Project 2025 as a last gasp of a dying system of “power-over,” one that fears the regenerative, relational force of the people, the Earth, and the sacred.
#USPol #Project2025 #Tiamat #PowerWith #NoKings #ReclaimTheWeb #TiamatLives #ManyCurrents #KinNotCrowns #FromStoneToSong #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Ancestors #Compassion #SocialJustice #Humanrights #SystemsChange #Food #Health
Climate change is a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution, but there are some things that individuals can do to help fix it: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241231-seven-proven-ways-to-help-the-planet
Yesterday @SaintlySin made a lovely white bean, squash and kale stew and popped it in the #Wonderbag while we went for a walk.
More info about Wonderbag/insulation cooking here: https://tangledbankforaging.uk/2022/09/28/economy-gastronomy-hay-boxes-wonderbags-and-insulation-cookery/
> The Rewilding Podcast w/ Peter Michael Bauer: Why We Need Wild Foods w/ Monica Wilde
Episode webpage: http://www.petermichaelbauer.com
Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #Meditation #Contemplation #Hesychasm
I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. #introduction #introductions
Some ill-informed critics of #degrowth see it as a return to the Stone Age. It isn't. Perhaps the best way to think about it is via the notion of #AppropriateTechnology.
However, just out of interest, sitting on Eastbourne's stony beach last week, I had a go at flint chipping. I was able to make a few sharp flakes that I might try setting in a stick to make a basic cutting or scraping tool. just for fun, you understand.
Man the toolmaker, that's me.
Open Source Residential Energy Storage - Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthr... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/15/open-source-residential-energy-storage/ #appropriatetechnology #renewableenergy #iodinebattery #offgridhacks #scratchbuilt #flowbattery #windturbine #zincbattery #greenhacks #3dprinting #windpower #diypower #freecad #offgrid #iodine #zinc
#til about #AppropriateTechnology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?
> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)
"Industrial societies with “reliable” power grids are in fact the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions
[...]
an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply has enabled people in industrial societies to adopt a multitude of power dependent technologies – such as washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, automatic doors, or 24/7 mobile internet access – which become “normal” and central to everyday life. At the same time, alternative ways of doing things – such as washing clothes by hand, storing food without electricity, keeping cool without air-conditioning, or navigating and communicating without mobile phones – have withered away, or are withering away.
As a result, energy security is in fact higher in off-the-grid power systems and “unreliable” central power infrastructures, while industrial societies are the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions. What is generally assumed to be a proof of #energysecurity – an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply – is actually making industrial societies ever more vulnerable to supply interruptions: people increasingly lack the skills and the technology to function without a continuous power supply."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-the-lights-on-redefining-energy-security/
Good example of #AppropriateTechnology: most motors coming out of broken appliances can be run in reverse energy-conversion direction, i.e. if driven mechanically they generate electricity. So you can make a simplistic wind generator, pedal generator or crank generator out of most "scrap" motors out there, not to mention motors are some of the simplest devices to build out of parts - only special component in them are the magnets.
In this episode, Christina talks with hacker and enthusiastic solarpunk Paweł Ngei about the power of solarpunk narratives to open our eyes to the ways in which we do things and invite us to critically examine them. Why is tech built this way? Who are we disenfranchising by not having more or different designs for things? Who are we handing over too much power over our lives to mindlessly letting them thrust their tech into our lives without us knowing how it works?
For more info about and thoughts from Paweł, you can check out his blog (alxd.org), be inspired by his podcast (podcast.tomasino.org @SolarpunkPrompts) read his short story about a disabled inventor at glider.ink, or read his review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future at his blog.
Other solarpunk media Paweł recommends are the book A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys and to a great solarpunk engineering wiki: www.appropedia.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMcperL3U8
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkHacker #Hacker #SolarpunkTechnology #AppropriateTechnology #PawełNgei @alxd #SolarpunkNarratives #SolarpunkFiction #HopefulFutures #DIY #DIYtech #engineering #power #control
@risottobias I can understand your point. I often think that when it comes to #ClimateAdaptation there is no one approach and there is no defined final destination. So we can strive for #degrowth but we also can work towards #sustainability and #appropriatetechnology and #solarpunk among other things. Everyone can find something to latch onto that resonates. As long as we are heading to a good place I don't care how they do it. We don't need uniformity otherwise nothing will get done.
