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StevePLMarquis

@StevePLMarquis@regenerate.social

Ret'd Engineer, #SME Small Business Owner, #Permaculture Mentor & #PermacultureTeacher, Climate Action, Climate 4 Change conversations & Carbon Literacy Facilitator

Born @ 314.8 ppm, 2.87B people

Level 66 in this game of life 👾

Scotland zone 8/9 58.5°N, off-grid-ish croft (sml farm) straw bale house

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StevePLMarquis, to random
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Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!


Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!
Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!
Some stunning and rare aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!

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Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!


Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!
Some stunning and rare blue aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!
Some stunning and rare aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!
Some stunning and rare aurora tonight. My Google Pixel 7pro has been doing overtime! Most of these were looking South!

StevePLMarquis, to random
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This drawing is by Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old primary school student in Slovenia. She was chosen from 600,000 children around the world to create a piece of art to show what peace looks like.

She is the winner of the international Plakat Miru competition.
"My drawing represents the land that binds us and unites us."

"Humans are woven together. If someone gives up, others fall. We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately we are little aware of it. We are woven together. Other people weave alongside me my own story; and I weave theirs," said the young designer.

https://youtu.be/4acZrVzYGbY?si=oTERfiLGkyHRRb3y

This drawing is by Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old primary school student in Slovenia.

StevePLMarquis, to climate
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A court in Norway, a major oil & gas producer, just invalidated multiple drilling permits on the grounds that climate impacts weren't fully considered. The same assessment process is at the heart of multiple cases in front of UK courts.

My (Tessa Khan is executive director of climate action organisation Uplift) thoughts here:




https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/31/norway-climate-britain-oslo-rosebank-british

StevePLMarquis, to climate
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BREAKING: I am sad to say global mean temperature in 2023 was just estimated by BE at 1.54 ± 0.06 °C above the mean temperature from 1850-1900 & first time that annual average temperature has exceeded the pre-industrial baseline period by more than 1.5 °C.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/73/12/841/7319571

From Dr. William J. Ripple on Xitter @WilliamJRipple

Distinguished Professor of Ecology-Oregon State University Director-Alliance of World Scientists Co-Lead author "The 2023 State of the Climate Report"


StevePLMarquis, to climate
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🔥🚨BREAKING... ALL HEAT RECORDS! 🚨🔥
🔥🌎2023 hottest in recorded history🌎🔥

1.5 C is just the beginning.
We're on course for 2-3c by 2100.
@XRebellionUK

What future do you want?

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

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I was about to go start a hotbed outside, and this video popped on my feed just at the right time.

This is how you can start to grow food outdoors in January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX32kcR_6gg

StevePLMarquis,
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@compost

I saw that great video too and it got me thinking for our context...

Huw Richards is a lovely chap who does lots of excellent stuff on growing/ gardening on YouTube, well worth a follow.

https://youtu.be/uX32kcR_6gg?si=hgsClIvb6Rc7nhUb

Huw is talking about hot beds here which I've got in the back of my mind utilising (rather than his timber,) home-made bales around the outside with a reused double glazed window on top all for added insulation. We're at the top of Britain at 58.5°N, so we can be cold and windy.

For hot compost I'd be using the chicken system (ref Sean Dembrosky at Edible Acres) using wood chip / mulch with added greens. The conversion to nitrogen rich chicken poo will help with the heat. The bales can be added to the chicken compost system after use or used as mulch.

It'll be interesting to see how the chicken compost compares. We do have access to organic cow manure but it comes with the cost of fossil fuel and tyre pollution.

Bales something like this, maybe using a wood mold/shaper https://youtu.be/TqUPIP49qCs?si=WtCZlD_O-tGBCMtV

A few vids on chicken compost from Sean https://youtu.be/oT2b_Yntlyc?si=MKlKcl5o-qMjXJ8Y
https://youtu.be/KdBORML2qQQ?si=KWJT6_m-GEFkLsa_
https://youtu.be/KdBORML2qQQ?si=AWoOn8jfnCSFO2uB




compost, to random
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If you want to start a Back to Eden garden, you have to layer sifted compost, and composted wood chips that have to be sifted.

If you start on really poor soil I would till one time a good amount of compost into the ground then layer the sifted wood chips. And keep going year after year.

If I had enough composted wood chips, it would be for me the way to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLJmVYvBXM

StevePLMarquis,
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@compost

Back to Eden relies on fungal decomposition as that's the only thing that can decompose lignins in the wood chip to provide plant available nutrients.

Why till unless there's a soil pan situation where nothing (like water, air, beneficial microbes, worms, invertebrates) can move up or down?

