This weeks sustainable living curation brings together many posts from the ecoTrain community, with a special focus on climate change and the things we are all doing to help steer our actions and world in a more positive direction. Thank you to everyone who posts with so much thought and care, it's always heartwarming to see how many people have decided that enough is enough and it is time to change the way we do things and the way we consume and live. This weeks curation is quite varied with posts on many different topics from growing food to reusing and recycling. We also have a great pick of posts from our homesteaders who continue to work hard and inspire themselves and others with their personal stores and adventures on their land. If you are thinking about one day moving out of the normal city life and start living with the land then these posts are a great source of information and give you a taste of what life can be like.
If you live dependant on the state for power, water for survival then this is a very vulnerable position to be in. Imagine what it must be like when the power suddenly goes out and you can not even turn on a light? It is surely time for us all to start implementing even some basic self sufficient and sustainable elements into our lives and homes. I would recommend having SOME solar power as a basic protection so that at least you can keep the very basic things going as and when the system goes down. Not only that, but with the massive rise in price for power that is yet another reason to stop funding the unethical and illegitimate ways of the power system who rake in untold profits at the expense of poor people who cannot even afford to heat their own homes. Its time for change, and its time for us to stop supporting these old and outdated ways that are digging us only deeper into a parasitic dependence. Join us and let us be free!
So, thank you to EVERYONE who posts to the ecoTrain community! Your sharings are so important and help people far and wide to understand what this life is all about. There is nothing more real and relevant than your own authentic stories and posts!
@itsostylish
How to Save the Planet by Growing Food
There are multiple contributors to global warming, which will result in a world altering shift of our environment. The planet is going to get warmer, the seas will rise, the ozone layer will thin out and weather patterns will become more extreme. Basically, conditions will become hostile for man, plants and animals. Survival will be challenging.
Obviously 🙄, the threat is massive and it’s a no-brainer that we should apply ourselves with diligence to the problem. As a member of the EcoTrain team, I’ve read several really great posts that suggest ways in which we can tackle the issue, they include reducing the use of plastic, planting trees, loving ourselves more, managing our greed for resources and moving to a plant-based diet. All of these suggestions are fabulous and they will improve the outcome.
@solominer
Mason bee with a face full of pollen - Macro video
During this time of year all of the trees around me are producing lots of pollen, the bees find themselves in the middle of it when visiting flowers. And sometimes they come back home covered in it. The mandibles and legs have a bunch of pollen left over from when visiting near by flowers. These solitary bees will fly up to around 300 feet to flowers all around, so must be something near by producing lots of pollen. We have so many kinds of trees and bushes that produce lots of flowers so its hard to say which one did it.
@anyelina93
Seed banks, and the Race to preserve the future of agriculture.
Through rainforests and arid plains, in the quiet of a bunker that can protect against a nuclear attack in the arctic, or in the middle of the war zone that became Aleppo, scientists work to preserve the food future of humanity, protecting with their lives seed collections.
Proliferating more and more around the world, these institutions, whether private or governmental, with national or international connections, have the mission to collect, preserve and study all possible varieties of plants, preferably those that are of great benefit to humanity, such as particular varieties of wheat or corn. But also of other types of plants, since the plant kingdom is so vast, and, for example, from the Amazon rainforest, only 1% of the plants have been studied in detail, and 75% of the drugs consumed in the world are the product of the study of plants, so the potential and extent of research in the field of botany is still very extensive, and for that research samples are needed.
@im-gyroot
"Fridays For Future"- The Biggest Climate Strike 🌱
The whole world is in trouble now. Climate is one of the reasons. Already, countries around the world have launched a "climate strike". Like many other countries around the world, many organizations in Bangladesh have started working. If there are more plants, there is more rain. Those who live in hilly areas know. Due to the presence of many vegetation in the hills, rainfall is good in those areas. In this bad time of the world, we have to save the world. It is our duty to protect the place where we live, where our descendants will live in the future. There is no chance of avoiding it. These organizations are doing a lot of programs. Giving a lot of labor. There is only one reason for this, to make people aware.
@steemmatt
6 More Items Salvaged From Curbside Waste Sold For $491 (51 Pounds Saved)
I truly struggle with why there are so few who take action against all of the unnecessary waste that lazy, unaware, and/or irresponsible people burden our environment with.
It may not seem dire if you don't live in a major city, but there's an astronomical amount where I am. It's everywhere and heartbreaking to see given that there's no end or material solution in sight.
Much of the population around here simply doesn't care. I've seen exactly what people put outside all year round for many years to know. To make things worse, some unhelpful humans choose NOT to recycle because they think it's an ineffective system and a waste of their time. Instead of acting in good faith to support the environment we share, all recyclables inexplicably go into the trash bins adjacent to the ones they should be put in. The worst part of this naive selfishness is that they'll likely teach this to the next generation to compound the ignorance. It sounds frustrating, but when you see it in bulk all of the time, it becomes infuriating.
