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Spend a few days walking the woods, exploring overgrown mining ruins among other things.
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I'm cross-posting this blogpost from my website here, translated to english, here kind of as an experiment to get an inside into how tumblr works when you actually post and not only read and reblog. It's kind of about a lot: my writing process in coffeeshops, why heterotopias help the creative brain along and it's also a bit about why I think tumblr is still fascinating and still here after everything else somewhat burned down. So here you go:
I'm sitting on the train right now. The last few days I've been in Bratislava, where I've been writing the play for the Phönix. It has continued, hurrah. When I'm writing I often resort to what John Green called the geographical cure in some early vlogbrothers video, but to describe the fact that this cure doesn't work.
I think he meant it then in the sense of a permanent move, a "running away". For me, it works well in the sense of a temporary, short retreat to focus on creative work. However, I have always written more badly than well at home (too many distractions) and perhaps because of my Viennese socialization I prefer writing in public places, especially Cafés. The coffee house in another city, another country, etc., is just another layer of the bubble, so to speak. And to get there, wherever I am, I have to travel by train, where I can also think-write quite well. I am also somewhere just a Foucaultian cliché vis-à-vis heterotopias.
And there's the segue to, you can hardly believe it: tumblr. Since leaving twitter, a while before twitter left itself, I have yet to find an alternative for what twitter used to be in the days of so-called pretty-word twitter. The decentralization that mastodon brings, for example, interests me in principle, but at the moment I can't imagine working in d
While I'm still on instagram, I use it more as an information medium for my extended social bubble. This is what's happening with me right now, these beautiful things I just did. Self-promotion. My comments on YouTube videos can also be counted on one hand, especially on livestreams, which I still find exciting in themselves, but the live chat is too fast-paced for me. What's left is tumblr. Announced dead a thousand times, fragile and more gaffer tape than anything else, I've always come back.
Now, scrolling through my own tumblr over the years, it's mainly a kind of aesthetic and pop-cultural time travel through the development of my personality. Exciting, but not particularly discursive. And anyway, I was never much into commenting and reposting, maybe because tumblr was only the second choice for me after the slow death of soup.io. In recent years, however, I've mainly used it as a reader, solarpunk-, permaculture- or anarchy-tumblr always flushes good short texts and repositories of resources into your feed. I haven't posted anything myself though, the interaction system is still rather unclear to me. In earlier times, social contact seemed to happen via reblogs and private messages, I only know the public page with comments that appear like tags from observation. [Idea: Post this note with an English summary on tumblr and use it as an example]
This one has no real conclusion, except that I find it interesting and funny that tumblr in particular seems to have survived. But then again, there's certainly something heterotopic about tumblr, so maybe it's not that surprising.
I’ve teased it. You’ve waited. I’ve procrastinated. You’ve probably forgotten all about it.
But now, finally, I’m here with my solarpunk resources masterpost!
YouTube Channels:
Andrewism
The Solarpunk Scene
Solarpunk Life
Solarpunk Station
Our Changing Climate
Podcasts:
The Joy Report
How To Save A Planet
Demand Utopia
Solarpunk Presents
Outrage and Optimisim
From What If To What Next
Solarpunk Now
Idealistically
The Extinction Rebellion Podcast
The Landworkers' Radio
Wilder
What Could Possibly Go Right?
