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you;re all so sexy
#yeah I’m bisexual#attracted to guys girls genderqueers and renewable energy sources#solarpunk#objectum#climate positivity#IM SO EXCITED FOR A FUTURE FULL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY!!!! I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!#in order left to right top to bottom: wind turbines solar panels hydroelectric dam and geothermal power plant#I LOVE GEOTHERMAL PLANTS#from new zealand aotearoa so I see a lot of them#THEY MAKE CLOUDS ^_^
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Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s foolish to believe that a good future is possible. Being an optimist is a perfectly valid strategy to dealing with life. There is a difference between being naive and having hope.
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Johnny's ass keeps pushing Sento away from the support on his back because it's too big btw, do you think Sento knows. Is Sento aware that johnny's cheeks are constantly pushing it. And if so, do you think Sento cares at all, being a sword and all. Is that mundane for a sword. Does Sento compare whose backs or waists or butts or hands felt nicer. Does Kenshi know. Would it tell Kenshi that his hands are the most caring but Johnny's ass is the biggest.
#maybe that's just how it works. being a sword. even if you're sentient.#johnshi#<- target audience#I'm assuming that all the souls in that sword (or most of them) held it before and some kept it on their backs#so now i'm wondering if they get there agter they die and start thinking they should have kept sento in a different position#or if they mind the climate or where the sword is kept#like do they feel it? they are in it but do they feel it#do they ever think 'if I knew it felt this way i would have cared for Sento in a different manner'#i know im anthropomorphizing the sword but the sword has people in it#sento: hey descendent can you light a fire we're cold#kenshi: Oh of course!#sento: thank you. do you want us to give you the grace of vision so you can see the white boy's ass btw#kenshi: what#sento: its a really nice ass. who said that.#kenshi:#mortal kombat#im sorry i juat wanted to talk about the souls in there feeling thinfs through the sword but that implies they felt johnnys ass#and i wanted to make a joke about it#inside sento:#- Akira Taiga-sama had the nicest hands but Hayao-sama had the greatest butt.#both of them also inside the sword hearing this: thank you ascendent you honor us#no but really i kike the idea the sento feels that kenshi is caring for it 🥲
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#RelocationTime
Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
@BenAdrienProulx
October 4th, 2023.
#Relocation Time#GPS#Global Positioning System#Fall Season#Autumn#Color Splash#Nature Photography#Landscapes#Mountains View#Hiking Trails#Altitude Life#ECCC#Environment and Climate Change Canada#NCC#Nature Conservancy of Canada#Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere#Canada#The RavenKeeper
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"Everybody likes those stories about killing one butterfly and the entire future is altered, but why don't we believe that there's one little thing we can do now that might alter the entire future for the better?"
- Rebecca Solnit, from the ten part series Uncertainty and Possibility-Meeting the Climate Future
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Beautiful artwork. I love architecture that incorporates many elements, here we can see water, greenery, air and stone. In the ideal world architecture will be more life giving to both those who occupy them and to the planet. credit Jacek Yerka
#solarpunk#clifi#climate optimism#climate positive#sustainable design#environmental design#climate art
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I think us asexuals should partner up with climate change and marine ecosystem deterioration because everyone seems to claim that they care and then ignore us✌️
#ace pride#ace memes#ace post#asexual#asexuality#aroace#asexual representation#aroace positivity#aspec#aspec culture#asexual inclusion#coming out#lgbtqia#climate change#everyone is valid#lol
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i know the world absolutely sucks rn, but i'm actually quite excited about the potential solarpunk future we have ahead of us
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you dont get random lobby squid parties like this anymore
#i didnt like camp triggerfish as a stage for battle but i loved the squid parties on it <3#im a squid partier at heart but i feel like the climate of splat3 is so different that its not allowed and hated#and honestly sometimes im in the mood to battle and people try to party and im like no ty#so like i get both sides#like idk what it is but its very agro#which u know could still be a positive thing cuz people want to get better at the game so they fighty#but i feel like we truly cant go back to times like this vid#splatoon#splatoon 2#splatoon 3#my vid#jenivi rant#but anyway just ran into this vid and thought it was funny#my post
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If I hear somebody talking about how climate legislation does nothing and how the earth is doomed one more time, I’m going to drive to their house and take them to a forest and let them sit there in silence listening to the birds and basking in the sun until they understand that no, we are not doomed, there’s still so much world left to save and protect, people are working constantly to help the planet and legislation is being passed that is working, and that they don’t need to be afraid of the future or condemn themselves for being human.
