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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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Continuing the Hokkaido squash thread ⬆️🧵... yesterday 27-7 was another plant-roaster afternoon, with 40 deg C dry breeze, carrying wildfire smoke with it, perhaps from as far as Madrid. Some of the plants are hanging in, even putting out new shoots from closer to base but the long runners are dying back. There's even a very fast volunteer on the compost heap determined to make some late fruit. I cut one of a "clutch" of fruit which were making quite a sag in the tunnel polythene, about a metre out. 1.2 kg and about 20 cm dia. It was ripe and delicious! SO delicious, all gone in 2 meals today, inc some of the seeds which I cooked in situ. A 90% garden food day today, in fact. Passata from a 2 days ago, courgette, the squash, strawberries, herbs. Just bought-in peanut butter, olive oil and butter. Good energy day, which I'm attributing to this, despite more heat. That 50-ish kg of will get eaten very quickly. #growYourOwn #gardening #squash #aborboro

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

UK's sewage-dumping water utilities could be turned into publicly owned non-profit #coops idea being floated [sorry]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/01/turn-failing-water-firms-into-not-for-profit-cooperatives-mps-and-mayors-tell-pm

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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The pic of the Hokkaido squashes racing across the polytunnel roof in the prev post ⬆️ was taken 12 June. Then they got hit by the heat-"wave" which would have been over 40 C up there, and decided enough leaf!! But they kept on with the fruit-making business. ⬇️ more in alt txt #growYourOwn #gardening #practicalSolarPunk

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social That's one of the best concise interpretations I've read of MMT, particularly "when you pay tax, you're not funding anything - you're protecting the value of the other money you have" -- "you" and others with a lot more, that is.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

RE: @zsapi@mastodon.social

2 days ago, Romania shutting-down its 2 nuclear plants due to low Danube water levels. [ www.romania-insider.com/both-nuclear-reactors-shutdown-danube-romania-july-2026 ]

Now Hungary:

#nuclearPower #climateCrisis #drought

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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...Moving on a month from prev 2 images in thread, and facing back down the #polytunnel, in a view not posted before, here was the state of play on 7th July. All looking verdant. Following on from this, in the next post, the tomatoes have decided to begin ripenning... #growYourOwn #gardening #practicalSolarPunk

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 3mo ago

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... 4 months after the pic/post of the #practicalsolarpunk #polytunnel in construction ⬆️ - here it is again. Thanks to it being too hot to work outside this afternoon. Yesterday around 5pm, also over 37 C, it was actually cooler in there than outside. 🧵 /1 -- almost = angle to Feb photo ⬆️ -detail in alt txt. #growYourOwn

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Tomato seedlings, mostly 3rd-generation-saved Couer de Boi, are germinating here in several different locations.

Even some outdoor cloched ones have come up due to the few recent 25 deg C afternoons, but they wont be liking the current 7.6 C ambient.

The pictured ones (indeed this whole post) are here bcs they've been indoors for nights, and are currently under my high-brightness desk magnifier right by my elbow, at just under 20 C, the threshold for decent growth. Can't really ignore them!

I've not even been outside in the cold heavy cloud drizzle this morning!

The substrate, all home-brew, includes sieved wildfire wood-ash, hence the fragments of shale and black look. It's a superb growth promoter.

The seed was "easy-saved" by simply pressing the sieved material from making passata on kitchen paper towel - including high-speed blending! The towel was quick-sun-dried and stored, then torn into strips to germinate, as shown. The whole process taking not much longer than this post!

#growYourOwn #tomatoes #seedSaving #climateDiary

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse

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@chu@climatejustice.social "Go with the flow" people tend to be nice. Won't argue with anything. If it's come before them by some state or commercially opaque path, ideally with smiley-people media promotion, they'll buy it. There was a lot of them in my generation. Maybe still.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social "contentious policy implications such as the government's ability/duty to create full employment" -- or indeed the need to link income and employment at all! Maybe the latter could then be viewed as ... wages/salary [or denial of income] being a system of protecting the value of endeavour....

