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🌱 they/them | 20s | main: arceus-ex-machina 🌱 crafty bitch. spoonless earth-carer-abouter. doing my best. this blog is for learning, finding resources, and chronicling the journey in pursuit of (self) sustainability. --tagging system is a work in progress

[harryshouse]

so

we have this app called toogoodtogo where restaurants/cafes/bakeries/hotels and so on sell their leftovers for really cheap to reduce foodwaste

i got all of this for €4 from starbucks

bless

[frompawntoqueen]

The America version is called FoodForAll

[somecunttookmyurl]

I love TooGoodToGo all of this sushi cost me £3.50 (the chinese food cost me £3.59)

[korben600]

YOOOOOOO, they’re formalizing this?!?!

I used to do community service at a community breakfast, we’d go to the local Safeway and get all their stale bread, the local bakery for their stale baked goods and whatnot.

They throw away so much food it’s ridiculous, I’m glad someone finally created a program like this!

[askawelfarecaseworker]

The American app isn’t available everywhere but if you’re broke in NY or Boston, check it out!

[tundrakatiebean]

The US app logo currently looks like this and was last updated 3 weeks ago (as of January 25th 2020)

[sissikuk]

TooGoodToGo is available in many European countries, including the UK, much of Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and the Iberian peninsula. 

[unzip-your-guts]

In Canada we have flash food, I dont know if it’s just confined to loblaw stores but you can get food that stores have to throw out for dirt cheap

[defira85]

I know I reblogged this once already but I’m back to say there’s an Australian version!

YWaste has been around since 2017 apparently, so they’re quite well established if you’re Australian and in need of options

[aimee-maroux]

I used to be broke and knowing about this app would have been extremely helpful. Hope it helps some of you folks out there ❤️

[why-cant-we-be-solarpunk]

I use flashfood and it’s literally what enabled me to pay off my student debt and start saving

[ecopunkbeginner]

I'm in the US, looked up Food for All on the Google Play store and couldn't find it, but I did find out that Too Good To Go has expanded to many cities in the US as well as Canada and Australia!

https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-us/about-us/in-my-area

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[elbiotipo]

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[nolaplantdaddy]

how to make turmeric powder with my homegrown Red Hawaiian turmeric 🤟🏿💕

[ecopunkbeginner]

Maybe I'm just wired for a hunter-gatherer diet, or maybe specifically gatherer. I was thriving eating multiple persimmons a day. If I had the access I might well be able to craft a perfectly healthy diet for myself. It's just executive function. As frustrating as it is to have sensory issues limit my diet, it's a different kind of frustration to know that I could work around them if only I didn't have to be responsible for it all myself. I don't think people realize the how different it is to contribute to meal preparation than to manage The Whole Ass Menu. I think I would get a greater amount of work done if I were, say, one of three people helping to prepare food with one person delegating tasks to the other two (and me not being the delegator lol) than if I were to attempt to design and prepare a menu/meal plan that's exactly one third as much work as the first one, for just myself, all by myself. I can chip in about whether to do side dish x or side dish y this week. I can chop produce. I can take direction. I don't know if I can create all the directions. (I'm trying not to talk negatively with certainty, but I haven't proven to be able to do that, ever, and if I were to calculate the likelihood based only on past experience, it would be low to zero.)

A lot of this is a function of Society™ and the culture of individualism, and some of it is theoretically changeable on an individual level. I don't think I can finish my thoughts, because I'm about to cry now. I can't help but think that I'm fucked. I'm not an organizer, I would love to work towards getting better at that one day insofar as it's possible but I know myself and my abilities well enough to say that I just can't be that person at the forefront of a move to build something communal, not right now and probably not for a long time. I can't fucking do this. I'm always open to participating and encouraging it but I can't take a leading role, I just can't. I feel the need to explain how incapable I am because I'm just hearing in my head all these posts about how "you need to do this stuff in your own community" and I just can't. I STILL feel the need to over explain but my throat hurts from being so tight from crying and I have to stop thinking about this now.

I guess if I have a message for anyone reading this, it's to please, when you can, help people who don't seem to have anything to offer, because 1) their life and health and happiness still have value regardless and 2) they might have more to offer than you think, especially once they get the help they need. Sometimes relationships aren't reciprocal right away but you never know when someone will be able to help you.

