#resiliency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #resiliency, aggregated by home.social.
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#ClimateResilient #Gardening: How to Adapt Your Garden to #ExtremeWeather
ECO gardener, Nov 14, 2024
Excerpt: "Gardening in Extreme Weather
Gardening in extreme weather can be challenging, but with the right strategies, you can protect plants and maintain a healthy garden:
Choose Weather-Resistant Plants
Opt for #DroughtTolerant, heat-resistant plants in hot climates (like succulents or lavender) and hardy, cold-resistant species in colder climates (like kale or coneflowers).Use #Mulch to Retain Moisture and Insulate
Applying a thick layer of organic mulch helps regulate soil temperature and retain moisture, making it essential in both hot and cold conditions.Install #ShadeCloth or Row Covers
In intense heat, a shade cloth can protect plants from direct sun, while row covers offer frost protection during cold spells.Water Smartly
For hot weather, water early in the morning to reduce evaporation and avoid wetting foliage. In winter, water during the day when temperatures are above freezing to help roots absorb moisture before the ground freezes.Consider #RaisedBeds
Raised beds help with drainage in #WetClimates and can warm up faster in colder weather, giving plants a more stable growing environment.Wind Protection Strategies
Use windbreaks like shrubs, fencing, or netting to shield plants from damaging winds that can dry out or freeze foliage.Invest in Hardy #ContainerGardens
For extreme weather, container gardens are versatile—easily moved to sunny spots, shady areas, or even indoors as needed. [I do this with tomatoes and other plants]Optimize Soil Health
Healthy, well-drained soil holds moisture better in heat and protects roots from frost damage in winter. Regularly add compost to enrich soil.Use #ColdFrames or #Greenhouses
These structures create a controlled environment, extending the growing season and protecting plants from temperature extremes.Keep an Eye on Weather Patterns
Staying informed about sudden temperature changes can help you take timely action, like covering plants or adjusting watering schedules.With these tips, you can create a resilient garden that adapts to extreme weather challenges while keeping your plants thriving."
Learn more:
https://ecogardener.com/blogs/news/climate-resilient-gardening#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeGardening #FoodSecurity #ClimateChangeAdaptation #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #GardeningChallenges #ResilientGarden #Resiliency
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#AnasaziBean planting & care
"Looking to grow beautiful, healthy Anasazi beans in your garden? This guide covers planting, support, watering, and harvesting so you can enjoy them as fresh #SnapBeans or fully dried #StorageBeans.
QUICK FACTS
Sun: Full sun
Soil: Well-drained soil
Planting: After all danger of frost has passed
Spacing: Sow about 2 in. apart; thin to 4 in. apart
Support: Trellis or fence recommended (vigorous climber)
Harvest (dry beans): When pods are brown and fully dryANASAZI BEANS PLANTING & CARE
Anasazi beans are a striking maroon-and-white variety with a sweet, nutty flavour and a hearty texture. They’re excellent in baked beans, Tex-Mex dishes, and alongside rice. They’re also drought-tolerant once established and often cook faster than pinto beans (many cooks find they require less soaking).
With successive plantings, Anasazi beans can be enjoyed as green beans or left to mature for dried beans.
PLANTING
- Choose a location with full sun and well-drained soil.
- Plant after the risk of frost has passed and soil has warmed.
- Sow seeds 1–1.5 in. deep, spacing about 2 in. apart.
- Water after planting to settle soil; keep soil lightly moist (not soaked) until germination.
- Thin seedlings to about 4 in. apart once they are established.
- Provide a trellis, fence, or stakes—Anasazi beans are vigorous climbers.
- As vines grow, gently guide them onto the support to encourage upward growth.CARE TIPS
Watering: Water deeply 1–2 times per week depending on heat and rainfall. Keep soil evenly moist, but avoid waterlogging.
Support: A trellis improves airflow, keeps pods cleaner, and makes harvesting easier.
Fertilizing: Beans fix their own nitrogen. If your soil is poor, add compost before planting or use a light, balanced fertilizer early in growth—avoid heavy nitrogen, which can reduce pod production.
HARVESTING- For fresh eating (green beans): Harvest pods young and tender.
- For dried beans: Leave pods on the plant until they turn brown and dry.
- Harvest plants or pick pods before prolonged wet weather to reduce mould risk.
- Shell beans and allow them to dry completely before storage.
- Store fully dried beans in a cool, dry place in an airtight container."Source:
https://ttseeds.com/blogs/vegetable-growing/t-and-t-anasazi-beans#SolarPunkSunday #DroughtResistantCrops #Beans #Resiliency #FoodSecurity
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Some good info here... One of the varieties I'm growing this year is the #AnasaziBean -- also known as #AnasaziCaveBeans -- famous for long-lasting storage and being tasty and filling! Black Turtle beans are another favorite! But I have not yet tried Hopi Lima beans. Maybe next year...
6 #DroughtTolerant Dried Bean Varieties for a #ResilientGarden
Build a resilient garden with 6 drought-tolerant dried beans. These varieties thrive in dry conditions, ensuring a reliable, protein-rich harvest.
Learn more:
https://www.farmstandapp.com/224055/6-drought-tolerant-dried-bean-varieties-for-a-resilient-garden/#SolarPunkSunday #DroughtResistantCrops #Beans #Resiliency #FoodSecurity #NativeSeeds #NativeAmericanFoods #ClimateChangeGardening
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#InternationalCompostAwarenessWeek #Australia
#BetterSoil, #BetterLife, #BetterFuture
Sunday 3 May – Saturday 9 May 2026"International Compost Awareness Week Australia (#ICAW), is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness of the importance of #compost, a valuable #organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products. We can compost to help scrap carbon pollution by avoiding landfilling organic materials and helping to build healthier soils.
ICAW Australia is an initiative of the Centre for Organic Research & Education (#CORE), a not-for-profit organisation conducting year round organic research, education and awareness activities.
CORE also organises #NationalOrganicWeek Australia (NOW).
Within these two programs CORE promotes and manages the key aspects that lead to community change towards organic products and practices."
FMI:
https://www.compostweek.com.au/#SolarPunkSunday #Composting #OrganicGardening #BuildHealthierSoils #SoilHealth #Resiliency
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#InternationalCompostAwarenessWeek #Australia
#BetterSoil, #BetterLife, #BetterFuture
Sunday 3 May – Saturday 9 May 2026"International Compost Awareness Week Australia (#ICAW), is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness of the importance of #compost, a valuable #organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products. We can compost to help scrap carbon pollution by avoiding landfilling organic materials and helping to build healthier soils.
