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  1. RE: mas.to/@meganL/117211594928738

    Thank you to the two folks who bought my music during Bandcamp Friday and helped me towards paying down some disability-related costs!

    Thanks to the other swell person who contributed directly via paypal.me/plantedu !

    #MutualAid #Disability #Accessibility #BikeTooter #Recumbent

  2. Kardokai ecovillage in Lithuania. I’d marked the village on the map but hadn’t got in touch beforehand. When I call the ecovillage’s number Raimundas picks up the phone. I explaine what I am up to, that I am in the neighborhood and that I’d love to come and say hello.

    To my surprise, Raimundas is happy to make time to show me round the ecovillage. When I arrive he offers me the guest house for the night and invites me for lunch. cyclingfortheplanet.net/index.

    #ecovillage #planet #recumbent

  3. This afternoon's bike trip was a 37 km round trip in one hour and ten minutes to collect a 20 kg sack of "greensand" olivine for the garden.

    I think it's a good example of the efficiency of velomobiles: how they make human power even more effective than when riding a normal bike. Even on the return journey with a headwind and loaded with the sack of sand, it was easy to keep the speed above 35 km/h.

    Being able to stow a lot of things inside the aerodynamic form of the bike helps a lot with efficiency. You feel extra weight when accelerating, not so much once you get going.

    And why the olivine ? I calculated a few weeks back that in the worst case this last winter our heating could have emitted 105 kg of CO2. This sack is enough to absorb about a fifth of that amount from the atmosphere.

    Each time we plant things indoors or in our garden we add a bit of olivine.

    Once humanity (especially those of us in the highly emitting richer countries) has reduced emissions by a lot, it's possible to make a bit of a dent by using a product like this. But there's no chance of compensating for ever larger emissions by trying to mine ever larger amounts of olivine.

    #recumbent #velomobile #regel17 #cycling #biketooter #olivine #greensand #weathering #enhancedweathering

  4. Dear Friends on the #fringes,

    As we may know:

    -
    #Smiling is a #superpower and laffing is for the cheerless
    - Don't be the
    #change in your pocket. #Empty!
    - Be as
    #wise as serpent/servants
    - Leap without
    #lurking
    - Men are
    #recumbent/redundant

    "
    #Live, long and proper" - Admiral Spock