https://stripedspatula.com/gallo-pinto/#wprm-recipe-container-7474 was quite tasty when we made it the other night. also https://www.ruchiskitchen.com/vegan-spicy-peanut-noodles/#recipe. both good!
that's a good question! my understanding is that praxis means the practical application of a theory; like, for example, if you're a socialist then praxis could involve sharing those ideas with friends/family, creating socialist spaces like community gardens or little free libraries/etc, or organizing your workplace. and it doesn't just have to be socialism, though that's the context i've heard it used in the most. for me, solarpunk is the theory and these practical application questions give me ideas about praxis. does that help? hope i don't come off as too mansplain-y!
it's so handy. 99% of the time I use it to clean my glasses, but if I'm with someone who's crying, if I need to clean off a screen, if something's dusty or gross but I need to pick it up, if I get sweaty and need to wipe my brow, if something gets spilled and there are no napkins handy, etc I can use it. when my dad passed I got all his; he was a high school principal most of his career and carried one every day.
I think it's designed for outdoorsy stuff as it also has a firestarter component. but it definitely works well for basic networking stuff too!
lol, yes it is! I got my glasses from there ages ago before I knew there were cheaper options. I like my glasses and need lens cleaning cloths all the time, so it works.
Thanks! I do have a decent set of lights which are USB chargeable, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a dynamo as well. Thanks for the suggestions!
I am a coffee addict, and I need a bottle holder that can hold my thermos, lol! But yeah, it's also nice for a quick grab.
i think it's a Trek 950. it's a 90s Trek mountain bike anyway. it's been pretty cold so i haven't done anything to it yet really, and that includes looking at it closely, ha!
lol, fair. we did Thanksgiving this year so Christmas is at my mom's. ha!
basically we googled lasagna gardening/lasagna compost, and did some research on the soil in our area. once we got our head around the basics we just started using what we had on-hand.
crossposted from Reddit:
hi all - my wife and I are doing our best to amend our terrible soil in climate zone 6b/7a (western Colorado, near the Utah border). our logic and philosophy is that at this time we can only do what we can do, so that's making our home as solarpunk and permaculture-centric as possible right now (without losing sight of building collective resilience and empowering the disenfranchised).
to that end, our soil: it's pretty abiotic. to grow food, which is a future goal, we need healthier soil. also we're not flat broke but we're relatively close; being frugal and cheap is a necessity. so we determined that we're going to try to amend our soil using cheap, locally sourced, and recycled things - and maybe more sweat equity than I'd love, ha! we elected to go with the lasagna method.
the lasagna method is to lay down different strata of materials to encourage the breakdown of "brown" and "green" materials, in composting terms. also our yard currently is mostly dirt with a few weeds for good measure, so even if we eff it up, it'll be okay.
I work in IT and my wife's a librarian, so we have access to a LOT of cardboard. I've been collecting it slowly over the summer, and today we decided to lay down our first layer.
here's the plan: lay down a layer of cardboard (brown only, tape and labels as removed as possible) two sheets thick. soak the cardboard so it doesn't blow away in the wind. cover that with a layer of wood chips, which we happen to have from removing a tree along our fence line with our neighbors and chipping it up. the wood chip layer is about two to three inches thick, and then we soak that, too. finally, we cover the wood chips with a layer of greens; for us, this is getting on our local Buy Nothing group and asking for lawn clippings. we are also going to plant fall cover crops and once they have grown in the spring, do a chop-and-drop layer of that.
over time, we will plant a few trees (looking at either a local growers apple variety or a multi-graft we can buy online) and have a rotating group of garden beds.
so that's our plan: a bit of couples labor each weekend over a long period of time, with the hopeful result of improved soil biology and then the growing of native.plants and flowers and food crops.
I hope this is solarpunk enough to warrant this post!
good growing to us all.
it's been pretty decent here, though breathtakingly hot in the western Colorado high desert. i've been forced to confront my own laziness, though, which is less fun! my wife and i bought a house last year and i have all of these amazing, awesome, but also labor-intensive ideas about how to green it and solarpunk it up, and several of these ideas have just fizzled.
that said, i have at least installed gutters and rain barrels to irrigate our garden(s), which is good... i just haven't actually made a garden yet. oops! we do have two pounds of native cover crop seeds that we're going to sow at the beginning of September to start healing our rough, uncared-for dirt yard.
i've found a lot of joy in setting up bird feeders, too - we have seven now, all sourced locally via Buy Nothing or my mom's cast-offs. there were almost no birds here in September last year, and now we have an absolute ton. our elderly neighbors across the street also have a lot of feeders, so we will be keeping the birds happy through the winter too.
i started commuting by ebike in April and have really enjoyed that. i don't know how much of an impact that really makes but it feels good, so i'll take it.
finally, my wife and i were able to take a vacation to Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. it's relatively near to us and is also one of the least-visited national parks not in Alaska. we got to hike to groves of 3000+ year-old Bristlecone pines and past that to a snowfield below a glacier. experiencing a snowfield in Nevada in August was not something i expected!
thanks for asking. hope the fall treats us well, collectively, and may we all grow towards liberation.
this is the solar setup I was talking about, that I forgot to take a photo of until after dark, sigh.
that's a Jackery Solar Saga 100 solar panel plugged in to a Jackery 500, which is charging an Easy Motion Evo Cross ebike. the ebike is my primary mode of transportation during the week, and I am hoping it to make my forever primary mode soon.