ICAW Australia is an initiative of the Centre for Organic Research & Education (#CORE), a not-for-profit organisation conducting year round organic research, education and awareness activities.
CORE also organises #NationalOrganicWeek Australia (NOW).
Within these two programs CORE promotes and manages the key aspects that lead to community change towards organic products and practices."
FMI:
https://www.compostweek.com.au/#SolarPunkSunday #Composting #OrganicGardening #BuildHealthierSoils #SoilHealth #Resiliency
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Healing the ground we broke
By Celia Llopis-Jepsen, David Condos, Mackenzie Martin
Published July 1, 2024"After Europeans colonized America, their descendants plowed their way across the continent, seeking prosperity through farming. But breaking up the soil – that had built up over many thousands of years – made it wash away. So some farmers are retiring their tilling equipment. Amble through #Kansas prairies and cornfields as we learn how treasuring the ground beneath our feet can lead to farms that better withstand #ClimateChange, use less #fertilizer and suck carbon out of the atmosphere."
Listen:
https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-from-dust/2024-07-01/healing-the-ground-we-broke#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAdaptation #TopSoilLoss #BetterFarming #SustainableFarming #Resiliency #ClimateChangeGardening #GardeningChallenges #KCUR -
What we sow in our children could be exactly what they need to create a legacy built on hope, purpose, principles, and vision. #parenting #children #book2026 #lifelessons #resiliency #purpose #mentalhealth #healing #invitation #mothersday2026
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https://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/stories/news/2022/03/disasters-affect-us-all-differently
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" #Global and #regional data demonstrate that #women are more at #risk from #climatechange impacts than #men. This is not because women are naturally more susceptible to #natural #hazards, resulting #disasters or #health #crises. Instead, it is the stubborn structural barriers to #equality based on harmful #gender #stereotypes and #inequality of #power in decision making that increase women’s vulnerability, reducing their opportunities to build #resiliency." -
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Revised Edition: The First 5 Volumes by Dmitry Vostokov is the featured bundle on Leanpub!
Link: https://leanpub.com/b/mdaa
#CAndCpp #ComputerHardware #ComputerSecurity #Testing #Resiliency #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience #Dotnet #Devops #OperatingSystemDevelopment #DigitalForensics #Software
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Canada embarks on a new path to reduce reliance on the USA markets, and become resilient to both global market impacts and global warming. New #EV and #renewables initiatives will accomplish both over the next decade.
#EV #BEV #NEV #renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #resiliency #CanadaStrategy
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The #PoisonPill Request: How One Bad Request Can Kill Your Entire Fleet
https://systemdr.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-request-how-one-bad
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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#India - Backyard nutrition gardens- For family nutrition and income
In rainfed agriculture, where farm livelihoods are highly vulnerable to climate vagaries, alternative farm based enterprises go a long way in providing the necessary support for #farmers to remain in farming. Backyard kitchen garden is one such enterprise which meets multiple needs like food, income and nutrition security, besides empowering women.
September 2025
Excerpt: "A key intervention was to help farm women raise kitchen gardens in their backyard. These kitchen gardens are meant to increase #FoodDiversity in the diets of the participating families and reduce reliance on the market for introduced vegetables. Each interested household was provided with a kitchen garden kit containing around 10-13 types of vegetable seeds. By raising kitchen gardens, women were able to harvest many types of seasonal vegetables.
"During 2023-24, kitchen garden kits with 13 different varieties of vegetables were given to 70 group members. For those who had sown seeds early in the season, owing to excessive rains, the seeds didn’t germinate. But around 40% of the women who took up late sowing, could harvest vegetables from the gardens. Women have done #composting with kitchen waste, garden clippings, and dry leaves to create rich organic #compost. This compost is used to fertilize the garden beds. They also prepared organic liquid fertilizers like #Panchagavya and #Jeevamruta to increase immunity and promote plant growth. To manage pest and diseases, they used #NeemOil spray as #NaturalPesticides. Organic #mulch, such as straw and dried leaves, were applied around plants to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and improve soil health. Each of the households produced vegetables like #brinjal, #bhendi, #tomato, #gourds, #cucumber, #radish and green #vegetables. On an average each household produced vegetables worth Rs.2500-3500 in a season.
"Again, 2024 has been a year of heavy rainfall for Dharwad district. Untimely rains caused havoc, damaging crops. Farmers had to face crop losses and in such a situation around 25 women farmers raised nutrition qardens in their backyard. Each household produced vegetables worth Rs.3000-4000 in a season. Kitchen gardens served as a boon to these families facing #FoodShortages due to crop loss."
Read more:
https://www.leisaindia.org/backyard-nutrition-gardens-for-family-nutrition-and-income/#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #KitchenGardens #BackyardGardens #GrowYourOwn #FoodSovereignty #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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#PuertoRicans are devising the #FoodSystem of tomorrow
by Ayurella Horn-Muller, September 3, 2025
Excerpt: "In the wake of #HurricaneMaria, many residents of #PuertoRico, especially those working to improve the archipelago’s local food system, began to think about hurricane preparedness differently. Because they weren’t able to rely on federal assistance, they decided to build their own prototypes of #resilience, which didn’t just set them up to be ready for the next storm, but also set them up to live better everyday lives. #Cooperatives, #gardens, and school-based agricultural programs emerged to fill the gaps left by the government. #Barter networks and local farmers markets have become increasingly popular. #MutualAid kitchens and community-led supermarkets have also expanded their work, ramping up donations, surplus food, and partnerships with nearby producers. These projects aren’t just temporary disaster responses. They are models of long-term resilience and food independence. They are living blueprints of what food sovereignty could look like in Puerto Rico — and elsewhere."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/puerto-ricans-devising-food-system-084500883.html#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #FoodInsecurity #Resiliency #BuildingCommunity #FoodSovereignty #ClimateResilience #SharingKnowledge #CircularEconomy #GrowYourOwn
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#Solarpunk: Visions of a #Just, #NaturePositive world
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of #artists and #activists is seeking answers.by Joe Coroneo-Seaman, January 21, 2022
Excerpt: "The concept of solarpunk originally emerged in the late 2000s, when a handful of artists on the social media platform Tumblr began sharing drawings of futuristic green cities. Over time, the aesthetic and ethos evolved into a more robust vision for the world, and in the process has been embraced by other art forms. There are now published collections of solarpunk literature, subgenres of music, movements within architecture and even tabletop role-playing games [#RPGs].
