The Climatebase Fellowship is accepting applications to their 3rd cohort. As a 2nd cohort fellow, I can recommend the experience wholeheartedly. You’ll get excellent instruction in all aspects of sustainability and meet some of the nicest and most dedicated professionals around.

♻️ If this pans out, it would be a big deal. Wind turbine blades wear out and need to be replaced periodically. They’re made of epoxy, which means they’ve been going to the landfill… until now.

electrek.co > A Danish wind turbine giant just discovered how to recycle all blades

A friend of mine has put together a project to help the folks in her homeland of Ukraine. If you’re a yoga teacher or student, check out yoga4ukraine.com. The goal is to find 1000 yoga teachers around the world to donate the proceeds of one class by 12/31.

Well, we’ve had a busy weekend. We put a deposit down on a fully loaded Chevy Bolt EUV, and sold our gas-guzzler. (The CarMax selling process was a breeze!) We’re now an electric-vehicle-only family, and it feels great!

Want to read: The Upcycle by William McDonough 📚 Just added this to my queue after watching this video where McDonough talks about the philosophy and design thinking behind the book. He has a really inspiring and motivating take on designing for sustainability. In short, it’s: Why is getting to zero (waste, carbon, etc.) our goal? We can do better.

Finished reading: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin 📚 A rich and absorbing novel, with an impressively detailed world. The “trick” of the novel’s structure worked on me, making for a very satisfying final chapter. 4/5 stars.

I’ve been reading a lot about sports psychology lately to figure out how to improve my mental game, so I found this post very interesting. Being a hockey goalie has got to be one of the toughest mental challenges in sports. Inside the mind of Kraken netminder Chris Driedger 🏒

Went to the Seattle Kraken’s first home game last night at Climate Pledge Arena. What a great facility! A win would have been nice, but it was still a great game and an electric atmosphere. Looking forward to the rest of the season.

3d-printed Lincoln.

I don’t mind dealing with the delta variant, but I am not paying a monthly subscription for delta+.