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@ME5SENGER_24 @gandalf_der_12te
Last I heard, the estimate of upkeep on solar was about 5% of the cost of fuel for the same amount of power but that was a couple of years ago. Then again, again years ago, I saw a BU prospective business which was automating solar panel cleaning and have seen self-cleaning surfaces for solar panels ideas since.

@Nouveau_Burnswick @hazeebabee
I remember a manual for rooftop gardens from Montreal back in the 1970s.
There are lighter growing media than soil and, of course, hydroponics and aeroponics.

Years of links to urban and advanced agriculture developments at http://cityag.blogspot.com
Years of links to net zero energy building developments at http://zeronetenrg.blogspot.com
Both are also free listservs

@mynachmadarch @stabby_cicada @keepthepace @Pencilnoob @mozz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJ8Hdd1Nus

@andrewrgross
Been promoting & practicing Solar IS Civil Defense for about 20 years in my own small way: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/30/317777/-

I thought one way to make it happen was through farmers’ markets
https://flourishfiction.substack.com/p/mister-franklins-folks

Mentioned practical civil defense actions at a recent local XR strategy meeting but I don’t know if they’ll pick up on the idea.

I’d feel a lot better if XR, Fridays for the Future, et cetera were doing real emergency climate prep besides their political stuff.

@Desmond373 @stabby_cicada
Every day is Christmas at the library and a good librarian is a combination of Santa Claus and Sherlock Holmes.

@ProdigalFrog @countrypunk In the early 2000s, Cuba replaced all the old refrigerators with newer more efficient ones.
They could have recycled the heat exchangers into solar hot water heaters but the thought never occurred to them.

I asked.

@MonkCanatella
Review of A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design by Nancy Jack Todd
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2005/05/gaian-design-of-ecological-alchemy.html

Review of Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship by John Todd
https://solarray.blogspot.com/2019/03/healing-earth-through-waters.html

Other resources on geotherapy (not geoengineering please) at
http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html

@stabby_cicada @MonkCanatella Lots of ideas for both algae and traditional trees in Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design by Nancy and John Todd, both of whom are still around.

Years of links to urban and advanced agriculture at http://cityag.blogspot.com
which is also a listserv

@stabby_cicada @poVoq

Gardening, guerrilla or not, is local production, one translation of swadeshi, the core of Gandhian or nonviolent economics, a daily practice

Gardening can be extremely powerful:
USAmerican WWII Victory Gardens began in Spring 1942 & by Autumn harvest 1944 were producing a third to a half of fruits & vegetables on the Home Front

Now,
imagine Climate Gardens using known regenerative techniques of carbon drawdown
&
what could be done in more than only two growing seasons

@Lyrata @syl My notes on Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom are at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-ecology-of-freedom.html