"At the core of this vision is the idea that humans can coexist in harmony with the rest of nature. A solarpunk world is one where vast swathes of land have been returned to #wilderness, rooftop gardens dot the skylines of high-tech cities and vertical farms provide food to their residents.
"Responsible use of #technology is also a prominent theme. #Solar, #wind and #wave power have entirely replaced #FossilFuels as sources of energy, while widespread #3DPrinting has made it much easier to produce things #locally, creating #resilient, #SelfSufficient #communities.
"Increasingly, artists and writers in the solarpunk movement also describe a world that is just and safe for #MarginalisedGroups – especially those facing the brunt of the #climate and #ecological crisis today. '#BIPOC [#Black, #Indigenous and #PeopleOfColour] and #QueerPeople are safe in solarpunk futures,' says Brianna Castagnozzi, co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.
"Although it may seem utopian and idealistic, solarpunk attempts to answer real questions being asked more and more often in light of the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. What can be saved? What does a truly #sustainable civilisation look like? How do we get there?
"It may be a big ask, but it’s now clear that the scale of the environmental crises facing humanity demands #TransformationalChanges to the way we live, as well as the way we think. Art has the power to shape our attitudes, so perhaps it’s time – as Nigerian poet #BenOkri said recently – for artists of all kinds to 'dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society'."
Read more:
https://dialogue.earth/en/nature/solarpunk-visions-of-a-just-nature-positive-world/#SolarPunkSunday #ReDreamingSociety #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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#Solarpunk: Visions of a #Just, #NaturePositive world
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of #artists and #activists is seeking answers.by Joe Coroneo-Seaman, January 21, 2022
Excerpt: "The concept of solarpunk originally emerged in the late 2000s, when a handful of artists on the social media platform Tumblr began sharing drawings of futuristic green cities. Over time, the aesthetic and ethos evolved into a more robust vision for the world, and in the process has been embraced by other art forms. There are now published collections of solarpunk literature, subgenres of music, movements within architecture and even tabletop role-playing games [#RPGs].
"At the core of this vision is the idea that humans can coexist in harmony with the rest of nature. A solarpunk world is one where vast swathes of land have been returned to #wilderness, rooftop gardens dot the skylines of high-tech cities and vertical farms provide food to their residents.
"Responsible use of #technology is also a prominent theme. #Solar, #wind and #wave power have entirely replaced #FossilFuels as sources of energy, while widespread #3DPrinting has made it much easier to produce things #locally, creating #resilient, #SelfSufficient #communities.
"Increasingly, artists and writers in the solarpunk movement also describe a world that is just and safe for #MarginalisedGroups – especially those facing the brunt of the #climate and #ecological crisis today. '#BIPOC [#Black, #Indigenous and #PeopleOfColour] and #QueerPeople are safe in solarpunk futures,' says Brianna Castagnozzi, co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.
"Although it may seem utopian and idealistic, solarpunk attempts to answer real questions being asked more and more often in light of the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. What can be saved? What does a truly #sustainable civilisation look like? How do we get there?
"It may be a big ask, but it’s now clear that the scale of the environmental crises facing humanity demands #TransformationalChanges to the way we live, as well as the way we think. Art has the power to shape our attitudes, so perhaps it’s time – as Nigerian poet #BenOkri said recently – for artists of all kinds to 'dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society'."
Read more:
https://dialogue.earth/en/nature/solarpunk-visions-of-a-just-nature-positive-world/#SolarPunkSunday #ReDreamingSociety #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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#Solarpunk: Visions of a #Just, #NaturePositive world
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of #artists and #activists is seeking answers.by Joe Coroneo-Seaman, January 21, 2022
Excerpt: "The concept of solarpunk originally emerged in the late 2000s, when a handful of artists on the social media platform Tumblr began sharing drawings of futuristic green cities. Over time, the aesthetic and ethos evolved into a more robust vision for the world, and in the process has been embraced by other art forms. There are now published collections of solarpunk literature, subgenres of music, movements within architecture and even tabletop role-playing games [#RPGs].
"At the core of this vision is the idea that humans can coexist in harmony with the rest of nature. A solarpunk world is one where vast swathes of land have been returned to #wilderness, rooftop gardens dot the skylines of high-tech cities and vertical farms provide food to their residents.
"Responsible use of #technology is also a prominent theme. #Solar, #wind and #wave power have entirely replaced #FossilFuels as sources of energy, while widespread #3DPrinting has made it much easier to produce things #locally, creating #resilient, #SelfSufficient #communities.
"Increasingly, artists and writers in the solarpunk movement also describe a world that is just and safe for #MarginalisedGroups – especially those facing the brunt of the #climate and #ecological crisis today. '#BIPOC [#Black, #Indigenous and #PeopleOfColour] and #QueerPeople are safe in solarpunk futures,' says Brianna Castagnozzi, co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.
"Although it may seem utopian and idealistic, solarpunk attempts to answer real questions being asked more and more often in light of the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. What can be saved? What does a truly #sustainable civilisation look like? How do we get there?
"It may be a big ask, but it’s now clear that the scale of the environmental crises facing humanity demands #TransformationalChanges to the way we live, as well as the way we think. Art has the power to shape our attitudes, so perhaps it’s time – as Nigerian poet #BenOkri said recently – for artists of all kinds to 'dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society'."
Read more:
https://dialogue.earth/en/nature/solarpunk-visions-of-a-just-nature-positive-world/#SolarPunkSunday #ReDreamingSociety #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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#Solarpunk: Visions of a #Just, #NaturePositive world
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of #artists and #activists is seeking answers.by Joe Coroneo-Seaman, January 21, 2022
Excerpt: "The concept of solarpunk originally emerged in the late 2000s, when a handful of artists on the social media platform Tumblr began sharing drawings of futuristic green cities. Over time, the aesthetic and ethos evolved into a more robust vision for the world, and in the process has been embraced by other art forms. There are now published collections of solarpunk literature, subgenres of music, movements within architecture and even tabletop role-playing games [#RPGs].
"At the core of this vision is the idea that humans can coexist in harmony with the rest of nature. A solarpunk world is one where vast swathes of land have been returned to #wilderness, rooftop gardens dot the skylines of high-tech cities and vertical farms provide food to their residents.
"Responsible use of #technology is also a prominent theme. #Solar, #wind and #wave power have entirely replaced #FossilFuels as sources of energy, while widespread #3DPrinting has made it much easier to produce things #locally, creating #resilient, #SelfSufficient #communities.
"Increasingly, artists and writers in the solarpunk movement also describe a world that is just and safe for #MarginalisedGroups – especially those facing the brunt of the #climate and #ecological crisis today. '#BIPOC [#Black, #Indigenous and #PeopleOfColour] and #QueerPeople are safe in solarpunk futures,' says Brianna Castagnozzi, co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.
