Nyssa 1mo ago • 100%
In terms of legal structures, look to see if your local jurisdiction has a social benefit or public benefit corporation that you can legally register as. They're like an LLC, but place a social mandate of some kind above profit making. This is legally built into the charter of the business, meaning it can be enforced in the courts if later on the business attempts to violate that mission. It also allows such businesses to qualify for certain grants.
Nyssa 1mo ago • 100%
Poplars and willows are fairly fast growing. Plus there are perennial grass feedstocks
This article really highlights to me how critical infrastructure is to achieving a sustainable food system. There are plenty of people growing food in an ecologically mindful manner, but they're so atomized that they need to do everything themselves. And the infrastructure is so centralized that you're forced into the industrial model if you want to go beyond the farmer market level. We need more meat lockers, local grain mills, oil pressers, etc. to build out regional food production networks.
Nyssa 2mo ago • 100%
Student Visas is my favorite
Nyssa 2mo ago • 100%
Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.
Nyssa 2mo ago • 100%
The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you've ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible
Nyssa 2mo ago • 100%
Also, lots of state and local governments in the US have strong renter protections.
Nyssa 2mo ago • 100%
You'd probably site them on higher ground outside of the flood plane. Add in flood walls, etc. if storm surge is a concern
Just noodling around with what majors/classes would be available in a solarpunk world. Open to suggestions!
Nyssa 3mo ago • 100%
A go to lunch for me is overnight oats. The night before I throw half a cup of oats and water into a container, add a spoon full of peanut butter, a tbsp of chia seeds, and handful of frozen blueberries
Nyssa 3mo ago • 100%
For sure. I think trying to preserve these tools is a bit of a waste of time. But extending their lifespan is always a win in my book
Off to purchase some coconut oil!
Nyssa 3mo ago • 100%
When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.
Nyssa 3mo ago • 100%
Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.
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Nyssa 5mo ago • 100%
I like to chop it up, fry it with onions, and put it in burritos. Breakfast burritos especially with egg, bacon or sausage, and cheese. It can also substitute for turnip or collard greens in a recipe if you're looking for a place to eat it. Since its more of a bitter plant, you'll want to use it much differently than spinach (whoever told you it tastes like that deserves a stern talking to)
Nyssa 5mo ago • 100%
Wait until you get into food preservation!
Nyssa 5mo ago • 100%
I'm from a big wind state. It's absurd to me how unpopular wind farms have been among rural folk. It brings jobs and revenue and has a relatively small land foot print. I just don't get why people don't like them, except for culture war stuff :/
Nyssa 5mo ago • 100%
Nuclear could be useful in applications that need a high energy load on-site, like steel, cement, and nitrogen production
These two helped launch the Svalbard seed vault in Norway and protect massive amounts of seed diversity for future use. Not to mention their work on bringing orphan crops back into production to support food security in developing countries.
Nyssa 6mo ago • 100%
That's a great point, I didn't consider the tech tree that leads to bikes also makes cars more likely :/
Why do alt-history people never focus on infrastructure or innovation? What would have happened had bikes been invented centuries before cars instead of around the same time? How different would the built environment and our culture have looked? Personally, I think centuries of more established bike use would have created an infrastructure that limits how well cars take off. Cities would have entrenched themselves in a cheap, dense manner of transit. I could be wrong, lots of dense cities were wrecked by the car when it was commercialized. I'd love to hear any thoughts :)
Nyssa 9mo ago • 100%
I definitely recommend looking into some of Dr. Fowlers history, he's such a cool person and his work with Crop Trust was so cool.
Nyssa 11mo ago • 100%
The only disease to be fully eradicated, 5 million people can live every year who otherwise would have died had we not defeated this disease
Nyssa 11mo ago • 100%
In 2008, the most likely projections had us around 4.5 degrees of warming. So, there is progress. Insufficient progress, we need to double down, but progress nonetheless
Nyssa 11mo ago • 75%
No, but it does change the implication. If leasing doesn't lead to drilling, then it's a pretty negligible concern