“Without Warning”
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find -
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.
The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a barren pasture in Costa Rica back in the mid 1990s, has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest.
This is the greatest thing I’ve read in a long time and I want this experiment replicated everywhere as soon as possible.
My town would be a good start.
the funniest part is that everyone is so surprised.
“composting kitchen waste makes plants grow. who knew???”
well… everyone?
It’s not so much that they’re SURPRISED about it. That was actually the original plan.
This juice company agreed to donate a few acres of its own land to a bordering national park, and compost orange peels there to help restore the land. They were subsequently sued by a rival juice company for having “defiled a national park.” The law sided with the rival company, and the project was discontinued early.
This isn’t so much a “Wow SO SURPRISE!” as a “FUCKIN’ TOLD YOU SO!”
Plus also, sixteen years ago, we might’ve known the answer to the question “What happens when you compost kitchen waste?” but we DIDN’T know the answer to “What happens when you dump 12,000 tons of orange peel on 7 acres of ecologically depleted wasteland?”
And for the first six months, the answer was, “7 acres of nasty-smelling, fly breeding ex-fruit sludge, and a lawsuit from a rival juice company,” but 16 years LATER we can say, “A 176 percent increase in above-ground biomass, and a study site so transformed we couldn’t tell we had the right place until we dug the sign out of undergrowth consisting mainly of native shrubs and grasses, SUCK IT, TICO FRUIT!!!!”
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On this day, 1 June 1926, a police patrol in Wyndham, Australia headed out searching for an aboriginal man who killed a white man who had assaulted and whipped him. They returned on 19 June, but in the meantime the Forrest River massacre took place, when the officers murdered and burned anywhere between 11 and 300 indigenous people. A Royal Commission confirmed the massacre took place but no officers were convicted of any offences.
Pictured: Left: two of the people arrested; right: two aboriginal trackers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1136240919894390/?type=3
There’s so many things that are wrong with this. “Boycott Starbucks and go back every day” loooooooool
omg
Love that barista
Super7 has released a ReAction Figure of Motorhead’s Warpig mascot for $15. Based on a vintage 1982 Motörhead T-shirt, the 3.75” toy features five points of articulation and comes with an axe. Ed Repka designed the backer card art.
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Witches’ Tales (May 1972).
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