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Back by popular request: the thread of threads. ~40 so far
Build Soil could use donations:
1. This thread was a response to the idea that we should put aerosols in the atmosphere. There are solutions we could be putting our energy towards:
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perennial grasses can live 500 years and they pump carbon into the soil to feed soil microbes. They co-evolved with large herds of grazing animals which help cycle their biomass (with the help of dung beetles) and with proper planning, cows can do that same work...
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After Kent State almost all the new colleges that got built were specifically designed for tank access and what are called “riot bricks” which are designed to be slippery under fire hoses
Barnard College has now suspended and evicted over 1% of its total student body for nonviolent protest. These institutions are eating themselves alive, destroying their own legitimacy by targeting their best and brightest. Shame on you
@preslrosenbury
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and that's how you deconstruct a double bind
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TW:Monoculture.
Now THIS is a potato field.
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With everyone worried about hygiene and staying at home and running out of cleaning supplies please remember that supplies don’t mix well:
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I know it sucks, we all had other plans, but every single discipline and career is going to have to redirect itself towards building a regenerative society they can address climate change. Honestly it can be a good thing, we could take responsibility and thrive.
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It’s weird to think that if we didn’t waste food we would need half the agricultural land. And if we had it as gardens we would need a 15th. Or if we did both we would only need a 30th of the area. Then imagine if we did it in layers food trees above food plants below.
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we've really reached the point where they think that their only job is to keep markets functioning
🇺🇸 2nd biggest wave of Covid Pandemic Jan 2024
“Make your own decisions, that’s not something we get involved in”
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So I’d like to talk a minute about what’s happening in the Pacific Northwest.
i’m in my basement after just checking on Chestnut trees in 113 degree weather. The hottest it has ever been here since the Ogliocene probably
Blueberries cooking on the plants.
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If we grew food in our lawns we could convert agricultural landscapes back to continuous native landscapes while ending disasterous supply lines
"If half of American lawns were replaced with native plants, we would create the equivalent of a 20 million acre national park, nine times bigger than Yellowstone or 100 times bigger than Shenandoah National Park." - Doug Tallamy
#lawnbegone
#killyourlawn
#gardensnotlawns
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Let’s just honestly say: these are glimpses of a generation being trained for genocide.
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Ursula K Le Guin coming in clutch like always
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If you don’t have the space to garden you can:
- Container garden
- Guerrilla garden
- Community garden
- Help/create gardens at your friends’ homes
- join w a nonprofit that installs gardens
You have land but no time or an injury you can:
- Donate your spot
- Hire someone
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Some of the easiest to grow and most nutritious plants are now considered weeds. Dandilion, purslane, chickweed.
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let's please stay aware of what's happening right now with crops. Things are about to get _really_ weird
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Salmon are necessary in the northwest to bring ocean phosphorus and nitrogen to forests with huge differences in carbon capture. They are one of the few inputs into the food-web. This is an ecological disaster.
The temperature in the Yukon River hit 70° yesterday. Above that, Salmon quit swimming. We're right in the middle of the run right now.
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One of my absolute favorite Facebook Groups Is the dry farming collaborative which is focused on waterless farming research in Oregon. Look at this beautiful corn that required no water.
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This is why perrenial grasses are the fastest way we have to sequester carbon in. They develop deeper and deeper roots, especially in presence of well-timed grazing then continue to pump the soil w sugar, protein, carbs (all carbon) to feed the organizers that are mining nutrient
This 20 root system is of Crested Wheatgrass dug up in 1937.
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I once had a chance to briefly meet Jane Jacobs. Her life advice to me: "If you want to understand human culture, spend more time studying nonequilibria and phase changes in substances." and then she winked at me. She was 88 years old.
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Your job:
1. Eat cherries
2. Clean pits with water
3. Dry pits for three days on towels
4. Keep in fridge for stratification for 10 weeks
5. Plant in the spring.
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Training scientists without requiring ecology is part of what leads to people who think it would be easier to geo-engineer rather then just do ecological restoration or regenerative ag.
