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"Pine Rhizome" ⍋ David Read — cutaway photograph of a pine seedling and its root network

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

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Butterfly Repopulation Station in Portland

Free seeds, information and also a patch of milkweed for Monarch Butterflies

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Today's bountiful harvest lmao still very grateful for my little balcony garden

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Exactly http://news.usaunify.org/TT2NwD

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

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Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmenta

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Various Authors Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching 1993 A note from the web-publisher: I put this up to make ecodefence informatio

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Wangari Maathai - Katherine Krizek

The holistic approach to sustainable development that Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement embodies embraces human rights and women’s right in particular. Her tree planting campaign empowered more than 300,000 women to plant more than 51 million trees, generating income for the rural women participants and promoting environmental consciousness in her native Kenya.

An accomplished scholar and a tireless political and environmental activist she was the first African woman to receive a Nobel prize.

"Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do."

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Another thing about light pollution and adjacent things is. They threatened my area with rolling blackouts last winter. Now this was of course largely because the AI datacenters are hogging all the electricity, but in the notifications about it they always specified that that residential areas would be the blacked out areas. Not offices. Not businesses. If you're at home and freezing, well, you can just go loiter in a McDonald's I guess. Never mind that this is extremely difficult for disabled people and often not allowed for pets.

Well, as winter turned into spring, I started biking home from work. A long, circuitous route that took me through residential areas, and past offices and businesses. Offices and businesses that were closed for the day. And yet their signs were still lit up. The lights were still on inside. There were TVs playing in empty breakrooms. All the computers in the school district offices stayed on, their monitors not even going to sleep, all night. Paused to take a break in an empty strip mall once and when I leaned against the glass of a restaurant I could hear the music still playing inside.

Like. There's something deeply rotten about the priorities here. These places that are so flagrantly wasting electricity will never be subject to the rolling blackouts that could freeze you out of your home. Not even at night, when no one is there, when they don't need their lights on. Their waste is prioritized over normal people's life.

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BLM has published a plan to maximize logging in Oregon forests, including old growth forests, without due regard to wildlife (including endangered species) and waterways. They're claiming it will help prevent forest fires, though that seems to be contrary to current science, including that published by the forest service (you can find a list of sources here). This is in response to Trump's executive orders 14223, Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products and 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.

We have 30 days to submit comments if we want to prevent this. This article has suggestions for what you can say, and how:

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You can read more about it here:

Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife

If you live in Oregon and you love our forests, please submit a comment before March 23rd.

If you don't live here, it would be super helpful if you could reblog to spread the word.

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i wish people were more capable of articulating critiques about exploitative conveniences like doordash without implying that the exploitation and the convenience are both equally objectionable.

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i kinda think it is because u cant rlly have one without the other

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well see now i don't think that's true. its entirely possible to adequately compensate people to do stuff like "pick up and deliver food or other objects to someone's house," or any other kind of situation where you're paying someone else to do a task for you. it's the desire for third party entities to extract as much money as possible out of these interactions that causes the exploitation. like, having a neightborhood mailmain isn't exploitative just because there's a world where people could pick up their own mail at the post office because the mailman gets stuff like health insurance and paid leave and overtime.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#like.#most convenience boils down to value-added right?#frozen diced onion is more expensive per unit than a whole onion bc someone spent time adding convenience to it#the need for convenience is totally value neutral!!!#it's not providing convenience as a service that exploits labourers#it's having the value of their labour extracted to the business owner#this is true of the instacart worker and true of the worker who works in the packing plant chopping the onions#nobody who is remotely serious is suggesting that we abolish labour bc it's simply not feasible and never will be#there is always work that needs doing#making things more convenient and accessible for anyone who needs that is extremely valuable work in fact!#and the people doing that labour and producing that value are entitled to the whole proceeds of it!#what i'm trying to say is that yeah we need to move these conversations beyond really weird guilt rituals around consumer behaviour

The interesting thing here is that it's not necessarily true that adding convenience adds cost. Pre-diced frozen onions might be more expensive in some places because there's an extra step... but they're also cheaper in some places, because it's easier to transport and store frozen food (and you can store it for much longer) than fresh food, and nobody's out there selling frozen whole onions. Pre-diced food also allows the use of unattractive vegetables, or damaged parts can be removed and the undamaged parts diced and sold, which you can't do with whole onions. The small amount of extra labour is one part of the equation re: what affects the total costs and benefits of pre-chopping, bagging and freezing onions.

