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an ecoblr/langblr hat focus in recycling, zero waste and also spanish tips for learners. Warnings; random thoughts

[eco-friendly-tips]

Do you have any tips on replacing plastic wrap? Beeswax wrap doesn't seem worth it as it only lasts a year.

Hi! This is a great article I found about alternatives to plastic wrap. Beeswax is the first one on the list but just keep scrolling, there’s more there! Additionally, beeswax is a great start, because one item is lasting a year, rather than plastic wrap which is only used once, and then thrown away. 

https://mindfulmomma.com/alternatives-to-plastic-wrap/

[galadhir]

It's easy to make your own beeswax wrap by melting beeswax into cotton. Store them by rolling around a rolling pin or empty tube so they don't get creases. When they do get so crumpled that you can't use them, they can be easily revived by putting them between two layers of greaseproof paper and ironing over the top with a hot iron.

[kandidly-kasey]

[nowthisnews]

How Is Coronavirus Impacting The Earth?

The social distancing measures implemented around the world to slow the spread of coronavirus have led to positive outcomes for some countries’ air quality—but many worry what will happen once more businesses start to open back up.

Continue reading // follow @nowthisnews for daily news videos & more

[noaasanctuaries]

Happy Earth Day! 

Today we are celebrating Earth Day’s 50th anniversary. Earth is an ocean planet, and our ocean connects us all and sustains vibrant ecosystems. Your national marine sanctuaries protect creatures great and small from whales to krill, and habitats from kelp forests to coral reefs. Today is an opportunity to celebrate our blue planet and its wild diversity, and to ask ourselves what we can do to conserve it for future generations. 

How are you celebrating Earth Day today? 

(Photo: Douglas Croft. Image description: A gray whale mother and calf swimming through a kelp forest.)

[deactivated-blog]

Agriculture doesn’t just wait for Earth Day to make a change. Farmers and ranchers work painstakingly hard to reduce their impact on the environment and over the years we’ve seen amazing strides and the industry shows no sign of slowing that progress.

[renamonkalou]

Happy Earth Day! | Tobias Baumgaertner

[bonniegrrl]

Earth Day 2020: ‘We desperately need hope now,’ Jane Goodall says

I interviewed Dr. Jane Goodall about her thoughts on COVID-19, animal rights, the environment, young activists – as well as on her new documentary Jane Goodall: The Hope airing which airs tonight on National Geographic. 

Read my interview with Goodall in my CNET article here.

[cryptonature]

‪Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

[coralstudiies]

reasons why im interested in ornithology lmaooo

[cundtcake]

Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies 

Arborists often claim that all-male plants are “litter-free” because they shed no messy seeds, fruits or pods. In the 1949 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, which focused on trees and forests, this advice was given to readers: “When used for street plantings, only male trees should be selected, to avoid the nuisance from the seed.”  In the years following, the USDA produced and released into the market almost 100 new red maple and hybrid-maple-named clones (cultivars), and every single one of them was male.

It took a number of years for these new trees to mature enough to start to bloom, but eventually they did and with them came more city pollen and the “epidemic of allergy and asthma.” Many of these same trees are still alive and well and getting even larger, and the bigger they get, the more pollen they shed.

Allergies are rarely triggered by small amounts of an allergen; they are initiated by an overdose. Small amounts of pollen exposure are actually good for us, but if we have highly allergenic trees or shrubs in our own yards or lining our streets, we will soon enough be over-exposed. In order to put the brakes on America’s allergy epidemic, we need to reverse the trend toward male-dominated landscapes and stop selling and planting any more of the most allergenic trees, shrubs and grasses in our cities.

and the kicker:

Female trees produce no pollen, but they trap and remove large amounts of pollen from the air, and turn it into seed. Female trees (and female shrubs also) are not just passive, but are active allergy-fighting trees. The more female plants in a landscape, the less pollen there will be in the air in the immediate vicinity. By relying less on males and paying more attention to the allergy-potential of all the plants in our urban landscape, all of us may one day breathe easier.

[cottageinthelandserene]

Because everyone is in lockdown, the wild mountain goats have taken over a town in North Wales.

[fabulousinfloral]

If corals get stressed they die, so if I was coral I would be dead 

[thepacificrimjob-deactivated201]

what do coral even get stressed about

[one-hamburger-blog]

Current events

[woo-sustainability]

Shitpost aside, it’s environmental stresses. (So, yeah, “current” events, but also lack of food, predator stresses, if they have predators, coral bleaching, lack of available air, anything that would affect their environment.)

Sorry for ruining the joke but I see a question unanswered seriously and my science educator senses activate.

[glblctzn]

World Water Day hero 🚰 Autumn Peltier started educating the public on why many Indigenous people living in Canada lack access to clean water at just 8 years old. Since then, she has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize, and she hopes to continue her water rights and environmental advocacy for years to come. Read about more young women fighting for water access around the world. ⁣ (📷: Manuel Elias/UN Photo) 

[khangi]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[memeseverdie]

Arctic tribes: kill 1 whale a year, of which no part is wasted

White progressives: this is literally the most disgusting evil thing ever

[now-exiting-fuckability-deactiv]

I have never fucking seen a vegan or white progressive hardlining on indigenous people, but this same fucking strawman is brought up to deride vegans every fucking week.

Bull. Shit.

This is gonna get several thousand reblogs by westerners to make themselves feel better about getting a Big Mac on the way home from work.

[khangi]

Here’s one I screenshotted myself last week.

Theresa also a massive post about Inuit whale hunting here on tumblr, full of it.

Stop calling the lives experiences of native people “a straw man”— I’m gettinn sick of having my own experiences discounted because y’all don’t want to admit that white vegans can be fucking racist and anti-indigenous as all fuck.