If tilled, the process destroys the hypha and many of the other beneficial microbes such as bacteria, nematodes, arthropods, protozoa and invertebrates. This sets back your soil food web before it can go forward.

Assuming no soil panning I would just build up without tilling and all those good things will naturally migrate into the upper layers without having to recover first.

I'd probably introduce a little charcoal into the top of the added compost (crushed to roughly a max size of 10mm) to create a beneficial microbe battery as that will help boost the decomposition of the wood chip. The charcoal would benefit from being pre-soaked in compost tea containing beneficial microbes to boost the decomposition but not essential as they'll migrate there.

StevePLMarquis, to random
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Billionaire owners of world's largest shipping company make unexpected business pivot — here's what they're trying to do next

In order to reduce the polluting impact their shipping business has on the planet, the billionaire owners of Maersk are turning to the production of an alternative fuel source for their needs.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/green-methanol-production-maersk-owners/

We're starting to see some sense, we need governments to take action too!

StevePLMarquis, to random
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How the Doughnut calls for the redesign of business | Erinch Sahan | TEDxBath

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UIXBw09y_b4&si=x8AZPGyA6Gp_RkYF

From on Xitter...

When it comes to the world of business, has a laser-like focus on the deep design of business itself. Find out why in this powerful and personal @TEDx talk by my brilliant colleague @ErinchSahan @DoughnutEcon

StevePLMarquis, to Scotland
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Aurora landed spectacularly from home tonight. We could make out the colours with the naked eye but the phone see's more than that.

I'm getting better with the phone too!

Aurora Borealis from the far North of Scotland with a Google Pixel 7 Pro phone in astrophotography mode.
Aurora Borealis from the far North of Scotland with a Google Pixel 7 Pro phone in astrophotography mode.
Aurora Borealis from the far North of Scotland with a Google Pixel 7 Pro phone in astrophotography mode.
Aurora Borealis from the far North of Scotland with a Google Pixel 7 Pro phone in astrophotography mode.

compost, to random
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The key to have a successful mount is to put at the bottom of the mount very rotten wood logs.

They have become with the experience my main outdoor composting system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur

StevePLMarquis, (edited )
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@compost

We use here too as we have wet land so not so good for those plants that require drier roots. It also soaks up water to feed those plants when droughts occur. The gentle warmth from below also keeps those roots slightly warmer too.

Here's some imagery of a couple of hugel systems we use https://photos.app.goo.gl/w9BrDXPwyZXD38E56

StevePLMarquis, to random
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Great interview with Kate Raworth on and thriving in balance...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/72txTJNTc9QWcbnySWBvCo?si=xOMF-hGQQ9iflpbuN6QiOw

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Cool fresh start for many with variable cloud and a good chance oh thunderstorms later on (mostly confined to WESTERN Scotland but they could pop up anywhere)

However. I'm on about the HEAVY RAIN, because me for one will be oot dancing in it when it comes . . . Still going for late Sunday overnight into Monday, and for much of Monday morning

The problem we have though is the ground is parched solid, like concrete so any heavy rain is just gonnae run off it = Flooding

StevePLMarquis,
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@windywilson88

Desperately need some rain in the far North!

There are some good earthwork techniques for sinking the rain called swales

A swale is a shallow, cut on contour (so level unlike a ditch) drainage channel with gentle side slopes in the ground where water running off a site can collect and soak away

On a slope or hillside, one cuts the swale on contour, piling the earth into a berm on the downside, then (optionally) planting the berm with trees to help sink the water

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Please respond to this survey for UK residents if you can...

Hi

I'm doing a Master in Environment, Health & Wellbeing, studying (via a survey) how gardening impacts on health & wellbeing from across the UK from all backgrounds, open to all over 18 & resident in the UK, gardeners or not.

Could you fill & share it around please.

Here's the survey https://cumbria.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/health-wellbeing

By way of thanks I've a prize draw for a £25 voucher from any leisure activity of the winner's choice.

Maria Suarez

StevePLMarquis, to permaculture
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https://www.52climateactions.com

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MuvgBivAQr-CO2UOEbcHidvtoxGagjeEXS3Vwn8ubA/edit?usp=drivesdk

StevePLMarquis, to permaculture
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I've climbed to the top of two career ladders and now I'm enjoying giving a little back by footing the ladder for others.

My main focus apart from family and our health is and teaching its ethical approach to life and doing my best to be living it.

Permaculture, it's not just about

By way of much of my bio can be found at https://wheretofind.me/@StevePLMarquis and on the LinkedIn in particular.

Photo - Aurora from my front door in the far North of Scotland.

Aurora from my front door in the far North of Scotland.

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