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So I was just thinking about how important compost piles are and 99% of piles Are not composting correctly and are actually causing problems. I think I might have a solution not everyone is gonna like it
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The problem isn't population growth it's consumption growth and wealth-concentration
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#ClimateHope
: Walking around old managed landscapes, you might come across trees like these–many thin trunks coming out of little stumps, or tall trees with knobby tops with a lot of small branchings popping up. These are
#coppices
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#pollards
– they are VERY interesting. 1/?
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Hey this is a fantastic example of an urban prairie. More of this asap please.
The restored urban prairie on the Chicago State University campus is quite pleasing to the eyes at this time of the year. Walk through the paths and feel peaceful in
#nature
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#Prairie
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#biodiversity
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#Butterflies
@CSUBioSociety
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Woke: grow food!
Woke: tenants rights!
Ecosystem brain: The right to grow food is a tenants rights issue.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can just rake your leaves onto your lawn or into a compost pile and everything’s fine.
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I wish We would learn some environmental history
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We only have 8 years to reverse carbon levels so much that we stay under 1.5 degrees of increase. 430 Gt CO₂.
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Ending fertilizer-based agriculture is a mandatory aspect of dealing with climate change, water pollution, soil loss, ocean dead zones, decolonization, habitat restoration and now- serious methane reduction.
Methane emissions from the US fertiliser industry are 100x larger than reported, exceeding the EPA's estimate of emissions from _all_ US industries.
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Anti-garden Twitter is gaslighting you: food you produce in a garden is food you don’t have to procure elsewhere. Use low-work and local-source materials and it’s actually cost effective.
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the emergency is too big to be using this kind of "stop sinning" kind of tactic. It's unserious to use stressful facts the basis of a response.
All this is saying "be stressed" but I think most of us realize that isn't proving any sort of cultural or behavioral change.
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One of my favorite Ethnobotany theories is that the importing of maize to Transylvania to feed poor people w/o the technique of nixtamalization was directly the cause of the rise of vampire myths around the time of Dracula.
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When I was younger I organized a large conference and the architect Sun Ray Kelley was a keynote speaker. His entire presentation consisted of him wrapped in raw wool Pointing at images of buildings and saying the same two words for each image:
ROUND!... GOOD!...
Over and over
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The first thing is absolutely needed is a complete return to Native oversight of fire management. Rather than repression and Salvage Logging we need cultural experts to begin the process of strategic and widespread wet season burning.
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Mount rainier before and after June 2021 heat wave
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Bracken ferns contain extremely toxic water soluble chemicals. Please do not put them in the bath.
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Remember
passive solar > solar electric
Heating homes, water, providing light. If we can have these things Provided without having to rely on fuel or electrical generation, we move things far further to a world that works for all of us. 1/
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there really is only one system that can handle & respond to this and that is coastal temperate rainforests. They hold onto soil, collect moisture & rain (on the surface of their canopy, in their trunks & in the soil. They are now almost completely cut down. Time to get planting1
Only 140 days since we witnessed one of the most profound record-shattering heat records in observed history. Canada 🇨🇦
In the last 24 hours, parts of British Columbia in Canada are now reporting their wettest day in recorded history after record-breaking atmospheric river.
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it always is amazing how many people I lose when I bring up colonialism on here. Soil and plant people just dropping out of my follows... I am always going to situate ecological restoration in decolonialism.
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Hey 13k folks who follow this account. It’s time to garden. It doesn’t have to be your own yard. Find friends, churches, schools etc. plant things that are low maintainemce. Get food in the ground when it makes sense for your region. Let’s try to feed 10-100 people each. Or more.
WATCH: As California farmers make the hard decision to plow through crops no one is buying, analysts say the drop in food supply will be felt in a few months by consumers eager to buy produce at grocery stores
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This is a pretty disgusting non solution. Grazing instead of depending on nitrogen-fertilizer grain will go far. Adding a little charcoal to their diet as well. Adding more suffering is NOT the way.
This new device captures cows’ methane burps which are contributing to the climate crisis
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I see a future where we use scat-searching dogs to find the seeds we need for assisted ecosystem migration.
