Leftist for #Degrowth 'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.' Cicero
Rochester, New York
Joined April 2020
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Got a gardening gig at a very wealthy economists house.
Made the mistake of using the phrase “wildlife attracting,” and in a moment of weakness saying “after all, human economy is only a subset of ecology, the household of nature.”
Received email politely firing me next day.
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key point: if we eliminate work that is socially/ecologically harmful & unsustainable (priv health ins paperpushing, oil/gas, fast fashion, beef production, much speculation), that frees people to do other work we need done.
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For all the terrible environmental news we hear every day, here’s something genuinely encouraging. A new UN report says 623 MILLION acres of forests, oceans, wetlands, and other ecosystems are being restored across 149 countries. That’s an area roughly the size of Kazakhstan. Maybe we should talk more about the things humanity is actually getting right.
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Katherine Rundell; this is precisely why powerful companies are investing billions to ensure that humans never dream again.
ALT “Imagination, which in adulthood we sometimes treat as a kind of optional extra that you can safely discard, is actually at the heart of everything. Imagination is at the center of political change. It is necessary for love to be able to imagine another persons’ inner life. It is at the heart, I think, of the great civilisations.”
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I believe that another one of the greatest lies still being told today is that mechanized, petrol-based agriculture is necessary to grow enough food to feed the population.
I always tell people that there is enough scientific proof that small vegetable gardens (750-1000 m² or 8000-10750 square feet) are much more productive than any highly technological field. Plus, permanent tree crops outperform even corn in terms of productivity! Last but not least, if you want to enjoy grains, like rice, wheat, and barley, plant them following Fukuoka’s method.
So, we can save the world by home gardening, planting food forests, and growing “Fukuoka grains”.
That’s the craft of permaculture.
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C'est l'une des figures marquantes depuis le début des mobilisations : l'Orchestre du Nouveau Monde. Créé il y a cinq ans, cet ensemble de jeunes musiciens se mobilise à travers des concerts de rue en faveur de la justice sociale et climatique. Nous avons rencontré son chef d'orchestre, Étienne Jarrier.
🎥 @abelferrod 💻 @CorbierEmilien
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If they could, trees would be screaming this message—but instead they're showing us—unmistakably—how we're messing up the natural world.
This summer's intense and prolonged heat in the UK drove trees into dormancy, but in November, trees are showing us their spring flowers, six months early.
Kew Gardens and the Woodland Trust are very concerned how this will affect pollinators and the trees' health.
Kevin Martin, head of tree collections at Kew said:
"They won’t have those buds again in the spring."
He said the true impact of this won't be known until spring 2028.
