Panel member Bill Hare, a climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, said no one could ignore the need to “immediately and drastically cut emissions”. ![]() “Right now, the planet cannot afford delays, excuses, or more greenwashing,’ she said. Releasing the report at the Cop27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, the expert group’s chair, the former Canadian climate minister Catherine McKenna, said net zero pledges must be “about cutting emissions, not corners”. While offsets have enjoyed wide support from governments and industry as a cheaper way to cut pollution, the experts said they should be used only once a business or local government had met ambitious short and medium-term targets through absolute cuts. Net zero plans already adopted have drawn criticism for being vague, delaying action until it is too late and relying too heavily on reductions claimed from unrelated nature-based offset projects, such as tree planting and supporting forest regrowth. In Australia, they include Woodside, which has taken on BHP’s global petroleum assets and is planning to open new fields off the north-west coast. In the toy box with The Numberlys Imag.N.O.Tron (Moonbot) Joyce and Ellis For more app reviews visit the Touch and Go webpage.A Guardian investigation this year revealed that oil and gas companies, including several with net zero pledges, were still planning vast new developments that would push the world well beyond the goals of the landmark 2015 Paris agreement. ![]() Because it takes a little maneuvering and effort to capture the images and unlock the alphabet game, the app is best suited to children with some fine motor control and a little patience, but those that persevere will be rewarded with an opportunity for imaginative play and the stunning graphics we have come to expect from Moonbot.-Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal Words and numbers are also illustrated, offering concept reinforcement. Letters and words (“piston” “gear” “box” “book,” etc.), are sounded out and pronounced and numbers are voiced when completed. Number and alphabet games are also available both involve dragging letters or digits into their corresponding outlined shapes. On the toy box stage children can play or build with whatever assortment of toys they have collected-possibly gears, a helicopter, pipe fittings, a pulley, and others items befitting an industrial setting. Once captured the items can dropped into the toy box (letters are first presented as simple puzzles that must be pieced together) along with the digits 0-9. Children who have enjoyed the Numberlys story app will recognize the accented voice Mike Martindale, who lets them know just what they have found. To capture them viewers must hold a phone or tablet on “camera” mode over a page of the book a tap to a glowing object or letter will lock it in. With device and book in hand Imag.N.O.Tron adds motion and sound (grinding gears, marching feet) to many of the story’s scenes, but the real goal is to locate and collect the letters of the alphabet and various toys on its pages. Unlike Morris Lessmore, this app is less story enhancement than gameplay. Like the augmented Morris Lessmore, viewers will need a copy of the book to activate the Numberlys Imag.N.O.Tron (iOS, $.99 Android, $.99 Kindle HDX, $.99). School Library Journal's reviewer praised that production, calling it a " cinematic” with a “gorgeously rich orchestral soundtrack." Moonbot Studios has since produced a Numberlys film and William Joyce and Christina Ellis's The Numberlys is now a book (Atheneum, 2013). In that world five rotund creatures set out to make something "different" and through trial and error forge the 26 letters of the alphabet. The Numberlys features a futuristic world filled with machinery and numbers, but devoid of color and letters. Now Moonbot has created an Imag.N.O.Tron app for The Numberlys, their homage to classic films of the 1920s, specifically Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. ![]() As viewers hold an iPad over the book version of Morris Lessmore, characters begin to move, pages flutter, and books whisper. That story has seen several incarnations, the last an Imag.N.O.Tron version featuring “ augmented reality." If you haven't yet seen how that works, take a peek at our demonstration. Co-founder and author William Joyce and his crewe have produced some wildly imaginative, successful productions, including The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. I'm a big fan of Moonbot Studios-that "secret zero-gravity colony inhabited by interstellar beings" in Shreveport, LA.
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