@drrune
Sustainability and Faith / Fe y Sostenibilidad + Algiz
All of our habits and behavioral patterns are based on very profound programs that we can only disarm by questioning our reality, this is true of individuals and collectives. The onslaught of climate change, for instance, is partly the product of the planet's natural transformation, but the enormous influence of the industrial and commercial activities of human civilization on the decline of the situation is undeniable, and these activities are founded on preconceptions that may have been necessary at some point, but are now obsolete and clearly noxious for our evolution. The decisions of our governments and international institutions, often motivated by personal ambitions and selfish interests, arise from our approach to family, society, education, religion, politics, money and other narratives of the human system, all of them in constant interaction among themselves so that it could never be said that the crisis we're currently living is caused by specifically one of them.
@anyelina93
The endangered Gulf Stream, one of the invisible forces of nature in danger.
Ocean currents are the displacement of large, huge amounts of water from the oceans in a particular direction, difficult to appreciate from the surface, their effect on life on the planet is crucial, these currents are generated by many, many factors, such as different temperatures in different regions of the planet, winds, salinity differences, the inertia of the earth's translational motion, the coriolis effect, a product of the planet's rotational motion, and even the variations of the gravitational force exerted by the moon on the seas, all of this also modified by the framework of the coastlines of islands and continents.
The different interactions between these primordial forces of nature in the moldable water create a very complex system of ocean currents as you can see in the cover image, which humans have been studying since the day our ancestors set sail in their primitive ships for the first time.
@phoenixwren
Work From Home
While if anyone was looking for a comprehensive list of ways to help with all the specs attached, I would generally point them to Project Drawdown, which is a really cool project where they've calculated all the savings, both carbon and monetary when there is some, plus the cost to implement, etc., of doing various things, today I'm going to talk about something that I haven't seen much talk of yet and that wouldn't have really crossed my mind I think before the pandemic.
Though a part of it does get mentioned in Drawdown under the "telepresence" listing, that is focused more on reducing business travel - ie, if you can Zoom that business meeting rather than fly across the country to rub elbows - then it cuts down on all those air traffic emissions and the like.
@flemingfarm
Rain, Fencing, Gate Build, Grilling - Friday
Woke Up to clouds yesterday and it didn't look like rain until it started to sprinkle. It then rained until about noon. The boys and I stayed inside and watched the last episode of Battlebots and then they had their lunch. Once the rain stopped I went out and got a fire going in the pit for the day. The winds have dropped a bunch of debris from the trees and I spent a bit of time gathering it from around the yard and tossing it in the fire.
My big task was to get the first gate built. I made it 60 inches tall by 47 inches wide and managed to get the diagonal piece to fit almost perfectly. The fencing is 60 inches tall so it fit the gate perfect as well.. On the post without the hinges I had to take my sawzall and hack away some of the post to allow for the gate to close properly. It wasn't much but it made all the difference in the gate closing.
@consciouscat
The invisible force driving climate change that no-one talks about.
I'm always looking for what's holding a problem in place. Whether it's a habit I want to change, a challenge inside a business that needs untangling or a problem that seems altogether far too big for anyone one person to solve. I don't like picking at the edges doing this little thing or that little thing if I can possibly help it. I want to get to the core of the issue and see what's actually holding that mess (whatever it is) in place.
Climate change is no different. It seems massive, nebulous and for most of us, overwhelming. But as far as I can see there is one key thing that's driving this whole schmozzle and causing it to continue to spiral out of control. If I'm right (and I think I am) then understanding what this force is will allow us to actively resolve climate change so the damage can be limited, and dare I say, even reversed. You're skeptical. I get it. How could one woman on the other side of your screen possibly claim to have the answer to solving climate change? But you're curious too, right? Even if you're thinking, "What could this woman possibly see that the rest of us can't? She said it's an invisible force so how can she can see it?" Simple, I've trained myself to look beneath the surface and see what others can't. I look for patterns. I look for drivers. I deliberately go looking for what other people are missing. It's what I do in my coaching every single day.
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Thanks for the inclusion! 🙏 It looks like some great topics here 😁
Thank you, it feels great to be part of the community and getting an opportunity to read great posts here. Thanks for everything. Yes, together we can make this world more beautiful.
Thanks @ecotrain, it’s so great to be part of the community
I really love and appreciate growing our own food. Someday I may have my own land to grow my own food.
Thanks for the good topic to inspire us!
Re: getting some solar or something, I would love to get a little solar panel or this mini wind turbine I've seen marketed to backpackers and a little battery bank, but I'm one of those people trapped in the cycle of hand-to-mouth survival and haven't been able to afford one yet. Hopefully I can before things get really bad.
I tried a little solar battery that was targeted to cell phone charging for people out camping a couple of years ago, but it took days to charge and the battery part expanded after about a year, so it wasn't very effective. :/ You get what you pay for, I guess on that one.
God will keep strengthening you always. It's interesting to keep working in the community and reading from great minds.
Congrats to all 👏 #ecoTrain #SaveEarth
Thank you so much for featuring my post here and congratulations to every other author whose work has been featured!
I would love to see the seed bank. That has to be a phenomenal place. Thanks for sharing all the great information.