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December Holiday Wallpapers ~Feel free to use. Please reblog if you use 🎅🏼🎄❄️

**I do not own any of the images**

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cosyrainydays

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Dammit…all this ass, I need something that really fits…

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I need to start watching this

bchaainz

What show is this?

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black lightning

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Y'all really need to watch this. do your long ass Tumblr posts about how great it is, share it, etc. this show is really pushing boundaries and opening doors. full of beautiful black people. of ALL skin tones. from albino to dark chocolate. so y'all need to get behind it.

#black lightning #tv show

mindblowingscience

Almost magical.

An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

The plan, which saw a juice company dump 1,000 truckloads of waste orange peel in a barren pasture in Costa Rica back in the mid 1990s, has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest.

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This is the greatest thing I’ve read in a long time and I want this experiment replicated everywhere as soon as possible.

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My town would be a good start.

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the funniest part is that everyone is so surprised.

“composting kitchen waste makes plants grow. who knew???”

well… everyone?

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It’s not so much that they’re SURPRISED about it. That was actually the original plan.

This juice company agreed to donate a few acres of its own land to a bordering national park, and compost orange peels there to help restore the land. They were subsequently sued by a rival juice company for having “defiled a national park.” The law sided with the rival company, and the project was discontinued early.

This isn’t so much a “Wow SO SURPRISE!” as a “FUCKIN’ TOLD YOU SO!”

Plus also, sixteen years ago, we might’ve known the answer to the question “What happens when you compost kitchen waste?” but we DIDN’T know the answer to “What happens when you dump 12,000 tons of orange peel on 7 acres of ecologically depleted wasteland?”

And for the first six months, the answer was, “7 acres of nasty-smelling, fly breeding ex-fruit sludge, and a lawsuit from a rival juice company,” but 16 years LATER we can say, “A 176 percent increase in above-ground biomass, and a study site so transformed we couldn’t tell we had the right place until we dug the sign out of undergrowth consisting mainly of native shrubs and grasses, SUCK IT, TICO FRUIT!!!!”

#green #forests #costa rica