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Independent interface design researcher. Writing a book on designing novel interactive visual abstractions (novel ui concepts) for new ways of learning, teaching, explaining, discovering, inventing things online

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Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment Edited By Beatriz Bustos, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Gustavo García-López, Felipe Milanez, Diana Ojeda https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Latin-America-and-the-Environment/Bustos-Engel-DiMauro-Garcia-Lopez-Milanez-Ojeda/p/book/9780367361860

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Subtle Agroecologies; Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature Edited By Julia Wright

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/22/36/25/51/2022362551/2022362551.pdf

"This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture"

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Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil by Les Levidow , Davis Sansolo & Monica Schiavinatto

https://oro.open.ac.uk/75389/1/LL%20et%20al._socionatural%20order%20Brazil_Tapuya%202021.pdf

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In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon by by Ana Ionova

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/in-brazils-soy-belt-community-seed-banks-offer-hope-for-the-amazon/

From Mongabay Series on Regenerative landscapes https://news.mongabay.com/series/regenerative-landscapes/

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Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature by Dimitri Selibas

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/regenerative-agriculture-in-mexico-boosts-yields-while-restoring-nature/

Mongabay Series: Agroecology, Global Agroforestry, Latin America

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In São Paulo, Indigenous Guarani unite over their reclaimed farming tradition by Patricia Moll | Translated by Maya Johnson

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/in-sao-paulo-indigenous-guarani-unite-over-their-reclaimed-farming-tradition/

At the southern end of the São Paulo city limits, a Guarani Indigenous community has reclaimed degraded land once used for eucalyptus monoculture.

After collecting seeds from communities in other states and countries, the Guarani have more than 200 varieties of native plants, free of any genetic modification.

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'I used to see them as a bunch of rioters': Brazil's radical farmers | The Guardian

Landless workers who occupied disused and degraded farmland were finally given plots and have transformed them into fields of bounty via agroforestry

https://www.theguardian.com/working-in-development/2018/jan/25/bunch-of-rioters-brazil-radical-farmers-agroforestry

In order to sell their produce, 26 of the families created a cooperative called Comuna da Terra, which delivers weekly baskets to consumers in the town. It follows a model known as community-supported agriculture (CSA)

The MST group at Mario Lago sells vegetable boxes to a growing number of local clients, who sign up for a year’s produce and are known as co-producers

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"The MST group at Mario Lago sells vegetable boxes to a growing number of local clients, who sign up for a year’s produce and are known as co-producers"

Every Monday the content of the baskets is decided by all the farmers, based on their production. CSA consumers have a one-year commitment and pay a fixed amount monthly, thus sharing the risks with the farmers and providing economic stability

“Our consumers come here, they help us plant & collect, they participate in our meetings” says Miguel

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"In fact, we don’t even call them consumers, we call them co-producers.”

He says most agroforestry farms in Mario Lago are economically viable and produce enough income to sustain their families. Arguably, part of the success comes from the fact that their business model cuts out the middleman, with all revenue going directly to the farmers.

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"Some experts argue that promoting agroforestal systems over cattle pastures in the Amazon could favour a more sustainable use of the land, curbing deforestation and providing shelter for tropical biodiversity. Agroforestry could also be an interesting farming alternative for those living in Brazil’s semi-arid north-east and other areas threatened by desertification, where it could help to restore poor and degraded soils"

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Mário Lago Settlement celebrates 16 years of struggle and conquest Settlement in São Paulo is today an agroforestry reference for the entire country

https://mst-org-br.translate.goog/2019/08/27/assentamento-mario-lago-celebra-16-anos-de-luta-e-conquista/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Mário Lago Settlement: from unproductive large estates to agroecological production

Check out the history of the fight for land in São Paulo, in the fight against large estates that deforest and agribusiness that degrades

https://mst-org-br.translate.goog/2024/03/28/assentamento-mario-lago-do-latifundio-improdutivo-a-producao-agroecologica/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

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Regenerative agriculture and integrative permaculture for sustainable and technology driven global food production and security by Everald McLennon, Biswanath Dari, Gaurav Jha, Debjani Sihi, Vanaja Kankarla

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353412104_Regenerative_agriculture_and_integrative_permaculture_for_sustainable_and_technology_driven_global_food_production_and_security

"The literal meaning of “regeneration”when applied to agriculture means reconditioning a land toa higher state after it has been utilized for crop production"

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Indigenous agricultural practices have traditionally focused on enhancing productivity while maintaining soil health. Three sister cropping in the indigenous communities like Navajo, Cahokian, Mvskoke, Mississipian tribes of the United States focuses on growing corn and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in the same field

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"Employing symbiotic and companion plant relationships, corn, the staple food of most tribes provides support for the climbing bean, which in turn provide N to the soil for all three plants through N2fixation"

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"Regenerative agriculture also callsattention to the wide range of opportunities that exist for farmers to use local organic waste in their agronomic manage-ment practices"

