How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
- Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
- Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
- Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
- Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
- Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
- Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
- Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
- Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
- Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
- Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
- Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
- Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
- Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
- Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
- Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
- Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
- joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Y'all keep saying “people aren’t doing it” as if there aren’t HOA rules, municipal codes, licensing fees, permits, etc that complicate all this for most people.
And that’s without going into physical and/or mental ability to do the work
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We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years
I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.
The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.
Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.
So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.
“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.
Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.
Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.
Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.
So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe.
that’s much more interesting and substantive than “brave, smart, evil, miscellaneous”
Classical Pieces You’ve Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name
- William Tell Overture- Rossini (Most famous part at 8:45, but why not listen to the whole thing?)
- Also Sprach Zarathustra- Strauss
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart
- Symphony 94, Mvt. 2 “Surprise Symphony”- Haydn
- Toccata and Fugue in d Minor-Bach
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2- Chopin
- Rondo alla Turca- Mozart
- Sinfonie de Fanfares: Rondeau- Jean-Joseph Mouret
- The Four Seasons: Spring- Vivaldi (I just linked to the whole thing because it’s great)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring- Bach
- O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)- Carl Orff
- Funeral March- Chopin
- Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop (A.K.A. Can Can)- Offenbach
- Pomp and Circumstance (You probably graduated to this)- Elgar
- Gayane: Sabre Dance- Aram Khachaturian
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March- Mendelssohn
- Carmen: Les Toreadors- Bizet
- The Ride of the Valkyries- Wagner
- Für Elise- Beethoven
- Dance of the Hours- Ponchielli
- Rigotello: La Donna e Mobile- Verdi
- Night on Bald Mountain- Mussorgsky
- Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme- Tchaikovsky
- Entry of the Gladiators- Julius Fucik
- Lakmé: Flower Duet- Delibes
- Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King- Greig
- Rodeo: Hoedown- Copland
- Peer Gynt: Morning Mood- Greig
- New World Symphony Mov. [2][4]- Dvorak
- Ave Maria (You knew this, but did you know that it was by Schubert?)
- Canon in D- Pachelbel
Add others if you want! Have fun!
- Dies Irae (from Requiem) - Verdi
- Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov
- Finale to the 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
- Der Holle Rache kocht in meiner herzen (aka the Queen of the Night aria) - Mozart
- Libiamo ne’ lieti calici - Verdi
- Largo al factotum - Rossini
- Overture to The Barber of Seville - Rossini
- The Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss
- Moonlight Sonata (mvmt. 1) - Beethoven
- Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven
I’m sure there are more but these were some of the first that came to mind as missing!
I think this one’s missing, one of my favourites:
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns
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I walked to a deli and got a sandwich to go and a coffee and while I was waiting these two teenage girls ran up and were like OH MY GOD JESSICA HOW ARE YOU and then hugged me and the one whispered “that guy was following you and taking pictures of you” and then they walked home with me and that one guy stopped following me and hONESTLY THIS IS WHAT I AM HERE FOR
Y'all I was at the river just hanging with my friend and these two high school girls run up to us and say “Can you pretend to be our friends? Cause this guy has been following us,” and we sat with them and they called their parents to pick them up and I really want to share that story cause it’s SO SMART and when you’re in crisis your mind can just blank in panic so I want everyone to have that story in the back of their heads. NEVER be afraid to ask strangers for protection!
Once in like ninth grade, I was at Starbucks by myself doing homework and this weirdo came and sat at my table and was telling me how he was a photographer and how he was “scouting” for models and he really liked my “look” and he was trying to ask my name and how old I was and I was panicking bc I didn’t know what to do
Then this middle aged woman came up to us and was like “EMILY there you are sweetie I was looking for you it’s time to go home!” and the guy left really awkwardly and then she told me that she had a daughter my age and asked if I told him my name and I said no and she told me to be safe
Keep an eye out. Protect each otherwhy do men have to be so goddamn creepy like shit dude
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