He made his formerly barren home in the Arizona desert bloom with life, and drastically reduced his resource consumption, through careful shepherding of rainwater and re-use of wastewater, native plants, passive heating/cooling and outside-the-box use of recycled materials.
His house is a wonderland of scavenged parts and jury-rigged gizmos and I love it.
It's more about water than sun power but still strikes me as extremely #solarpunk
@sylvia_ritter@Krita and that it's done with Krita is just the wonderful cherry on top. By the way, have you ever been interviewed by the Krita foundation? They interview Krita-artists every now and then
Most of those hostile designed benches to keep homeless people from sleeping in public? They are usually just regular benches with the bar in the middle attached later with a few hex nuts and bolts, not welded. In other words you can get them off with practically any wrench that fits. I have been liberating my parks in my city all day now. It takes maybe a few minutes per bench. The only problem is finding a place to dispose of the junk bar when you're done without loading trash cans past capacity. Anyway, it's easy, it's helpful, and it's praxis.
#Europe sees first #heatwave of the year | World Meteorological Organization #WMO
Many parts of Europe are experiencing the first heatwave of the year as a result of warm air masses from Africa, setting new daytime and overnight temperature records for June. The heat poses a risk to people's health and the environment.
It is premature to attribute the unusually early heatwave to #ClimateChange, but this is consistent with climate scenarios.