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🍇 Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grapevines-agricultural-biodegradable-sustainable-packaging.html

Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
A new study from South Dakota State University reveals how grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that is stronger than traditional plastic and will decompose in the environment in a relatively short amount of time.

"it’s believed to have revealed the identities of confidential informants."
PACER Gets Pwned: Hackers Breach Dinosaur Filing System - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/pacer-gets-pwned-hackers-breach-dinosaur-filing-system/

Story links:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/in-court-filing-google-concedes-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline/

New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

It was midnight. Billions of dollars in tariffs are now flowing from the wallets of US citizens into the pockets of the Trump regime.

Federal courts step up security following major hack of electronic filing system (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-security-lawmaker-response-00498563
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p140#a250807p140

Sunset pic

Western Honey Bee flying away after visiting a Canary Island Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-i…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.