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If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian

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a-shade-of-blue

Will you be willing to eat food infested with worms and insects?

If I have to

Ew no

Secret third option

Voting ended onNov 29, 2024

For Leen (@leenmata1) and her children, this is not a choice. Since the only food they have are flour infested with insects, either they eat the food filled with insects, or they starve.

Leen has 5 children, the youngest of whom is only 2-years old while the oldest is only 15. Her husband Ahmed is responsible for caring for not only his family, but also his sick elderly parents and his married brother with his 2 children. To do so, Ahmed decided to migrate and apply for asylum in another country a week before the current war with hopes that he may find a better way to provide for his family. However, Ahmed cannot work while his asylum application is getting processed, and he has no way to help his family who is trapped in Gaza right now.

Leen and her children are now living in a refugee camp. Their home has been destroyed, and they have no income and no food. Please help Leen and her children survive and reunite with Ahmed!

## A Call from Gaza: Saving My Family from Siege and Death Dea… Ahmed Matar needs your support for A Call from Gaza: Saving My Family fr

This campaign is vetted by @/gazavetters and is #33 on their Gaza vetted fundraisers list!

€2,245 raised of €64K target (4%)!

guldaastan

i'm plugging in @ahmednaserfamily's fundraiser here. the fundraiser has been verified by gazavetters and is #37 on their list. they have raised less than 2% of their goal and have received only 2 donations in last eight days. this fundraiser is meant to take care of 20 people. please donate and share this fundraiser. i would also encourage you to make your own posts for this family.

donate here

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brockoliguy

My country is experiencing a traumatic natural disaster.

I made a comic to make it more digestible.

Shares appreciated, I'm just trying to bring awareness here

pikslasrce

the ayman family urgently needs blankets to survive the winter. one blanket is €50, they need ten of them. [vetted]

atlxolotl

#geology #child death tw #mining

beehaiku

Ranin has made it to safety and was able to get her son examined! Unfortunately she’s learned he’ll need another surgery. We don’t know how soon the surgery will be, but the estimate she was given is that it will cost between $6000-$10,000. In addition, she has nothing left after paying to flee Gaza and needs to keep herself fed. She’s asked me to collect donations through PayPal since it takes a while to retrieve gofundme donations, so if you’d like to help raise money for the surgery and day-to-day expenses you donate here (and check out this post for proof the donations go straight to Ranin). If you’re not familiar with Ranin, the post about her family as well as proof of vetting is here. Thank you for your continued support!

beehaiku

Ranin’s child has been diagnosed with hypertrophy of the diaphragm and lung inflammation, leading to difficulty breathing. He’s also experiencing stomach issues. He needs several emergency operations and intensive care. Ranin must pay $5000 by Thursday and $3000 after that for a total of $8000. This is extremely urgent and if her child does not get these operations he will likely not survive. Please donate and share! $0/$8000

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beehaiku

The $200 donation is still pending but if it goes through we’re at $215/$5000 for Thursday. Please please share and donate!

beehaiku

I’ve just been told we only have 24 hours and I have no idea what to do. We haven’t raised anything since the previous update and the $200 is still pending. I don’t know how I can possibly get Ranin the money she needs, it’s more than i have in both bank accounts combined. I don’t have any more ideas, so if you have any please let me know what might work. I’m so worried, her child is in worse and worse condition every hour. I don’t know what to do

beehaiku

$265/$5000 :(

beehaiku

$315/$5000

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SEND MORE MONEY TO THEIR PAYPAL PLEASE

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depsidase

loszeged

Make people actually fear being a billionaire.

unlikely-ualentine

I dont really like making rebloggable posts but I haven’t seen anyone mention them yet: terracotta heaters are really easy and effective DYI heaters for cold emergencies and I think it might be helpful considering, you know

TDLR, place a candle of any size down, and put a terracotta pot (as large as possible preferably) over it, with something non-flammable and balanced to keep the bottom an inch or two off the ground, like bricks.

The candle will heat the terracotta, which will put off heat, while the space underneath lets smoke out and oxygen in. I’ve used these all 3 times we had outages here in Maine during blizzards to keep my aquariums warm, the weather outside had been easily -20 F with high winds, and not only was I cozy, that shit kept the water 10 degrees above room temperature. If it can heat the aquariums, it’ll heat a small room.

They work so much better than you’d think, the heat they put off is insane. Obviously be careful because smoke and open flame, but they’re very easy to make and just need an eye kept on them on all times.

Don’t touch the heated pot bare-handed, it’ll burn like a motherfucker, they get VERY hot. Use thick oven mitts or layered rags to remove pot, put the candle out first if you can manage. Don’t do more than one or two in a non-ventilated or closed room, it’s still making smoke and that can make it harder to breathe.

[ID: Two bricks are laid flat, two bricks are stacked on top on their sides. A candle is in a jar inbetween and is lit. A large terracotta pot is balanced on the second, higher set of bricks so it is above the candle and off the ground. End Id]

gigglefuck-squared

works!… heated our entire Master Bedroom for the last 3 nights, and (2) at opposite ends of the hallway at the front of the house helped stop the furnace constantly running, in the 30 min to 1.5 hours tops we had power

~R

captaindibbzy

Whiskey Hamish grows stronger yet.

squarestarheart

It’s that time of year again: the mythical “Terra Cotta heater” has come back onto my socials.

