It took two years from seed to #flower...but it was worth it. These pure white foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora)
Also the latest addition to the urbanite #landscaping project. #permaculture
Cowâs Milk Containing Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus â Heat Inactivation and Infectivity in Mice
A newly favorite perennial #plant that's hardy into Zone 5, drought tolerant, sand tolerant, has edible seeds, beautiful flowers, & you can make linen out of its fibers: #Flax, Linum perenne. More people should grow it.
Herbruckâs Poultry Ranch, #Michiganâs largest #egg producer, says it will lay off 400 employees in Ionia County as it deals with [the economic results of] an outbreak of #BirdFlu [in farm animals].
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The Repair Manifesto. Available in many languages: https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
I just bought 2 lbs. of organic cocoa powder for $30. This may be the last time I can find it this cheap.
"Cocoa is currently more expensive than copper, its price having soared 60% this month alone. Demand for the crop is expected to grow by more than 4% a year this decade but bad harvests in west Africa mean chocolate makers are scrambling for scarce beans."
2/ ""Forests harbor some 80% of the worldâs terrestrial #biodiversity; they support more than a billion people with food, shelter, income, & #energy. And they provide ž of the worldâs accessible freshwater. Containing over half of the global #carbon stock in #soils & vegetation, forests also support us in combating #climate change." https://www.cbd.int/article/world-forest-day-2024
#Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of #Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of #Africa that is harvesting #rainwater, increasing #food security, & rehabilitating the #ecosystem. #restoration https://youtu.be/WCli0gyNwL0
Thanks nostr:npub1a44k3ck3f9lelyhdcp6t97e5hsaaglp246z9f92lppeeez4c0vzqz0f9rp for publishing this story about Radical Oakland #Permaculture
Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison journeys to East Oakland, #California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage & benefits to former #prisoners with unbelievable results: a 2% recidivism rate, compared to 60% for the State of California.
The nursery itself has an incredible #diversity of edible and useful #plant species & varieties, custom selected to grow an epic permaculture #garden.
While it's very sad that the #sycamore on #Hadrian's wall was cut down, the good news is that the root system is still intact and will send up regrowth shoots. Selectively prune the '#coppice' to one stem and it will come back rapidly.
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i'm looking at a geothermal greenhouse. something along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZghkt5m1uY
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#NoWarButClassWar
Some illustrations.
On Coronal Mass Ejections: "The Carrington event was relatively minor. Faced with a surge of high-energy particles characteristic of a Miyake eventâone powerful enough to leave its mark in the rings of treesâthe induced current would flood the thousands of #satellites that encircle Earth, crippling them for months and possibly years. Power grids would topple immediately, leaving anything reliant on electricity, like lights, electric vehicles, and ventilators, inoperable. Astronauts would undoubtedly receive lethal doses of radiation, and even people on board airplanes could encounter dangerous levels." https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
"Humans and pigs easily swap #influenza #viruses. Worse still, pigs can also pick up influenza strains that circulate among birds, whose viruses arenât well adapted to infecting and spreading among people. Humans donât have the receptors in our throats and noses that avian flus can easily attach to. Our isolation from avian flus is what makes them dangerousâsince our immune systems rarely encounter them, we have little innate ability to fight them off. Enter pigs. They can catch flu strains from birds (often carrying them without symptoms), mash them up with genetic material from human-adapted flus, and create novel varieties capable of flummoxing human immunity and generating #pandemics. Thatâs why virologists call hogs âmixing vesselsâ for novel influenza strains."
#CAFOs
Brain pollution by plastic.
âWe expected to see the microplastics in the feces of the animal, that wasnât altogether surprising,â Ross told Earther. âThen we found them deep inside liver cells, spleen, [and] kidneys. Not just the center of the digestive tract, but actually in the tissue of the digestive tract.â
Because the plastics were found in organs including the liver, spleen, and brain, it meant that the many bits of swallowed microplastics had entered the bloodstream. This is what allowed the microplastics to make their way into organs outside of the digestive tract."
https://gizmodo.com/microplastics-behavioral-changes-in-mice-alzheimers-stu-1850785217
Faster than Forecast: the story ice tells about abrupt #climate change, Jason Box
#climate wildcard - #Greenland melt lakes, with Jason Box