"The significance of regenerative agriculture is that it adoptsgoals such as sustainability through water and nutrient recy-cling and preservation"

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Guarani Aquifer System: from regional reserves to local use by Ricardo Hirata, Stephen Foster

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342966968_Guarani_Aquifer_System_from_regional_reserves_to_local_use

The Guarani Aquifer System is a massive groundwater body underlying large areas of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina, with a thickness of 50–600 m (averaging about 250 m). It is one of the world's largest sandstone aquifers

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Renewable water resources worldwide as of 2022, by country(in billion cubic meters)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1257652/worldwide-renewable-water-resources-by-country/

Renewable water resources per capita worldwide as of 2022, by country(in cubic meters)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_renewable_water_resources

Wow Iceland😮 👌🏾

The 10 countries with largest freshwater reserves in the world

https://groundreport.in/the-10-countries-with-largest-freshwater-reserves-in-the-world/

Top 3 are Brazil, Russia and Canada

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Gosh Brazil is so blessed with such abundant resources

The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area estimated at between 140,000 and 195,000 km2 (54,000 and 75,000 sq mi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

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Guarani Aquifer

The Guarani Aquifer, located beneath the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is the second largest known aquifer system in the world and is an important source of fresh water.

It is estimated to contain about 37,000 cubic kilometres (8,900 cu mi) of water, with a total recharge rate of about 166 km3/year from precipitation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_Aquifer

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Named after the Guarani people, it covers 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi), with a volume of about 40,000 cubic kilometres (9,600 cu mi), a thickness of between 50 metres (160 ft) and 800 metres (2,600 ft) and a maximum depth of about 1,800 metres (5,900 ft).

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"It is said that this vast underground reservoir could supply fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years. However, at closer inspection, if the world population were to stay at an equilibrium of about 6.96 billion, not even taking into account that babies need less water than grown adults, this figure reaches 1600 years, allowing about 9 liters per day per person"

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"Due to an expected shortage of fresh water on a global scale, which environmentalists suggest will become critical in under 20 years, this important natural resource is rapidly becoming politicised, and its control becomes ever more controversial"

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Used Anthony Hobday's graphic design syllabus outline and prompted chatgpt with

"Lets assume an academic who studies philosophy of science education learns graphic design concepts outlined by Anthony Hobday, how might they use their graphic design skills to innovate in philosophy of science education"

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/visualsyllabus/

Some project ideas it suggested

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To Slow Global Warming, Scientists Test Solar Geoengineering - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/climate/global-warming-clouds-solar-geoengineering.html

"Marine Cloud Brightening" ~ Spraying Sea Salt Aerosol to make clouds more reflective

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If Government Can Print Money, Why Does It Borrow?

"L. Randall Wray observes in this one-pager, Modern Money Theory has been providing answers to this question for some time; and, he argues, it is a topic that mainstream economists are ill-equipped to address, since very few concern themselves with the monetary operations that underlie the question of why a currency-issuing government issues debt"

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/OP_72.pdf

firms use banks to make and receive payments. When the Treasury cuts a check or makes an electronic payment, the Fed credits the reserves of the recipient’s bank, and that bank credits the deposit account of its customer. When the Treasury receives a payment —such as a tax payment—the Fed debits the reserves of the payer’s bank, and that bank debits the customer’s account. If the Treasury makes more payments than it receives, the Fed net credits bank reserves (and those banks create net new deposit money). So, here’s what boggles the mind. Those net reserve credits place downward pressure on interest rates as banks with extra reserves lend them in the fed funds market. Before 2009, reserves carned nothing, so any bank caught holding extra reserves was throwing away potential income. Today, the Fed pays interest on reserves, but at the lowest rate in the country. Profit-seeking banks seck better returns, but prefer holding safe and liquid assets. Treasury bills and bonds fit the bill. Synergies abound! If the Treasury is drawing down its Fed account, spending more than received in taxes, it sells bills and bonds. The Fed handles the sales. When bonds are sold directly to banks, they use reserves in payment; if a pension fund, corporation, or household buys a bond, their bank's reserves are debited and their bank debits their deposits. When the Fed debits bank reserves, it credits the Treasury’s account. Voila!
What if bankers change their minds and decide they’d rather have reserves? The Fed buys bonds the Treasury just sold. That is a secondary market purchase, perfectly legal, and something the Fed has been doing on scale since the global financial crisis— and must do unless it decides to raise interest rates. Interestingly, the documentary has another sequence in which comedian John Oliver proclaims that economists have no [expletive] idea what determines interest rates. Olivier Blanchard, formerly of the IMF, now emeritus professor at MIT, proclaims that government deficits and debt cause rates to rise. However, he is asked: if that is the case, why is rapidly rising government debt since the early 2000s correlated with falling and then near-zero interest rates up to Chairman Powell’s recent decision to raise them? His response was classic: economists have no clue. The documentary then cuts to me. My response: because the Fed sets interest rates.

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If Government Can Print Money, Why Does It Borrow?

Answer to that : To keep interest rates for bank loans high

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