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Dandelion News - February 15-21
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1. Solar farms managed for nature boost bird abundance and diversity, new study finds
“There were more than twice as many farmland birds in the well-managed solar farms compared with the intensively farmed land, and nearly 16 times as many woodland birds. […] Overall, diversity was 2.5 times higher, while woodland birds were nine times more diverse.”
2. Washington judge blocks Trump’s gender-affirming care ban, says it's unconstitutional in multiple ways
“This marks the second time in a week that a judge has stood in the way of Trump’s attacks on trans kids. [… The ruling grants] a temporary restraining order that halts enforcement of provisions in Trump’s directive that would cut off federal funding to medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to minors.”
3. Fog harvesting could provide water for arid cities
“17,000 sq m of mesh could produce enough water to meet the weekly water demand of [… the] urban slums. 110 sq m could meet the annual demand for the irrigation of the city's green spaces. Fog water could be used for soil-free (hydroponic) agriculture, with yields of 33 to 44lb (15 to 20kg) of green vegetables in a month.”
4. Audubon Applauds Bipartisan Federal Effort to Protect Delaware River Basin with Critical Reauthorization Bill
“The bill would […] ensure long-term conservation and restoration efforts, expand the official definition of the basin to include Maryland, and prioritize projects that serve small, rural, and disadvantaged communities. […] The watershed provides important year-round habitats and critical migratory stopovers for approximately 400 bird species[….]”
5. mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial
“Half of the people in the study — eight of the participants — responded to the vaccine, producing T cells that targeted their tumors. […] Just two of the patients who had a response to the vaccine had their cancer return during the three-year follow- up, compared to seven of the eight who did not respond to the vaccine treatments.”
6. Minn. Lt. Gov. Flanagan Makes It Official; She's running for U.S. Senate
“[Flanagan has] “championed kitchen-table issues like raising the minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, and free school meals.” If elected, Flanagan, a tribal citizen of the White Earth Nation, would become the first Native American female U.S. senator in history.”
7. Federal Funding Restored for Low-Income Alabama Utility Assistance After Outcry

“A program meant to help low-income Alabamians pay their utility bills has resumed two weeks after it was canceled due to an executive order from President Donald Trump. […] “We can confirm the funds are reaching those affected by the previous pause[….]””
8. Modeling study suggests Amazon rainforest is more resilient than assumed
“[Previous] studies were either conducted with global climate models that used a simplified representation of convection [or were on a regional scale….] According to the computations, mean annual precipitation in the Amazon does not change significantly even after complete deforestation.“
9. States are moving forward with Buy Clean policies despite Trump reversal
““Buy Clean is a great example of how states and other nonfederal actors can continue to press forward on climate action, regardless of what the federal government does,” said Casey Katims, executive director of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of two dozen governors.”
10. The rewilded golf courses teeming with life
“A wildflower meadow, ponds, scrub habitat, coastline and even an area of peat bog can be found on this little 60-acre (24-hectare) plot, which boasts roe deer, otters, lizards, eels and a huge array of insects and birds.”
February 8-14 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)
#hopepunk#good news#nature#us politics#solar power#solar panels#solar energy#birds#biodiversity#gender affirming care#transgender#trans rights#trans healthcare#water conservation#habitat#migratory birds#vaccines#vaccination#mrna vaccine#pancreatic cancer#cancer#native american#alabama#low income#amazon rainforest#rainforest#executive orders#climate action#golf course#habitat restoration
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When I used to live in Edmonton in a co-op house, my housemate gardened our neighbours' backyard - it was a rental house and the only crop they were growing was dandelions. My housemate (who's lived in the same house since the 80s) knew the landlord and two of the families there, and so she also worked out the "I will garden and you get a cut of the produce" deal.
It wasn't a farm, and the soil wasn't great, but she planted raspberries and zucchini, because those are two plants that are a) prolific af and b) provide an amazing amount of ground cover - well, the zucchini did much earlier than the raspberries; those took time.
All to say, you don't have to have agricultural aspirations, just a yen for gardening and a willingness to approach your neighbours. They may say no, in which case you've lost nothing. But if they say yes, you'll have gained not only gardening space, but neighbourly goodwill. And that's very cool.
So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.
So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).
However
After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.
Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.
So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.
I love a couple of things about this story:
Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood
As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building
BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM
These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.
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Nobody talks about how important the little actions are. The quiet resistance to everything going on in the world today… the middle school teachers working overtime to put on a production of newsies… they’re doing it on purpose. They’re here fighting. They’re quietly sharing the power of the people, showing what we can do if we work together. All the lessons from that show can be applied to today’s world.
They’re doing it on purpose. Little acts of resistance — putting that pin on your bag, connecting with your community. That’s what’s important right now, showing the people around us that we care. Even if we can’t go to rallies or protests for our safety, we can show each other we’re here and we’re fighting. There are still people who care that’s what’s important.
stay safe and connect. Show it in little ways. We matter not to them, so we must matter to each other.