"Although it may seem utopian and idealistic, solarpunk attempts to answer real questions being asked more and more often in light of the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. What can be saved? What does a truly #sustainable civilisation look like? How do we get there?
"It may be a big ask, but it’s now clear that the scale of the environmental crises facing humanity demands #TransformationalChanges to the way we live, as well as the way we think. Art has the power to shape our attitudes, so perhaps it’s time – as Nigerian poet #BenOkri said recently – for artists of all kinds to 'dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society'."
Read more:
https://dialogue.earth/en/nature/solarpunk-visions-of-a-just-nature-positive-world/#SolarPunkSunday #ReDreamingSociety #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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#Solarpunk: Visions of a #Just, #NaturePositive world
What does a sustainable civilisation look like and how do we get there? A burgeoning movement of #artists and #activists is seeking answers.by Joe Coroneo-Seaman, January 21, 2022
Excerpt: "The concept of solarpunk originally emerged in the late 2000s, when a handful of artists on the social media platform Tumblr began sharing drawings of futuristic green cities. Over time, the aesthetic and ethos evolved into a more robust vision for the world, and in the process has been embraced by other art forms. There are now published collections of solarpunk literature, subgenres of music, movements within architecture and even tabletop role-playing games [#RPGs].
"At the core of this vision is the idea that humans can coexist in harmony with the rest of nature. A solarpunk world is one where vast swathes of land have been returned to #wilderness, rooftop gardens dot the skylines of high-tech cities and vertical farms provide food to their residents.
"Responsible use of #technology is also a prominent theme. #Solar, #wind and #wave power have entirely replaced #FossilFuels as sources of energy, while widespread #3DPrinting has made it much easier to produce things #locally, creating #resilient, #SelfSufficient #communities.
"Increasingly, artists and writers in the solarpunk movement also describe a world that is just and safe for #MarginalisedGroups – especially those facing the brunt of the #climate and #ecological crisis today. '#BIPOC [#Black, #Indigenous and #PeopleOfColour] and #QueerPeople are safe in solarpunk futures,' says Brianna Castagnozzi, co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.
"Although it may seem utopian and idealistic, solarpunk attempts to answer real questions being asked more and more often in light of the unfolding climate and ecological crisis. What can be saved? What does a truly #sustainable civilisation look like? How do we get there?
"It may be a big ask, but it’s now clear that the scale of the environmental crises facing humanity demands #TransformationalChanges to the way we live, as well as the way we think. Art has the power to shape our attitudes, so perhaps it’s time – as Nigerian poet #BenOkri said recently – for artists of all kinds to 'dedicate our lives to nothing short of re-dreaming society'."
Read more:
https://dialogue.earth/en/nature/solarpunk-visions-of-a-just-nature-positive-world/#SolarPunkSunday #ReDreamingSociety #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateChange #Resiliency
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So, for the upcoming one year anniversary of #SolarPunkSunday on December 21st, we invite writers, artists and makers to share their works! I'll be focusing on #SolarPunk and #Resiliency around the world, as we are all in this TOGETHER! #AnotherWorldIsPossible!
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkArt #SolarPunkMusings #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #LtG #BuildingCommunity #Decolonize #DeGrowth #SolarPunkSunday
#HopePunk #DeCapitalize
#RightToRepair #NatureRocks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow
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So, for the upcoming one year anniversary of #SolarPunkSunday on December 21st, we invite writers, artists and makers to share their works! I'll be focusing on #SolarPunk and #Resiliency around the world, as we are all in this TOGETHER! #AnotherWorldIsPossible!
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkArt #SolarPunkMusings #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #LtG #BuildingCommunity #Decolonize #DeGrowth #SolarPunkSunday
#HopePunk #DeCapitalize
#RightToRepair #NatureRocks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow
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So, for the upcoming one year anniversary of #SolarPunkSunday on December 21st, we invite writers, artists and makers to share their works! I'll be focusing on #SolarPunk and #Resiliency around the world, as we are all in this TOGETHER! #AnotherWorldIsPossible!
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkArt #SolarPunkMusings #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #LtG #BuildingCommunity #Decolonize #DeGrowth #SolarPunkSunday
#HopePunk #DeCapitalize
#RightToRepair #NatureRocks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow
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So, for the upcoming one year anniversary of #SolarPunkSunday on December 21st, we invite writers, artists and makers to share their works! I'll be focusing on #SolarPunk and #Resiliency around the world, as we are all in this TOGETHER! #AnotherWorldIsPossible!
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkArt #SolarPunkMusings #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #LtG #BuildingCommunity #Decolonize #DeGrowth #SolarPunkSunday
#HopePunk #DeCapitalize
#RightToRepair #NatureRocks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow
#GrowYourOwnFood #ClimateAdaptation -
So, for the upcoming one year anniversary of #SolarPunkSunday on December 21st, we invite writers, artists and makers to share their works! I'll be focusing on #SolarPunk and #Resiliency around the world, as we are all in this TOGETHER! #AnotherWorldIsPossible!
#SolarPunk #SolarPunkArt #SolarPunkMusings #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #LtG #BuildingCommunity #Decolonize #DeGrowth #SolarPunkSunday
#HopePunk #DeCapitalize
#RightToRepair #NatureRocks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow
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New commentary:
"Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience."
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02506-8
#resilience #resiliency #climigration #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateMigrants #ClimateMigration #ClimateCrisis #MigrationCrisis #ClimateEmergency #MigrationEmergency #Climigration #Futures #FuturesResearch -
#Cloudflare’s #outage, following similar incidents with #MicrosoftAzure and #AmazonWebServices, highlights the #internet’s #reliance on a few major #providers. This concentration raises concerns about #redundancy and #resiliency, as companies like Cloudflare power a significant portion of the #web. https://www.theverge.com/news/823562/cloudflare-outage-wake-up-call-websites?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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So, I had a dream last night that there was a big #SolarPunk conference being held in #MillinocketME (of all places). It was full of folks sharing all sorts of ideas, with the intention of building something bigger there. While I hate long trips, this one was worth it!
#SolarPunkSunday #HopePunk #Resiliency #BuildingCommunity #Maine
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Why cities around the world are uniting to keep cool
A new global initiative is helping cities from #PhoenixAZ to #QuezonCity address #ExtremeHeat with #SharedSolutions and #LocalAction.
From the #C40 website: "Cities are focusing on increasing green cover, cool roofs, and shaded public areas in places that experience the most heat and the least access to adequate cooling."
