Yesterday @SaintlySin made a lovely white bean, squash and kale stew and popped it in the #Wonderbag while we went for a walk.

More info about Wonderbag/insulation cooking here: https://tangledbankforaging.uk/2022/09/28/economy-gastronomy-hay-boxes-wonderbags-and-insulation-cookery/

Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #Meditation #Contemplation #Hesychasm

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. #introduction #introductions

Some ill-informed critics of #degrowth see it as a return to the Stone Age. It isn't. Perhaps the best way to think about it is via the notion of #AppropriateTechnology.
However, just out of interest, sitting on Eastbourne's stony beach last week, I had a go at flint chipping. I was able to make a few sharp flakes that I might try setting in a stick to make a basic cutting or scraping tool. just for fun, you understand.
Man the toolmaker, that's me.

#til about #AppropriateTechnology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?

> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)

"Industrial societies with “reliable” power grids are in fact the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions
[...]
an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply has enabled people in industrial societies to adopt a multitude of power dependent technologies – such as washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, automatic doors, or 24/7 mobile internet access – which become “normal” and central to everyday life. At the same time, alternative ways of doing things – such as washing clothes by hand, storing food without electricity, keeping cool without air-conditioning, or navigating and communicating without mobile phones – have withered away, or are withering away.

As a result, energy security is in fact higher in off-the-grid power systems and “unreliable” central power infrastructures, while industrial societies are the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions. What is generally assumed to be a proof of #energysecurity – an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply – is actually making industrial societies ever more vulnerable to supply interruptions: people increasingly lack the skills and the technology to function without a continuous power supply."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-the-lights-on-redefining-energy-security/

In this episode, Christina talks with hacker and enthusiastic solarpunk Paweł Ngei about the power of solarpunk narratives to open our eyes to the ways in which we do things and invite us to critically examine them. Why is tech built this way? Who are we disenfranchising by not having more or different designs for things? Who are we handing over too much power over our lives to mindlessly letting them thrust their tech into our lives without us knowing how it works?

For more info about and thoughts from Paweł, you can check out his blog (alxd.org), be inspired by his podcast (podcast.tomasino.org @SolarpunkPrompts) read his short story about a disabled inventor at glider.ink, or read his review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future at his blog.

Other solarpunk media Paweł recommends are the book A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys and to a great solarpunk engineering wiki: www.appropedia.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMcperL3U8

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkHacker #Hacker #SolarpunkTechnology #AppropriateTechnology #PawełNgei @alxd #SolarpunkNarratives #SolarpunkFiction #HopefulFutures #DIY #DIYtech #engineering #power #control

Hello, new intro as I've moved instances!

I'm a founding Director of the non-profit @thentrythis in Cornwall, where I do #Research #OpenScience #AppropriateTechnology #DataVisualisation #CitizenScience #FreeSoftware #SciComm #PublicEngagement #OpenHardware type of things, usually for #ClimateChange #Ecology and #Environment projects. I'm a happily recovered genetics #Academic.

Will post pics of #Dogs and #Allotment stuff too.

#Introduction that I'm never happy with (and will probably keep editing):

I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic with #adhd & #anxiety #queer (asexual/panromantic to be exact) 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada.

Interests include:
• dunking on capitalism #anticapitalist
• #scifi (including #StarTrek ​​ & #DoctorWho ​​)
• #Linux ​​​
• #history
• #genealogy (trying to get by without paying for expensive services)
• #politics (oh noes an evil lefty socialist)
• #travel (as much as I can afford to), member of #HIHostels & #Saintlo nonprofits. Would love to see more of the world (incl. Australia & NZ) and of course visit some of my Fedi friends. And always yes to trains.
• board secretary of #ARTAO: an #AppropriateTechnology non-profit building a small community in the Outaouais region of Quebec
• ....way too many special interests; there really needs to be three of me to pursue them all (I think one of me is quite enough, though)

Generally nice to everyone, talks in #memes, replies in GIFs & needs a job to support my #travel habit.

Prefers cats more than people. Still trying to figure out how to use my brain to make money. It'll come to me any day now...

(I'm not averse to the possibility of meeting Fedi friends, but I've had one bad experience with that already so let's try to avoid what happened there: I'm not meeting anyone in person who isn't willing to at least make an effort to get to know me first - including mental health issues - not say what they think I want to hear or mess with my head. Believe me, my head is messed enough as it is without anyone making it worse.)

A #CradleCatholic. A #LapsedCatholic? As a wee lad, I did all the stuff - Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation. I was born here all my life. When I was around four years old, the church kicked out my mom and, by extension, my family. An #ExcludedCatholic? I explored other practices and faiths, #meditation, #yoga, #Buddhism, and all the things. I wanted to not convert to a religion or practice that I had not been born to or wasn't otherwise ancestrally connected. I explored Protestant fellowships but soon began seeking "the deeper things" back in the lives of saints. This led to a deep dive into the #EarlyChurch Fathers and early #ChurchHistory. Entering the #OrthodoxChurch, I lived in several monasteries and wandered around the US like the guy in Way of a Pilgrim. I was ultimately drawn to #Theosis and the #PrayerOfTheHeart, sometimes called the #JesusPrayer. That church became tedious as well. Long story short, decades later, a pandemic, and a few ends of the world here I am. I recently stumbled across a podcast called the #PopeFrancisGeneration. I'm intrigued. I am listening. Let's see where my current studies lead.

Some of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology #Contemplation #Hesychasm #Prayer #Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Hospice #Humanrights #Food #Health #Fasting #Movement

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread to be.

Some charts that we use over and over when teaching the #Permaculture Design Course. These are from the section on #AppropriateTechnology (tech we can appropriate).

Hello vis.social, thanks for having me over from the big instance!

I'm a founding Director of the non-profit @thentrythis in Cornwall, where I do #Research #OpenScience #AppropriateTechnology #DataVisualisation #CitizenScience #FreeSoftware #SciComm #PublicEngagement #OpenHardware type of things, usually for #ClimateChange #Ecology and #Environment projects, with #privacy and #ethics taken seriously. I'm a happily recovered genetics #Academic.

Will post pics of #Dogs and #Allotment stuff too.