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DIY regenerative ocean farms: The future of food and fuel? With Future Explored host, Tom Carroll

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It’s a massive problem: We’re running out of good land to produce food, so we need to keep producing more food on less land.

Fishermen are turning to a solution they think can not only help provide more food more sustainably, but actually help replenish and heal the oceans too — a practice known as regenerative farming. Raising marine plants and animals together, called ocean farming or “aquaculture,” can help us grow food, fight climate change, and clean up coastal waters.

The aquaculture setups designed by nonprofit GreenWave are simple: using ropes, baskets, and crates, they cultivate seaweed, kelp, and shellfish. By using a variety of crops and creatures which all grow together in harmony, aquaculture can not only maximize space and yield, but is also more resilient than many forms of land-based farming, where reliance on one strain of one crop can lead to entire fields being wiped out with one disease.

Humans have relied on the oceans to provide food for centuries, with ancient Romans cultivating oysters in baskets — not too far removed from the 3D aquaculture GreenWave is helping to promote today. By turning again to the sea, and not only utilizing it but healing it with regenerative farming, we may be able to keep up the pace with less waste and a better world.

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About Tom Carroll

Tom is the host and creator of our Future Explored TikTok and YouTube series where he shares an optimistic view of the future to hundreds of thousands of followers.

With a degree in Biological Sciences Tom likes to focus on nature-based innovations and solutions that change the way we think about moving forward as a species.

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About Freethink

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Techno-optimists protecting rainforests with open-source satellite maps. The collaborative project, called MapBiomas, uses satellite imagery to track and report human changes to ecosystems. All of its data publicly available, MapBiomas is fighting climate change, environmental destruction, and crime.

[wanderingsoul717]

Be me! Be me! Be me!

Be me?

Yes please-

I'll try- to be me the very best I can be

Till I see

The me YOU see

Is not the me you really wish me to be.

Ask for honesty

Suggest transparency.

Spare me your pities

I'm aware, and it's embarrassing.

I'm simply too much

Too me

Too "a bother"

Even when I'm not-

I still hear them,

Like my father.

I wish the weed would just take me higher

Screaming in my head

One yells-

"You're a fat f**ing liar!"

Fight some sides-

Pray the smoke makes the blows even just a little lighter.

I'm not a fighter....

Am and is not.

I am in the sense self taught-

But never this way before...

No I think not.

Daily I attempt to push back the rot

Some days it feels so very for naught-

No matter how much I scheme and plot

All my efforts never seem to reach that spot-

The one where I find peace

My mind put at ease-

God please when will I find release?

Be me! Be me! Be me!

Oh these interesting words simply spilling out of me....

That's all I can be

Till I find there not quite much left of me...

-Sincerely, TheWanderer ♡

[olympain]

And when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the first second of eternity will have passed!

[kellymagovern]

[azureundies]

Do you guys think Buggy just casually detaches his lower middle part to go and take a wee or poopoo whenever he's too illmotivated to walk

[senlin]

So called free-thinkers when Chuuya Nakahara appears on screen

[simply-buddhism]

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Talking about my beloved Háma earlier this week got me thinking again about how Beregond is the Háma of Gondor. One of the ways Tolkien showed us how bound together Gondor and Rohan were as countries was by drawing explicit parallels between individual Gondorians and Rohirrim (like Boromir and Théodred), and it happens for everyone's favorite guards, too. They have some differences (I mean, Háma dies 😭), but they’re much more alike than not. 

Most importantly, they’re both soldiers—part of a very hierarchical, duty-bound structure—who nonetheless decide in key moments to disregard orders and follow their own judgment and good sense instead. Háma will let Gandalf violate the ban on weapons in Meduseld and Beregond will leave his post and literally slay anyone facilitating the burning of Faramir because their hearts and minds tell them that sometimes laws must be broken in service of a larger morality. That takes courage, independence of thought, and a strong sense of self. By disobeying, they both knowingly risk punishment—and, indeed, both are punished—but they do it anyway because they know it’s right. And ultimately, both are forgiven and honored because everyone can see they made correct, if unlawful, decisions. (This parallel is also replicated a little further up the respective hierarchies because Éomer and Faramir are also both noted mavericks who choose at pivotal moments to aid members of the Fellowship even though, by law, those outsiders should be arrested or killed. So, again, parallels between pairs of Gondorians and Rohirrim abound!)

I like that Tolkien takes care to show that it’s not just the folks at the very top of communities of Men that can have and display these really admirable and noble traits. It’s important for there to be a Háma and a Beregond so that we know these lands of Men are worth protecting—there is goodness there! And of course it fits very neatly with the “small hands do great deeds” theme of LOTR overall. Háma and Beregond each change the course of history when they trust to their own worth and hold to their own values, no matter the circumstances or consequences.

So that’s the biggest/weightiest parallel for Háma and Beregond, but it’s certainly not the only one. They both work for prestigious military units in the capital city of their countries. They both play formal roles in granting our major characters access to those cities. They’re both firsthand witnesses to the mental manipulation and torment of their leaders (Théoden and Denethor) by an enemy. They both get joyful moments witnessing the healing of a beloved lord. They’re both Gandalf enthusiasts in places where not everyone respects or welcomes Gandalf’s presence. They both demonstrate a willingness to draw swords on anyone they perceive as threatening their lords. They’re both pretty adept at rolling with it when things take a really weird turn (I mean, really, the legendary lost heir of Elendil shows up on Háma’s doorstep claiming to be friends with a mythical elf-sorceress, and he just goes with it. And Beregond has never seen a hobbit before and maybe isn’t even sure they’re real when one is thrust on him, and he immediately makes Pip his buddy!). 

Those are the canon parallels, but I would be remiss if I didn’t finish by specifying that @brigwife and I agree it is rock solid head canon that Háma and Beregond met somehow and became actual long distance best friends. It’s only natural that they’d get along given how much they have in common—just two absolute gems of the race of Men who would totally love and appreciate one another. And I’d like to think that even as Háma’s legacy is commemorated at his resting place in Rohan, there’s also a little memorial for him in Gondor built by Beregond in a beautiful, peaceful part of Ithilien. During Beregond’s lifetime it stands as a tribute to his enduring friendship with Háma, and in later days, when anyone who knew them is gone, it stands instead as a tribute to the enduring friendship of Gondor and Rohan.

[tooquirkytolose]

You play quiplash and you find out you and your friends share one braincell every single time

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The mind of one freethinker can possess a million ideas, A million fanatics can have their minds possessed by a single idea."

[aquapolis]

hey did you know that your favorite part of the lupin the third theme is also everybody else on planet earth's favorite part of the lupin the third theme