We can do this, y’all.
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Seed networks are community organizations that have multiplied in the past decade in different Brazilian biomes to collect, trade and plant native seeds in degraded areas.
In the Chapada dos Veadeiros area, in Goiás state members of seed networks from several parts of Brazil met for almost a week in early June.
Along with environmental organizations, researchers and government officials, they participated in discussions to boost Redário, a new group seeking to strengthen these networks and meet the demands of the country’s ecological restoration sector.
“This meeting gathered members of Indigenous peoples, family farmers, urban dwellers, technicians, partners, everyone together. It creates a beautiful mosaic and there’s a feeling that what we are doing will work and will grow,” says Milene Alves, a member of the steering committee of the Xingu Seed Network and Redário’s technical staff.
Just in 2022, 64 metric tons of native seeds were sold by these networks, and similar figures are expected for 2023.
The effort to collect native seeds by traditional populations in Brazil has contributed to effective and more inclusive restoration of degraded areas, and is also crucial for the country to fulfill its pledge under international agreements to recover 30 million acres of vegetation by 2030.
Seed collection for restoration in these areas has previously only been done by companies. But now, these networks, are organized as cooperatives, associations or even companies, enable people in the territories to benefit from the activity.
Eduardo Malta, a restoration expert from the Socio-Environmental Institute and one of Redário’s leaders, advocates for community participation in trading and planting seeds. “These are the people who went to all the trouble to secure the territories and who are there now, preserving them. They have the greatest genetic diversity of species and hold all the knowledge about the ecosystem,”
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The Geraizeiros Collectors Network are one of the groups that makes up Redário. They were founded in 2021, and now gathers 30 collectors from eight communities in five municipalities: Montezuma, Vargem Grande, Rio Pardo de Minas, Taiobeiras and Berizal.
They collect and plant seeds to recover the vegetation of the Gerais Springs Sustainable Development Reserve, which was created in 2014 in order to stop the water scarcity as a result of eucalyptus monocultures planted by large corporations.
“The region used to be very rich in water and it is now supplied by water trucks or wells,” says Fabrícia Santarém Costa, a collector and vice president of the Geraizeiros Collectors’ Network. “Today we see that these activities only harm us, because the [eucalyptus] company left, and we are there suffering the consequences.”
Costa was 18 years old in 2018, when the small group of seed collectors was founded and financed by the Global Environmental Facility. She says that working with this cooperative changed the way she looks at life and the biome in which she was born and raised.
She describes restoring the sustainable development work as "ant work", ongoing, slow. But it has already improved the water situation in the communities. In addition, seed sales complement geraizeiros’ income, enabling them to remain in their territories.
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The Redário initiative also intends to influence public policies and regulations in the restoration sector to disseminate muvuca, the name given by the networks to the technique of sowing seeds directly into the soil rather than growing seedlings in nurseries.
Technical studies and network experiences alike show that this technique covers the area faster and with more trees. As a result, it requires less maintenance and lower costs. This system also distributes income to the local population and encourages community organizations.
“The muvuca system has great potential [for restoration], depending on what you want to achieve and local characteristics. It has to be in our range of options for meeting the targets, for achieving them at scale,” says Ministry of the Environment analyst Isis Freitas.
Article published August 3rd, 2023
#long post#climate change#climate#hope#good news#more to come#climate emergency#positive news#hopeful#climate justice#news#important#good post#links
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hi! i have been experiencing The Horrors lately (just general hopelessness about the state of the world and especially in regards to climate change) and i am just wondering - do you have any advice for incorporating climate action into one’s everyday life? i need to do something about this but the problem feels so big that i feel like i can’t, like i am drowning in it and i need to learn to swim
Hi my love, sorry it took me a while to respond, I’ve been quite tired!
So first off, the Horrors are reasonable, it’s a very sensible human response to the state of things around you and shows you have empathy and that you care. I say this because it’s all too easy to shame yourself for despair, but it’s natural that we fall into it sometimes.
