“If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.”
For today’s Earth Week post we’re excited to feature the efforts of Project Vesta. This Overview shows the test beach in the Caribbean where they are advancing the science of Coastal Carbon Capture — an elegant natural solution to sequestering CO2 by spreading an abundant mineral called olivine (seen in the second photo). The exact location of the beach will be disclosed in the coming months.
Olivine sand that is placed in coastal waters accelerates the Earth’s natural, long-term carbon-capture process. Here’s how it works: when olivine sand is impacted by ocean waves it breaks down, which sets off a natural process called “weathering” where carbon is pulled from the ocean’s waters and the atmosphere. As a result, ocean acidity is reduced, and over geologic timescales, limestone is also formed — effectively locking the carbon back in permanently. This first Project Vesta test beach will continue to be the site of groundbreaking research, bringing 30 years of lab trials into the real world for the first time with large-scale experimentation.
more things i’ve discovered after 2 years of raising garden snails:
- they will wiggle their eye stalks in excitement
- they have favorite places to sleep and favorite friends to sleep with
- they’re good for your skin so let them run around on ur face!!!
- they can feel their shells, which means they can feel u pet them (pet gently!!)
- u can help a snail with a broken shell by giving it eggshells or cuttlebones to scrape (the calcium helps them patch up!)
- they like a change of scenery and will explore all day if u change something
- absolute cuddle bugs. love to snuggle with u, with friends, with dirt
- u can hear them chew!! listen closely when u feed them….. asmr
- as distinct as snowflakes, every single one is different!! i can tell all of my snails apart easily
- babies. absolute baby children
- speaking of babies, baby garden snails are no bigger than raindrops and translucent… delicate!! keep in a separate enclosure until they’re bigger!! baby jail!!!
- some snails are shy……… kiss them. they are important