"In Savannah, Georgia, a female-led non-profit works in hard hats and pink high-vis vests in a gradually growing business of reuse and recycling—deconstruction.
Deconstruction is what you do if most parts of a building could and should be used again; because they’re made from heritage materials; because they’re built with boards of high-quality endangered timbers; because otherwise it would all be thrown in a landfill.
Re:purpose Savannah is a 501(c)3 that takes old, condemned buildings apart for their bricks, timber, door frames, metalwork, and other components and sells them to construction firms building new homes for discerning clients. They’ve taken apart beach houses, dairies, bungalows, cottages, and traditional homes in town."
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That's awesome to see those materials being re-used. I briefly had a job years ago, sort of "deconstructing" a historic building in Middlebury Vermont. It dated back to the late 1700s or 1800s.
We had to carefully remove each piece of the old moldings, railings and decorative woodworking. Very intricate craftsmanship. Unfortunately, a lot of other materials were thrown in the dumpster.
Middlebury is also home, to what The New Yorker called, "the oldest and most prestigious writers conference in the country". I thought you may find it interesting.
You remember that a couple of weeks ago the government ordered Disney murals at a children's refugee centre to be painted over because they were too welcoming?
Well now a group of seven- and eight-year-old kids have painted their own set of drawings and paintings to replace those which were ordered to be taken down.
"In the UK, the nation’s largest end-of-life service provider is now going to add “resomation” or water cremation, to its offerings.
Perhaps the most eco-friendly funeral procedure beyond just illegally burying someone in a forest somewhere, resomation has a lot of work to do in terms of gettings its name out there.
Resomation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis, neatly deconstructs a human body all the way down to a skeleton in just 4 hours using an alkaline solution. After that, the bones are ground into a powder and placed in an urn for the family.
It’s the method that anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu chose after he passed away in 2021. It uses 5 times less energy than a fire cremation."
Schadenfreude of the Week - A protest against Primark's Pride campaign turned out to be two people and one flag. The counter protest outnumbered them a hundred to one. “Thanks transphobes, you created a more cohesive community, made money for local charities who support trans kids, made everyone aware of the amazing safe spaces in local businesses and started a party! You achieved all that.”
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#GoodNews : " #Fight against #cancer has come a long way. The 5-year relative #survival rate for all cancers has improved from 58% during the mid-1970s to 85% in 2018 — and advances keep coming", especially as far as lung cancer is concerned.
"Im April waren so wenige Menschen im Europäischen Währungsraum erwerbslos wie noch nie zuvor. [...]
Am höchsten blieb die Arbeitslosenquote weiterhin in Spanien (11,7 Prozent) und Griechenland (10,8 Prozent), während Malta mit 3,1 Prozent den geringsten Wert ausweisen konnte. Mit 3,2 Prozent ist diese in Deutschland laut Eurostat nur geringfügig höher."
„Wer heuer 18 Jahre alt wird und in #Österreich 🇦🇹 wohnt, bekommt ein landesweit gültiges #Klimaticket und kann ein Jahr lang gratis die #Öffis 🚌 🚅 🚃 nutzen. Die Beantragung ist seit Montag möglich.“
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De mon côté j'ai relevé que la Chine a peut-être déjà atteint son pic d'émissions carbone, que l'Europe s'attaque à ses émissions de méthane (même exportées), plus de baleine qui chantent en Antarctique, un moteur à distorsion, trois bétons décarbonés, une pilule contraceptive masculine et un 🚫raton lav🚫 trésor colombien.
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