In terms of doing climate action a little every day, there’s so much you can get your teeth into. For starters, there are personal choices, like giving up flying or meat and dairy if you can. Sure, these don’t add up to much, but they can really change how you feel and working with a smaller burden of guilt can be life-changing. Similarly making choices like switching your electricity and heating and getting an electric car (or even better, taking the train, bus, tram, your feet or a bus) can help you get into a more positive mindset as you feel like you are ‘doing your part’. Check if you have any savings or pensions invested in fossil fuels and switch them over. Even buying from zero waste shops can help shift your mood, even if it’s too small to shift the whole economy.
Once you’ve got all these little changes out of the way, it’s time to think systemic. Most places will have a local activist group you can join, which usually only involves a commitment to weekly meetings - can you attend XR, A22, Greenpeace or Friends of The Earth gatherings in your neighbourhood? These will usually allow you to start attending protests and keying into wider campaign networks.
Something else you can do is bring the subject up with people in your life, to contribute to a wider cultural shift where climate conversations are normalised, and you can agitate for changes at your job or university/school that will bring the institution’s emissions down.
Try to consume a more balanced media diet, seeking out what is going right in the world as well as what is going wrong. Sites like Positive News and the Good News Network are helpful for this. Supernova is a purely positive social media app if you’re looking for a more uplifting scrolling experience.
But much more important is to get outside and to make real-life community. If there’s a conservation or gardening volunteer group in your area I’d highly recommend getting involved with it - nothing has helped me as much as getting my hands in the dirt, doing meaningful work to grow food to feed my neighbours. A lot of our climate anxiety stems from fear that we won’t be able to feed ourselves or that natural beauty will vanish, so connecting with crops or landscapes is a great way to soothe some of that. Building relationships with neighbours or affinity groups (such as LGBT, POC or disabled organisations) can help you feel part of a more resilient network of people who can help each other out in a crisis. Plus if you get to plant trees regularly I guarantee that will help you feel like you’re contributing.
Solarpunk content is great for improving your outlook too - whether it’s optimistic sci-fi, utopian cityscapes or anarchist politics, it all uplifts you and reminds you of what’s possible. Check out people’s stories of what they’re doing to make the world a little better to remind yourself you’re not in it alone.
If you can afford to, a regular donation to groups working to reforest, re-wet peatland, re-seed mangroves or combat soil erosion is a pretty tangible way to fight the climate crisis. Be sure to do all the obvious stuff like voting and engaging with other political pathways too.
A fun weekend’s activity could be seedbombing with friends or building a bee house - there’s lots you can do that’s crafty or creative that also helps your local environment, even if it’s just growing food or pollinator friendly plants on your windowsill or letting your lawn rewild itself. Taking an attitude of grateful, affectionate kinship with all the plants and animals around you will aid in building a sense of connection with the ecosystem and reminding you that you’re part of a grand, resilient web of life.
Put together the emergency kit I detail in an earlier post, so you feel prepared for facing extreme weather and taking part in mutual aid. Teach yourself to forage or at the very least recognise the common plants in your area. This counteracts species blindness and makes you more considerate of the non-human.
You could even consider altering your career path, if you’re an adult, and re-training to work in the climate movement, though this will not be accessible for everyone. If you’re a younger person you could look into pursuing an educational path that will allow you to join the green sector.
If you can get some, therapy with an eco-informed professional can be hugely beneficial for channeling your very reasonable feelings of terror into meaningful action that benefits you and the planet, though admittedly there’s only so much individualised therapy can do for such a huge problem - perhaps there’s a support group you can go to?
And finally, make sure you take some time every day, preferably an hour if you can spare it, but certainly at least fifteen minutes, to do something you really love, that brings you genuine joy, and has nothing to do with the climate crisis. You can’t pour from an empty cup and you can’t put out fires if you’re burnt out. Rest, regeneration and self-care are prerequisites for sustainable movement building and you deserve to have moments of unalloyed happiness. You are categorically NOT in this alone, you are part of a huge, ever-growing moment full of people who are working towards the same goal even though most of you will never meet. And so while we need you now more than ever, there’s also enough of us that you can take a few minutes to feel better and it won’t cost us the fight. As an older activist said to me recently, even when we sleep our comrades across the world are waking up ready to face the day’s struggle.
