The most impactful climate actions you can take | The number one question about climate change that I’m asked nearly every day is, “What can I do?”
The most impactful climate actions you can take
https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/the-most-impactful-climate-actions?r=dnjio
Out-of-the-box climate solutions, global temperature hits record high, and the most impactful climate actions you can take
Liebe Solarpunks aus DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz),
ich überlege gerade, ob es sinnvoll sein könnte, hier auf Lemmy eine deutschsprachige Solarpunk Community einzurichten.
Mögliche Themen und Ziele:
- deutschsprachige Ressourcen austauschen
- auf Veranstaltungen aufmerksam machen
- evtl. lokale Communities finden/gründen
- Menschen erreichen, die nicht supersicher im Englischen sind
- die Bewegung in DACH größer und bekannter machen.
Hättet ihr Lust auf sowas?
The Limits of Studio Ghibli
https://ndmonaghan.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-studio-ghibli
Hayao Miyazaki, the beloved helmsman of Studio Ghibli, is a titan of environmental media.
Solarpunk Writing Prompt: The Tailors - how can clothing look like in a sustainable world post fast fashion? What is the tailor's role within a community?
The Tailors
https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-tailors
The Tailors A new tailor joins a community with different ideas from the previous one. How will the community react? What sort of role will they fill in a future of sustainability and harmony with the local environment? Transcript: https://wiki.tomasino.org/writing/Solarpunk-Prompts---The-Tailors Links mentioned: Report by the European Environment Agency The Looop machine Heart-monitoring sweaters and armbands Music in this episode is: At The End Of All Things by Scott Buckley (CC-BY 4.0) and Lo-Fi Ambient by Nver Avetyan (CC-BY 3.0) Illustration CC-BY-SA 4.0 The Lemonaut - https://www.tumblr.com/the-lemonaut
How Agroforestry Could Help Revitalize America’s Corn Belt
https://e360.yale.edu/features/trees-agriculture-farming
By practicing agroforestry — growing trees alongside crops and livestock, for example — farmers can improve soils, produce nutrient-rich foods, and build resilience to climate change. Now, a movement is emerging to bring this approach to the depleted lands of the Corn Belt.
The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region - Lemmy.ca
https://lemmy.ca/post/28948066
Map of 2000+ lemmy communities -- slrpnk.net is pretty diverse
https://danterious.codeberg.page/map.html
I just read Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and I can't believe it took me until now to read it.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13156086
Parable of the Sower is such a good book.
First, it's interesting that it starts right about now. The book starts in mid-2024, and even mentions that its an election year. That was a fascinating experience to read a scifi book in the moment in time in which it is set. It still feels like it takes place about 20 years in the future. It was written 31 years ago, so politically things have seemed to move as many steps forward as backward. It seems like a lot of things have not gotten better and worse than when Butler wrote it, so in some sense I feel like I'm looking at it as a near future in the same way as when it was written a generation ago. I guess I'm glad things didn't go as badly as in the story, but it's rough that the looming threat from 30 years ago feels the same distance away now as then.
Second, it's painful to read. Although the events described in the book haven't happened in the book's setting -- California -- the social collapse and migrations described have happened in Honduras, Gaza, Yemen, and certainly others I'm not aware of. It was really hard to read that and know that it was already real somewhere.
Third, as a solarpunk novel -- and really as general fiction -- it feels like it should be part of a high school curriculum. It's really well written and an engrossing read. Since publishing Fully Automated, I often relate solarpunk stories to that game. What might I have added to the game if I'd read this before? How well does it naturally fit? One thing that struck me is that her emerging in-world faith -- Earthseed -- reminds me quite a bit of elements of Seekerism, a new faith tradition in Fully Automated. I wish I'd known and included direct references to Earthseed, but it's nice when the game has alignment with great works that I wasn't directly familiar with.
Has anyone else read this? What do you folks think?
