Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 2 years ago • 100%

modernfarmer.com

"On the new map, new farming areas for major crops are added in the United States’ midwest region—referred to as the corn belt—as well as in the Sahara desert. This new farmland would replace large swaths of agricultural land in Europe and India, which would, in turn, be restored to natural habitat." "Additionally, the “redesign"... would erase the need for irrigation entirely, relying instead on natural rainfall in wet regions to keep the crops growing."

modernfarmer.com

>...if a land owner died without a will, that land would be divided up among the owner’s heirs. Once they passed on, the land would be further divided among their heirs. While property might be in a single family’s control for generations, they don’t have legal title or claim to the land. That means they cannot easily sell the land or consolidate fractured acreages.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

www.treehugger.com

>...vanillin also can be made synthetically using chemicals derived from petroleum. To create it from plastic, instead, researchers genetically modified a strain of E. coli bacteria so that it can make vanillin from terephthalic acid (TA)—a raw material used in the production of plastic bottles, which can be broken down using special enzymes that reduce them to their basic chemical components.2 Because it uses microbial fermentation, the chemistry is similar to that of brewing beer. >According to the paper, approximately 85% of the world’s vanillin is synthesized from chemicals that are derived from fossil fuels, including crude oil. >Being able to create vanillin with plastic instead of petroleum means increasing vanillin supply while mitigating plastic waste, reducing industrial reliance on fossil fuels, and preserving forests.

Solar Punk metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

This is so cool, a passive air cooling system using magnets and water pumps to cool a high performance computer. For those of us who don't go that hard with computing, this would be a perfect system to cool a computer and looks so solarpunk.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

undark.org

> To identify dams that might pose the most serious risk to toxic waste sites, Undark searched for dams in the national database that are both high-hazard and older than 50 years, the age after which many dams require renovations. To narrow our search, we selected dams that sit 6 or fewer miles away from and appear in satellite images to be upstream of an EPA-listed toxic waste site. Experts say that many dams would flood much farther than 6 miles. > We focused our search on the nation’s highest priority cleanup sites, as indicated by a designation of Superfund (for non-operating sites) or RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, for operating sites). We considered 5,695 of these sites, including both current and former sites. Types and levels of contamination vary widely across sites, as would the impact of any flooding. > Using this methodology, we identified at least 81 aging high-hazard dams that could flood portions of at least one toxic waste site if they failed, potentially spreading contaminated material into surrounding communities and exposing hundreds or thousands of people — in the case of very large dams, many more — to health hazards atop significant environmental impacts. At least six of the dams identified were in “poor” or “unsafe” condition during their most recent inspection.

www.them.us

> “Over the past year-and-a-half, I've been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work, I've had the revelation that I identify as non-binary,” Demi shared. "With that said, I'll be officially changing my pronouns to they/them. I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am, and am still discovering."

> As many of us start being able to engage in more in-person activities safely, this month focuses on the kinds of and ways that we enjoy leisure activities, and how being aspec might impact those activities. This can be anything from the entertainment we consume, to the people we spend free time with, to the decisions on when to go out vs. stay in, to the activities one might do alone that are expected to be done with a partner of some kind. > This month’s chat will take place from Saturday, May 29 to Sunday, May 30, from 10am Saturday through 1:00 am Sunday, then 10:00 am – 11:59 PM Sunday Eastern Daylight Time. (That’s 2 PM GMT Saturday through 5 AM GMT  Sunday, then re-opening Sunday at 2 PM again until 4 AM GMT.) Per usual we will have 2 hour voice chats both days, the first starting at at 11 AM Eastern (3 PM GMT) and the second at 4 PM Eastern (8 PM GMT).

aromantic community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

>As many of us start being able to engage in more in-person activities safely, this month focuses on the kinds of and ways that we enjoy leisure activities, and how being aspec might impact those activities. This can be anything from the entertainment we consume, to the people we spend free time with, to the decisions on when to go out vs. stay in, to the activities one might do alone that are expected to be done with a partner of some kind. > This month’s chat will take place from Saturday, May 29 to Sunday, May 30, from 10am Saturday through 1:00 am Sunday, then 10:00 am – 11:59 PM Sunday Eastern Daylight Time. (That’s 2 PM GMT Saturday through 5 AM GMT Sunday, then re-opening Sunday at 2 PM again until 4 AM GMT.) Per usual we will have 2 hour voice chats both days, the first starting at at 11 AM Eastern (3 PM GMT) and the second at 4 PM Eastern (8 PM GMT).