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 3mo ago

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🧵 /4 and last #polytunnel one for today -- at the far-end of the prev pic, facing the wall: nearest, the first-filled IBC-frame bed. Got the most generous [double😜] helping of manure, plus the #edibleLupins behind the tomato _may_ just be putting-about their rhizobia activity? The FIRST ripening tomato of this season is seen in the foreground, yesterday 5 June. One of several perfectly good cherry tom, hardly hybridised, that I saved when digging out one of the transparent polythene-covered manure beds to add to these beds. While the intentional varieties were still germinating. Carrots also enjoying their companionship and the tunnel it seems. Behind this bed, more toms., vertically trained courgettes, and hiding at the very back, some portuguese "Couve", a sweet brassica that is currently a delicious salad, when the outside plantings have gone tough and to seed.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 8mo ago

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Last for today / a while. most of day working on polytunnel ground: clearing obstructive "good soil" piles and areas near NE end with black soil/bracken root. sieving to west-most cut-in-half IBC-frame raised bed, lined with ground-cover fabric. 20 mm cylindrical screen laying on top of bed -- _very ergonomic_, but really needs worst gravel re-sieving with 12 mm sieve - lot of it but too wet. at least it's out of way. medium size spoil stone/gravel back to NE end paths. barrow also emptied of [waterlogged] soil. drizzle by dusk again. 6 pine poles for the final hoop cut and prepared, waiting to go in. still. how about #practicalsolarpunk ?

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

@pocketvj@fosstodon.org

pleased to meet you

love "turn off the internet and start doing something now!"

I just come in out of the heat every now and then, or for a break. Like now. Suspect you come in for a warm-up, or are checking your pmos phone while out?

I have a bit of an issue following you, as CJ.social hides a lot of fosstodon.org bcs "fascist apologist admin"... like I dont see thumbnails of images or your avatar. Hoping the slow full-size image loading will fix once the server has grokked I follow you.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

RE: @Snoro@mastodon.social

The image shows that the farmer has been working hard at desert-building for a few years now. They must be pleased with all the subsidised hedge removal, soil-carbon depletion and agrochem residues they've achieved.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

For my whole life, the "boomer" generation has been "_kicking_the_can_ down_the_road_" at best, if not outright obfuscating and denying their culpability, led by the fossil fuel heavies. Some are still at it worse than ever... Might-makes-right believers don't "get" living lightly.

Timeline from https://www.ucs.org/resources/infographic-whos-responsible-climate-change via @Snoro@mastodon.social

#fossilFuels #fossilLobby #climateCrisis #climateChaos

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/116277537740390144 @angelastella@social.treehouse.systems @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @driusan@doomscroller.social

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza frequent flying by the super-affluent is a significant contributor to the #climateCrisis thermodynamics allows no-one a cop-out carbon offsets are largely greenwash climate crisis drives many of the migrants to the temperate zones, contributing to the authoritarian backlash from which you want to flee @fabio@manganiello.eu

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@maru @futurebird "our cat is the cutest when hungry" -- The resident beast here is _aware_ of this option, but I think is often overcome by deeper desperation. Evening, recently, after the endless wailing failed, as did the sitting as close to big-energy human construction activities as deemed safe ... as I finally proceeded to the outdoor feeding-place at the appointed time (sunset), which normally has her trotting in front warbling with anticipation, she decided on a display of "well f*ck you, watch this" -- and managed to almost instantly get herself to the very top of a 10 m high tree en route. But then of course, considerable slow contortions to get herself down again, while I served without the usual clamour.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@KCDOZ@mastodon.social ⬆️ #caturday ...but the cat is watching thru one slit of an eye. As soon as the kimono cut is complete, it will jump up and begin the incessant "feeeeeeeeeeeeed meeeeeeeeeeee ..." that will last the whole afternoon till the woman gives it scraps from her supper in order to get some sleep herself....

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@firstdogonthemoon @futurebird

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@eco-g the last point is the laugh -"lent voters to the tories" claiming they've lent them to the Greens now, after G&D rout. More sinister thought.... If this is how Starmer -- a human-rights lawyer -- ends up, after sitting in the driving seat, how might Polanski? Can the soul-eating machine be switched-off before being strapped into it?

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

Just in case you haven't read it yet, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/zack-polanski-jewish-identity-leftwing-green-party-antisemitic-attacks-uk-press, #ZackPolanski 's being vilified in the #establishment pressure to keep the #greenParty out of #UKPol -- #OwenJones can smell it too.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Remittancegirl "Why isn't it that we are so sick to the teeth with Trump that we no longer click?" -- I filtered various common names for him round about the beginning of his 2nd term start, and never read beyond headlines of other news media. So I only get involved when someone I follow writes a powerful comment that doesn't mention him by name, or continues such a thread as this, having established who they're talking about in earlier posts. So yes, I/he gets about the right amount of exposure as a result. And "cancer of end-stage capitalism ..vs.. spectacle of Trump" -- way beyond just you / your ideology! Hits nail on head! 💯

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

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@Anne_Delong@musician.social "..use Mastodon in two different ways ... ...tech bloggers and magazines post links to their content. ... don't expect replies. [!] ... posting about my own interests and boosting and commenting on other people's creative work or insights..." _This is it here_, summarized. I like it that there is just a bit of cross-over too. Sometimes I'll write stuff as replies to the former, not aimed at them as they prob dont read and less reply, but to others following. Some do tho., if it complements what they're posting. @dabeaz@mastodon.social @urlyman@mastodon.social @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@toxi participatory, #postspectacularSociety -- keep track of this idea a bit?