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I've written re this before this is a GREAT paper. Much of the Amazon was planted & engineered by humans. We must fully understand that it is a food forest, that ecosystems can be built, & how essential the indigenous people of the Amazon are for the world
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I got a lot of flak today for making the case that food production is movement building. I guarantee everyone who marched had to eat food today and most of it moved money to a terrible racists system that we all depend on. If we get people fed we can take care of each other.
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Today I want to discuss a way to fix carbon that could feed us well, & save the honey bees. We’ll go down the silk road to Kazakhstan & find the wild ancestor of Apples living in an endangered Garden of Eden & come back w the possibility of changing our world. You coming? 1/?
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Rivers can be restored, oceans can be repaired, aquifers can be charged, deserts can be reversed, soil can be built, policies can be passed, movements can be built in sustained across multiple perspectives and experiences
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The US uses as much energy to pump water for lawns as we produce with nuclear energy. If we grew our food where we have lawns we would no longer need much of climate-changing agriculture
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I never realized that “companion” means “to share bread” until just now.
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Fire in the northwest is complex. It’s important to realize that fire is not inherently bad here: the ecosystem is adapted to it in facts wants it. There will be amazing renewal in most of the places that burn. The real problem is in patch size and fire frequency.
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In the 1970s, in the Mediterranean climate of the Provence region in S. France, a woodland manager developed a way to generate energy from trimming tree systems while also making incredible soil. His name was Jean Pain ("John Pan"), and his work is important for our future 1/?
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These groups of people “practicing” seeing the designated imperfections of human faces, is building deep, instinctual disgust and contempt
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I want to be clear about something. Starting to garden this year is not the same thing as knowing how to garden. We are all going to have a lot of losses potentially. And we are also going to learn a lot.
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Wow.
So I just amassed an amazing board of directors and Build Soil is filing to be a nonprofit. This is so much because of the amazing support i've had here. You are all amazing.
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Alright back to soil carbon. Today i’m talking about a specific kind of composting to address the big question: in a world with limited clean water, why do we shit in it? 1/
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Reminder that stopping deforestation is as important as new trees.
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a reminder that there is a boycott on cashews going on rn. The crop produces a compound related to poison ivy and requires a person with a little knife to cut a hardshell off the nut. it's often slave labor or nearly slave labor
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This is fun. There is a photo at the bottom so open it.
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I’m happy people are trying! 💯% these problems are because people are not focusing on their soil.
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I'd like to remind everyone that in order to use vegetation to reach the 10-year climate budget that keeps us < 1.5 C (maybe) we need most of it installed in the next 2-3 years. includes installing new grasslands, ponds, irrigation, subsoil & seeing with sequestration organisms
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This is huge news for climate: restoring bison will restore carbon-sequestering grassland soil production.
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I was just hired by the board of Build Soil to the position of Executive Director!!!!!! This is a day 25 years in the making
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So many of us only think of deserts as baron but those are largely eroded damaged landscapes. The cactus In these photos need those shrubs to provide shade for germination and to hold moisture in. So beautiful to see a healthy landscape
The Sonoran Desert is simply spectacular right now.
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Having reached my late thirties I want to tell followers in their 20: seriously keep a log of your life and the adventures it will fade fast without a way to recall it.
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Not to rock your world you too much but some of you may not know that potatoes are just soft modified twigs called “stolon”
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Well this is huge. I was just accepted for admission into the PhD. Program in the Environmental Science Department at Oregon state university. I’m grateful for all the support people have shown me.
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When looking at disasters happening around the world remember that climate change accelerates and increases them but that they are often still the result of years of environmental degradation. There is ample room for a lot of repair that is directly about actions on land.
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Many of us had experiences in the past that helped us see that something fundamentally is wrong w the social-ecological world. Climate at its very last moment to turn around. Authoritianism creeping into all institutions. Everything we do tracked. & human connections freyed.
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I’m still so confused by that botanist who says you can’t feed yourself significantly from a garden.
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So let’s include not just the real numbers but the complex numbers which help us think about rotation. And take this map and add a third dimension of the complex plain 20/?
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I just woke up from a dream about this and made it.
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