#solar water getting

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

[growingwithem]

︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶ MAMAMOO MY CON WORLD TOUR 2022 ︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶

- solar covered water color by wheein

- hwasa covered eclipse by moonbyul

- wheein covered honey by solar

- moonbyul covered twit by hwasa

[rushinator]

Hey guys! Check out this new plant I just bought today!

[thanatoaster]

The red goobler explaining without prompting how he was physically able to fuck Korvo that time caused such a violent reaction in me i had to pause the show and walk away for a second.

[zvaigzdelasas]

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[xcziel]

it's thunderstorming and i just found out my little solar garden lights can evidently be charged (fleetingly) by the flash of lightning

unexpected wonders ...

[policyoftruth]

two roosters hanging out at the skansen in lublin :)

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[another-cliche-title]

i think if solarpunk wants to be a actual thing, (and not like, a tumblr aesthetic lol) solarpunk fiction has to include the how we got to the epic, Aesthetic utopia we've always dreamed of.

because the thing is, if you want that, you need a social movement.

people wanna go into something like urbanism or architecture and they're like, woah i'm gonna change the world. i'm gonna make things Greener through my work.

but your work is going to get rejected.

until you ask for it.

protest for it, fight for it, that kind of shit! because if solarpunk is the opposite of cyberpunk, and if cyberpunk are rebels fighting a shitty future, solarpunk is rebels fighting for a good future.

[hello-delicious-tea]

Got the solar lights up! All I need now is some seating and a fire pit and maybe an outdoor rug for fancy (probably not, this is mostly a working area) and the outdoor hangout area will be Prepared.

[rhysintherain]

Wait, there's actually people weighing their gear for backpacking? I always thought it was a joke or something. I used to do a lot more backpacking myself, and the average weight for everyone in my troop was 55 pounds. It's really no issue

I mean... I'm mostly doing it because I have cabin fever and am trying to avoid seasonally appropriate work lol.

But maybe I should clarify why my gear weighs so freaking much.

I don't leave the house without a -10 sleeping bag. I live in the north, there's no guarantee you won't hit freezing in July, and I hate being cold.

Lightweight silnylon just doesn't work around here. Even the day hike trails will snag your gear on black spruce or devil's club and rip holes in it. The few truly lightweight items I have are as much gear tape as original material.

I'm also not going out overnight without my Whisperlight stove, fuel, and Spot beacon. Just no.

Ditto a proper tent. The bugs out here will suck you dry without screens, and the summer storms will find their way under, around, or through any kind of tarp and don't announce themselves more than 10 minutes in advance.

I have a pathological aversion to synthetic hiking clothes. I'll bring some in case I get rained out and need them, but my everyday clothes will mostly be natural fibers tough enough to stand up to the brush that don't feel like crap (do not tell me I'm wrong, I already know every expert says not to do this. Too bad. If I can't hike comfortable, why hike at all?)

My solar panel, backup battery, and book may be labelled luxuries on published packing lists, but they're non-negotiable. Again, what's the point backpacking if I'm bored?

Water bottles. A hydration insert has too much potential to get punctured, and is too limited in what you can use the water for without great difficulty. At least 2 full Contigo bottles go everywhere I go. Plus a filter as backup.

This bag has everything I need except a toothbrush, clothes, and food. It weighs 31 pounds.

Most recommendations for someone my size say don't go over 35 pounds, but this doesn't actually feel too bad. Depending on terrain, weather, and trip length, I could easily add another 10 pounds without worrying. There's still lots of room in the bag if I needed it.

And I don't usually head out for multiple days on my own. If I was hiking with T one of us would take the tent and the other would take the kitchen stuff to break up weight a bit.

So the numbers are a lot better than I'd hoped when I started this morning. Not that it's going to matter for the next 6 months.

[luvrhyune]

my voice is practically gone…how the fuck am i supposed to go to work today😭😭

[swinging-from-my-cable]

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[muirneach]

algorithms seem to naturally push viewers towards right wing weirdness somehow. as such i’ve gone from interesting nature content to sustainable living and growing food to… ‘homesteading’ and stuff that is definitely almost a cult. anyways i find the idea i see with these people a lot that one must cut ties with ‘government support’ so strange. sorry to the weird progressive in speech but really genuinely a freak in practice who keeps showing up on my explore page, but i like it when i get like. electricity and medical care from the government. but yknow thats me maybe i’m the sheep

[fuzzyunicorn]

Me after everything I said did in fact come true

[pinkcasket]

I'm fairly certain I could convince a lot of left-leaning people that solar power is bad. between people's nuclear opinions and the AI (LLM) panic and general hatred of medical professionals, I think the average progressive/leftist is two steps away from becoming joe rogan but woke

[thrivingisthegoal]

Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)