Nov 05, 2025
"The following is a sponsored op-ed written by Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona and Joy Belmonte, Mayor of Quezon City, the #Philippines and sponsored by C40 Cities.
This summer, cities around the world broke temperature records once again. The results were devastating: Extreme heat now kills nearly half a million people each year, and the danger keeps rising. By 2050, the number of people in cities exposed to life-threatening heat is expected to increase fivefold.
From the desert of Phoenix in the United States to the humid streets of Quezon City in the Philippines, mayors are facing the same new reality: Heat is here to stay, and it is impacting every element of city life. That’s why we — along with more than 30 other mayors from C40 Cities, a global network of nearly 100 of the world’s biggest cities tackling the #ClimateEmergency — are joining forces to protect our people today and prepare our communities for a hotter tomorrow. Through the new C40 #CoolCities Accelerator, we’ll work together to speed up bold and inclusive #ClimateAction that meets the urgency of this growing threat.
In some ways, our cities couldn’t be more different. Phoenix, America’s fifth largest city, sits in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, and sees more than 300 days of sunshine a year. Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, faces sweltering humidity and the annual risk of typhoons. Yet both cities are on the front lines of rising temperatures that threaten health, strain our power grids, and deepen inequality.
Extreme heat is the deadliest climate hazard, but it’s also the quietest. It kills through heatstroke and dehydration, and by worsening heart and respiratory conditions. It’s often felt most by the people with the fewest resources to cope: older adults, children, outdoor workers, and low-income communities. In Phoenix, residents in low-income neighbourhoods can experience temperatures several degrees higher than in wealthier parts of the city. In Quezon City, densely populated neighborhoods can become dangerous heat traps.
We refuse to accept a future in which a heatwave becomes a death sentence for those with the least, and whose responsibility for the climate crisis is disproportionately small. The Cool Cities Accelerator is our shared plan to prevent that. In line with COP30’s call for a ‘decade of delivery,’ this provides a practical framework for mayors to act boldly and share what works.
First, we’re protecting lives right now. Participating cities are appointing heat leaders, improving early-warning systems, and coordinating emergency responses across agencies. Phoenix, for example, created the US’s first publicly-funded Office of Heat Response and Mitigation, expanded access to chilled water stations, and opened cooling and hydration stations, including overnight cooling center options to bring relief where it’s needed most. Meanwhile, Quezon City is currently mapping heat-vulnerable communities and developing a citywide heat-health action plan. It has already adjusted work hours for outdoor workers, and introduced heat-tolerant crops across more than 1,400 urban farms.
The goal is to build long-term resilience. Within five years, cities in the Accelerator will integrate cooling into building codes, redesign streets for shade and airflow, and expand tree canopies and green corridors. Phoenix is piloting reflective ‘cool pavements’, planting thousands of trees, and building artistic shade structures and setting regional standards for heat-ready infrastructure. Quezon City is restoring parks and greening schools and public spaces. As part of these efforts, the city has supported local groups turning vacant lots into small forests and gardens, while encouraging private development to adopt greener designs under its Green Building Ordinance. These efforts save lives, and cut energy bills while improving neighbourhoods.
But urban heat doesn’t stop at city limits, and neither should our solutions. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of the Cool Cities Accelerator. Thirty-two cities — from Austin to Athens and Singapore to Santiago — are now exchanging data and design ideas. The details on the ground obviously differ, but the solutions we craft together are remarkably similar, creating more shade, better design, and better care for the most vulnerable. When our teams share lessons on early-warning systems, or how to engage with our communities, we all move faster and more effectively.
For too long, extreme heat has been under-measured and under-estimated. We can build cities that are not only cooler, but more fair. But to do so, we must act together, and we must act now. We need to deliver solutions that both keep people alive today, and allow future generations to thrive."
Source:
https://grist.org/sponsored/why-cities-around-the-world-are-uniting-to-keep-cool/More info about #C40:
https://www.c40.org/accelerators/cool-cities/#SolarPunkSunday #ExtremeHeat #Resiliency #Cooling #Greenspace #GreenBuilding #GreenCorridors #HardeningInfrastructure #ClimateChange
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#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream
by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025
"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.
"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."
Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
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#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream
by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025
"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.
"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."
Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
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#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream
by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025
"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.
"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."
Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
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#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream
by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025
"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.
"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."
Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
#Intercropping #Polyculture #Resiliency #FoodSystems #ClimateChangeFarming -
#RegenerativeAgriculture Goes Mainstream
by Jan Lee Jul 10th 2025
"The world’s hottest year on record may also mark the beginning of the end for carbon-intensive, conventional farming. Several factors have converged to bring regenerative practices into the mainstream, while a new study demonstrates that farmers can produce just as much food while improving land productivity by transitioning away from conventional practices.
"#RegenerativeFarming first hit headlines as part of '#LivingSystemsThinking' in the 1960s, later gaining interest among health-conscious foodies when the concept was popularized by food author #MichaelPollan. Today, techniques such as #CoverCropping and integrated pest management are being embraced not only by #environmental activists but also by multinational food companies. The difference is that now, this approach is celebrated for its practical effectiveness in maintaining a consistent food supply in an era of #ClimateChange-driven supply shocks."
Read more:
https://earth.org/regenerative-agriculture-trends-and-impacts/#FoodForAll #SolarPunkSunday
#Agroecology #RegenerativeFarming
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Take farming back to nature: #RegenerativeAgriculture means farmers work with the land, not against it.
By Brian CastnerUpdated September 28, 2025
Excerpt: "There is a growing community of people seeking to return wildlife to farms and our food supply — and none too soon, as our soil and bodies are in desperate need of a healthy upgrade.
"This movement operates under many names, but I prefer 'regenerative agriculture.' It’s the idea of working with natural systems, not against them, to grow healthier food and have a positive effect on the land. Regenerative agriculture practitioners consider ecosystems holistically and argue that our food system is more resilient and sustainable when farms are regarded as part of nature rather than separate. This may sound novel, but prophets like Wendell Berry have been writing about this for a long time; 'The Unsettling of America' was published in 1977.
"Our farm is in the foothills of the #Adirondacks, and the lion’s share of our land consists of slopes dedicated to pastures for grazing. We raise sheep and chickens, and when we move them across the land, we do so in ways that mimic the natural processes that produced the rich soil for the meadows in the first place. Rather than fence off one giant pasture and lock the animals in for the year, we set up many smaller paddocks and allow them to graze each spot only briefly. The sheep rotate to fresh grass three times a week. The chickens are moved even more often, twice a day. While each is in its allotted portion of pasture, the scene is one of intense eating — the lambs strip the fresh chicory and wild carrot of their leaves and tender stems. The chickens peck and scratch at the dirt, hunting for bugs. Wherever they move, they leave a path of destruction, trampling grass, devouring plants, and spreading their manure everywhere.
