Interesting Links for 13-03-2025

1. Installing solar panels in deserts improves soil quality and biodiversity by providing areas of shade and shelter.

(tags:desert solarpower environment viaMyBrotherHugh )

2. Labour are going the wrong way on getting people in to work.

(tags:work welfare uk labour OhForFucksSake )

3. If you want to fix modern society then one of the things you'll need to do is build more homes

(tags:housing society inequality )

4. Edinburgh councillors approve new site for Social Bite Village in Granton

(tags:Edinburgh housing homelessness )

5. How locational, or "zonal" pricing could give Scotland the cheapest power in Europe ... and give everyone else in GB cheaper power too.

(tags:electricity economics UK )

6. Edinburgh's Big Wheel could be in place from July to New Year

(tags:edinburgh tourism )

7. Some interesting researhc going on with plastic recycling

(tags:recycling plastic research )

8. "I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black."

(tags:racism usa immigration )