The main argument of the video is that they are human beings who should be allowed to exist in their own right, outside of the mythologies propagated by polluting corporations and western countercultural movements. It is possible to deconstruct dehumanizing stereotypes while celebrating and advocating for the adoption of traditional ecological practices, but promoting these practices while conceptualizing indigenous people as supernatural fauna is big yuck.
The latter half of the video discusses how they were forced into the market economy to survive, how murderous westward expansion destroyed their cultures, with a major conclusion being:
The United States government is the most ecologically catastrophic force on planet Earth since the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Did Native Americans Really Live in Balance with Nature? | Atun-Shei Films
>Though the trope of the "Ecological Indian" is indelible in popular culture, history tells a much more complicated story. Featuring cutting edge perspectives rarely seen outside academia and in-depth interviews with indigenous historians, climate scientists, and other experts, this video will dispel the paternalistic myths and reveal Native American ecology in all its ingenious, imperfect glory.
Thee Burger Dude did this! The process required some uncommon ingredients and some neat food science. For the curious: he's got a video showing the steps and the full recipe on his blog.
I love these update videos! Most of the stuff I planted two years ago finally started to look like something this summer đ but seeing all the monarchs, sootywings, fritillaries, skippers, and so many different bees made the growing pains worth it.
Only half as much as I observe đ I'm not confident enough to ID outside of the Mid-Atlantic, sticking mostly to Erigeron sp, pokeberry, some trees, and a handful of bugs.
I wholeheartedly agree, the community there is awesome! It's so exciting when an expert or specialist IDs an observation of mine, or dis/agrees with my ID. Such a fun way to learn.
As the number of observations submitted to the citizen science platform iNaturalist continues to grow, it is increasingly important that these observations can be identified to the finest taxonomic level, maximizing their value for biodiversity research. Here, we explore the benefits of acting as an...
>As the number of observations submitted to the citizen science platform iNaturalist continues to grow, it is increasingly important that these observations can be identified to the finest taxonomic level, maximizing their value for biodiversity research. Here, we explore the benefits of acting as an identifier on iNaturalist.
I live in a city, but I'll share some programs that/organizers who may provide some inspiration:
BMORE Beautiful - provides trash picking kits and helps residents organize cleanups in their neighborhood. They were incredibly friendly, so might be worth reaching out on how to build a similar program in your area
Weed Warriors - trains participants to recognize and remove common invasive plants, provides training for participants on how to organize efforts in their communities
Community gardening - this video is from an animal liberation podcast, but the guest's opening story of being completely ignorant about gardening but doing it anyway is inspiring. The remainder is about their work on food justice and grassroots organizing
Compost collective - this is the podcast of the guest in the previous video. They interview the founder of Baltimore Compost Collective who works with youth in the city
Guerrilla gardening - this is a classic TED Talk. The speaker discusses growing food in a public space and how they successfully fought their city to keep their garden. They also talk about their volunteer gardening group, planting food gardens at homeless shelters
Maryland Food & Abolition Project - may no longer be active, but an interesting idea nonetheless. Their mission was (is?) to partner community gardens with prisons to provide fresh produce
Echoing @poVoq, don't discount seniors! I used to be a case manager for the elderly and many are more interested than people give them credit for.
Don't Be a Sucker | US National Archives
National Archives Identifier: 24376 Local Identifier: 111-EF-6 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (9/18/1947 - 3/1/1964) (Most Recent)
From: Series: Educational Films, 1942 - 1947
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
This item was produced or created: 1945
Other Title(s):Educational Film, no. 6
Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and "crooked" gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler's Storm Troops. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.
Anna Souter visits Embodied Forms: Painting Now, exploring whether art might dissolve the boundaries between the mind and body to better know the climate
>In Western thought, the apparently immaterial ârational mindâ has long been isolated from, and elevated above, other ways of knowing and being. Anna Souter visits Embodied Forms: Painting Now, an exhibition at Thaddeus Ropac, to explore the possibility that art might be able to help us dissolve these boundaries, opening the doors to new ways of coming to know the climate.
Your point at the end is crucial. I heard a local story about a bunch of people rolling up in a neighborhood, planting trees, never to be seen or heard from again :( Kinda gross and presumptive.
Tony Santoro's Guide to Illegal Tree-Planting
>Counteract the Bleakness of the Modern Urban Environment of rampant homelessness and over-priced housing by propagating and planting trees in neglected urban spaces. Tony Santoro shows you how with help from the Department of Unauthorized Forestry.
The link in the post body has some tips on how to do so responsibly. Might be worth sharing with your neighbors!
Leave the Leaves!
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation: Leave the Leaves!
>Leaves are not litter > >They're food and shelter for butterflies, beetles, bees, moths, and more. Tell friends and neighbors to just #leavetheleaves
Written information from Europeans goes back four centuries, like the account from the 1600s about cultivated food forests. The archeological finds about consumption in general are much older.
Americans have been enjoying nut milk and nut butter for at least 4 centuries
We (erroneously) may think of them as new, but the Wabanaki and other Native Americans regularly made and ate these products.
>Plenty of scholars have described nuts as a crucial food source for the Wabanaki people, and early colonial records indicate the same. In 1607, colonists from the Popham Colony described the Casco Bay islands as âovergrown with woods very thick as oaks, walnut, pine trees & many other things growing as sarsaparilla, hazle nuts & whorts in abundance.â > >Ethnobotanist Nancy Asch Sidell documents that charred beechnut remains that are more than 5,000 years old have been discovered âpreserved in a hearth featureâ in central Maine. At the archaelogical site on the well-documented Norridgewock village on the Kennebec River â a Wabanaki town destroyed by the British in 1724 â researchers have recovered evidence of hazelnut and beechnut consumption, Sidell reports. > >âThe use and importance of nuts is as ancient as the people themselves,â Kavasch told me. âThe trees they come from were so sacred and important. But many of our European ancestors couldnât see the forest for the trees. They werenât thinking of it as a nut forest.â
Also in Baltimore, home of Vegan SoulFest!