"But then the flock moves on, and we leave the pasture to rest. Beaten-down forage traps moisture and provides cover for fresh growth. Red and white clover pops through the netting of broken stems. Then the first shoots of timothy appear. In spring, thin-leafed plantains follow. In midsummer, it’s birds’-foot trefoil and wild carrot. In only a week or two the stems and grasses are up to my knees, and by the time the sheep return 60 days later, it’s once again a field of tall wildflowers, full of honeybees and cedar waxwings. I had never seen flocks of goldfinches (entire flocks!) until they took over my regrown pastures.
"Rotationally grazing livestock is much healthier for the animals as well. There are fewer respiratory issues, because they aren’t confined to a barn; they suffer from fewer parasites and diseases, because they are kept separate from their waste. Sheep especially are susceptible to worms that hatch in their manure and crawl up fresh shoots of grass. But by keeping them away until the worms complete their life cycle, we let the lambs stay healthy and avoid having to pump them full of antibiotics and dewormers. Happy, healthier animals make healthier food.
"This system of rotationally grazing — concentrating the flock or herd and moving it through the land and on to fresh grass — mimics animals in the wild.
Across North America, massive herds of bison and smaller groups of deer and elk once moved across the land, eating as they went. They took the energy from the plants and left behind manure and stomped grass. With their hooves, they opened and aerated the compacted soil, where a complex ecosystem of roots and rhizosheaths and bacteria could thrive."The term to describe this process is 'animal impact.' The idea that soil can be made healthier by putting animals on it and then removing them, leaving behind a more resilient ecosystem, is counterintuitive if you think of animals only as either messy or destructive, or consider their poop as stuff to be cleaned up rather than a resource to be used.
"Working this way requires a change in thinking, a new philosophy in farming. Our greatest asset is not our barns or equipment or even the animals. These are all easily replaceable, if occasionally expensive. No, our greatest agricultural asset is the soil, and so all of our decisions about how to manage our land should be about what’s best for the soil and by extension the pastures.
"Regenerative agriculture at scale is challenging, as our food supply system forces farmers to maintain a relentless focus on the economic bottom line, encouraging chemical-laden shortcuts. But on small farms, it is possible to work with the land, not against it. We named our venture du Trieux Farm, after my wife’s ancestors who settled in the Hudson Valley four hundred years ago, and this kind of long-term thinking informs how we operate. The land we now care for has been continuously farmed for two hundred and fifty years. One might expect that the soil would be degraded after all that time, but it need not be. We seek to add to the soil, rather than extract from it."
Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/28/opinion/regenerative-agriculture-nature-brian-castner/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/lX9SR#SolarPunkSunday #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeFarming #RestorativeAgriculture #Resiliency #FoodSystems
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Tonight the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency board voted unanimously to grant an easement to Southern California Edison (SCE), allowing it to replace about 8,850 feet of overhead power lines with underground lines to feed an existing Calleguas Municipal Water Dist water pressure regulating station. This is in the Arroyo Conejo near Ventu Park and Rancho Conejo.
Underground lines reduce fire risk, improve power reliability, and ensure water availability during emergencies. The work will not require any tree removals.
#undergrounding #utilities #wildfires #publicsafety #resiliency #ThousandOaks #openspace #cosca
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
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As #NewHampshire summers grow drier, farmers evolve to cope
by Molly Rains, September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT
Excerpt: "Some more analog farming techniques are also crucial for drought resilience, Mathur said. A foundational element of soil health is related to how much organic material it contains, a measure boosted by additives like #compost, #manure, or #CoverCrops. In addition to adding nutrients to the soil, these materials also cling to water, helping keep soil damp and cool in times of limited rainfall, she said.
"Once organic materials are present in the soil, they can be retained for longer with methods like #NoTill farming or #ReducedTill farming, in which farmers refrain as much as possible from plowing their fields. Chewing up a field before planting a crop adds air to the soil, fueling the decomposition of the important organic matter within, Delisle said. While no-till and reduced-till farming isn’t a good fit for every crop, he added, many New Hampshire farmers have had success using the method with the common local crops of corn and pumpkins.
"Preserving the organic matter in New Hampshire’s soil is important not only in times of drought but also, Delisle said, in times of heavy rain and flooding, when farm equipment can compress fields. This compacts the soil and makes it less hospitable to plants.
" 'Soils with higher organic matter in them have the capacity to spring back once they’re pressed down, and that’s an important factor in the resiliency of that soil,' Delisle said."
Learn more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hampshire-summers-grow-drier-farmers-090040658.html#SolarPunkSunday
#ClimateChangeAgriculture
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This article contains some excellent resources at the end!
Towards #Solarpunk Futures
by BrightFlame, Jan 20, 2022
"Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic and activist movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like #ClimateChange, and created more #sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, #humanitarianism, #egalitarianism, animal rights, #decolonization, #AntiRacism, #AntiSexism, anti-#authoritarianism, anti-#corporatism, and anti-#consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict."
Read more:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/sustainability/news/stories/solarpunk/#SolarPunkSunday #Resiliency #FoodJustice #RestorativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #NatureIsLife #BuildingCommunity #SocialJustice
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Safe Passage Youth Foundation provides positive pathways for K-6 kids, helping keep them from being drawn into gang life.
Food security is a key mission; Safe Passage collects and distributes groceries that otherwise would end up in landfills.
In support of that, I was pleased to sign an agreement today, following unanimous City Council ratification, that allows Safe Passage to store a mobile refrigerated trailer at the TO Transit Center.
This helps local families in need of food assistance and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by keeping organic material out of landfills.
#foodsecurity #climate #resiliency #sustainability #greenhousegas #youth #safepassage #thousandoaks #conejovalley #tocc
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A more pessimistic outlook, based on 2023 recalibrations... (From #Resiliency.org)
#LimitsToGrowth was right about collapse
By Andrew Curry, May 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Downhill from here
"The last chart assembles something from the data that wasn’t done in the original Limits to Growth work because the concept hadn’t been developed. But it is possible to assemble a #HumanDevelopmentIndex from the data, and reference it against the original model and the revised version. It doesn’t come out well.