I’m sure other people have talked about the fire safety piece of trying to heat your home with a makeshift (i.e. it’s not great! Don’t do it! This is a burn hazard and a fire hazard!) but let’s do some math on exactly how much heat this thing is putting out.

First off, combusting anything in your house is going to give off heat. That heat is going to warm up the air. In fact, this heater is going to put off exactly as much heat as burning the same candle without the terracotta pot on top. This is just thermodynamics: there’s nothing special about terracotta that generates more heat than is input into it.

So how much heat does burning a candle produce?

I looked to candle manufacturers to determine burn rate for candles. Estimates vary a bit, but it seems that about somewhere around 5-7 hours per ounce is the typical burn rate. Let’s assume 5 hours per ounce, which is on the high end of this rate (combustion rate of 0.2 ounces per hour).

How about the energy content? Different waxes give off slightly different amounts of heat per kg when combusted, but paraffin wax has an energy content of about 42 MJ/kg. Doing some conversion math that’s about 18,000 Btu/lb, or about 1,130 Btu per ounce.

Since we’re burning our candle at a rate of 0.2 ounces per hour, that works out to about 226 Btu/hour of heat output for our candle heater, or about 66 Watts.

Let’s compare this energy output to a few other things. I’m giving these in Btu/hr, Watts, and candle heater units (CHU; 1 CHU = 226 Btu/hr)

• A 4kg cat at rest puts out about 38 Btu/hr (11 W, ⅙ CHU)

• An adult human being at rest puts out about 341 Btu/hr (100W, 1.5 CHU)

• An adult human doing “moderate dancing” puts out 853 Btu/hr (250W, 3.77 CHU)

• A standard electric oil-filled space heater puts out about 5,120 Btu/hr (1,500W, 22.7 CHU)

• A kerosene emergency heater puts out about 20,000 Btu/hr (5,860W, 88.5 CHU)

• A smallish wood stove puts out about 25,000 Btu/hr (7,300W, 110 CHU) [note: the actual heat output from a wood stove into your house is a bit less because you’re pulling combustion air from your house and exhausting it out the chimney]

• A typical gas furnace for a medium residential home has a capacity of about 100,000 Btu/hr (29,000W, 442 CHU)

• A raging house fire, which is what you might end up with if you try to heat your house with terracotta candle heaters, has a heat output rate of about 17,000,000 Btu/hr (5,000,000W, 22,000 CHU)

In other words, if you want to keep your house warm, invite over six cats or one human friend. Even if you just sit around, they’re going to bring you more warmth (literally and figuratively!) than a candle heater. Or just have a dance party.

(Or, y'know, if you live in a place where the power goes out in the winter, maybe consider getting an emergency kerosene heater?)

#life #life resources

depsidase

marzipanandminutiae

forever on my "NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE US USED TO HAVE DECENT PUBLIC TRANSIT" soapbox

if people realize that the way it is now isn't how it has to be, transit-wise, maybe they'll feel empowered to change it back (with bonus Modern Technology)

(this also applies to clothing waste and reuse)

(unfortunately the people who look to the past for guidance the most seem to be the ones who want to apply it to social attitudes instead)

I swear every year they just be inventing new words for environmental disasters

#climate change #end fossil fuels #ban plastic #rewild our land #weather #canada

save-salem-family

Urgent Urgent 🚨🙏

Today we took our little son to the hospital because he suffers from a chest infection that affects his breathing and causes him pain. I hope that every living conscience will help us save our young son’s life and donate any amount you can.

Unfortunately, there is no treatment in the hospital for my young son. Help us before it is too late.

Hi everyone I'm Mohammed salem from Gaza strip in Palestine. I live with my parents and f… Mohammed Salem needs your support for Help Sale

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Vetted here

homunculusalphonse

€8,047 / €10,000 (November 12th)

Last donation was yesterday!

greggorylee

€8,117 / €10,000 as of november 13 2024

81%, KEEP HELPING HOWEVER YOU CAN!!!

soloikismos

just learned about something incredibly wonderful

recklesslyinfatuated2

reasonsforhope

We meet a group of women aged 64 to 84 making it their mission to clean up the waters in Cape Cod. They call themselves the Old Ladies Again

-via NBC News, September 19, 2024

nariarts

Tips for Defying the End of the World.

loszeged

As long as you're alive, live.

Death is always a certainty, that's why you live with intention and with what you would want to see as your record when it comes. Did you harm yourself or waste time? Or did you accept, and keep living?

killy-deactivated20241228

What was your favorite subject in school?

Language Arts

Math

Science

Art

Physical Education

Other

Voting ended onNov 21, 2024

Nader, age 17, can’t go to school right now because he has to survive a genocide instead. He's running this campaign for himself and his brother Abd Al Salam and the rest of their family. Can you donate $10 to help him, or share his campaign? He's #4 on the gazavetters list.

**Humanitarian Support Request: Abdul Salam Al-Anqar** … Ahmed Alanqar needs your support for Help Abd AL Salam and his family get th

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thrivingisthegoal

Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)

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