Solar Punk
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The Role of Open Source Software in Climate - Max Jones on Carbon Plan
Max discusses the importance of open source in bringing about effective climate action, the role of Carbon Plan in building accessible data products and tools, and how being a nonprofit is advantageous for open source development. The conversation also touches on funding models for open source projects in nonprofits, including support from individual donors, grants, and collaboration with governmental and private entities like NASA.
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"Liquid Tree" - oxygen production with microalgae
The University of Belgrade’s Institute for Multidisciplinary Research invented an urban photo-bioreactor. Liquid 3 cleans the air and serves as a bench in the Belgrade city centre.
It's a tank filled with microalgae, a solar panel on the top generates electricity for USB charging ports for citizens and a pump that pumps air into the tank where the algae process the CO² and produce Oxygen.
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/liquid-tree-to-combat-air-pollution-in-belgrade/
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Open Source Seeds to fight to keep agriculture free!
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12252955
> Open Source principles applied to biotech is a way we can today fight against the capture of oligarchical seed companies of the very foods we all need to live. Check out here to see what organizations in your area are part of the Global Coalition of Open Source Seed Initiatives (GOSSI).
- bgr.com Scientists in China may have just reinvented the toilet bowl
A group of scientists in China have created an ultra-slippery toilet bowl that can repel almost any type of liquids or solids.
- cleantechnica.com Agrivoltaics Is Making Friends Across Partisan Lines, Thanks To Farmers
Agrivoltaics beats fossil fuels with a bottom line case for farmers to install solar panels on their land.
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Colonizing Space Is Store Bought Tomatoes but More and for Everything
A garden-inspired meditation on space colonization. Turns out it's really nice here, on Earth.
- solar.lowtechmagazine.com Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System
Andy Lagzdins built and documented a pedal-powered air compressor to run the power tools in his motorcycle workshop.
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Slrpnk.net now on dedicated hardware
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/349475
> After being hosted by the Lemmy devs since March 2022 (thx!), I finally got around moving this instance to my own server today. > > It is a quite beefy server (8core 32gb RAM) currently shared with a few other services provided by F-hub.org (still somewhat under construction). > > Registrations are also open again (with admin approval) and I will try to approve them ASAP during the coming days.
- www.eurekalert.org Using spiders as environmentally-friendly pest control
Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly way to protect crops against agricultural pests. That's according to new research, led by the University of Portsmouth, which suggests that web-building groups of spiders can eat a devastating pest moth of commercially important crops li...
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Hot/Cold Survival Tactics for Apartments
bioluminescence.itch.io Hot/Cold Survival Tactics for Apartments by BioluminescenceMethods for Renters to Survive Temperature Extremes
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Solarchan: A Solarpunk inspired image board
Quite new it seems.
- publish.ministryofinternet.eu The Search for a Sustainable Operating System - Part 1 - Updates vs. Stability vs. Virtualisation
After using Arch Linux and Manjaro Linux for years I just figured out, that I download a lot of software only to update my system. It was...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435152
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435150 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435149 > > > > > I want to find the most sustainable operating system, because computers nowadays waste a lot of energy, because of data collection and data processing. Avoiding unnecessary processes and using resources in a mindful way could reduce the CO2 output on the whole world. > > > > > > This discussion grew very fast and I put all links to other platforms in the end of the blog article.