Frontiers of Commoning
The War on Cars
The Rewild Podcast
Books (Fiction):
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed The Word for World is Forest
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
Phoebe Wagner: When We Hold Each Other Up
Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Brenda J. Pierson: Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology
Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
Justine Norton-Kertson: Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology
Sim Kern: The Free People’s Village
Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden
Sarina Ulibarri: Glass & Gardens
Books (Non-fiction):
Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom
George Monbiot: Feral
Miles Olson: Unlearn, Rewild
Mark Shepard: Restoration Agriculture
Kristin Ohlson: The Soil Will Save Us
Rowan Hooper: How To Spend A Trillion Dollars
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom At The End of The World
Kimberly Nicholas: Under The Sky We Make
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
David Miller: Solved
Ayana Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson: All We Can Save
Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are The Weather
Colin Tudge: Six Steps Back To The Land
Edward Wilson: Half-Earth
Natalie Fee: How To Save The World For Free
Kaden Hogan: Humans of Climate Change
Rebecca Huntley: How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future We Choose
Jonathon Porritt: Hope In Hell
Paul Hawken: Regeneration
Mark Maslin: How To Save Our Planet
Katherine Hayhoe: Saving Us
Jimmy Dunson: Building Power While The Lights Are Out
Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin: Prefigurative Politics
Andreas Malm: How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Almanac For The Anthropocene
Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist
William MacAskill: What We Owe To The Future
Mikaela Loach: It's Not That Radical
Miles Richardson: Reconnection
David Harvey: Spaces of Hope Rebel Cities
Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth
Zahra Biabani: Climate Optimism
David Ehrenfeld: Becoming Good Ancestors
Stephen Gliessman: Agroecology
Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia
Jon Alexander: Citizens
Leah Thomas: The Intersectional Environmentalist
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book
Jen Bendell, Rupert Read: Deep Adaptation
Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac
Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope
Vandana Shiva: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture
Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement
Minouche Shafik: What We Owe To Each Other
Dieter Helm: Net Zero
Chris Goodall: What We Need To Do Now
Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote: The Cambridge Companion To The Environmental Humanities
Bella Lack: The Children of The Anthropocene
Hannah Ritchie: Not The End of The World
Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist
Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry For The Future
Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall: Black Ops & Beaver Bombing
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
Lynne Jones: Sorry For The Inconvenience But This Is An Emergency
Helen Crist: Abundant Earth
Sam Bentley: Good News, Planet Earth!
Timothy Beal: When Time Is Short
Andrew Boyd: I Want A Better Catastrophe
Kristen R. Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia
Elizabeth Cripps: What Climate Justice Means & Why We Should Care
Kylie Flanagan: Climate Resilience
Chris Johnstone, Joanna Macy: Active Hope
Mark Engler: This is an Uprising
Anne Therese Gennari: The Climate Optimist Handbook
Magazines:
Solarpunk Magazine
Positive News
Resurgence & Ecologist
Ethical Consumer
Films (Fiction):
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
The End We Start From
Woman At War
Black Panther
Star Trek
Tomorrowland
Films (Documentary):
2040: How We Can Save The Planet
The People vs Big Oil
Wild Isles
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Generation Green New Deal
Video Games:
Terra Nil
Animal Crossing
Gilded Shadows
Anno 2070
Stardew Valley
RPGs:
Solarpunk Futures
Perfect Storm
Advocacy Groups:
A22 Network
Extinction Rebellion
Greenpeace
Friends of The Earth
Apps:
Ethy
Sojo
BackMarket
Depop
Vinted
Olio
Buy Nothing
Too Good To Go
Websites:
European Co-housing
UK Co-housing
US Co-housing
Brought By Bike (connects you with zero-carbon delivery goods)
ClimateBase (find a sustainable career)
Environmentjob (ditto)
Businesses (🤢):
Ethical Superstore
Hodmedods
Fairtransport/Sail Cargo Alliance
Let me know if you think there’s anything I’ve missed!
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'l'atelier' office building designed by a6a (architects) and located in bordeaux, france. photos by rory gardiner
Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy
In 2016, Finland became the first country in the world to adopt a national circular economy road map, with the ambition to become a world leader in moving away from an unsustainable “take-make-waste” linear model.
A circular economy stands in contrast to the linear and throwaway model prevalent around the world today. The Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra), which played an instrumental role in developing the road map, defines the circular economy as “not based on the continual production of more and more goods but on the use of services — sharing, renting and recycling — instead of owning things. Materials are not lost at the end of their useful life but are used to make new products over and over again.”
With the world facing increasing pressure on multiple planetary boundaries deemed vital to maintaining Earth’s “safe operating space,” a circular economy is considered one pathway to reduce overconsumption, slash emissions, and move materials in closed loops. In Finland, pursuing circular solutions has the potential to both cut carbon emissions while also reducing pressure on biodiversity, experts say.
