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It does require a fairly dystopian strain of doublethink for a company to celebrate how hard and how constantly its employees must work to make a living, given that these companies are themselves setting the terms
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - The New Yorker (via nathanjurgenson)
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/a-plan-to-turn-hiawatha-golf-course-into-minneapolis-first-food-forest/416059773
this is awesome 😊
The city would plant everything from raspberries and blackberries to maple trees and hazelnut trees, as well as shoreline plants like katniss (also known as duck potato) and medicinal herbs like echinacea.
Imagine a forest filled with edible plants, berries, hazelnuts, and maple trees, bordered by hiking trails. A place where you can learn to forage and harvest while enjoying a beautiful lake and natural wetlands.
Now imagine that the forest is located on the edge of Minneapolis.
This is what Ryan Seibold and Russ Henry are trying to create near Lake Hiawatha.
Parts of the nearby Hiawatha Golf Course have been closed since a 2014 flood, and are expected to reopen this spring. This spurred the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board to explore options for rebuilding the course to make it more flood resistant.
Yet these plans stalled when it was discovered that the board was pumping more groundwater from the course – and into the already-polluted Lake Hiawatha – than allowed by the state. The city was left to decide whether to keep pumping or let the former wetland reclaim its territory.
Henry, a landscape designer who is running for a Park Board seat, says replacing the course with a food forest would turn a big problem into a big benefit.
The restored wetland would act as a natural filter, blocking major pollutants from storm water sewers and bringing back animals and plants displaced by the course, he says.
Put simply, a food forest is a woodland that uses native trees, shrubs, and plants that are both edible and medicinal. The city would plant everything from raspberries and blackberries to maple trees and hazelnut trees, as well as shoreline plants like katniss (also known as duck potato) and medicinal herbs like echinacea.
Intended to be low-maintenance and self-maintaining once established, the plants are designed to not only build soil but to attract pollinators. (Plants like milkweed are especially beneficial for bees and monarch butterflies.)
According to Seibold, the plants would be available for people to forage and harvest as needed. The idea is to teach people to understand the connection between plants and animals, as well as learn when to harvest sustainably.
“You’re growing the food, but you’re also growing the community around the food,” Seibold says.
There would have to be some sort of foraging training to ensure the plants are available for everyone, Henry adds.
When he got his first job in a nursery 20 years ago, Henry says plants were just green things he couldn’t begin to tell apart. Since then, nature has opened up to him, and he would love for the kids of Minneapolis to have the same opportunity.
By learning more about what they’re able to take from nature, Henry says that people might feel more empowered to grow food in their own yards, to embrace nature and sustainable development, and to encourage friends and neighbors to do the same.
Seibold and Henry say they’ve been getting positive feedback. The park board has until July to decide what to do with the land, but Henry says it may have already decided to reconstruct the golf course.
Either way, the men will continue their work.
Seibold is working with the board to establish a fruit and nut tree orchard on the east side of the lake, and Henry is helping to coordinate a food innovation lab on March 16 in the Food Building in northeast Minneapolis. The event will showcase ideas for ensuring better soil and water quality, as well as new harvesting techniques and agro projects.
That sounds like the best use for a golf course.
This is such a beautiful idea. Or, we could have a bunch of useless grass.
This is a damn fine practical application of permaculture.
this cracked me up bc my water pipes are noisy like this too
Triple Concerto for plumbing, faucet, and violin.
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he’s so feisty
This is an adorable video, but be careful - feeding a toucan cereal in large quantities can be bad for their health. The small amounts here should be fine, but definitely shouldn’t be more than this. Modern dinosaurs have problems with iron uptake.
Share & call the following Senators and demand they vote NO on Donald Trump’s Swamp Cabinet education pick, Betsy DeVos. #StopDeVos #ShutItDown
call even if you do not live in these states! all you need to say is “i am calling to urge senator [name] to oppose the appointment of betsy de vos as secretary of education.” as of right now (7:30pm est, 2/2) senators toomey, flake, and heller’s voicemails are full.
hey if you call rob portman (R-OH) be sure to remind him that devos’s group still owes $5,300,000 (five point three million dollars) in fines to our state for violating our election laws, and that she should have to pay for that before she is confirmed : )
Feel that your drawings are stagnating? Maybe there’s something missing? For those struggling with their styles and finding inspiration, this might be the thing for you!
