i built a compost bin out of free pallets from the neighborhood and compost my household's food waste as well as yard waste from family members. i also follow the lazy compost "method" of collecting kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, and etc and adding them to my pile. my in-laws regularly contribute lawnmowing scraps and leaves. i look forward to really putting it to work in the spring!
as for me, i live in Western Colorado, USA - in the high desert. we get a ton of direct sunlight, it's really hot in the summer and can get really cold in the winter - USDA hardiness zone 6b/7a. it is also a very arid land.
my setup is super basic, as lazy as it gets. i use a pallet compost bin that i made out of free pallets i got from the neighborhood, pretty much as shown in this link. we keep our kitchen scraps and i add to the pile generally once a week. we also add yard waste of our own, and that of friends and family and neighbors occasionally. i water the pile irregularly as i am extremely lazy, but i do have a water barrel set up nearby that, in the future, i will use to drip irrigate the pile, but that's a next spring project now. something for future Andy; we hate that guy! ha.
we also are using chopped up leaf mulch as compost on a part of our back yard that we are turning from a dirt patch into a garden. this is sort of a compost-in-place situation, or a lasagna mulching situation. it's not amazing, but it works; i grew potatoes in a wood chip mulch this year, so i am hopeful it will work next year.
i check in here pretty regularly but am largely a lurker; if that's okay, i could take on moderating c/composting. i'm no expert but i am an enthusiastic amateur...
maybe i can incorporate a 501c(3) and run it as an NGO, ha! but, seriously, fair point. i have heard both horror stories (SWAT teams bursting in in the middle of the night, etc) and bore-er stories (ran an exit node for 3 years, nothing ever happened). i guess i'm worried, and that worry maybe implies that i should not do it just yet. Signal proxy might be the way to go.
yes, the instructions are definitely doable - i am just wondering if there are recommended home network hardening steps that one might recommend. honestly, my worry is probably more related to the Tor exit relay. i really want to do one, but i also do not want legal trouble. maybe i'll start with a bridge, sigh. but thank you! no worry about tone, text is tough.
dang, the bookbinding looks super cool! good for you. i am slowly beginning to investigate a partnership between my workplace (in the IT field, and we do a lot of ewaste recycling) and the local migrant center to provide them with a bunch of machines for things like GED, citizenship study, and communication.
good luck and good powerthrough!
i'd love to see photos!
i'm recovering from COVID (ugh, it's terrible) and we have both been too wiped out to cook lately, so i did not get to it. it's on my list for either Thursday night or this weekend, though. i'll post a reply and maybe some photos if it goes okay.
for myself, i have been an unproductive lump for weeks due to oppressive heat in my part of the world. and also laziness, and internalized pseudo-Protestant work ethic guilt, and other stuff. but i do have some plans. i live in the arid southwest of the USA (well, extreme western Colorado but it's effectively the arid southwest, climate-wise). i've got some potato plants that are growing which have largely been watered via a rain barrel i have set to collect water from our downspout in our backyard. i have three more such rain barrels which i plan to install.
my mother gave me a gift certificate to a local nursery, so we're going to plant native/xeric bushes and trees on the west side of our house which is currently essentially bare and exposed to late afternoon glaring, hot sun.
we're adding cellulose insulation to our attic in September, and once the heat has died down a bit we are going to finish covering out front yard in cardboard and mulch, hopefully in time to plant some winter cover crops. we also planted an apple tree last year that has survived the winter and the summer thus far.
lots to do, and little energy to do it with unfortunately. i'm feeling really depressed and shitty about climate stuff right now, which is why i made this post; i'm hoping i can get some secondhand positivity or enthusiasm to help me get going to actually do some of the projects i have in mind.
thank you! my wife and i take turns cooking and it's my night tonight, i think i will give this a shot!
(image via daily-dragon-drawing on tumblr, specific post here)
happy spring to many - here in western Colorado we're vacillating between warm and cold in a true, classic Colorado manner.
i do these posts about praxis periodically because i seek inspiration and motivation for concrete actions i can take in my life, and you, the community of people who are into solarpunk, are creative powerhouses. with that in mind, what kind of projects are you all working on, or have you seen going down? any ideas that you're excited about doing as the weather gets warmer?
thanks for being rad, friends.
Hello all, happy early spring to those of you who are experiencing it! Here in western Colorado, we've got our tiny rainy season going on. what are you doing in your communities, in your gardens, in your organizing spaces? what kind of cool praxis have you got going on?
middle-aged IT generalist guy, United States. from left, lens cleaning cloth, REI 1L nalgene, handkerchief, coffee tumbler, ridge wallet, generic grid lined notebook, Leatherman Signal, Pilot G2 .07 pen, keys for work with included tiny flashlight, and phone case (Peak Design Mobile) to represent the phone (Pixel 7 Pro) used to take the photo.
not pictured: car/bike keys, as the wife has the car today and it was snowing so i didn't bike, and wristwatch because i forget, constantly, that i'm wearing it; it's just a part of me. generic Timex Weekender with a nylon strap. does nothing special but tells me the time, accurately, on a face i can read, even in the dark.
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thanks to your post here i looked up Sharewaste and am now a host myself!