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Become a Mastodon.green member to help pay the server bills, plant trees and remove CO2 from the air 
Here are our Steady and Patreon pages
https://steadyhq.com/albinsocial
https://www.patreon.com/AlbinSocial
I'm not saying that we must have a 'Green Fediverse Protocol" today, but maybe climate action could become part of ActivityPub someday?
Okay, there was a little April fools joke hidden inside this tread 
There's no de-federation planned for 1 July 2025.
Tried to be a bit funny with the poll by not including any real "no" option, but then again, should "no built-in climate action" be an option anywhere these days?
That said, the poll is useful as it is. Thank you for voting in it. Most people voted with a strong "yes", followed by "
".
Do you think the the social web should have built in climate action?
Feel free to boost for a greener world
5/5 #Mastodon #Fediverse #ClimateChange
Now is the time to take a principled stand for a greener social web! Now is the time for climate action.
I'm hereby giving three months notice before de-federating Mastodon.green from non-tree-planting fediverse servers, i.e. those who hasn't announced a credible plan to adopt the Green Fediverse Protocol by 1 July 2025.
This will only apply to servers with income, such as mastodon.social, pixelfed.social, tchncs.de, flipboard.com, chaos.social etc.
Most people on the fediverse are actually on servers with turnover in one way or the other. It's a turnover based system. We can use a non-technical federation protocol to create systemic change here.
The working name for this protocol is 'The Green Fediverse Protocol'.
It can be implemented here and now. The gist of the protocol is to only federate with servers that plant trees.
3/n #GreenFediverse
On the the social web there are quite a few servers with income. Some servers are donation based, some have EU grants, some are subscription based, and some are hosted by for profit corporations.
We on Mastodon.green use 20 % of the income to plant trees.
In generalized terms what we're doing can be called turnover based climate action.
To fix the climate crisis we need systemic change
We should ask ourselves - which systems are within our reach to change? What can we do on a community level, here and now?
Well, one thing we can do is hosting Mastodon servers and plant trees. Here's how to use that for systemic change
The months seem to be passing faster than I can write tree reports 
Need to take a course in speed typing or something
Our fabulous Mastodon.green members have contributed to thousands of trees over the last few months 
Thank you for making the world greener!
Updated the blog with these reports:
November 2024, 607 trees
December 2024, 606 trees
January 2025, 590 trees
February 2025, 591 trees
What do you think? With the recent political issues in the world, can we still reach the goals of the Paris agreement?
Source: "State of the Global Climate Report 2024". It's 42 pages of bad news, more or less, so be prepared for that.
https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate-2024
Good news from the World Meteorological Organization.
"Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5 °C".
We can still make it - barely
Any experts on #beetles (behaviour+ecology) here to answer a couple of questions? We get oil beetles (Meloe) here in north Greece but last year I saw none at all over the period I would expect them to mate and lay eggs. I’m wondering if one bad breeding year is likely to wipe them out locally, or if there will be adults overwintering from previous years who can pick things up. #insectodon #insects
In the year 2000, we celebrated the first Gigawatt of photovoltaics - after more than 40 years of research and implementations. Now, we install that capacity twice a day.
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
Mastodon.green is five years old today 
How does one create an ecosystem? Is that even possible or do they just happen by chance? Trying to wrap my head around this formula: people + ecosystem = climate action
When America is doing less for the climate, Europe must step up and do more
USA is leaving the Paris agreement 
HAPPY NEW YEAR lovely people of the fediverse May it be bouncy and joyful for you all.
