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A Regret
Your smile
Was fading
What could I have done?
Your conscience
Tormented
You no longer had fun
Your household
In pieces
You blamed yourself
Your resentment
Misunderstood
You sat in your hell
Your skin
Severed
I knew of this
Your substances
Present
I chose to forget
I drifted
From you
I left you behind
Chasing
Someone
That was never mine
Regret
Pains me
I need you
Please
Forgive me
I’ve wronged you
Promise
You won’t
Drown yourself
no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget, im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here
Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do:
Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill)
Make eco-friendly household cleaners
Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants
Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way)
Make a sun jar
Grow low maintenance houseplants
Make a string garden
Make a wall planter
Germinate an avocado seed
Make a shoe pocket garden
Build a mini solar generator
Re-grow kitchen scraps
Find the right solar battery charger
Recycle old solar cells
Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!
grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)
a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light
windowsill herbs
egg carton seed germination
germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)
choosing a portable solar panel
tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)
DIY draft stoppers
DIY solar oven and recipes
evaporative refrigeration
use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents
use baking soda as dry shampoo
cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths
DIY dryer balls
apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran
DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)
and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves
and for your bathroom and your air quality
recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts
How to Describe Plants
Sick! teach me
#Edible Forest Gardening 101:
Why Pollarding?
Pollarding is a pruning method that is much like coppicing, but branches are removed above the grazing line to avoid damage by herbivores; traditionally it has been performed to harvest food, fuel, and fodder on rotations that were between 2-15 years. The practice of pollarding has evolved into an aesthetic of tree maintenance that is common in urban areas, where trees cannot be allowed to grow to their full dimensions. Like many modes of forcing plants to maintain juvenile tissues (ie. bonsai), pollarding often makes the organisms that undergo it live longer.
The apple tree above is almost pollarded: as you can see, I took away a huge amount of the canopy.
This several-decades-old tree was not well-maintained, and fruit production was waning, so I opted for a drastic pruning strategy. Over the next three years, I will cut each of the three leaders down another metre (one per season, so as to avoid over-stressing the tree, and to maintain fruit production). I don’t think there is much of a point in having an apple tree in a domestic garden if you can’t easily reach up and pluck a fruit, and that’s not happening when the fruit-bearing limbs are 3 metres off the ground.
I had great success renewing an old crabapple tree using this method, cutting the two leaders down to shoulder-height stumps, reducing the tree to 1/3 of it’s former height, and provoking dense new growth.
I suggest this renewal strategy to a lot of people trying to add new trees to an established landscape. Pollarded trees allow more solar energy to reach shrubs, perennials, or seedling trees, and the process of pollarding generates resources like firewood, mulch, and timber for hügelkultur.
The lichen-covered wood from this single old apple tree made a dense hügelkultur mound that spans 5 metres in length, at 0.5 metres in height and width.
Adding these composite organisms, and sequestering the carbon from the wood to the soil does wonders for my soil fertility and feeds mycelial networks (on which bees are dependent). Before I cover these mounds in soil and compost, they also form an important habitat for a number of beneficial insects.
New forests grow on dead trees; therefore wood is one of the most important soil-building resources in a forest garden.
Related: Plant a Mini-Orchard, with Columnar and Cordon Trees
Insect Hotels
Over 30% of solitary bee species are wood nesters, some spending up to nine months of their lives as larvae incubating in forest deadfall. Ladybugs hibernate over winter in stacks of twigs, and other beneficial creatures — like wasps, lizards, moths, hedgehogs, beetles, and dragonflies — love to find little nooks and crannies to hide from predators and the elements, at any time of year.
An insect hotel is ideally placed in a sheltered location, but still in the sunlight. Ants sometimes eat bee larvae, so a solitary bee hotel is best placed off of the ground. Often, a wire mesh is placed on the outside to prevent bird predation. Ideally, the surrounding area should host flowering and insectary plants, to provide food for the guests!
These natural habitats are often missing from a domestic or overly-landscaped garden, and are absolutely vital to the health of your plants, local life web, and for the pollination of your garden. Designing for your native wildlife is crucial for a long-term healthy, productive, and sustainable space. Good, ecologically-minded design also minimises the amount of work you have to do: for example, I find that when I practice companion planting with insectary Apiaceae-family plants, I never have an aphid problem, because predatory beetles abound, and they eat problematic insects before they get established. Creating balanced ecosystems is a form of biological pest control.
An insect hotel is easily made from twigs, wood, tiles, pinecones, bricks, bark, grass, and other natural or salvaged materials. The form can differ, depending on what sort of creatures you would like to attract, and your aesthetics, but it should basically be designed from a “bug’s eye” view of the world: research what your local species are and what they require in terms of a habitat, and then create it for them in a manner that appeals to your eye.
These are also excellent projects for kids: they are fun and easy to make, interesting to observe, and help foster an early understanding of biology and ecology.