(Source: Nebel et al, 2023, adapted Klement)
"On this last chart, Klement is most depressed, and I think with good reason:
" 'If [this chart] is true, it says that today is peak human civilisation, from now on we are going backward on a global level in terms of human development and quality of life, While some countries will continue to improve, other countries and the planet as a whole will start to go backward, ultimately dropping back to similar levels of human development and quality of life as in 1900 by the end of this century.'
"Tipping point
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
" '[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and #IndustrialAgriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer #sustainable. #Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
"They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
" 'This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution.
"They also have an interesting caveat. This is that the way the #World3 model works is a through a set of connections that exist within an environment of growth. In an environment of decline, they are likely to reconfigure themselves in different ways. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a decline—just that the current lines in the model that describe it may not follow quite the same patterns.
"But one final note from me. Economists get over-excited when anyone mentions ‘#degrowth’, and fellow-travellers such as the Tony Blair Institute treat climate policy as if it is some kind of typical 1990s political discussion. The point is that we’re going to get degrowth whether we think it’s a good idea or not. The data here is, in effect, about the tipping point at the end of a 200-to-250-year exponential curve, at least in the richer parts of the world. The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/#Capitalism #CorporateColonialism
#Warning #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCollapse
#Resources #Ecocide #Technology #SocietalChange #Collapse -
A more pessimistic outlook, based on 2023 recalibrations... (From #Resiliency.org)
#LimitsToGrowth was right about collapse
By Andrew Curry, May 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Downhill from here
"The last chart assembles something from the data that wasn’t done in the original Limits to Growth work because the concept hadn’t been developed. But it is possible to assemble a #HumanDevelopmentIndex from the data, and reference it against the original model and the revised version. It doesn’t come out well.
(Source: Nebel et al, 2023, adapted Klement)
"On this last chart, Klement is most depressed, and I think with good reason:
" 'If [this chart] is true, it says that today is peak human civilisation, from now on we are going backward on a global level in terms of human development and quality of life, While some countries will continue to improve, other countries and the planet as a whole will start to go backward, ultimately dropping back to similar levels of human development and quality of life as in 1900 by the end of this century.'
"Tipping point
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
" '[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and #IndustrialAgriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer #sustainable. #Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
"They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
" 'This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution.
"They also have an interesting caveat. This is that the way the #World3 model works is a through a set of connections that exist within an environment of growth. In an environment of decline, they are likely to reconfigure themselves in different ways. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a decline—just that the current lines in the model that describe it may not follow quite the same patterns.
"But one final note from me. Economists get over-excited when anyone mentions ‘#degrowth’, and fellow-travellers such as the Tony Blair Institute treat climate policy as if it is some kind of typical 1990s political discussion. The point is that we’re going to get degrowth whether we think it’s a good idea or not. The data here is, in effect, about the tipping point at the end of a 200-to-250-year exponential curve, at least in the richer parts of the world. The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/#Capitalism #CorporateColonialism
#Warning #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCollapse
#Resources #Ecocide #Technology #SocietalChange #Collapse -
A more pessimistic outlook, based on 2023 recalibrations... (From #Resiliency.org)
#LimitsToGrowth was right about collapse
By Andrew Curry, May 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Downhill from here
"The last chart assembles something from the data that wasn’t done in the original Limits to Growth work because the concept hadn’t been developed. But it is possible to assemble a #HumanDevelopmentIndex from the data, and reference it against the original model and the revised version. It doesn’t come out well.
(Source: Nebel et al, 2023, adapted Klement)
"On this last chart, Klement is most depressed, and I think with good reason:
" 'If [this chart] is true, it says that today is peak human civilisation, from now on we are going backward on a global level in terms of human development and quality of life, While some countries will continue to improve, other countries and the planet as a whole will start to go backward, ultimately dropping back to similar levels of human development and quality of life as in 1900 by the end of this century.'
"Tipping point
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
" '[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and #IndustrialAgriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer #sustainable. #Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
"They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
" 'This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution.
"They also have an interesting caveat. This is that the way the #World3 model works is a through a set of connections that exist within an environment of growth. In an environment of decline, they are likely to reconfigure themselves in different ways. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a decline—just that the current lines in the model that describe it may not follow quite the same patterns.
"But one final note from me. Economists get over-excited when anyone mentions ‘#degrowth’, and fellow-travellers such as the Tony Blair Institute treat climate policy as if it is some kind of typical 1990s political discussion. The point is that we’re going to get degrowth whether we think it’s a good idea or not. The data here is, in effect, about the tipping point at the end of a 200-to-250-year exponential curve, at least in the richer parts of the world. The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/#Capitalism #CorporateColonialism
#Warning #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCollapse
#Resources #Ecocide #Technology #SocietalChange #Collapse -
A more pessimistic outlook, based on 2023 recalibrations... (From #Resiliency.org)
#LimitsToGrowth was right about collapse
By Andrew Curry, May 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Downhill from here
"The last chart assembles something from the data that wasn’t done in the original Limits to Growth work because the concept hadn’t been developed. But it is possible to assemble a #HumanDevelopmentIndex from the data, and reference it against the original model and the revised version. It doesn’t come out well.
(Source: Nebel et al, 2023, adapted Klement)
"On this last chart, Klement is most depressed, and I think with good reason:
" 'If [this chart] is true, it says that today is peak human civilisation, from now on we are going backward on a global level in terms of human development and quality of life, While some countries will continue to improve, other countries and the planet as a whole will start to go backward, ultimately dropping back to similar levels of human development and quality of life as in 1900 by the end of this century.'
"Tipping point
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
" '[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and #IndustrialAgriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer #sustainable. #Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
"They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
" 'This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution.
"They also have an interesting caveat. This is that the way the #World3 model works is a through a set of connections that exist within an environment of growth. In an environment of decline, they are likely to reconfigure themselves in different ways. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a decline—just that the current lines in the model that describe it may not follow quite the same patterns.
"But one final note from me. Economists get over-excited when anyone mentions ‘#degrowth’, and fellow-travellers such as the Tony Blair Institute treat climate policy as if it is some kind of typical 1990s political discussion. The point is that we’re going to get degrowth whether we think it’s a good idea or not. The data here is, in effect, about the tipping point at the end of a 200-to-250-year exponential curve, at least in the richer parts of the world. The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/#Capitalism #CorporateColonialism
#Warning #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCollapse
#Resources #Ecocide #Technology #SocietalChange #Collapse -
A more pessimistic outlook, based on 2023 recalibrations... (From #Resiliency.org)
#LimitsToGrowth was right about collapse
By Andrew Curry, May 20, 2025
Excerpt: "Downhill from here
"The last chart assembles something from the data that wasn’t done in the original Limits to Growth work because the concept hadn’t been developed. But it is possible to assemble a #HumanDevelopmentIndex from the data, and reference it against the original model and the revised version. It doesn’t come out well.
