Tumblr is so funny because you can make a post like “hey do not mix bleach and vinegar in your cleaning, you’ll make chlorine gas and you do not want to make chlorine gas. It is dangerous to mix these two specific chemicals together”, and the comments are like
“Um vinegar isn’t dangerous?? My mom cleans things with vinegar all the time and we have never had lung issues. White people are insane.” (<- does not use bleach, missing the point)
“OH MY GOD BLEACH IS CHLORINE GAS? NOBODY EVER TOLD ME I’VE BEEN CLEANING WITH BLEACH MY WHOLE LIFE, I WILL DIE.” (<- has literally never used vinegar in cleaning, and never mixed the two, missing the point)
“This is just stupid fearmongering, we use bleach and vinegar to wash the floors all the time, OP is lying.” (<- does not actually know what “vinegar” is, and is confusing the word for something else)
“Yeah this is true enough but also keep in mind that this kind of household cleaning product chlorine gas is too weak and unreliable to use for domestic terrorism purposes.” (<- raises concerns, but potentially has a point)
Probably not the most radical thing, but I feel like it’d be pretty Cool if we as a society stopped using billboards and wallspace to plaster advertisements on any visible surface and instead used them to showcase art via murals and stuff. Use the space to let artists paint murals, maybe rotate them every few months or so so a different local artist can do a new painting in the space!
Or at least use them to talk about local events/businesses. Does McDonalds REALLY need more attention to get customers, its not like anyone is going to FORGET there’s 20 in the area. Use the space to talk about how the local mom and pop shop is having a little sale, or how there’s going to be a tree planting in a week or so down the street and volunteers are totally welcome!
Literally just anything except more and more advertising from mega corps all over, please.
Family owned Italian firm invents solar panels that mimic terracotta tiles to restore heritage buildings
In a small workshop near Vicenza, Italy, artisans make traditional-looking roofing tiles with a hidden difference: Each module contains solar photovoltaic cells.
The Invisible Solar Rooftile is made by an unique indivisible piece, with a very high resistance, that hides and protects the photovoltaic cells that are incorporated inside
The family-owned company that makes the tiles, Dyaqua, started developing its “Invisible Solar” products more than a decade ago. Solar panels “were spreading much faster than before, and our first thought was about heritage cities like Vicenza,” says company spokesperson Elisa Quagliato. The city, a World Heritage Site, is covered in a sea of red terra-cotta roofs.
The tiles have been installed at Pompeii (where the director of the archaeological park says they look “exactly like the terra-cotta tiles used by the Romans”) and in the small Italian town of Vicoforte. A larger installation will soon begin in Evora, Portugal, as part of an EU-funded project that aims to help historic cities “become greener, smarter, and more livable while respecting their cultural heritage.”
The same approach can be used to hide solar in other materials that look like stone, concrete, or wood, and incorporated into walls or patios, not just roofs. And it’s a way to potentially add solar where it wouldn’t otherwise be used.
The ‘punk’ element in solarpunk refers to the movement’s unapologetically optimistic take on the future despite our growing pessimism and even apathy, and passionately calls for radical societal change and abandoning current capitalist markets and infrastructure. Or as Rhys Williams, research fellow at the University of Glasgow and leading voice of the solarpunk movement describes it, solarpunks are “against a shitty future.”
I saw this on Twitter and honestly felt a bit sick just thinking about it. The sheer determination some people have to keep anyone from getting any sort of help, any sort of benefits, to kick down someone who has such a big heart to help those around her?
Here’s the Tiktok where the woman, Carly Burd, talks about it. She shows the salted state of the land. This video was posted 21 hours ago at the time of posting this.
Another video where she discusses it, this one was posted 4 hours ago. Over 5 kilograms of salt, she estimates, was put into the soil of her allotment. She’d already planted onions and potatoes with her kids, which are now ruined. She’s working to find a solution, which I genuinely hopes she does.
From what I can tell, this is a GoFundMe that she runs–not just for this tragic occurrence, but to generally support the work she does. It has a goal of £4,000 pounds and at the time of writing this, it’s raised over £54,000 pounds, but by all means if you want to donate and help her out I’m sure she wouldn’t turn any help away.
I genuinely hope all the help she’s getting with this lets her grow a lot more food and help a lot more people.
[Photo ID: a scrrenshot of two tweets of a Twitter thread by Elsbeth Tashioni @THISisLULE, with 6,102 retweets, 2,345 Quote retweets, 28.1K likes, and 1,597 Bookmarks. The leading tweet was made at 4:24 AM EST on 4/12/23 (April 12th 2023). “Some UK woman on tiktok has been making videos about how she’s been feeding people (partly through an allotment) in her community who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis and then yesterday she posts that someone went and salted her land so she can’t grow food anymore” The second tweet has 25 replies, 1,391 retweets, and 14.5k likes. “Do you know how evil you have to be to sneak out at night, not to even steal to benefit yourself, but to destroy the possibility of people in need getting help?” End ID]
For anyone born after Shrek 2 (2004) who might not know. HCFC and CFC emissions from, well, pretty much all aerosol sprays, globally, were damaging a portion of our atmosphere call the ozone layer around the poles. CFC were banned in Sweden in 1978 and many countries followed suit. They were internationally banned in 1987 and the ban took full effect in 1994.
Ozone, being a relatively weak bond of O3 in the upper atmosphere, preventeda lot of solar radiation from entering our atmosphere. It is essential to maintain homeostasis for our current biosphere ecosystems —It counteracts the primary source of global warming.
This was highly publicized in the 00s. Causing the same level of fear and anxiety as the oceanic acidity, marine pollution, and overfishing problems we currently face— but has kind of since fallen out of public consciousness like Y2K.
Nairobi-based startup Gjenge Makers, founded by Nzambi Matee, has created a lightweight and low-cost building material that is made of recycled plastic with sand to make bricks that are stronger than concrete material.
Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old trained engineer and schooled in biochemistry, invented a new way of converting waste into sustainable materials.
In addition to establishing the company, Matee designed the machines that manufacture the bricks. She sources plastic in low and high-density polyethylene and polypropylene from local packaging plants for free to produce durable building materials.
The materials she sources are waste that others cannot process anymore or recycle. Therefore, Matee prevents tonnes of plastic waste from ending up in landfills across the country.
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