quite a meaningless phrase. The carbon market is rife with conflict of interest, weak/ bad methodologies and "a plethora of unmeasurable assumptions and judgments" about an invisible commodity i.e. CO2 drilled.media/news/carbon-au…

In which we, again, point out, that environmental analysis and planning doesn't cause wildfires and reducing environmental analysis and planning will not solve the problem not theconversation.com/boosting-timbe…