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Ken Barr’s 1977 cover art for “The Goblin Reservation,” by Clifford D. Simak

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I love it because what I see makes me happy..

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Schoonderbeek’s Groundfridge for Weltevree,

This spherical refrigerator is buried underground, keeping food cool without using electricity.

Groundfridge is based on traditional root cellars – spaces dug into the earth to preserve food and drink. It is designed to be buried underground where, due to thermal inertia, temperatures are constant throughout the year.

According to Weltevree, burying the fridge allows it to remain consistently between 10 and 12 degrees celsius throughout the year, meaning it can be used to store produce such as vegetables, wine, or cheese.

The company claims the storage capacity is comparable to that of 20 standard refrigerators, meaning it can hold up to 500 kilograms of food.

Constructed from lightweight laminated polyester, the Groundfridge is resistant to intrusion from roots of nearby trees or plants.

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A Striking Photo Series Documents the Melting Glaciers Along 4,000 Kilometers of Greenland’s Coast

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Marimo (毬藻) moss balls are actually a type of algae that grows spherically as it rolls in the water. Because they only grow 5mm a month, they are easy to take care of, but they are also very rare and can only be found in a few parts of the world including Japan & Iceland. Because of their rarity and beauty, a festival called Marimo Matsuri takes place every year in Hokkaido, Japan where all the marimo plants in the Lake Akanko are taken out, individually cleaned, and placed back into the water. Not only are they adorable, but they are considered a national treasure in Japan!

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Unmute !

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Wine cap mushroom plays modular synth by mycolyco

#shroom bop

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If you have hulu

Please check out the first few episodes - out now - of RESERVATION DOGS.

It’s very funny and heartfelt. Support native art with me?

#tv #art #representation matters #comedy #solarpunk

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A Litany For Survival — Audre Lorde

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“Well, I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don’t know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle survived. So whatever I’m doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities and I think that this is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”

– Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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“The only case in which something even remotely resembling Lockean individual homesteading actually occurred was in settler societies like the United States. Settlers in European colonies were able to act out the ahistorical fantasies of Locke in real life for the first time. But they were able to do so only through the fiction that the lands they homesteaded were empty, or terrae nullius — i.e., through ethnic cleansing and genocide of the existing population. This fiction was aided by Locke’s claim that foraging established no genuine property rights because it failed to improve the land. It was also aided by European dismissals of Native property rights in the land, even in cases where agriculture was practiced (as in the southeastern part of what is now the United States), “because native farmers failed to put up hedgerows or fences to mark their territory.””

— Kevin Carson, Capitalist Nursery Fables: The Tragedy of Private Property, and the Farce of Its Defense (via probablyasocialecologist)

#good #yes

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The McDonald’s restaurant in the 14th district of the southern French city of Marseille has been closed for more than a year, yet it has rarely been busier.

On a recent Sunday, workers hurried through the kitchen corridors, passing storage rooms with raw meat hanging from the ceiling and stacked potato boxes lining the walls. Above the counter, illuminated panels featured the McDonald’s menu.

But no one behind the counter was wearing the company’s uniforms. The grills and deep fryers were shrouded. The menu was out of date.

Outside, a car screeched to a halt near the drive-through window, where the screens that once welcomed customers were blank.

“I’m sorry, this is no longer a McDonald’s,” a volunteer told the driver. He pointed at the McDonald’s logo on the wall, which had been rearranged to read “l’après M,” or “the After M.”

“This is a food bank now,” he said.

In December 2019, the McDonald’s was on the verge of shuttering when its employees took the keys and occupied it. Months later, as the coronavirus overwhelmed Europe, the building became the unlikely hub of an impromptu aid-distribution effort.

Still illegally occupied, it has become a symbol of the social and economic rifts that the pandemic has deepened in France.

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Biden wants to begin collecting student debt again. Please sign the petition to say no and reaffirm our commitment to cancellation.

#student loans #financial news #activism

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Ch💓

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Re: our recent chat about aesthetic and personal politics Check out this video that applies a similar lens to dark academia. Great analysis of wealth indicators, madness, and elitism! Also some great closing thoughts on how “aesthetic value” can have a positive impact.  If you like this kind of social/cultural analysis, I highly recommend their channel. <3

#dark acaemia #solarpunk #aesthetic #humanities #education of the soul #for the culture

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I got into solar punk after listening to native peoples opinions on cottagecore and deciding that I could have my aesthetic and do the work too. Activism has always been important to me and solarpunk is a very holistic way for me to incorporate things that make the world better with how much I love being in the world

It's great that you were willing to expand your practice! Thank you for sharing. I had a similar experience, but with eco-feminism and solarpunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM524nIzQdQ

#solarpunk #asks #thank you #ecofeminism

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Please consider signing

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/president-biden-secure-american-journalist-danny-fenster-s-immediate-release-from-myanmar-1?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=e1317207-1080-49de-8805-7702cc98626a

I work at an arts college in Chicago and one of our alumni is currently being detained in Myanmar for (essentially) being a journalist. Please consider signing!

#solarpunk #keep the press free #freepress #journalism #humanrights