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

www.wired.com

> But while there’s a huge focus on planting trees, there’s little on where those seedlings will come from. A study published in February in Frontiers in Forest and Global Change, authored by 17 environmental scientists, including ones from the Nature Conservancy, the USDA Forest Service, American Forests, and academic institutions, outlines that we are already short more than 2 billion seedlings per year—and that’s just to get halfway to meeting the reforesting potential of the lower 48 states. They estimated that there are 133 million acres to reforest by the year 2040, which would require 34 billion seedlings. According to the study, the US currently produces about 1.3 billion seedlings a year, which means a 2.4-fold increase is needed.

Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

I started self hosting with a home server last year, and had put it in a room in the house where there was an ethernet port. Last week, me and my dad wired up the house with ethernet ports and a switch and now I want to move my home server from it's current location to a different room in the house. Is there any sort of guidance or guide about how to properly move a server? I don't want to mess up my server since it is a repurposed old desktop. I also run Yunohost on it if that's important to know.

I started self hosting with a home server last year, and had put it in a room in the house where there was an ethernet port. Last week, me and my dad wired up the house with ethernet ports and a switch and now I want to move my home server from it's current location to a different room in the house. Is there any sort of guidance or guide about how to properly move a server? I don't want to mess up my server since it is a repurposed old desktop. I also run Yunohost on it if that's important to know.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

modernfarmer.com

> CTUIR grows only native plants—defined as indigenous species that evolved naturally in an ecosystem—and its sales to landscapers and home gardeners make up only a small portion of its business. The nursery’s main mission is to grow native plants that will go towards revegetating natural wildlife habitats in the high desert, upland and wetland areas of eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 50%

news.cornell.edu

For those who consume dairy, would you try alcohol dairy?

gizmodo.com

> After attempting to convince the city to establish a municipal network, organizers turned to the idea of a cooperatively owned model, the kind of radical concept recently in the realm of activist dreams. Workers co-own the company; the building residents own the network; the C-Suite doesn’t extract a cent. Residents pay for the installation fee in monthly increments, which organizers believe might range from $300-$400 per apartment. But residents cover the cost similar to a mortgage, in monthly payments of around $10-$20, which also covers service.

Technology metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

gizmodo.com

> After attempting to convince the city to establish a municipal network, organizers turned to the idea of a cooperatively owned model, the kind of radical concept recently in the realm of activist dreams. Workers co-own the company; the building residents own the network; the C-Suite doesn’t extract a cent. Residents pay for the installation fee in monthly increments, which organizers believe might range from $300-$400 per apartment. But residents cover the cost similar to a mortgage, in monthly payments of around $10-$20, which also covers service.

gizmodo.com

> After attempting to convince the city to establish a municipal network, organizers turned to the idea of a cooperatively owned model, the kind of radical concept recently in the realm of activist dreams. Workers co-own the company; the building residents own the network; the C-Suite doesn’t extract a cent. Residents pay for the installation fee in monthly increments, which organizers believe might range from $300-$400 per apartment. But residents cover the cost similar to a mortgage, in monthly payments of around $10-$20, which also covers service.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

modernfarmer.com

> There’s currently no pet food made with cell-cultured meat available on shelves. Because Animals plans to release a limited batch of pet food made with cultured mouse meat in 2022. Bond Pet Foods, which just made its first batch of cell-cultured chicken protein last August, has its eyes set on 2023. > One thing is certain: To reduce its carbon footprint, pet food needs to evolve. “More than a quarter of the environmental effects of animal growing is due to the pet food industry,” says Falconer. “What this [cell-cultured] food would provide is the first environmentally sustainable, ethical meat for people to feed their pets.” Would you buy this for your pet? Does this help the environmental effects of pet food or is there an unintended side effect waiting once these food options become mass produced?

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 75%

modernfarmer.com

> Of the 408 farmed species around the world, found the researchers, only 84 had any research papers written about their welfare. Only 25 species had five or more papers published about their welfare. Anyone not eat aquatic food for environmental reasons? Farmed food seems to be poorly treated and fresh ones continue to leave huge amounts of plastic waste in our waters and can decimate entire environments.

Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixes metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

www.makeuseof.com

I really love how creative people are when it comes to enclosing their RPis, but I'll probably end up just sticking it in cardboard!

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

www.treehugger.com

There are links for more informational articles and a place to sign. Really promising legislation imho. From the article... >To hold corporations accountable for their pollution, and require producers of plastic products to design, manage, and finance waste and recycling programs. >To press pause on new and expanding plastic facilities until critical environment and health protections are put in place. >To incentivize businesses to make reusable products that can actually be recycled. >To reduce and ban certain single-use plastic products that are not recyclable. >To create a nationwide beverage container refund program, and establish minimum recycled content requirements for beverage containers, packaging, and food-service products. >To generate massive investments in domestic recycling and composting infrastructure.

