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I know "walkable cities" is considered a buzzword and urbanists are increasingly seen as preachy liberal wonks, but we're literally right. If you spend enough time in an American city outside the literal bubble of your car you will see people carrying groceries along the shoulders of freeways, running for their lives to cross a street, or waiting for an hour to catch a delayed bus. If you read local obituaries about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, they're not white tech bros in spandex but people in redlined neighborhoods without proper sidewalks. You spend enough time trying to own the urbanist nerds and oops, you start condoning a status quo that is overtly cruel and racist.

#grateful to live in a walkable city where i can reach everything by very nice public transport

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Delaware will give free solar panels to low-income residents

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The new pilot program will also cover 70% of rooftop solar costs for moderate-income participants.

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This reminds me of living in an African village or compound. At the end of the day, the most important is having people around you and sharing living spaces and resources like gardens. It's also much healthier for ones mental health. Like a commune than isn't a cult or something similar is the best set up and it's interesting people somewhat naturally crave that.

Um this woman is living the dream

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We can increase our average yield by stopping growing food in areas of land that aren’t productive, and in these areas we can make space for nature. We can improve farm biodiversity without affecting yields.

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You can listen to the article here too!

#Spotify

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haley heyderickx, oom sha la la / katherine riegel, what i would like to grow in my garden 

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Saturday arvo raining here in Perth Western Australia

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HOPE!

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Black girls with gardens 🍃

Link to their shops

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Josephine Baker, Gardner, 1938 

Josephine Baker tending her garden at the Chateau des Milandes, her home from 1937 to 1969

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#future me in my garden 😌

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I don't know if this makes sense but one of the reasons I love solarpunk so much is that it explicitly places hope at the center of the movement and therefore kind of.. takes away this daunting task of having to find hope on my own. Like, sometimes trying to stay hopeful in the face of everything that's happening seems impossible and can be so exhausting and isolating. But the hope that comes with solarpunk has been built up by a community of people rather than painfully and repeatedly dredged up out of some deep corner of my own mind, and it makes it that much easier to not fall into this well of dispair that seems to be constantly lurking nearby.

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Solarpunk to me doesn't mean green and bright everywhere. Instead, it's working with the available environment and harmonizing with it. Living in deserts and learning practical methods of water-finding, homes in the bases of mountains. Protecting existing dark forests, cultivating ones where deforestation once took over the land. And cultural preservation. The architecture of different cultures being preserved, native wildlife sewn into the foundations. It wouldn't all be those images that pop up when you first type 'solarpunk'. It would be extremely varied, a celebration of both biome diversity and human cultural diversity.