Small, local wind turbines provided early electricity for rural farms and homes in the US, prior to rural electrification efforts in the 1930s and 40s that expanded the national grid. One way to bring them back in a more sustainable, efficient (and hopefully socially acceptable) form? Locally crafted, wooden designs: “the company’s mission is to make the countryside – especially farms but also small villages – self-sufficient in terms of power production by designing more beautiful and locally produced wind turbines that people don’t complain about.”
They also discuss integrating small wind and solar, with some beautiful results:
On this day, 28 September 1864, the International Workingmen’s Association was formed in London. Often referred to as the First International, it was a gathering of socialist, anarchist and trade union organisations from around the world dedicated to the emancipation of the working class. However initially it was exclusively male, and women were not permitted entry until 1865, although it remained male-dominated until the organisation’s demise in 1876 when the Marxist (red) and anarchist (black) factions definitively split. The authoritarian German aristocrat and chancellor Otto von Bismarck remarked upon hearing of the split “Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!” https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1221635081354973/?type=3
Winged genie from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II located in the Assyrian Imperial capital of Nimrud (883-859 BCE). Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
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