[ecopunkbeginner]

I found what appears to be a dead lizard, and I wanna turn it over (it's belly up) to see the top and maybe identify it, but like......it lowkey feels disrespectful or something

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

i feel like we could be making a bigger deal of this actually

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#turns out when you actually stick to your big world changing plan and don't cave to lobbyists the plan really works

Paris has also been kicking ass at this:

Carte de qualité d'air en direct de Paris

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ernestsewell]

I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.

[anarchistmemedistro]

being poor or a minority literally takes an average 10-15 years off of your life

[anarchistmemedistro]

caste: the origins of our discontent pdf

[dinchenix]

"Solarpunk House"

Commission for Syd My comms: vgen.co/dinchenix

[rederiswrites]

If you live on the US east coast, specifically somewhere along the Appalachians, September/October is time to start cruising farmers’ markets and watching out for North America’s largest fruit, the paw paw.

Paw Paws used to be a tremendously important fruit, both to Indigenous people and white settlers. They’re a major source of fresh calories in late fall, because they fruit in October and are large and sweet. You never hear of them these days for the simple reason that they’re nearly impossible to mass market. They’re very soft and spoil very quickly. So, you can’t ship them for shit.

Nonetheless, in my area, they’ve continued on in the background, gaining strength as one of the few things that remains truly seasonal, making gains as a specialty crop. Most excitingly, several breeders in the West Virginia and Maryland area have been making enormous strides breeding for flavor, size, and ratio of flesh to seed. I’m not totally clear on why I’m so blessed, but I think literally all the major breeders and growers of paw paws are within a two hour radius of my house.

Not everyone I’ve had try paw paws has immediately liked them. I think it’s just because they’re really like nothing you’ve had. Usually, when you’re trying a totally new thing, you have to try it at least three times. First try is for “wow that was….sure a thing.” Second is for “but it’s kinda interesting!” Third is for “Why do I keep thinking about this thing? I…kinda want more?” Paw Paws, to me, are dessert that comes off a tree prepared. They’ve got an indescribably sweet tropical flavor and the texture of custard. They’re amazing.

So if you live in the Midatlantic US, I really encourage you to get a few to try. They’re a part of our history, and they could be an incredibly valuable sustainable crop in a more decentralized, more seasonal version of agriculture.

[ahedderick]

   I checked on mine this morning; there are two trees at Home Farm that flower (and fruit) about two weeks apart from each other. I had to thin out quite a few seedlings from around these trees earlier this summer, and I thinned all the fruit I could reach. They were growing in clumps of 2 - 5, which is too hard on the branches when they’re bigger. These trees are only about ten yrs old and maybe 5 meters high, but they’re FULL of pawpaws!

I made a custard-type recipe with these last fall that was a spectacular fail (disgusting - had to throw it out.) I’m pretty sure I followed that up with a banana bread recipe, subbing pawpaw for banana, and that was good. I’d better look that up before I try again, though. I HATE failing and wasting ingredients.

[rederiswrites]

SO. JEALOUS.

Yeah I haven’t found many good ways of cooking them. I’ve read you can cook them most ways you can cook bananas. If I get enough I’m 100% going to try the banana bread thing. Custard also didn’t work for us though–just lost all its flavor. Ice cream is spectacular. We froze a lot of the box we got in ice cube trays.

[bluegreengreyeyes]

So, I’m reblogging again since I MUST nerd out even more about pawpaws, especialy some of the food science aspects.

Taste of them apparently varies quite a bit but mine are *exactly* like “ tutti-frutti”. (I mean the artificial flavouring, not the Italian stuff) It was a bit of a shock but I had to laugh at how fake it came across due to only ever having experienced that taste from candies/gum. Considering that the artificial flavour was developed in the late 1800’s, and in the US, I feel very confident it was based on the taste of pawpaws. ( And I’m super impressed they were able to do it do accurately using the tech of the time!)

The flavour compounds are very fragile so cooking them is not going to work well in most cases.

It’s not really well understood why, but the fruits have fats and other compounds that go rancid very easily so drying and canning are also not options. Pretty much fresh eating and frozen are the only good ways to use them but some people are figuring out how to use them in brewing.

