Archive - Sustain What

What Technology Can, and Can't, Do to Boost Flood Warning Awareness and Safety

Last-mile gaps between weather warnings and people in harm's way - like the one that caused so much loss of young lives in Texas - exist around the…

Jul 14 •

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🎶 My Heavy Metal Days

In 1997, a chance observation watching an MTV news item on the metal band Judas Priest led me down a wonderful path

Jul 13 •

After Reporting on Global Warming from the Burning Amazon to the Thawing North Pole, I Discovered the Scariest Science...

Long read - My journey into the troubling behavioral and social science explaining why humans "don't look up" when it comes to massive, slow-moving…

Published on Sustain What • Jul 10

From Texas to Jakarta, Warnings About Flood Warnings

Meet ex-Twitter flood-safety evangelist Jim Moffitt and an Indonesian innovator mapping realtime flood risk

Jul 9 •

Closing the Deadly "Last-Mile" Gap Between Weather Warnings and Those Most in Harm's Way

Communication gaps like those that contributed to the horrific death toll in Texas exist elsewhere.

Jul 8 •

Why this Sustain What Project is Framed as a Question

I’m gratified to see Sustain What has a burst of new followers, most via recommendations from other Substackers, including Inside Medicine by Jeremy…

Jul 8 •

The Texas Flash Floods

A tragedy that should never happen again

Published on The Honest Broker • Jul 6

BalancedWx Special: Tragic flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country

Sometimes the worst case scenario sadly happens

Published on Balanced Weather • Jul 6

A Top Tornado-Focused Meteorologist Issues a Stark Warning About Trump's Weather-Research Cuts

Matthew Cappucci is an invaluable young guide to extreme weather and climate science, both as a writer for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang…

Jul 4 •

Why a substack on energy, electrification and the material economy?

The flow of energy, materials, and money, with a strong theme of electrification, and asking the question of what is the better story — for a better…

Published on Energy & Stuff • Jul 4

Rubio Announces the New "America First" Rebrand of U.S. Aid After Killing USAID

14,000,000 avoidable deaths through 2030 depend on actions he and Trump's GOP take or avoid.

Jul 3 •

How to Feed 9 Billion People Without Trashing and Overheating Earth

My chat on eating without heating, with food-focused writers Michael Grunwald and Tamar Haspel

Jul 2 •

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