bougainvillieas:

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. Filmmakers: Alan Dater, Lisa Merton, 2008.

The documentary tells the inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The U.S.- educated Professor Maathai discovered her life’s work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. Their lives had become intolerable: they were walking longer distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their farms, and their children were suffering from malnutrition. Maathai thought to herself, “Well, why not plant trees?” She soon discovered that tree planting had a ripple effect of empowering change. Countering the devastating cultural effects of colonialism, Maathai began teaching communities about self-knowledge as a path to change and community action. The women worked successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and violent political oppression. They became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya’s 24-year dictatorship -Kanopy.

luciofulci:

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), dir. Joseph Zito

merelygifted:

Spaceweather.com Time Machine

Earth is entering a stream of debris from giant comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. If forecasters are correct, the display will peak on the nights of Aug. 11th through Aug. 13th with dozens of meteors per hour.

I wish you keen eyes and clear skies during the Perseid meteor shower!

phototr0pic:

“I’m looking California, and feeling Minnesota”

thatspectacularpigeon:

candygarnet:

theres no way in hell you can guess how this video ends

Oh this is actually kinda cool

russian-and-soviet-cinema:

The chance of being killed by a horse in your communal hallway is negligibly small, but not equal to zero.

HELLO THERE

@horse-is-a-horse-of-course

egypt-museum:

Relief depicting young Ramesses II flanked by Thoth and Horus, from the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak.

thebiscuiteternal:

i-am-an-adult-i-swear:

natural–lighting:

Oop

I shared a version of this to my Facebook page and so far the list has been:

-speaking more than one language

-Owning an old car

-Having kids

-Thrifting/Flipping furniture and other “DIY” projects

-Tiny houses

-getting money from the government

So much of our daily lives is sold and packaged to us as something people of certain classes can do or shouldn’t do. It’s fucking ridiculous.

-cooking your own food is seen as a sign of “worldliness” if you’re rich.