I assume this sub is just food, not solar Punk food

A blender won't make the budget. Still was fine

this (tumblr) blog is really inspiring to me, has loads of tips for clothing repair, sewing, knitting, crafting on the cheap https://wastelesscrafts.tumblr.com/

you can wash out and reuse the little plastic tub containers that things like yogurt and cottage cheese come in and if you like, you can remove the ink labeling with a cloth or paper towel, 100% acetone nail polish remover, and a little bit of elbow grease I'm really excited about getting free containers

I learned about reusing (carefully cleaned and dried out) juice bottles to use to store dry foods like lentils, rice, flour, sugar, etc. I am excited to do this. I am also using milk jugs but some people would only use PETE plastic. Here are some links. https://www.thriftyfun.com/Reuse-Jugs-for-Dry-Foods.html https://theprovidentprepper.org/packaging-dry-foods-in-plastic-bottles-for-long-term-food-storage/ it should keep insects out but rodents can chew through the plastic. if you have a rodent problem you can just store the jugs of food in thicker plastic containers though

Hello friends, I am slowly getting into selfhosting and trying to convert my old Lenovo X230 laptop into a homeserver that I will use for backups, cloud storage and a few services for my friends.

What's is your setup? What are you doing with it or what are you planning to do with it?

P.S.: The laptop screen is usually turned off of course :)

With the projected 75% of the world's population living in Urban centers by 2050, forecasters are pushing for "bolstering" nature within cities for resiliency and economic reasons.

This guy does a lot of neat stuff. I watched a few electric bike videos he did where he tried building e-bikes with various features.

Perovskite structures are notorious for breaking down very rapidly in real-world use. Now a research team from Princeton University has developed a process for overcoming that problem, making perovskite a real competitor to existing silicon PV technology.

The event will consist of workshops and panels on regeneration and ReFi to foster the movement forward, and a hackathon to ideate and build SolarPunk tech in the Crypto Commons Hub!

• A cyber-physical permaculture garden
• A plastic recycling machine
• Solar panels

Some key points:

• nuclear causes fewer deaths, both animal and human alike
• nuclear takes up far less space, and therefore destroys far less of the environment compared to solar farms, hydro, or wind farms
• nuclear is stable and not an intermittent source, no issues with grid storage, unlike renewables, which currently solve this with fossil peaker plants
• nuclear is hard to turn off so to meet fluctuating demand solely on it, you'd need an excess of nuclear, which is a waste
• nuclear excess could encourage other use of electricity, such as electric heating or transport, however
• nuclear when it does go bad, goes really bad, mostly in that a large area has to be abandoned for a long long time (historically still fewer deaths than renewables per unit of energy produced tho)
• nuclear can cause the proliferation of nuclear weapons
• nuclear is a lot harder to spin up, requires extensive education and is hard and takes a long time to build a plant, compared to renewables
• all that nuclear waste and no plan other than shove it in somewhere, in a mountain, and keep it secret, keep it safe.

Yay or Nay?

What say you?

Using ideas submitted by residents, Rijnvliet is implementing an ecologically resilient 150,000 m2 urban food forest with over 200 species of (edible) flora that doubles up as green infrastructure offering recreational benefits and ecosystem services, including water management, reduction of heat, and cleaning the air.

Morning coffee musings

Transition / Collapse solutions — how to get most out of collapsing infrastructure.

During slo-mo catastrophe, more and more infrastructure may become unused, but still technically working. This is what we have now with empty buildings / apartments for example. Or some abandoned industrial facilities taken over by their crews.

But there are more technical challenges. If the grid is down, what shall we need to redirect output of a local wind/solar farm to the local community use? How to start running local rail transport? How to salvage content of a logistic centre before it gets marauded? Etc. etc…

The inconvenience here lies in the fact that most of such actions are considered illegal under regular circumstances. But we will need them when conditions cease to be “regular”. I believe we should be able to discuss them under the general category of “civil / civic defense” or “communal resilience”.

What do you think?

Hi,

I have two self-hosted instances: https://kinowolnosc.pl (peertube in docker) and https://tepewu.pl (yunohost with several services/apps).

The content there and intended use is in the general area of practical SP, degrowth and social permaculture, liberally laced with anarchist, kolapsnik and hacker attitude.

I am not technical enough to keep them tidy, nor I have enough time to dig into it (some serious offline projects recently got traction).

Is it possible to find some help here, to keep those VPS going and growing? I have no money to pay, so it is a solidarity / mutual aid call.

Few major challenges here:

• cleaning up the peertube instance after crude manual migration from different domain.

• replacing existing Osada instance (soon to expire) with something better (??? friendica ???)

• secure XMPP server configuration.

(some minor nuissances as well)