There's a gut reaction to the idea that if something is more convenient for the end user, then it must be more difficult, expensive, or worse in some way to make, but that's not entirely true. It is true in many cases and false in many cases. Dishwashers use less water than sink washing, but you'll still see people hating on them because they take less labour and more labour is somehow righteous. Tumble dryers are a bad idea in many areas because they use so much electricity and damage clothing, and a good idea in others where electricity is abundant and the local weather and space availability isn't conducive to air drying. Those blender things that Americans have in their sinks look like an absurd sign of laziness and negligence to the rest of us, but if you look at how their waste disposal systems are set up, breaking down basic organics and flushing them in wastewater is actually a very convenient way of dealing with food waste in areas where composting is inconvenient and reduces the need for road transport to take away green waste in rubbish bins. Installing little electric blenders in all the sinks is a reasonable investment that reduces the need to transport and deal with waste in other ways.

There are taps in my house that I can turn on for all the clean, safe water I want, whenever I want. I can get it hot, cold, or mix it to any temperature in between. That's fucking absurd. Having clean water available on tap inside almost every home is a bonkers convenience. Having systems to take away the wastewater is even more convenient. This system is unbelievably complicated and expensive and integrating it into every home and most businesses has a huge impact on the design, cost and maintenance of every town that has it and every home within those towns. Yet, obviously, it's worth it from a practical standpoint -- the massive health benefits, ability to make sure that the majority of people have access to clean water (some people fall through the cracks in any system) and reduction in the traffic we'd otherwise experience if everyone had to obtain and dispose of their own water hugely outweigh the costs of implementation.

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“These six-pack rings are 100 percent biodegradable and edible—constructed of barley and wheat ribbons from the brewing process. This packaging can actually be safely eaten by animals that may come into contact with the refuse.“ (x)

They use food their food waste to make them, so it’s a safer alternative that cuts down on plastic waste and food waste

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I also love that "Floridaman" is one word.

fittingoutjane

I also love that the news understands the word to the point that they’re being deliberately ironic and using it in positive stories.

3liza

people replying to my "you can just say you have food poisoning americans always have food poisoning" comment on my thanksgiving excuses post with delighted agreement that they too have noticed americans constantly have food poisoning, but you have forgotten or have missed that we did an actual survey just a scant few months ago and the americans on this site reported in GREAT NUMBERS that we would continue eating at a restaurant that gave us diarrhea/vomiting something like 4-5 times (or forever), while almost everyone else in the world kept it to a solid once, or twice if they really weren;t sure. food poisoning is *genuinely* out of control in the usa, we have awful food safety at every level of the food production chain down to the actual people cooking food at home not understanding temperatures or washing their hands. it was a whole thing, it went on for weeks, and it branched off in multiple directions like "please use your dishwasher if you have one" and "what do you mean you cant tell what gave you food poisoning? oh it's because you're always getting food poisoning? wait what do you mean 'everything your mom/grandma cooks gives ou food poisoning so it doesnt matter'?" anyway yes there is a food safety crisis going on in this country and its getting worse lmao

one single incident of food poisoning can permanently disable you btw. its one of the primary ways people end up with narcolepsy, POTS, MCAS, ME-CFS, gastroparesis and/or fibromyalgia. "americans are constantly getting sick" is an actual thing, and most americans appear to think that having food poisoning multiple times a year is just a normal part of eating food

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this is not a dunk on you at all, i respect vegetarian and veganism. but i have bad news (in the literal sense not the meme phrase sense) about where a lot of (probably most, by some counts) foodborne illness comes from.

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all

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since snap benefits are being threatened i wanna share the single resource i can atm which is the woman behind Dollar Tree Dinners. for years now she has consistently provided filling, healthy recipes that really push the envelope on good meals from dollar tree ingredients. especially since next month will involve lots of family meals regardless if you celebrate the holiday, people should be pleased to know she puts together videos showing how to make a holiday meal on a budget.

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Also, this:

12 Universal Rules to Save Money on Food, No Matter What You Buy or Where You Shop

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Have you ever seen this breathtaking tree? The Grandidier’s baobab (Adansonia grandidieri), also known as the renala, may live to be 300 years old or older—but scientists are unable to confirm their exact age because baobabs don’t produce annual growth rings. This species of baobab is found only in Madagascar’s dry deciduous forests. It can grow as much as 98 ft (30 m) tall, and its trunk can have a diameter of up to 9.8 ft (3 m). Unfortunately, Grandidier’s baobabs are endangered due in part to habitat degradation, agricultural expansion, and exploitation for its fruit and bark.

Photo: heikkih, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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I truly believe we could fix so many problems if the world wasn’t making us all so dang tired

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