Food is culture đ and the vegan food here feels like Baltimore. It's awesome that other cities are doing the same.
Urban Design and Development: Theory of City Form | MIT
Institution: MIT
Lecturer: Julian Beinart
University Course Code: 4.241J
Subject: #architecture #urbanstudies #finearts #socialscience
Year: Spring 2013
Description: This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Case studies will highlight the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the nineteenth-century city and its organization. Through examples and historical context, current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design will also be discussed and analyzed.
Course materials can be found on the MIT OpenCourseWare website.
Soft Landings
Source with pictures of example soft landing gardens, plant lists tailored to the North American Eastern Temperate Forests can be found:
https://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com/softlandings.html
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Oaks are universally the top keystone trees that support moths and butterflies. Across the United States, more than 940 types of caterpillars feed on oaks (Quercus).
Top genera: Oak, Willow, Cherry, Pines, Poplar
Lepidoptera in image: Great oak dagger moth, Luna moth, Red-banded hairstreak, Eastern buck moth
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Many of the moths and butterflies that feed on oak trees must complete their life cycles in the duff and leaf litter (i.e., soft landings) near or beneath the tree, or below ground.
Lepidoptera in image: Blinded sphinx moth, Juvenal's duskywing, Hog moth
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Creating soft landings under the dripline of oaks (as well as any other tree) invites all kinds of beneficial insects to complete their life cycles in your yard.
A number of beneficial insects such as fireflies, bumble bees, beetles, and lacewings need soft landings to survive.
Lepidoptera in image: Edwards hairstreak, Skiff moth, Pink-striped oakworm
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Planting intentional soft landings under keystone trees builds healthy soil, provides food for songbirds and pollinators, sequesters more carbon than turf grass, and reduces time spent mowing.
Other ways to support insects that spend a phase of their life cycle beneath trees include eliminating landscape fabric and decreasing mowing to reduce soil compaction.
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DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE THE LEAVES UNDER YOUR TREES!
Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:
FreeSewing.org | Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns
>FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike.
Mastodon instance: FreeSewing.social
I've seen folks online use Virginia creeper and pokeberry to dye fabrics, a soft green and vibrant purple respectively. I'd love to take a crack at them on cotton, maybe even a natural tie dye!
The US Forest Service has a chart with plants and their corresponding colors. I wonder if there's a dye community on lemmy đ¤
Dang, the goblin in me wanted some for my collection đ I bet they look awesome during a breeze.
Beautiful đ§ââď¸ I love the naturalized look, so much texture!
What's the tall purple flower in the second pic?
From May 2023 in Reuters: Some 25 types of mammals died in latest bird flu outbreak
Wikipedia says you're right! That's a hilarious origin đ
The egg-shaped green fruits 'may pop' when stepped on. This phenomenon gives the P. incarnata its common name, as well as the fact that its roots can remain dormant for most of the winter underground and then the rest of the plant "pops" out of the ground by May, unharmed by the snow.
>A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
A good companion: https://native-land.ca/
Front yard pocket prairie with rain garden groundcover bonus pic
Huffin' the flowers has been a huge stress relief here in the Southeastern USA Plains.
The shrub on the right is buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). Flowers are: orange coneflower (Rudbeckia 'goldsturm'), sweet Joe-Pye (Eutrochium purpureum), anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum), pokeberry (Phytolacca americana), and catmint (Nepeta Ă faassenii).
Closer to the ground there's: wood sorrel (Oxalis sp.), three seeded mercury (Acalypha rhomboidea) and blue violets (Viola sororia). The empty space has wild stawberry (Fragaria virginiana) slowly creeping and a young little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium).
The image below shows the opening of the rain garden where the runoff enters. Plants are 4 - 5 inches max. Here there's: Virginia pepper (Lepidium virginicum), blue violet (Viola sororia), wood sorrel (Oxalis sp.), nimblewill (Muhlenbergia schreberi), prostrate spurge? (Euphorbia sp.).
Also seen: white clover, creeping cinquefoil, and Bermuda grass.
Let Nature Play: A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration
Dan Fischer Let Nature Play A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration April 2022
>In short, this is a proposal for an abolition of compulsory work for all beings. It involves rewilding at least 75% of the Earth with guidance from local and Indigenous communities, and ensuring that the remainder of the planet âabolish[es] the wage system, and live[s] in harmony with the Earthâ as proposed by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (2021).
The Philosopher's Tarot: The Major Arcana of Philosophy
"Tarot & Acid Communism" Live at Tenderbooks in London >The launch party for 'The Philosopher's Tarot' at Tenderbooks in London on November 23, 2022. > >Acid Horizon's first live event extends Mark Fisher's concept of 'acid communism' through prominent figures featured in the work of the podcast.
This Middle to Late Woodland shoe made from a plant called Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) was recovered from a Benton County bluff shelter in 1932.
>Despite a common popular image of prehistoric Native peoples of the Southeast clad only in sewn leather, including footwear, the majority of archeologically recovered shoes were made using woven plant fiber; specifically, the leaves of a plant known as ârattlesnake masterâ (Eryngium yuccifolium).