[radplaidtacofan]

Yeah I see this shit all the time from vegans. Honestly most vegans are toxic af with their “bloodmouth” and “carnist” bullshit and spreading a lot of misinformation.

I don’t care about their diet choice at all but they refuse to show the same basic respect for others. Also, many meat, milk and butter alternatives are much more harmful to the environment and rely on slave/exploitative labour.

So yeah, vegetarianism? A-OK. Vegetarians? Most of them are great people. Veganism? Ehhh not great for the environment if they use meat/milk alternatives. Vegan community itself? Horribly, ridiculously toxic and bigoted. Not all of course, but most vegan communities I’ve seen.

Again, the diet side of it? Fine. It’s the community I have a problem with.

I feel I need to clarify that because, again, it’s an extremely toxic community. They misinterpret everything so if any see this they’ll probably still decide to act like harpies so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bumblebeeappletree]

So. You want to garden.

For whatever reason. Right now as of uhhhh Friday March 27, of 2020, within the quarantine of COVID-19 you are most likely want to garden in order to feed your family as you want to save money from the grocery store. And to ya know. feed your family.

SO. Here’s some YouTube videos. Mainly from this one YouTuber since she runs her own farm. She talks about what to grow and how to grow as well as saving seeds. (Trust me, saving seeds is better in the long run.) You can also regrow kitchen scraps too if you feel like you’re unable to get any proper seeds. And for fun have a post apocalyptic type garden.

What to plant in a small garden:

Fast-food growing options:

The importance of Seed saving:

How to build an arched trellis for $30:

A complete guide to virtual gardening:

How to PLANT & GROW with cattle panel arched trellises:

14 store bought vegetables & herbs you can regrow:

Save your kitchen scraps, these 7 plants can be grown out of them:

9 survival gardening crops to grow in a post apocalyptic world:

[advocateforearth-deactivated202]

I can also recommend Charles Dowding and Huw Richards for UK based gardening advice

[fumblebeefae]

We need to better educate kids on the importance of animals that are typically hated because otherwise you end up with adults who think hating wasps is a personality.

[aromantic-eight]

Trufax: hatred of wasps is so widespread that it’s prevalent among biologists as well. An entire field full of people getting excited about species that nobody else has heard of, and many have collectively decided that wasps don’t need to be researched, even though they’re threatened by the same things that are threatening bees, and disappearance of wasps will spell bad things for the number of pests found in gardens and farms.

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

I have a friend wasp named Queeny. She built her nest on a really inconvenient area where I often dump my birds’ uneaten seed or shake towels out. She would come out angrily and buzz at us, ready to defend her home from the strange giants.

Queeny didn’t know that it was our porch she built her home on, she saw a nice ledge and decided that it was a suitable spot to begin her life as a lone female.

So instead of removing the nest and poisoning her with bug spray, you know what I did? I moved the area where I dump my things and started feeding her. I would tap three times on the railing before leaving a treat like fruit, honey, dog food, or pesky beetles I find in my garden, then move away to give them lots of space. At first she would buzz out, wings spread and ready to fight, but after doing this for just a few days…she stopped!

Now when she comes out, it’s slowly and non-threatingly. She tilts her head at me before gingerly inspecting the offerings. She doesn’t threaten my mom any more either, she’s learned that we mean no harm. We’ve started using that ledge to shake sheets out and dump bird seed and she doesn’t mind at all! She just watches quietly.

She even has a family now! Five daughters and one lad- a husband or son, not sure which lmao -who greet us the same, she must’ve taught them that we’re not enemies (or they just grew up used to us). They even protect my garden, since Queeny’s family has grown the invasive Japanese beetle population has plummeted! They really are delightful neighbors.

[arcticarthropod]

To do list:

Befriend some wasps

[lets-close-the-loop]

I needed this today. Thank you!

[swingsetindecember]

do not confuse the lack of foot traffic outside for cleaning the environment. big oil companies dumping oil in the ocean and large industries polluting greenhouse gases are what is hurting the planet. 

animals going into the city is just entropy, it is less noisy or they have become dependent on human food or they are foraging. that is just normal. not a sign that mother nature is healing. just shut up. 

people aren’t the problem, capitalism is what is causing global warming and climate change. we need to stop massive waste and large scale pollution. 

[amroyounes]

8 vegetables that you can regrow again and again.

Scallions

You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room.

Garlic

When garlic begins to sprout, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a mild flavor than garlic and can be added to salads, pasta and other dishes.

Bok Choy

Bok choy can be regrown by placing the root end in water in a well-lit area. In 1-2 weeks , you can transplant it to a pot with soil and grow a full new head.

Carrots

Put carrot tops in a dish with a little water. Set the dish in a well-lit room or a window sill.  You’ll have carrot tops to use in salads. 

Basil

Put clippings from basil with 3 to 4-inch stems in a glass of water and place it in direct sunlight. When the roots are about 2 inches long, plant them in pots to and in time it will grow a full basil plant.

Celery

Cut off the base of the celery and place it in a saucer or shallow bowl of warm water in the sun. Leaves will begin to thicken and grow in the middle of the base, then transfer the celery to soil. 

Romaine Lettuce

Put romaine lettuce stumps in a ½ inch of water. Re-water to keep water level at ½ inch. After a few days, roots and new leaves will appear and you can transplant it into soil.

Cilantro

The stems of cilantro will grown when placed in a glass of water. Once the roots are long enough, plant them in a pot in a well-lit room. You will have a full plant in a few months.

[robosnotart]

Get your infinite food exploit out of here you cheater. People like you ruin the survival horror experience.