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Broadfork I kept a lot of the [often minimally or "uncleaned"] saved seed in the shed/workshop last winter due to space issues. I put the #edibleLupins seeds in sealed foil-lined plastic packets of 25 inside a foil-lined cardboard carton. When I came to do the spring planting, I found mice had chewed through both foils and eaten about half of them. The rest had got damp, and had about 50% germination - I got about 30 new plants out of the 120 saved. So much for foil! Luckily, the overwinter ones have survived the storms with stupid pampering and are looking to do 3+ tiers of pods!

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

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@hembrow@todon.eu @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com Nuclear vs Renewable. Yes, I had the hots for nuclear when I was a kid. I was a junior dev engineer for a subcontractor on fuel-rod vibration measurement in Brit AGRs! Some still running, I believe. The reason nuclear is so beloved of right-wingers is its need for top-down control, centralisation and funding. Most haven't got a clue about the functionality of the system, they just want the control, and of the rest of the system _through_ it. Including the weapons spin-off. Distributed renewables -- the sheep got out of the pen!

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@angelastella@social.treehouse.systems @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @driusan@doomscroller.social #CarryShitOlympics is amusing, even exciting when done well. But the average 4x4 shopper wants their trip to be r e a l l y b o o o r i n g, so they can focus on their whatzapp or farcebook properly as they go thru the motions habitually.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@christineburns anyone liking the Itchy Boots spirit but not the petrol motorbike part might like to check out https://www.thesuntrip.com/en/le-concept/ it's a long-long haul recurring "race" for solar-power-assisted electrical micro-mobiles. All sorts of weird vehicles and everyone from top manufacturer teams [who get far less attention than in mainstream events] ... though small-business innovators to elderly, self-supporting people, male and female, who get lots of love and local mechanic help from village blacksmiths in the middle of Mongolia etc., as in this video narrative I recommend from 2018 https://www.thesuntrip.com/en/courses/the-sun-trip-2018/

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

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@CommonMugwort@social.coop @etp@indieweb.social as you can see from the closely spaced seedlings, quite a lot of thinning will happen. Prob when I transplant them. But a couple of kilos of toms has several retail-packets worth of seeds in it, so no need for preciousness about them. More important was making sure the tomatoes chosen for saved seed had not flowered while there were other varieties around doing so. Because it was such a grey day, even after the rain stopped, I kept them in all day, and really enjoyed revisiting them under their spot-lamps. I'll take more similar-as-I-can pics and maybe try a superimposition.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

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@ainmosni "point of productivity...to take care of humans" humans ... while everything else beautiful and self-sustaining by way of its complexity and frugality is obliterated before interjecting I just did a page search for any terms relevant to anything living other than the [default] rape-ape species. Not in this thread... but elsewhere in the followed timeline, this from @jackofalltrades, 2nd para of which fits: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/116125048598041523 #biosphere #productivity

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

A little vertical waterfall, somewhere in the course down the mountain in the first vid of the thread. A fallen charred cork-oak, that was brought down this time last year, by a storm with winds coming _down_ the mountain, (similar to a couple of nights ago when it took out the shade frame and bought the other object here). Having been bought down, it then got charred, last August. ⬇️🧵+ (polytunnel works)

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 8mo ago

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Sunday 8th Feb was the first dry day here for weeks, even a few minutes of sun. Rain in every 3hr segment forecast for the next 5 days, totaling 130mm. Yesterday I was too preoccupied with building polytunnel raised beds [🧵⬇️⬇️ ] to remember to do bulk laundry, bugger. On saturday evening, just as I was packing up that job, strong winds gusting from unusual direction - downslope - took-out the shade frame for the lower garden, just about discernible in the prev video. Damaging yet more plants (cloches soaring off horizontally into the night) and blocking the already precarious stone stairways with tangles of poles to contort myself through whilst carrying the day's heavy dry-storage gear back down in the drizzle. #climateDiary

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

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@shonin@c.im you know Neoliner Origin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dUdaBnJ58jI

World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

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@djflore@mastodon.online Just spent a timeless while after supper enjoying your photo tour. Much appreciated. I would take issue with your final line "Vietnam - a country to add to your travel plan without a doubt!" -- no: casual, itinerary-ticking tourists dont. With photos this good, who needs to burn all that jet fuel and contribute to the destruction of such places by over-tourism? Let those who really must immerse themselves go visit, but dont make it too easy. We each have the capacity to make a place [near where] _we_ live more beautiful, by rejecting industrialised consumer norms and enjoying the satisfying hard work of making something uniquely beautiful of our own.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 2mo ago

