Delightful video about the #solarpunk art at #storyseedlibrary @alxd
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVgg6vYCvQ
Story Seed Library: https://storyseedlibrary.org/
Delightful video about the #solarpunk art at #storyseedlibrary @alxd
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVgg6vYCvQ
Story Seed Library: https://storyseedlibrary.org/
The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year.
After crunching the numbers:
🔋 Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery.
What would it take for our home to be Solar Self-Sufficient?
Work in progress, but I think I have the answer.
🏠 I live in an ordinary house in suburban London.
☀️ Our solar panels generate 3,800kWh per year.
🔌 We use the same amount of electricity per year.
After crunching the numbers:
🔋 Capturing all our solar excess needs a 1 MegaWatt-hour battery.
HF Radio: Guide for facilitators and community installers (2022)
by Rhizomatica
"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station."
"[It] is an outcome of a number of workshops conducted in 2020 in Puyo and Lago Agrio, Ecuador, by Rhizomatica, together with Kara Solar Foundation and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These training workshops were attended by members of the Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Sápara, Shiwiar, Waorani, Kofán, Achuar, Andwa, Shuar, Quijos, Kichwa and Siekopai.
From this effort, which is ongoing as of the publication of this manual, 40 solar-powered shortwave or high frequency (HF) radios have been deployed in different parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These radios were installed by Indigenous technicians and local people from beneficiary communities and nationalities, who were trained during three-day in-person workshops in the second half of 2020."
https://www.rhizomatica.org/app/uploads/2022/06/HF-Radio-Guide-EN.pdf
#radio #telco #hf #solarpunk #permacomputing #lowtech #ecuador
In light of recent (again and again) shenanigans with Apple iOS and Google Android, I'm looking into Linux native smart phones yet again.
Linux phone operating systems have come a loooong way. Examples like PostmarketOS ( @postmarketOS ), PureOS ( @purism ) and Ubuntu Touch / UBPorts ( @ubports ) offering a solid choice, the big issue is linux native apps, but those have come a long way as well.
First, many apps have fully functional mobile web sites and web apps that are, by nature, cross platform and available on linux through web browsers or as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
Second there are many native linux apps that work well on a mobile screen as well or apps specific to phones, etc.
Lastly, there are - for lack of a better word - emulators that let you load and run android apps, for example.
Linux Phones are not as polished as iOS or Android phones, but the control and privacy is there.
Ironically the biggest thing that've needed is Signal Messenger ( @signalapp ) on Linux. Almost everything else I need is there, including GPS maps and web app / PWA versions of transit apps and banking apps. Even Signal, I might break with as most of my chat groups might hop over to another end to end encrypted messaging service that runs on Linux.
What would you need to use a Linux Phone as your daily driver?
I know I'm in my forties because
yesterday I spoke at my city council meeting in favor of the proposed zoning ordinance changes.
Today I am playing pickleball.
It ain't sexy, but if we want that #solarpunk future of high density, walkable, decommodified housing the city of Lakewood needs to ditch its racist, classist zoning laws that mandate sprawl.
The local library is doing the Repair Cafe!!! This is an initial event. Im hoping we can do something like this monthly once we get it going!!!
Repair Cafes are community events where people bring things to get fixed and maintained for free. Volunteers come to hang out, talk shop, and work on folks' items.
This is a mutual-aid event - So folks might be good at fixing bicycles but arent as good at mending jeans. So they might bring their jeans to get patched and then help tune a bicycle!
While my library has asked if I can help with desktop support (which I'm more than willing to do), I actually really like working on bicycles! So I let them know I could do that, too.
I'm at my bandwidth with creating and organizing things with the Free Fridges and Food Rescue, but I absolutely can join an volunteer on the days of if all I have to do is show up, hang out, and tinker on some repairs!
THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!
#solarPunk#repairCafe#rightToRepair#mutualAid #libraries #library #librarians
HF Radio: Guide for facilitators and community installers (2022)
by Rhizomatica
"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station."
"[It] is an outcome of a number of workshops conducted in 2020 in Puyo and Lago Agrio, Ecuador, by Rhizomatica, together with Kara Solar Foundation and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These training workshops were attended by members of the Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon: Sápara, Shiwiar, Waorani, Kofán, Achuar, Andwa, Shuar, Quijos, Kichwa and Siekopai.
From this effort, which is ongoing as of the publication of this manual, 40 solar-powered shortwave or high frequency (HF) radios have been deployed in different parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These radios were installed by Indigenous technicians and local people from beneficiary communities and nationalities, who were trained during three-day in-person workshops in the second half of 2020."
https://www.rhizomatica.org/app/uploads/2022/06/HF-Radio-Guide-EN.pdf
#radio #telco #hf #solarpunk #permacomputing #lowtech #ecuador
We are seeing the first Solar Panels, made from Recycled Solar Panels,
in factories powered by Solar Panels.
These are a early steps in a closed loop system which should power humanity for centuries to come with minimal environmental impacts and with doubtless more improvements to come. #SolarPunk
https://www.trinasolar.com/us/resources/newsroom/Worlds-First-Fully-Recycled-c-Si-Module
We are seeing the first Solar Panels, made from Recycled Solar Panels,
in factories powered by Solar Panels.
These are a early steps in a closed loop system which should power humanity for centuries to come with minimal environmental impacts and with doubtless more improvements to come. #SolarPunk
https://www.trinasolar.com/us/resources/newsroom/Worlds-First-Fully-Recycled-c-Si-Module
This is your seasonal reminder that all acorns are edible. Many acorns require leaching. For instructions on how to leach acorns and recipe ideas, see the thread below.
#CostOfLiving #inflation #tariffs #politics #uspol #gardening #garten #jardin #foraging #food #cooking #acorns #solarpunk#SolarpunkSunday#NativePlants
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