One thing to keep in mind is that pawpaw fruits contain a neurotoxin called annonacin. Eating the seeds and skins can be dangerous and there are concerns that eating large amounts of the fruit pulp long-term, can cause neurological damage, similar to Parkinson’s. Amounts of annonacin vary in different strains and a yearly binge is unlikely to do much harm but some people may be more susceptible to it. ( On the flip side, it’s possible that those groups who had cultural traditions of eating them may be more resistant to any negative effects)

Wild trees were still growing in the Don river valley of Toronto as late as the 1960’s so I’m not sure how far north their full range was. I live at about that latitude but a bit west and one of my trees is fruiting for the second year so it’s likely that they can manage a bit colder. I know at least one guy is trying them in Quebec, zone 4.

[rederiswrites]

Wow, thank you for this terrific information! I’ll add this clip from the excellent book For the Love of Paw Paws, by Michael Judd

[rederiswrites]

Reblogging this because it’s time to start thinking about this and finding your local festival if you’re fortunate to have one. I’m extremely fortunate to be near enough to Michael Judd’s homestead, and remembered far enough in advance this year, to get tickets to his lovely small festival. My own trees (the ones that survived the invasives overrunning them) won’t be big enough to yield for a couple years yet.

Paw paw festivals also often offer trees for sale if you want to plant your own! I think you should. They’re an understory tree, so might be a great option for a rather shady suburban yard.

[rederiswrites]

It’s that time again!! I’m starting to see listings for fruit on FB marketplace.

[tsulasgi]

ᏓᎦᏏ - Daksi (DAHK-see) - Terrapin 🐢

Cherokee double wall basket - gauge 2 and 0 commercial round reed.

First try making a turtle basket, pretty happy with the results but I think I'm going to try remaking the lid tonight so it fits better. I have seen some people make more flipper like feet and then I have seen clawed feet once in a while, I like how the claws look more so that is what I went with.

[tempestuousreed]

Made some lily pad coasters—very happy with how they turned out even though my embroidery skills are sketchy.

[sorreleater]

part of me wants to start making like … quilted lolita clothes? is that a thing? like “cottagecore lolita” ??

[sheishine]

Ancient Sea Creature Diorama - Anomalocaris (Cambrian Period).

古代海洋生物ジオラマ - アノマロカリス (カンブリア紀)。

[ecopunkbeginner]

literally the only thing that matters is that I am watering a banana tree

[ecopunkbeginner]

you don't understand. I think I'm helping a living thing flourish. I'm pretty sure the Primary Plant Person in the house is still taking care of the banana tree along with all the other plants, but I noticed the banana was looking sadder and getting browner and crispier every day and otherwise didn't seem to be changing so I've watered it a few times since then because why not, this climate is way drier than where I think bananas come from so I probably can't hurt it much with water. And it's grown THREE NEW LEAVES, which is how I learned that plants grow way faster than I thought, and not just grasses. I didn't even realize that the fact that it wasn't growing before meant something because I still have this baseline assumption (even though it's been subverted a couple times already) that Plants Grow Slow. Then I gave it extra water a couple times and it GREW THREE. NEW. BIG OL' LEAVES. By which I mean proportionate leaves. I think it's been less than a month? I don't want to downplay the effort of the PPP (primary plant person), they're ultimately doing way more than me in taking care of all of these plants, and they have way more responsibilities and in some ways contribute to taking care of ME, so like, this isn't me saying I'm doing Better At Plants than this person. It's just that based on when I watered, when I took moisture measurements, and what the plant has done and when, it seems like my extra watering has actually had an effect, and to have seen an action of mine seemingly contribute not only to visible change in the world but also the amount of LIVING/THRIVING an ORGANISM was doing (a non-mold organism which is visible to the naked eye, notably) has been mind-blowing. Helping can actually??? Help???? What?????

Anyway, the point of that long ramble and my initial post is just that my supplemental watering of this plant has given me a sense of purpose in life. 10/10 highly recommended contributing to the care of a plant.

[oaky-dokey]

love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it

[cicada-swarm]

I know for a fact that this has been posted elsewhere on Tumblr, but I wanted to share this:

This is a document ful of resources about things you can do politically that are not voting or going to protests. As a disabled person who struggles at protests, this is incredibly valuable. It has tons of resources about mutual aid, political education, migrant justice, disability justice, and much much more.

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actio