Indonesian Students Create Flood Prevention App

December 19, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

Destiana Choirun Nisak leveraged her local Google Developer Student Clubs community to build a flood prevention app, L-Flood.

The Bojonegoro Village in Indonesia floods frequently. As a native to the village, Destiana knows the floods well. While enrolled at PENS University, Destiana met ‘Dana’ Surahutomo Aziz Pradana.

Together Destiana and Dana created a solution that alerts those in the surrounding areas when the river will flood. The app enables local authorities to send alerts and find the closest safe point based on their location.

Climate Change And Wine

December 18, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

This Vice on HBO video examines the effects of climate change and wine. The grape faces threats due to its extreme sensitivity. In turn, that threatens the grape’s main byproduct: wine. Shifting weather patterns will especially impact viticulture.

It will soon be time to re-think “wine with dinner”.

Threats To National Parks in 2019

December 17, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment

The Trump administration has undermined, degraded, and attacked the laws and agencies that protect our public lands. The threats include:

$2.5 million in national park fee revenue diverted to pay for 4th of July spectacle
reduced requirement for power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that pollute our air
gutted the Endangered Species Act and weakened its ability to protect wildlife
repealed the Clean Water Rule, erasing years of improvement in water protections
bulldozed delicate park ecosystems by insisting on a destructive border wall
nearly 3 million acres near national parks offered for oil and gas drilling

For the full list, see: National Parks Conservation Association.

Six Ways The Trump Administration Failed Our Parks In 2019