#whanganui — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whanganui, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.fogolf.com/1330495/ryan-foxs-british-open-win-one-of-the-greatest-moments-for-kiwi-sport/ Ryan Fox’s British Open win ‘one of the greatest moments’ for Kiwi sport #BIRKDALE #british #dave #expat #for #fox's #Frontrow #Golf #GolfNews #Greatest #history #Kiwi #mangan #Moments #Month #of #One #open #Royal #ryan #Seat #sport #The #This #victory #WATCHED #whanganui #win #with
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Water has powered industry for centuries. This undershot waterwheel powered a flour mill. One of a number on The Whanganui river, but the only one restored.
Something about waterwheels, belts and flywheels is so simple yet so productive in producing power.
And it is a constant source in a river.
Just like generating electricity, but with no middle man.
Hmm.
#waterwheels
#flourmills
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"Bid to secure spot for glacier in #Icelandic presidential race heats up - Standing in the shadow of Iceland’s #Snæfellsjökull, – a 700,000-year-old #glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day – in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought.
“It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was #president?” said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; #Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while #Māori in #NewZealand were working to secure legal personhood for the #Whanganui River.
More than a decade later, Rawlings’ musing has snowballed into what is perhaps the continent’s most singular presidential bid, as a team of more than 50 people scrambles to secure Snæfellsjökull a spot on the ballot in the country’s upcoming election on 1 June.
Among the first to hear the idea was Daria Testo. “I immediately was like, yup, OK. Let’s do it,” said Testo. “I come from the Indigenous lands in #Siberia, and therefore personhood of #nature is something that is so common to the culture and the psyche in general.”
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“Half the population of #Iceland is watching this glacier melt between 2024 and 2050,” said Rawlings, pointing to research suggesting that Iceland’s glaciers are at risk of disappearing within the next 200 years. “I’ve been personally referring to #glaciers as the charismatic, geographic phenomenon of the #ClimateEmergency."#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #Politics #Klima #Klimakrise