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[jakyljest]

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[zzkt]

'Salvage operations will commence as soon as practicable. A further notice will be issued when the wreck is removed.'

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) May 28, 2019

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[solarpunks]

People fish for crayfish next to solar panels at a fishery-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station, in Yangzhou, China (VCG)

via @justinpickard

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[thejaymo]

Members of Special Forces Cavalry—one of them with a snake around his neck—walk in front of Paraguay's new president during a military parade in Asunción, Paraguay, on Aug. 15 (Marcos Brindicci) 

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[jkottke]

Connecticut silk

Did you know Connecticut nearly had a silk production industry? Atlas Obscura has a short history of that silk adventure, from mulberry trees, to attics, speculative bubbles and lumpy thread.

By 1826, three out of every four households in Mansfield, Connecticut, were raising silkworms, and by 1826, Congress commissioned a report on the potential for a U.S. silk industry. By 1840, Connecticut outpaced other states in raw silk production by a factor of three. Within the next two decades, however, the industry would collapse, leaving the country to wonder what went wrong.

One of the biggest triumphs for the early industry was figuring out how to adapt sericulture to cold weather. Such tactics included keeping silkworms warm by raising them in attics, and figuring out how to feed them in cold weather.

The product they ended up with was adequate for sewing thread, but not strong enough for the industrial-silk-manufacturing infrastructure that Connecticut had begun to build. According to one scathing assessment, "Connecticut women in 70 years have not improved their knowledge of reeling." Another issue, Stockard says, was the expectation that women could reel silk "whenever leisure from other duties permitted." In other words, women were supposed to wedge a high-skill, time-intensive task into their already full workloads, and the result was sub-par silk.

(Via @justinpickard.)

[iamdanw]

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Dozens of cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are seen during an Avaaz.org protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

[mapc]

Taking from @justinpickard who takes from some book #STS

[dengusmaximus]

justinpickard @ August 19, 2018 at 04:16PM

Members of Special Forces Cavalry—one of them with a snake around his neck—walk in front of Paraguay's new president during a military parade in Asunción, Paraguay, on Aug. 15 (Marcos Brindicci) pic.twitter.com/pXCcoTmBxY

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) August 19, 2018

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Ikea 'abandoning its custom of planning five to 10 years ahead, setting a new three-year approach to keep pace with a rapidly transforming society.' https://t.co/7sfjJ7fXBA

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) April 11, 2018

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[roxanatesting]

@himHallows: @justinpickard Great, now I'm going to have to google how many London buses or Eiffel Towers would fit on the decks (end to end) of a Mærsk E-class Container Ship.

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[vanlifebot]

@justinpickard: Something something #vanlife.

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[jakyljest]

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[zzkt]

The votes will continue until morale improves.

— Justin Pickard (@justinpickard) March 13, 2019

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[solarpunks]

3 Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire

Last year, forest fires in central Chile wreaked havoc in the El Maule region with more than 100 different wildfires sweeping through the area and destroying over a million acres of forest land. It was the worst wildfire season in the country’s history, taking several lives and created an estimated $333 million of dollars worth of damages. The animals were forced to flee to safer areas.

The job to replant endless acres of forests seemed like a daunting endeavor. That is until three unusual workers took up the task. Six-year-old Das and her two daughters, Olivia and Summer are three Border Collies who have been trained to run through the damaged forests with special backpacks that release native plant seeds. Once they take root, these seeds will help regrow the destroyed area.  

Read more at: http://www.greenmatters.com/living/2018/02/19/2m3wBf/border-collies-forest

Scampering dogs in Chile help restore burnt forests

They jump out of Torres' truck and run into the forest they are charged with bringing back to life by spreading seeds from the satchels, happily oblivious to the benefit they are providing.

When the job is finished they get treats from Torres, 32, who also trains dogs to work with people with disabilities. Then she fills their satchels up with more seeds and sends them out again.

Torres, who runs an environmental NGO, says these dogs—bred to herd sheep—are smart, vibrant and fast and therefore just right for the job.

In any case, they are better than humans, she said.

The dogs can cover a range of 30 kilometers in a day and sow up to 10 kilos of seeds, whereas a person could only do three kilometers in a day.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-scampering-dogs-chile-burnt-forests.html#jCp

Border collies run like the wind to bring new life to Chilean forest

"They reeeeeally love [it]!!" Torres tells MNN, via an email interview. "It's a country trip, where they can run as fast as they can and have a great time."

Watch the dogs go scampering through the forest:

https://www.facebook.com/Pewos/videos/1648970485116471/

Here, Das patiently waits while her backpack is filled with seeds:

https://www.facebook.com/Pewos/videos/1621547704525416/

"We have seen many results in flora and fauna coming back to the burned forest!" says Torres, who also runs a dog-oriented environmental community called Pewos and trains assistance dogs.

Read more at: https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/border-collies-spread-tree-seeds-chile-forest

Big thanks to @justinpickard for bringing these very good dogs to our attention!!

If the solarpunk adage is “move quietly and plant things” perhaps we should also say “Have a fast zoooom and spread seeds” ?

#solarpunk #border collies #restoration #forest #wildfire #animals #native plants #seeds #working dog #good dogs #chilean forest #chile #fire #wild fire

[dannyduran]

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[iamdanw]

(via After tsunami, some Japanese are feeling walled-in | The Wider Image | Reuters) via @justinpickard