#DIY #bees #insects #entomology #biomimicry #permaculture #kids #art
Pre-made insect hotels: North America / Europe
Images:
B. Alter - Royal Bank of Canada New Wild Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show
sav-überlingen.de
Sissi de Kroon, flickr.com
Insect hotel in Hoofddorf, Holland. Bob Daamen, flickr.com
Cheshire Wildlife Trust, cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
Kevin Smith and Lisa Lee Benjamin. floragrubb.com
Inspiration Green Article on Insect Hotels
For Homeless Women, Having a Period Isn’t a Hassle, It’s a Nightmare
No woman actively looks forward to getting her period. Even after decades of menstruating, it can be a painful, expensive hassle every month that leaves you feeling completely flattened. But if you’re a woman living on the street, having a period isn’t a hassle—it’s a nightmare. Because if you can’t muddle together enough money for food or shelter, it is unlikely you’ll be able to afford sanitary towels or tampons.
Bar shoplifting, the options for menstruating homeless women can be incredibly limited. It’s often possible to access tampons and towels at homeless shelters and hostels, but what do you do if there’s no beds available? Given that there’s no standard practice of giving out supplies at sexual health clinics—unlike condoms, say—and that it isn’t possible to be prescribed sanitary wear at a doctor’s surgery, as a woman in need, there are very few services you can turn to.
Sanitary ware in the UK is classed as a “luxury, nonessential item” and is taxed at 5 percent. Precisely what could be considered luxurious about stemming the monthly blood flow that, as women, we don’t really have much say over, is a perpetual question. But without the means to purchase these simple “luxuries,” homeless women are constantly forced to go without.
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I’ve been an advocate for the cause lately
I am afraid of the loss lately
The Hoh Rainforest is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, USA. It is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the U.S. The Hoh River valley was formed thousands of years ago by glaciers. It’s also the home of the legendary Mick Dodge.
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso
All those little lines are jokes! ALL THE JOKES! (at least the ones I noticed)
Last year Jeremy Bowers, Danny DeBelius, Christopher Groskopf, Aly Hurt and I made a very silly interactive graphic exhaustively tabulating the running jokes in Arrested Development, along with their connections:
http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/
And wouldn’t you know it, someone just put in a book — giving me an excuse to put in on tumblr. So if you’d like to see how many times GOB says “I’ve made a huge mistake,” check out the graphic.
can you please give me 5 real reason on why we don't need feminism in the US
No wage gap (X) (X)
Rape is illegal and the one in 4 statistic is false (x)
No rape culture (x) (x)
Women can vote
Women can drive
Women can do what they want without a man
The “women do half the work and own less than 1% of the worlds land” stat is total bullshit (x) (x)
Women have five more rights than men (x)
The right to genital integrity
The right to vote without having to sign up for the draft
To choose whether or not they are ready to be a parent
The right to be assumed caregivers for children and get all the benefits from it
The right to call unwanted sex rape, while under definition of the law, men cant be “raped”
Women serve less jail time than men for the same crime (x) (x) (x)
False rape accusations are high and women who make them are not being properly punished (x)
Men have more issues than women and feminists are making them worse or claiming they dont exist
Misandrists head the movement (x)
Any of my followers care to ellaborate more?
This is extremely fuxking ignorant and this makes my brain hurt. Firstly, there IS a wage gap as men are paid more for the same positions in the same careers, secondly, the ONE IN FIVE statistic exists because even grabbing a girls butt without consent to do so is sexual assault, thirdly, rape culture DOES exist, fourthly, woman DO half the work and are given credit for very little simply because we don’t have a fucking dick, fifthly, yes woman can decide if they want to be a parent or not but so do men, it’s called DONT GET A GIRL PREGNANT! KEEP IT IN YOUR FUCKING PANTS! My sixth point is men CAN be raped by other fucking men! They aren’t raped by woman because woman have no desire to be fucking assholes and rape people, seven, women are consumed caregivers because a lot of men are too rough and have lower attention spans and are provenly not as good as women are at raising children, and lastly, men DO NOT have “more problems” unless they are brought onto themselves, for example: an experiment was tested to see how men could handle a stimulus of what giving birth feels like, the pain ranged from a 1 (slight cramps) to a 10 (actually giving birth). Most men couldn’t handle it past 4.
This is why we DO need feminism in the US
Someone gave 12 excellent answers to your questions, with sources and citations, well reasoned points, and logic. You completely ignore that and then just start talking shit and bring up your own personal feelings, made up statistics, and then you give out hypocritical arguments. Yoyou are a goddamn moron and I hope that you never pass on your genes.
And the final point, feminism breeds angry misandrists who don’t listen to logic or reason when slapped in the face with it.
Reblogging because I found this non-mainstream position interesting and the sources provided well worth the read. If you dismiss this because I am male, you are sexist. If you dismiss this because I am white, then you are racist. If you dismiss this because tl;dr then I understand and still love you. We’re all busy. :)