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

modernfarmer.com

It’s an interesting discussion here. I also think, for those who think it’s unfair that conventional to organic farmers need three years to allow the soil to recover but hydroponic farmers dont need to worry about this…are hydroponic farmers required to study the effect of the water they use in their system? Where they source it, how they dispose of it?

modernfarmer.com

It's an interesting discussion here. I also think, for those who think it's unfair that conventional to organic farmers need three years to allow the soil to recover but hydroponic farmers dont need to worry about this...are hydroponic farmers required to study the effect of the water they use in their system? Where they source it, how they dispose of it?

Green - An environmentalist community metawish • 3 years ago • 100%

peertube.social

This is apparently only a trailer (for what I am not sure, he just mentioned a book in the works), but it plus my plethora of tomato seedling plants makes me think of how important community is in growing food. He got neighbors to give him space to produce their yard into a garden for them both, as well as finding food sources and installing them for the community. Would love to do this but when you have debts and responsibilities, it’s hard to manage alone.

peertube.social

This is apparently only a trailer (for what I am not sure, he just mentioned a book in the works), but it plus my plethora of tomato seedling plants makes me think of how important community is in growing food. He got neighbors to give him space to produce their yard into a garden for them both, as well as finding food sources and installing them for the community. Would love to do this but when you have debts and responsibilities, it's hard to manage alone.

There seems to be a lot of options when it comes to companies to host with. Anyone have a favorite they'd rec to someone or companies to avoid? Or, alternatively, anyone have recommendations for things to host? Things you're glad your self-hosting or glad you aren't self-hosting?

Privacy metawish • 4 years ago • 100%

I recently started self-hosting an XMPP server for my friends and family, but when looking for privacy specific guides I can't really find any. It seems like self-hosting is the baseline way to gain privacy, and with things like Docker and Yunohost it feels within reach for average users to learn enough to do it. I loved the phone guide that was published here and was able to follow the steps and learn more about phone privacy. So are there any good guides like that but for servers? I know security is different from privacy, hence why I'm asking specifically for privacy-oriented guides. Thanks in advance, lemmy has always been a fantastic community for helping out newbies! Edit: More specific questions; is there a way for me to make my host IP address not readily available (I'm hosting in my house, not a VPS), is there a better option for security than using Cloudflare (this one I'm having a hard time with mostly because I still don't quite understand what Cloudflare does?), I know some other servers say they delete messages from the server and identifying data...how? (I have metronome as the server for XMPP, using Yunohost)

I keep seeing it pop up when researching and wanted to hear from other gardener's about how they manage their garden information. Pen and notebook? Special designs? Online? Personally, I've never kept anything previously so each year will be a semi-fresh start and daily online searches to find solutions. This year I hope to at least write stuff down; seeds we have, easiest plants to collect seeds from, best/worst companions, harvest time/sprout time, and disease/pest prevention methods.

www.naturespath.com

For anyone new to the garden game, here is a list of companies to buy seeds from. I've ordered most of my seeds from Sustainable Seed Co, but right now they are still recovering from the wildfires in CA, so True Leaf Seed Market I believe is who supplies the seeds.

Anime metawish • 4 years ago • 100%

I started torrenting recently, and found myself using the same fansub (Erai-raw) for my shows. I tried a different fansub and found that I couldn't even watch the video due to the video freezing constantly and the sub track crashing my program. So who is your favorite or most reliable group? DDL or torrent? Why are they your favorite?

"This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world."

It's the 8th year for ASAW! It's time to raise awareness of, and celebrate the Aromantic Spectrum! From AUREA Aromantic - Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which most commonly describes people who experience little to no romantic attraction to others. From the Aromantic Wiki Aromantic Spectrum - The aromantic spectrum encompasses people who relate more to aromanticism than to alloromanticism. For example, people on the aromantic spectrum may be disinterested in romantic relationships with anyone, lack romantic attraction, or have a difficult relationship with romance. An aromantic individual may or may not also be on the asexual spectrum. The aromantic spectrum includes aromantics as well as grey/grayromantics, demiromantics, lithromantics, and others. Alternatively, people who opt out of the romantic orientation model may refer to themselves as quoiromantic. Ways you can raise awareness Educate yourself! Learn more about aromantic identity and types of attraction. Spread the word! Use hashtag #AroSpecAwarenessWeek or #ASAW2021 and link back to the AUREA website. Send a letter to your Representative (US)! Posted the link earlier, but help make the Equality Act inclusive for ALL LGBT folks, including aros.