#ecostead — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ecostead, aggregated by home.social.
-
Welcome to the secrets of outer ring (outer core root ring) composting for health and happiness old trees, and their ecosystems.
Think of composting as feeding the ecosystem -- in both literal and figurative sense. Think of the indigenous people as the heart of an ecosystem, ones most familiar with the ventricles of its heart.
In the shadow of some of the tallest Sequoias in the region (indeed, in the whole continent), our local ecosystem is one that formed in shade and filtered light provided by an old-growth forest of the ancient PNW.[1]
Colonialism has been destroying old-growth forests at, above and below this latitude... removing natives, shelter, shade and oxygen-exchanging life for far too long. All to build luxury condos, HOAs and McMansions for rent on AirBnB.
Fake shade, such as that provided by English Ivy, does not help a Turtle Island ecosystem. What should be much more diverse native cover is missing when such invasives are present. Non-natives do not know how to care for natives (and they never will, no matter what the #fascistbook does to try to save its face).
¨Cannot save ur ass and face at the same time.¨
Colonialism destroying native habitats with complicitness alongside (taking $$$$$$$$$$ from Realtors, like Facebook does!). It is an 800 BILLION COLONIAL DOLLAR TOXIC WASTE DUMP.
From this Earth day and beyond... a gentle reminder that Natives ought never be charged with anything (including dollars) as they move freely about on their lands everywhere.
As a final note... would love some help. IRL, decolonization is much harder than adding compost to roots in some trees being landlorded by colonial rent seekers.
All the experts saying the same thing we do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UIQ1qPzvRY
#indigenous #Decolonize
#Ecostead[1] https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/usa/oregon/washingtoncounty/872_hawthornestreet This literal giant linked above... we kid you not.. it is being OVERRUN with toxic ivy. Owners of house near these trees coerce poor migrants to ¨cultivate¨ the Ivy with weed whackers terrorize the natives.
-
Took bus and MAX and bus to the #ecostead yesterday. When there are so many things to do, priorities become necessary.
My solstice lodge "mandate" (afaic understand) has been exhausting. Decolonization takes work. Not the kind you can buy.
Been thinking about this passage and how essential it is to stop the "dehumanizing" of women and marginalized people (PoC).
Survivors have every reason to reject Christianity and all of its attempts at "reform". Boarding schools, or "charter schools" as the Evil Betsy DeVos calls them, are pushing false narratives for money. Salesforce and TRE45ONIST have teamed up to put prison camps for children on their borders. They knowingly push false narratives and distortions of facts, wanting so badly to believe their own falsehoods have some legitimacy.
Spoiler alert: they don't.
The reality is that corrupt people have been murdering innocent red and black and brown and "yellow" people for centuries. There's no such thing as an innocent white angel.
When Obama did things that made those men who were so used to being the center of everything less "central", in order to let oppressed voices be heard, those white dudes got scared. For the first time, they couldn't hijack the conversations and make it all about them. For a brief while, women and PoC were heard.
Much in this volume belongs in the national discourse.
Today is a national holiday, but this "holiday" (President's Day) is nothing for anybody to be proud of. Remind your fellow humans to "smash those delusions" and get back to listening to the survivors.
-
Methods of working with natural materials of the earth have been around for centuries.
An arid desert southwest made for some especially interesting challenges in designing an #Ecostead. The best architects of their time (the 1100's) were anything but primitive in their intelligent use of precious desert water.
Most of this data I have been gathering for years (extensive research for a fictional book that was to be rooted in actual historical context). The research part of novel writing is sometimes arduous, and can itself take decades and yield many surprises along the way.