How the UK trend for turning front gardens into driveways is adding to night-time heat "Impervious surfaces including asphalt (which many driveways are made of) absorbs heat, raising ground and air temperatures. They both absorb up to 95% of incoming solar radiation during the day, reaching surface temperatures of 50-55°C, compared to 27-32°C for grass or tree-covered areas. " Obvious - but you know #carBrain https://theconversation.com/how-the-trend-for-turning-front-gardens-into-driveways-is-adding-to-night-time-heat-287338 #climateChange #heatIsland

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@tim ⬆️⬆️ India or at least Asia, I think you will find. What USDA zone are you? I suspect I tried old/poor-quality seed, but it rotted before it germinated. Similar plants here, the problem tends to be _fluctuations_ in temperature and humidity rather than absolute minimum. In my case it's altitude (especially having lost a lot of canopy to the last wildfire in August), but in your case it may just be Continental Climate. #growYourOwn #coffee

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to on vis.social

@infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social https://climatejustice.social/@wavesculptor/116094259926360074

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

🧵 /2 The Hokkaido squash having an aborboro-race across the polytunnel roof. Some delicate mountaineering required to keep them in order... they're growing in a Hügel-bed of part-burned and rotted timber and with some very old humanure, all wrapped in woven groundcover fabric to keep the assertive wildlife out.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@DoomsdaysCW @jblue #Ecovoltaics - nice one! Not going to boost that site tho, it's reader-hostile!

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 8mo ago

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Surreal rainy images/ultrashort vids for you today. More than er, necessary, in alt's. Alright, this version of masto only allows this one vid per this post. ⬇️⬇️🧵+ #cats

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 3mo ago

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@christineburns@mastodon.green I went to have a look if, amongst its tools, the site had a count of vehicles by type -- large/small SUV, compact etc. Not that I could see. And does this include light vans? I'm all too certain that any enviro impact savings/changes by going bEV are being eaten by weight and size bloat.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 5mo ago

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@Broadfork looks *very* viable! sealed container? ambient temp? I bought new this year, after struggles with 3 yr old seed last year, and have inter-sown every raised bed in the tunnel with them. I always want to eat more than I have, and shop ones are a bugger to porter on the bike and don't keep well. Nantes and one I've never tried before, "Berlikumer 2".

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

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@bossito@mastodon.social complete -- with Cover Girl to your liking, perhaps? ;-/

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· 6mo ago

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@tim you could manufacture a micro-climate that might fit. I would certainly try again if I could get cheap green, unprocessed coffee beans. Not a thing here. The fire was the 2nd in 7 years. Not unexpected. It's become a pyrogenic climate and environment: rapidly growing robust shrubs full of oil that desiccate above ground then come back after the fire. The eucalypt plantation was actually LESS flammable around me than this scrub. Most of it cooked, not burned. The insidious part was the slow, long underground fires that the flash fire started, emitting higher proportion of CO2 than the H-rich volatiles burning in the flash fires My task is to conserve the ravine system that I'm in.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 8mo ago

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Something arrived from way, way above in the recent winds. ⬇️⬇️🧵+

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 3mo ago

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@Hippie@ravenation.club Valuable article from 2015. Thanks for link. May take some more tips from it.

I knew about heat storage walls, and their use in Greenhouses. We had a Georgian/Victorian one a Redfield Commune in UK when I lived there, but I was not primarily a gardener in those days.

I didn't realise they had become a "thing" again. The one in this thread was a result of

a flimsy toy kit one I didn't procure, which blew flat in a winter gale here, in an exposed location, despite me tieing re-bar to the frame! Realised any new one had to be well tucked-in
currently living pretty-much money-free
memories of building one for an allotment in Penzance, UK, I once shared, out of sawn and re-laminated cheap construction timber.
as much about heat AVOIDANCE as heat retention, whilst scoring as much cool light as possible. A lot of stuff just stops growing at 35 C which commonly happens here, howe ver much you irrigate.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 6mo ago

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@futurebird thank you for posting this - every time I feel myself getting up-tight bcs of whatever tactic is being tried at the time, I think of "melodramatic" and chuckle instead.

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Solar🌄Garden @wavesculptor@climatejustice.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to on tldr.nettime.org

@tante@tldr.nettime.org then there is also the tension between human technology and all other life forms, even if the *intention* of the creators of that technology is benign. I'm enjoying more and more giving other lifeforms the benefit of the doubt and minimising the tech. Or using the tech to minimise the tech. Like outdoor illumination that responds (gracefully) to human needs, not blitzing night creatures all night. No not the floodlight that flashes 50 times every night when the cat walks past.

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