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The “How to Make Your Art Look Nice” Series
Lighting | Flow and Rhythm | Thumbnailing | Mindsets | Reference and Style | Color Harmony | Contrast
Someone remind me to work on this. Then work on it some more.
day 23: fav dual type
this was just such a broad selection to choose from cries so i just drew… lanturn…. because it’s nice
@negrek replied to your post: Got Pokemon Sun. Received Rotomdex, found out game…
:( Hope they come up with a work-around for you.
I hope they patch this because any attempt at a workaround on my end is, like, cover the screen with something literally every time I’m out of battle and hope I don’t forget at all ever, because the problem animation is Rotom Dex’s eyes blinking every few seconds. The bottom screen map has large eyes and obvious blinking and the blinking leaves this unplayable. I have a migraine because of a blinking animation.
This is completely absurd.
I’m nowhere near as photosensitive as you are, and still, I find I’m having a similar problem. I mean, blinking every once in a while might be alright, but it’s blinking like it’s got a whole lid’s worth of eyelashes stuck in one eye and who-knows-what in the other. Why did they ever greenlight such a hyperactive UI?
US presidential election results by population density and margin of victory.
AL: Mobile, Huntsville-Decatur AR: Fayetteville-Wallyworld AZ: Phoenix FL: Jacksonville, Naples-Ft Meyers, Pensacola GA: Warner-Robins, Ft Oglethorpe (Chattanooga), Dalton, Marietta, Statesboro IA: Council Bluffs (Omaha), Sioux City IN: Ft Wayne, South Bend, Terra Haute, Evansville KS: Wichita KY: Ashland, Newport, Bowling Green LA: Shreveport, Lafayette, N Shore L Pontchartrain, Baton Rouge MI: Grand Rapids, Pt Huron, Saginaw, Traverse City MO: Joplin, Springfield NC: Hickory, Salisbury, Hendersonville NE: Lincoln, W Omaha OH: Dayton, Canton, Youngstown, Zanesville, Lima PA: Erie, Trenton, State College, Harrisburg, Scranton SC: Florence, Greenville, Lexington TN: Knoxville, Chattanooga, Bristol TX: Ft Worth-Cleburne, Waco, College Station, Woodlands, Round Rock, Beaumont, San Marcos WI: Green Bay, Waukesha
Hey Ohio….double check your registration status. Just in case.
I reblogged this without showing you how to check your status:
http://voterlookup.sos.state.oh.us/voterlookup.aspx
Plug your name and county in there and check that your address is correct.
[image: a twitter screenshot from Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan):
To all my followers in Ohio: @JonHusted just did a massive, illegal purge of voter rolls in Dem counties. Retweet and check your status Now. ]
Thankfully, yes, I’m alright.
Remind me, though, what will it take to get that terrible scumbag out of office (and ideally, into some sort of a pear wiggler to atone for his sins)? Because I’ve yet to hear a single positive, likable thing about Jon Husted and the things he’s doing for my state, or anything that would indicate that he has any more integrity than Euler’s number or pi. If I wanted to ruin Ohio, I could do it myself, dammit. And I wouldn’t even ask my fellow taxpayers to fund my salary!
I used to be very much a fire type, but somehow over the years it’s changed to water… I’m okay with this since water is filled with cute babies!!
friendly reminder to watch this video every day
friendly reminder that this is superior
the hhgreg version of doin it right is legitimately better than the original
@dunkin-em
What did I just watch?
I need an adult.
I feel traumatized.
oh my god I’m crying with laughter. My idiot sons
Sometimes Connie loses track of time when tending to her bonsai. Oddly, she also doesn’t seem to move a muscle for hours…
Two colored versions of Connie for Aychland!
That’s my girl! (Everyone should throw money at LN, by the way. He does great work, and he needs the funds to finance the upkeep, maintenance, and expansion of his fancy helmet and tank collections.)
“I swear to fucking Arceus if you are a Fire/Fighting I will throw you into the sun”
What I've Been Working On Lately
So I’ve been working on a character over the past month and a half or two - an armadillo gal named Constantina who goes by Connie. When not utterly unable to take my own drawings seriously, I’ve been posting my sketches, pictures, and studies of her over on FA. I figure I might as well mention it here since I know I have a lot more people keeping tabs on what I'm up to over here than over there, and some of you might like to see my work.
Even though I can't figure out what sort of universe/setting'd be a good place to fully and properly flesh her out in yet. I mean, I have a backstory, but backstory can only get you so far before you have to start developing something new.
And while I'm thinking about it, a huge thanks to @husker-fu for helping flesh out the original concept!
This map is the cats meow! Find out where the demand for cat treats is located.
More than 145 *what*? This legend raises more questions than it answers!