(Source: Nebel et al, 2023, adapted Klement)
"On this last chart, Klement is most depressed, and I think with good reason:
" 'If [this chart] is true, it says that today is peak human civilisation, from now on we are going backward on a global level in terms of human development and quality of life, While some countries will continue to improve, other countries and the planet as a whole will start to go backward, ultimately dropping back to similar levels of human development and quality of life as in 1900 by the end of this century.'
"Tipping point
"The overall conclusion by the article’s authors is:
" '[T]he model results clearly indicate the imminent end of the exponential growth curve. The excessive consumption of resources by industry and #IndustrialAgriculture to feed a growing world population is depleting reserves to the point where the system is no longer #sustainable. #Pollution lags behind industrial growth and does not peak until the end of the century. Peaks are followed by sharp declines in several characteristics.
"They also note that the cause of this turning point is resources, not ‘pollution’:
" 'This interconnected collapse… occurring between 2024 and 2030 is caused by resource depletion, not pollution.
"They also have an interesting caveat. This is that the way the #World3 model works is a through a set of connections that exist within an environment of growth. In an environment of decline, they are likely to reconfigure themselves in different ways. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a decline—just that the current lines in the model that describe it may not follow quite the same patterns.
"But one final note from me. Economists get over-excited when anyone mentions ‘#degrowth’, and fellow-travellers such as the Tony Blair Institute treat climate policy as if it is some kind of typical 1990s political discussion. The point is that we’re going to get degrowth whether we think it’s a good idea or not. The data here is, in effect, about the tipping point at the end of a 200-to-250-year exponential curve, at least in the richer parts of the world. The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/#Capitalism #CorporateColonialism
#Warning #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalCollapse
#Resources #Ecocide #Technology #SocietalChange #Collapse -
#Poland - #UrbanGardens help cities fight #ClimateChange
By Andrei Ionescu
July 1, 2025"Warsaw isn’t short on parks or tree-lined boulevards, but a trio of Polish universities wondered whether smaller, resident-run gardens could add something crucial to the capital’s climate resilience.
"To find out, researchers from SWPS University, Warsaw University of Technology, and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences mapped every vacant meadow, former orchard, and post-industrial lot within easy walking distance of apartment blocks.
"They came up with a staggering 1,864 hectares (4,600 acres) – more than enough space, they say, for a citywide network of community gardens that soak up stormwater, cool overheated streets, and capture carbon.
"The investigation combined that spatial analysis with more than 250 in-depth interviews. The goal was to see who is already gardening, what motivates them, and how much social capital – trust, shared norms, cooperative spirit – might be harvested alongside tomatoes and herbs.
Who uses the urban gardens
"It turns out the movement is surprisingly broad. Urban gardening brings together all social groups, the team reports, from school children planting pollinator patches to cultural institutions converting courtyards into micro-farms.
"Still, two cohorts dominate the regular volunteer lists: retirees – often women with higher education – and young middle class families.
"Most gardens revolve around a core group of 10 to 15 steady hands, supplemented by casual helpers and passers-by who stop to chat, water, or simply lounge among the raised beds.
Motivation of urban gardeners
"Why do they show up week after week? According to study co-author Piotr Majewski of SWPS University, the motivations of urban gardeners vary.
" 'The most important ones are: #reconnection to #nature, positive contribution to the #environment, social relations, and mutual learning between #gardeners,' said Majewski.
"Food, interestingly, is not the primary driver. Leaders said harvests help, but real value comes from #biodiversity, #composting, and public workshops on #sustainable living.
Tiny plots, big impact
"Those activities tally with an expanding body of international research linking urban agriculture to climate adaptation.
"Even pocket-size plots act as #CarbonSinks, trap particulate pollution, and soften the #UrbanHeatIsland. Raised beds can be engineered to hold back flash-flood water, while #compost heaps divert organic waste from #landfills.
"For #Warsaw, the numbers are compelling. Nearly all of the identified 1,864 hectares (4,600 acres) lie within a quarter mile of housing, meaning a potential garden is no farther than a ten-minute stroll for most residents – and often half that.
"Such proximity, the experts argue, makes it easier to harness gardens as a distributed #GreenInfrastructure network in a warming metropolis of nearly two million people.
"Yet the real strength may be social. Garden groups knit neighbors together, boosting the informal networks that cities rely on during #heatwaves, #floods, or other climate-related shocks.
"Many interviewees said they joined to cultivate community first, vegetables second. Regular workdays double as impromptu skill‐shares: retirees pass on horticultural know-how, children learn ecological stewardship, and newcomers forge local friendships.
#UrbanGardens in city plans
"Majewski and his colleagues believe Warsaw’s planners should take that social-ecological synergy seriously.
" 'The system of community gardens should also be considered as a tool to support climate change adaptation solutions in urban policies in spatial planning – provided that they are considered an important link in the urban green infrastructure system,' he explained.
"To get there, the researchers lay out a handful of recommendations. First, city hall could weave gardens into official zoning strategies rather than treating them as informal afterthoughts.
"That might mean leasing public land at peppercorn rents, streamlining permits, or integrating gardens into new housing estates from the design phase.
"Second, municipal agencies could supply starter kits – soil, timber, rain barrels – while leaving day-to-day management to residents. Third, wider publicity would help spread the idea beyond the usual eco-activist circles.
Scaling gardens citywide"The study also flags areas for further research. At what point does a collection of isolated plots start delivering measurable cooling or flood mitigation benefits?
"How can Warsaw ensure that garden networks thrive in all districts, not just affluent ones with vocal community groups? And what responsibilities will fall on municipal departments when gardens become part of critical infrastructure rather than hobby spaces?
"Those unknowns aside, the evidence is clear: Warsaw already hosts a vibrant cohort of 'hero #activists' who coax life from overlooked corners.
"With modest institutional backing, their trowels and #CompostBins could double as #ClimateAdaptation tools – cooling concrete and absorbing rainfall.
"Perhaps most importantly, they help draw neighbors together in a city that will need every ounce of solidarity as temperatures rise."
https://www.earth.com/news/urban-gardens-help-cities-fight-climate-change/
#BuildingCommunity #ClimateChange #CityPlanning #Resiliency #SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #SpendingTimeInNature #GreenTime
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An Ancestral Legacy with Modern Concerns: The Story Behind the Waru Waru Agricultural Fields in Peru
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