Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (December 10, 2021)

The week is an artificial construct yet it’s impossible to imagine our lives without it; What humanity should eat to stay healthy & save the planet; The grim future of forests; Sustainable Buildings

1. Read: How we became weekly. The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it [via Aeon]

2. Read: What humanity should eat to stay healthy and save the planet. What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world. [via Nature]

3. Read: The future of forests is a grim one—too grim for some of us to bear. By 2030, 75 percent of redwoods will disappear from some of their coastal California habitats. In some climate scenarios, almost none of the namesake species in Joshua Tree National Park will exist. Sea level change is creating ghost forests all along the Eastern Seaboard—­already, less than a third of New Jersey’s Atlantic white cedar habitat remains. [via Mother Jones]

4. Listen: China & U.S. – A Clash Of Gilded Ages: Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China's Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think. [via INET]

5. Watch: Sustainable Buildings: We look at efforts to rethink building from the ground up. In Sweden, attempts are being made to manufacture CO2-free steel. In Finland, robots can help recycle building materials. And in Orkney, we witness the latest developments in making energy from sea waves [via BBC Click]

6. Chart of the Week: Visualizing Global Per Capita CO2 Emissions [via Visual Capitalist]