#amazon boat

[cognitivejustice]

How solar power is changing life in Ecuador's Amazon basin

For more than 40 years, the local Indigenous people, the Achuar, have been advocating to stop oil development, which has ravaged large swaths of the Ecuadorian Amazon. But even as they fought against fossil fuels, gasoline was their only option to light their homes and power the boats tied to their livelihood. This area has the thinnest electric coverage in the country. But now a smattering of solar panels across 12 villages in a couple of Ecuador’s deeply forested eastern provinces are transforming life.

Solar power is shaping how they go about daily life in ways big and small, from how they get to work to how they negotiate their connections to the world beyond the Amazon.

Photo above: A solar-powered electric boat

For generations, young men farmed the land, built huts or left their village to find work outside the jungle. Now solar panels are opening up other options.

In the Kapawi Solar Center, an open structure overlooking the Pastaza River, 20 solar panels power a dozen outlets strapped to bamboo poles. There, technicians such as Óscar Mukucham can charge up and hold workshops on how to install panels.

As a boy, Mukucham, now 23, had visions of solar boats moving through the river. Now he teaches others how to maintain them in the Amazon humidity.

Solar power is also fueling eco-tourism. The Kapawi Ecolodge, a hotel managed by the community, boasts 64 panels that illuminate 10 cabins, the dining room and other hotel facilities for 24 hours a day.

The solar boats are so quiet, they make for ideal vessels for nature tours: They don’t scare away dolphins or birds.

For Canelos, the lamps and panels are enabling a bigger vision: powering the Amazon without scarring it with roads and poles. Solar energy connects them to the world beyond their home, while preserving the ancient traditions that have sprouted from its rich rainforest floor.

“We cannot talk about the fight against extractive activities if we are consuming fuel,” he said. “Just as the sun makes life possible on the planet, it also allows the Achuar to keep their culture alive.”

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[hauntingblue]

BACK TO ONE PIECE LETSGOOOOO

[crisalidaseason]

Returning to my death college (my hometown) on my dragon (a boat) after visiting my husband (the hospital)

[djlechat]

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

[ruleof3bobby]

JUNGLE CRUISE (2021) Grade: D+

Overall boring, no charm, little chemistry amongst the actors, predictable.

No memorable scenes or lines.

[tobiasbruns]

Amazonas -2023-

[rickchung]

The Boys in the Boat (dir. George Clooney).

This is perfectly unexceptional in every conceivable way as a painfully standard inspirational period underdog sports drama based on a true story. Set during the Depression, we follow the University of Washington men's eight-rowing team in their improbable, working-class quest to compete and win gold in the 1936 Summer Olympics amidst Hitler's Berlin and against the backdrop of WWII looming on the horizon.

[suchartsy]

[luqalbuq]

Barco e canoa (2022/2023). Belterra, Pará, Brasil. Foto tirada com um superzoom de uma lente que me emprestaram. Só para se ter ideia desse zoom, mal dava de ver o barco, muito menos a outra margem do rio Tapajós, pois desse lugar a largura do rio é de mais de cinco quilômetros (eu tirei a foto de um lugar um pouco mais alto).

Boat and canoe (2022/2023). Belterra, Pará, Brazil. Photo taken with a superzoom on a lens they lent me. Just to give you an idea of this zoom, you could barely see the boat, much less the other bank of the Tapajós River, as from this place the river is more than five kilometers wide (I took the photo from a slightly higher place) .

[boatmediatourney]

⚓Boat Media Tournament⚓

Round 2, match 5

[lachoco]

Notebook: Lined Pages with Decoration

Are you a fan of sailing? Would you like to show your love for the nautical world in school or work? If yes, this notebook will be perfect for you. It has 120 lined pages with an anchor as a decoration on each of them. The cover shows an adorable fantasy image of a sailing ship. Now you can make notes like a true sea wolf.

[epicrox]

As the eldest sibling and only the DAUGHTER in my family, the way the two oldest siblings sometimes acted in Swallows and Amazons actually made my jaw dropped.

[fleshphagus]

Also fuck you Matthew Sidey again for taking my fucking dvd’s and never giving them back and then “Oh I moved I must have lost them but sure I’ll meet you for a drink again now that you’re actually 21″ bullshit ass your books sucked I fucking hated Ishmael I want my goddamn dvds back.

[rakkiankh]

Spent a significant amount of time at work today designing dangling earrings for Atem to wear.

Oh how I miss drawing