How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
“A crocodile on a shrine represents the god Sobek. Sobek was an important god throughout Egypt, and with important cult centers in both Upper Egypt and the Fayum.
Associated with the Nile floods and fertility, Sobek centrality in the Fayum led to his being associated with royal power during the Middle Kingdom, and then directly with the god Re. By the Ptolemaic period, he was identified with numerous deities, taking on the aspect of a universal god.
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This is not a tasty gummy sweet but a Jewel Caterpillar found in Amazon Rainforest. They are covered with sticky goo-like, gellatinous tubercles that provides protection from its predator like ants until they metamorphosise into winged moths.
HAVE YOU SEEN IT GROWN UP THOUGH
literal pokemon
have you seen the cocoon it makes though?
it’s so pretty as a baby, it looks like an actual gem. then suddenly it pupates into a net thing and when it comes out it looks like the fucking Lorax
dude
this is a pokemon
acid caterpillar
Gosh
The net cocoon is actually a bit of evolutionary genius though!
See, it shares its habitat with ants that would happily drag a vulnerable pupae off to become snack food for their hideous hive mind. So the caterpillar builds a long stem leading down from its anchor point. Ants aren’t so good at climbing down such a narrow line, so the pupae is safe.
The net part comes from dealing with rain, which would flow down the stem and waterlog the cocoon. So the cocoon is a net, which allows for drainage and easy drying out afterwards.
Pokemon WISHES it could be as creative as nature
This is a Pokémon and no one can’t tell me otherwise.
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
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John Dewey, Experience and Education (via philosophybits)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot will be released on
Blu-ray and DVD on April 2 via RLJ Entertainment. The “American legend that no one has ever heard of” is currently available on
VOD.
Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Caitlin FitzGerald, Rizwan Manji, Larry Miller, and Ron Livingston star in the film, which marks the debut of writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski (co-producer of The Woman).
Although its verbose title conjures up exploitation movie imagery, it seems this one is more of a dramatic adventure with genre elements. Check out the trailer and synopsis below, where you’ll also find a list of special features.
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