I came home from bringing my daughter to an extracurricular to find a big pile of grass in the backyard. My wife said that she was trying to pull out some of the Ground Ivy that has been plaguing our yard and garden over the last few years and found that the sod just started coming up like a carpet, so she went with it. We spent...
Funnily enough I had planted a bunch of clover to try to get something to outcompete the ground ivy but is now gone. Definitely was one of our first thoughts though.
I feel like in his later years he spent too much time dunking on anarchists. I think there is a lot of good in Communalism but don’t necessarily think it needs to be in conflict with ideologies such as Anarchism. If you get rid of some of the fluff such as constitutions then it’s basically a way to organize an anarchist society and fits well with syndicalism. Communalism as a way to organize where we live and syndicalism as a way to organize where we work.
It’s been interesting seeing the reactions to the air quality alerts in my area’s local social media (Facebook groups, Nextdoor, etc). There is a sizable amount of people talking about how the air quality alerts are there to make us scared so we can be controlled. It’s really amazing how this is right in our face but there are still people who want to deny that it’s a problem.
We managed to score a bunch of slate and small boulders for free on Nextdoor. Most of the slate even matches what we already have around our garden so it’s working out perfectly. We are going to begin slowly extending the gardens out into the lawn, ripping out the sod as we go....
An unexpected but enjoyable nighttime activity (slrpnk.net)
I came home from bringing my daughter to an extracurricular to find a big pile of grass in the backyard. My wife said that she was trying to pull out some of the Ground Ivy that has been plaguing our yard and garden over the last few years and found that the sod just started coming up like a carpet, so she went with it. We spent...
What are y'all's critique of Bookchin?
Bookchin prefigured many ideas in solarpunk and degrowth before these things were even coined. But what are your critiques of him?
Young people to take 32 European countries to court over climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
"No end in sight" to wildfire smoke suffocating American cities. And yes, climate change is to blame (www.salon.com)
Found for free on Nextdoor! Prepared for a summer-long project. (slrpnk.net)
We managed to score a bunch of slate and small boulders for free on Nextdoor. Most of the slate even matches what we already have around our garden so it’s working out perfectly. We are going to begin slowly extending the gardens out into the lawn, ripping out the sod as we go....