Since the publication of Finland’s road map, the government has laid out plans to transition toward a “carbon-neutral circular economy society” by 2035. Within little more than a decade, the program aims to cap consumption of primary raw materials at 2015 levels (around 217 million metric tons) while doubling material circularity and resource productivity.
But for Finland to achieve its circular economy vision — which involves reworking whole sectors such as forestry, agriculture, construction and transport — will be a tall task, according to experts, as the country’s roughly 5.5 million people have one of the largest material footprints per capita in Europe. In 2021, Finland’s domestic material consumption stood at 245 million metric tons, or 44 metric tons per person — far higher than the European Union’s average of 14.5 metric tons per capita.
Mainstreaming circularity and innovation
Current efforts may be bearing fruit: there’s evidence that the Finnish people are becoming more aware of the idea of a circular economy. Preliminary results of a barometer exercise led by the Finnish Environment Institute found there’s familiarity with the concepts of the circular economy after surveying nearly 1,000 citizens and 500 business representatives.
“It basically shows that circular economy is becoming a term and a concept that people understand quite well [in Finland],” Nikula says. However, Tiina Karppinen, a researcher with SYKE, says most respondents were aware of the so-called outer rings of a circular economy, such as recycling and waste management. Awareness of the inner rings — the “crucial and more fundamental” aspects of circularity, such as repair, product longevity, circular design, and reduction of material use — was lagging behind, Karppinen says.
“Overall, I think this is a problem that we are still struggling to tackle,” she adds.
A host of pilot projects are under way to find circular solutions in Finland across multiple sectors. Sitra, for example, tracks dozens of circular economy solutions, ranging from companies looking to advance the sharing economy, to solutions that address plastic waste. Experts highlight some examples, such as Verso Food, which offers alternative sources of protein made from fava beans, and Järki Särki, a company bringing an overlooked fish species, the common roach (Rutilus rutilus), to the market.
In line with Finland’s ambition to create a circular bioeconomy, other companies are developing solutions to reduce fossil-fuel based plastic use by using renewable resources and byproducts of the timber industry. Others are creating chemicals and textile fibers from wood materials. According to Sitra, “biomass obtained from forests will be used more and more in textile fabrics, plastics, cosmetics, medicines, chemicals and smart packaging” in Finland.
“What’s even more important is that we design products which last in the use that they were designed for as long as possible,”
In 2016, Finland became the first country in the world to adopt a national circular economy road map, with the ambition to become a world le
cleaning is extremely difficult. cleaning your home, your office, your car, your personal space, your clothes, your body, anything- cleaning is an intensive process that involves a lot of small movements, focus, and stamina. many people struggle with the various aspects of cleaning, whether it's the executive function involved with executing or conceptualizing each step involved, fatigue from having to gather supplies and move around, pain from long periods of time on one's feet or repetitive motion, drain from struggling to focus, or whatever else,
a lot of people are affected by the difficulty of cleaning. depression, adhd, schizophrenia, autism, fibromyalgia, hypermobile joints, EDS, POTS, MS, chronic GI problems, chronic pain, chronic fatigue and other disabling conditions can make cleaning and keeping a space clean over time very difficult if not impossible for a lot of people- please be kind to those who struggle with cleaning, and kinder to yourself if you struggle to keep up with cleaning. it is a very difficult task. it's not your fault you struggle with it.
I'm in a class on climate and art rn and I wanna share with you guys the art we're looking at, starting with Swale, a piece by Mary Mattingly. I listened to her talk the other night and it was really cool. And this piece actually created real-world change beyond the scope of the project.
Swale is a barge harboring a food forest that docks at different areas in New York City--to avoid the strict anti-foraging laws in New York City as well as to reach food deserts. From her website:
"At its heart, Swale is a call to action. It asks people to reconsider industrial food systems, to confirm a belief in healthy food as a human right, and to pave pathways to create public food in public space.
As a direct result of Swale and the support of community groups, the New York City Parks Department opened their first land-based pilot in 2017 – a public “Foodway” at Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx."