#us politics#We matter not to them so we must matter to each other#Important#stay safe#hopepunk#my post
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Recently I was forced to face a truth about myself, one which I cannot unlearn and has like many other truths has forced me to reframe how I go about my life.
I am not built to be fast.
I am not built to multitask, I am not built for the shortcuts I must take to have speed.
On my most recent day off I ran an experiment, I took things at my own pace.
I didn't multitask and just let things go as I felt they should.
It took me 5 hours to complete the first task of the day, took me 20 minutes to walk when it normally took my 5, it took me sooooo long.
Now, ive shared my findings with a few ppl, and at first glance you might feel the same way too. "Oh your not slow! It's ok!" As if it's some character flaw.
And doesn't that say a lot about the current state of things that this realization was met with so much hostility?
There is no moral judgements to be made about our natural rhythms.
My husband is at 2x speed all the time. He needs to multitasking and have rewards lined up to function he needs to feel the adrenaline in his body to get moving. He needs all his senses engaged and that how he best experiences things. That's just what he needs! And he should get it!
I need to be able to walk slowly and watch the clouds blow past and the flowers bloom and open up, I need my mail to take weeks and to savor the sunlight warmth. I take an entire weekend to make a Chilli, and days to make stock. I need to watch my plants grow and the moons phases to say hello to me. To watch shows and stretch afterwards without the clock ticking away down my throat.
I can find peace in people being on different cycles then me, the major thing for me was realizing what my own was in the first place.
#sunny says#solarpunk#anti capitalism#hopepunk#this is apart of what ive been working on while ive been gone btw
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#kindness#compassion#give a damn about other people#be kind to others#be kind to yourself#self and others#community care#activism#hopepunk#it matters#you matter
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thank you for sharing!!!! i love his documentaries and i’m so happy to hear he shares a similar perspective!!
that guy who went to space and said something along the lines of how it shattered his illusions about the wonders of the universe entirely because it was just cold and empty and dead and vast and everything worth marvelling at was back down on earth. yeah
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Love above hate,
Hope above fear,
Forgiveness above revenge,
Freedom above chains,
Equality above domination,
Union above selfishness,
Kindness above cruelty.
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… you know what i hate about some Disc Horse in this hellish site?
i have a very specific example of this happening on a large scale ~somewhere~ in the world right now, and it's been going on for… A While. Violently.
and yet, after writing what was on my mind about it, in a pointed and angry way (yes i've read a lot of Sir Pterry's work), alluding to the bullied becomming bullies themselves — then i felt the need to go back and add something to try and make clear i knew both sides of the story. which didn't excuse anything, because in a conflict where someone says "you're not human, i'll destroy you all", i don't know what the right course of action is, but *replying with the same attitude is NOT IT*. … and then i deleted the thing entirely, because i've been burned in that online battle, and i'm DONE with it.
i'm sure you know what i'm thinking of. and i'm fucking TIRED of it.
i'm fucking tired of the world at large refusing to be kind, and pushing that burden on individuals, and then criticizing said individuals for not doing enough, not saying enough, not *thinking* enough.
well, fuck them all. i'm done.
… i'll go sleep now, and in the morning, i'll think of sir pterry, and did he know? nope not that bc i sure hope he did not and of tiphany, and take all my anger and turn it into writing something full of that, and in the end, full of kindness.
… just to keep me away from the disc horse. bc that thing is dangerous. and it's not worth arguing details, when we know where the wrongness starts, and enryone is way past thinking about that simple fact.
For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.
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“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.
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Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.
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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
#honestly I've been meaning to make a big fancy thorough post about this for literally over a year now#finally just accepted that's not going to happen#so have this!#there's also a ton of projects in other fields as well btw#including humanities#and participating can be a great way to get experience/build your resume esp if you want to go into the sciences#actual data handling! yay#science#citizen science#climate change#climate crisis#climate action#environment#climate solutions#meterology#global warming#biology#ecology#plants#hope#volunteer#volunteering#disability#actually disabled#data science#archives#digital archives#digitization#ways to help#hopepunk
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"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit.
no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge.
they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever."
every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war.
your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.
#“we're cooked” is becoming like a genuine trigger for me and i do not think i have ever had a “trigger” before#daisy speaks ☾ ⋆*・゚:⋆*・゚#politics#hopecore#hopepunk#oligarchy#free luigi#just thought id throw that one in there <3#greatest hits
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Did u get my vibes man?
#hopecore#hope punk#webweaving#words#quotes#poetry#art#on humanity#on the human condition#comfort#comfort core#beautiful#love#optimism#joyful whimsy#joyful whimsy tag#humanity#on humanity and love#recovery#web weaving#girlhood#love letters#hopepunk#text#no credits don’t panic
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I'm so serious about being kind above all else. it has genuinely changed the way I interact with the world on a fundamental level and has made me so so much happier.
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