Millions of people are priced out of internet already, and it's only going to get worse.
"...Given how essential the internet now is to modern life, America remains worryingly uneven in its adoption of home broadband. According to a set of surveys that Pew Research Center has been running for the last 23 years, just 1% of American adults had a home broadband subscription in 2000; last year, 80% said the same. However, that growth hasn’t been mirrored across all income groups, with only 57% of adults in households where annual income is below $30K reporting a subscription to broadband at home late last year… and that was with the ACP in place..."
Kids can't do homework on Mom's phone, class. Internet should be regulated as a utility and available to everyone regardless of ability to pay. You literally can't function in modern society without it. You can't pay bills, and you can't find work.
Here are 5 Magazines we love to follow that teach us more about sustainable food systems and the practical things you can do to limit food waste and live a more sustainable lifestyle.
🚜 Farm-to-Table Movement
by educator and food sustainability consultant Darryl Benjamin @farm
🍅 Urban and Indoor Farming
by Markus Weber, ideas & inspiration for growing food in the city @urban
🌎 Zero Waste Living
by Anne-Marie Bonneau, award winning cookbook author obsessed with reducing waste, fermentation and sourdough, has lived plastic-free since 2011 @zero
👨🌾 Sustainable Agriculture
By Anthropocene Magazines @AnthropoceneMag
🥗 Sigrun's Sustainable Gardening
By the creator behind Sigrun's Sustainable Kitchen @sigrun
Wondering what a Magazine is? A Magazine is a curated feed of posts about a specific topic or interest that is followable, just like a profile.
Dallas moving forward with plan to entice residents to switch from gas-powered lawn tools 🏡🍃 🥕
"Proposal [to outlaw gas-powered mowers & blowers] was scrapped after state legislators passed a law last year that blocks cities from restricting the use, sale or lease of an engine based on its fuel source."
Is Degrowth an Academic Field or a Mass Movement? Taking Degrowth to the People!
By Phil Wilson, originally published by Resilience.org May 7, 2024
"...Tens of millions will either be mobilized to act, or not. The climate emergency cannot be mitigated...via private acts of conscience, nor...without a program of action and a massive base, expect to meaningfully oppose corporate reflexes. Intellectual virtuosity has limits – we would all do well to read Thoreau, but also, we must understand that his literary brilliance did not slow down the robber barons.
...degrowth, cannot be titrated in order to make it palatable to either profiteers or addicted consumers. It is inherently radical and based on the assumption that any alternative will be catastrophic...many...articles rather casually assumed that degrowth might be employed within the context of reform rather than revolution. There are no historical events that support such optimism..."
What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us
By Wendell Berry, originally published by Barn Raiser May 7, 2024
"...There is no interest in remedies for the bad ecological and human effects of mining, or in a farm bill that would make agriculture less destructive of land and people, or in ways to preserve the ecological integrity of our forests, or in ways to prevent the corporate destruction of the local economies necessary to support local communities—to name only a few rural needs.
...The space program is not the highest human accomplishment. All problems cannot be solved by science and technology. Good farmers are not mindless drudges who can be easily replicated from the “labor pool” or the Class of 2023..."
Seriously?? The Met Gala theme is all about "celebrating clothing and fashion so delicate it could never be worn again"?
How much more tone-deaf could one be, than to celebrate planned obsolescence and conspicuous consumption in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis (not to mention the climate crisis)? #MetGala#PlannedObsolescence#sustainability#ClimateCrisis#CostOfLiving
A world in crisis requires we recover the common good beginning in the places where we live
By Patrick Mazza, originally published by The Raven May 6, 2024
"...The first step is to understand the essence of the systemic transformation that is required. The common thread in our multiple global crises is the elevation of narrow interests over the common good. Certainly, the crisis of ecological overshoot reflects blindness towards our dependence on the planetary commons. For instance, making the atmosphere a dump for fossil fuel pollution while cutting down forests and tearing up soils are major drivers of climate disruption. Increasing global conflict & military expenditures reflect putting national interests over those of the world as a whole, despite the threat of nuclear extermination. The obscene and increasing concentration of the world’s wealth in so few hands screams out the prevalence of private interests over the common good..."
#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
Introducing the world's first steel produced without using fossil fuels. As a significant contributor to emissions, this breakthrough is critically important.
There are numerous solutions available to address the climate crisis. Let's implement them.
Das forcierte Spielen auf der Klaviatur der Ängste ersetzt praktikable Konzepte durch eine billige Politik des Dagegen. Merz, Söder und der ganze Tross hinter den Parteichefs arbeitet sich an der aggressiven Trumpisierung der Politik ab an deren Ende Menschen zu Gewalt als politischem Mittel greifen. Aber das wollen sie dann natürlich nie gewesen sein.
I see many posts of companies and their representatives stating that they work for a "greener and more sustainable future".
Are they insane or blunt ignorant and really think the present is already "green" and "sustainable" and they'll just make the future a bit more green and sustainable?
Will someone with more resources than I have please film a leafblower vs. rake contest for YouTube/TikTok? Compare not just how fast, but how much air pollution, dust to clean up after, noise pollution, GHGs, etc?
I think there are tons of people who would love a regular car, an EV or Hybrid, without all that other electronic junk. Purposefully making transitioning to cleaner options too expensive is a stupid policy.
Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passes
4.25.24 by Luke Kemp and BBC colleagues,Features correspondent
"...The ageing trend was there even when we excluded dynasties.
...Our findings are supported by promising studies on "critical slowing down". Before a complex system undergoes a large-scale shift in structure, or a "tipping point", it often begins to recover more slowly from disturbances. The ageing human body is similar: injuries can take a longer toll when you're older...
The next steps will be to investigate what fosters societal longevity, and what causes growing vulnerability. States could be losing resilience over time due to variety of factors. Growing inequality, extractive institutions, and conflict between elites could heighten social friction over time. Environmental degradation could undermine the ecosystems that polities depend on..."
How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future
By Vasilis Kostakis, Nikiforos Tsiouris, originally published by ScienceDirect May 1, 2024
"...In a state of emergency, it is audacious to place all our hopes for tackling the ecological crisis and wealth inequality in technology –worse even, in technology that is yet to materialize... High-tech is not unsustainable in its essence, but its scale and mode of production in the capitalist realm are.
...the crux of the matter is profoundly political. The development and production of technology in the modern era are intricately interwoven with wealth inequality and environmental deterioration. Technology is not being produced in a vacuum, thus it is not neutral. On the contrary, it is highly influenced by the decisions of manufacturers, legislators, consultants, designers and everyone else involved –directly or indirectly– in the process..."