Ultimately, a lot of these are just things that have worked for me, and they won’t all be accessible or appropriate to you. Some of them are more about changing your viewpoint than radically altering the status quo around the climate. But I know I fight better when I feel optimistic and well in myself, so these are my suggestions. I hope some of them help, and I want to commend your strength and bravery in reaching out for advice and connection, because that’s how we keep fighting, and that’s how we win.
The Horrors are real, but so are the Wonders. And one of those Wonders is you.
#solarpunk#hopepunk#environmentalism#social justice#cottagepunk#community#optimism#bright future#climate justice#positivity#looking forward#keeping on#activism#sustainability#the wonders
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Some positive climate news. I didn’t know that some states in the U.S. have banned plastic bags! Let’s see if we can add more.
#baby steps#good news#stop plastic pollution#end plastic pollution#positive news#go green#climate action#climate activism#climate science#reduce reuse recycle
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it's such a radical kind of positivity to be like 'maybe things will be okay in the end' in the face of biodiversity collapse and colonialism. but it's also exactly what we need. for some of us to go 'what if things turn out okay' and then do the work to get there because we loved that vision so much we made it happen
#climate solutions#climate justice#climate action#biodiversity#colonialism#decolonise#and yes i know we're living through terrible things rn#and it's okay if you're suffering and unable to see the positive#but. i don't usually believe in manifesting but i'm manifesting right now. i'm sick of my prayers being in desperation#what if the best possible outcome happens? and sometimes that means surrounding myself with a much less negative skew#and so. psa i guess. i'm really working on that#and doing so in a way that isn't too rushed so hopefully the hypomania and desperation doesn't kick in#so please if you've read to here ask me how it's going! i won't be checking my dash but i will be checking notifs and messages#personal mental health tag#anti-worrying i guess
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I don’t know if your non-US audience will have heard of it (or even those in the US, based on convos I’ve had today), but the Inflation Reduction Act has passed both chambers of the US legislature. It provides HUGE amounts of funding to climate solutions, in a way that benefits not only the US but other countries through research and driving down costs of clean energy!
I don’t have a great link handy - haven’t found one that summarizes the climate provisions well - but it’s a momentous day for gov’t action on climate!
Hi Noelscope!
Thank you for bringing this up! I have personally been waiting with bated breath watching the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) move through the legislative process--and have similarly been surprised that I don't hear more people in the US talking about it.
Even though this is a massive piece of positive climate change news, part of me has hesitated to post it here because, like every piece of legislature, this is an imperfect bill made by imperfect people and an imperfect political process—for anyone looking to be negative and get up in arms about something there is plenty of stuff to point fingers at that could have been better.
But but but. Looking through the lens of when I first started this blog less than 4 years go—this seems like a legitimate miracle. That we have gotten this far this fast after four years of Trump environmental policy is almost unbelievable.
This is the largest piece of climate legislature passed in the US by a truly massive margin—most models anticipate that it will drop US emissions 30-40% by 2030 and potentially actually put us within reach of our Paris Agreement goals.
Do we need to do more? Yes. Is this an excuse to let up environmental efforts and political pressure? Absolutely not. But this is a massive piece of progress that would not have happened if the people involved had given up when it started to seem impossible.
This video has a great overview of what is in the IRA, what it is intended to do, and some of the downsides (good stuff that had to be left out of the bill and bad stuff that had to be grudgingly included in order to get it to pass).
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#US politics#submission#ask#politics#climate change#global warming#news#carbon emissions#inflation reduction act#positive news#hope#ecoanxiety
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Friendly reminder we went from Obama in 2008 repudiating gay marriage in order to win the Democrat vote, to Trump in 2016 endorsing gay marriage in order to win the Republican vote
#- HK#IT IS OKAY TO BE PUBLICLY AGAINST LEGAL GAY ‘MARRIAGE’#AND YOU SHOULD DO IT MORE#mobile#x#respublica#sexuality#and the same goes for climate alarmism#I am still VERY disturbed by the audience reactions at the first GOP debate last year#that was effed up plain and simple we cannot tolerate climate alarmism as the default position
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