A five-hour drive from Sydney, a community garden of sorts has sprouted. But instead of sharing tomatoes or lettuce, "gardeners" harvest solar energy. And it's already a hit with people otherwise excluded from the rooftop solar boom.
Try this simple and effective tool to manage pests and boost soil health in your garden.
To be fair, a country is a political entity or state. I read it as being targeted towards the state, rather than all people living in the USA.
It gets worse than that unfortunately.
Don't worry, once the others graduate school, break their arch install, and don't have the free time to reinstall it, they'll like Ubuntu too. ๐
Lots of balcony veggie gardening, helped a friend set up a rain barrel, guerrilla gardening local wildflowers, and taking more trips by bike. I always enjoy seeing what the rest of you are up to!
How did the metal ones compare? Mind you, the paper rounds are really small and compossible.
The article addresses immigration if that's what you're alluding to.
For years, the number of homeless people has been rising in Europe. But not in Finland. The country's Housing First program aims to eliminate the problem by 2027. But how?
For years, the number of homeless people has been rising in Europe. But not in Finland. The country's Housing First program aims to eliminate the problem by 2027. But how?
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
It's some napkin math but I don't think it changes the outcome. If we go by 428 hours per year, that's still 17.8 days which is a lot.
The true cost of car ownership you cited was from 2023 and since then insurance premiums and car costs have continued to increase. AAA which could be considered biased, doesn't include the medical expenses and legal fees involved in car crashes either.
This a great read on the topic, which I pulled a quote from:
According to a study published last year by the NHTSA, Americaโs highway-safety regulator, the direct economic costs of car crashes in 2019 was $340bn, or about 1.6% of GDP
The author elaborates on this if you read the full article:
The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car.
But this article seems to imply that itโs either fossil fuels or foot power. We have access to cheap renewables, why canโt we use that?
I didn't interpret the article as presenting bicycling as the only transportation option.
Although trains and public transport can fill in the gap for longer distances, EVs will be necessary in limited cases. The point is that our dependence on all types of cars and the infrastructure that comes with it is excessive and a massive contributor to the destruction of our climate. They are also literally killing us, hence auto insurance being mandated in most states/provinces.
EVs are better than ICE cars and should be used as one of the replacements - but not nearly enough to solve our climate crisis by buying an electric car. That's why there is also a push to designing cities for active transportation and public transportation. The emmissions from walking and cycling are incomparable to those of an EV.
If the narrative that electric cars and renewable energy are all that's needed to solve our climate crisis continues, then our planet will continue to warm.
Industries pushing electric cars are not so much concerned with slowing down climate change as they are accelerating technological control
In perhaps one of the great ironies of human civilisation, mechanical devices to truly magnify human power came along as soon as we didnโt need them.
In perhaps one of the great ironies of human civilisation, mechanical devices to truly magnify human power came along as soon as we didnโt need them.
> The average modern person, by one calculation, spends more than 1,600 hours a year to pay for their cars, their insurance, fuel and repairs. We go to jobs partly to pay for the cars, and we need the cars mostly to get to jobs. We spend four of our sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering the resources for the car. > > Since the average modern American, by one estimate, travels 7,500 miles a year, and put in 1,600 hours a year to do that, they are travelling five miles per hour. Before people had cars, however, people managed to do the same โ by walking. > > By contrast, a person on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than a pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.
Pothos or snake plant. Pothos are easy to make thrive and grow which is rewarding. Snake plant thrives if you rarely water it but it grows slowly.
Both can be found for easonable prices and people are always happy to give others a pothos cutting.
I have some experience with it but I am by no means a radio expert or ham radio buff.
If anybody is interested in setting up a node, I'd highly recommend the wisblock/rak4630. They're very low power and easy to power indefinitely with solar. It can seem daunting at first but it's actually pretty straightforward once you do a little reading online.
You just need the wisblock, an 18650 battery, and a solar panel along with JST 1.5mm and 2.0mm connectors to hook them up and it'll start working.
Here's a zine if you wanna diy it. https://github.com/iffybooks/3.3v-solar-power-station
There are also more plug and play options out there too.
You don't need to, though the higher up the better since you get better line of sight. You can get several kilometres with a cheap antenna that is better than stock.
The antenna makes a huge difference too. With a $20 fibreglass 3dBi omnidirectional antenna that was only 26cm long, I was able to exceed 4km in a city with no line of sight. There were probably a ton of firmware and software improvements since you tried though, to be fair.
Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022
Michael Mann points to prehistoric catastrophes, modern environmental victories.
I would like to avoid exposing them to the cold/wind but I am concerned that they'd get crushed bungee'd into a basket and would not fit into my backpack.
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