pranksterart:

yule monsters

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 12 August 1936, after the French government shut the border with revolutionary Spain, the first international volunteers who were heading to Spain to join the fight against General Franco’s fascists began crossing the Pyrenees mountains on foot. Tens of thousands of mostly working class people from around the world travelled to the country to try to help defeat the right-wing nationalists. And around 15,000 would never return home.
We have produced some merch commemorating the conflict and the international volunteers to help fund our work here: https://working-class-history.myshopify.com/collections/spanish-civil-war https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1186368268214988/?type=3

charmcityecovillage:

Plastic Bottle greenhouse

countess-zaleska:

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) dir. Emilio Miraglia

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 25 December 336 CE, the first recorded celebration on this date of the birth of Jesus Christ, a Jewish refugee and radical born in what is now Palestine, took place.
The bible makes no mention of Jesus’s birth date, but Christians in Egypt chose to celebrate it on 6 January. However the Western church later adopted the date of 25 December – winter solstice in the Julian calendar – which some scholars believe was in order to assimilate “heathen” celebrations of the sun on that day.
While most Christian institutions today espouse conservative views, Jesus’s early followers in the Middle East practised an informal type of communism.
Learn more about them in this great short history: https://libcom.org/history/early-christian-communists https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1303246883193792/?type=3

solarpunkcast:

mckitterick:

trapqueenkoopa:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

greaseonmymouth:

mllemusketeer:

inushiek:

deniedmysign:

scarletgoldenthorn:

fridjitzu:

did-you-kno:

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert. 

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.

And don’t forget wave and geothermal power.

The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:

Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.

Everyone wins!

The ways we can produce sustainable, renewable energy grow by the year. There is zero reason to keep maintaining oil and natural gas industries!

socalledunitedstates:

mudswampdealer100:

scarymovies101:

Halloween (1978)