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https://irradiance.hashbase.io/

heroes plant trees: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dozens-of-countries-have-been-working-to-plant-great-green-wall-and-its-producing-results/

"Short thesis

The western culture offers a very distilled narrative on what technology is and who builds, owns and profits from it. Most non-technical audiences are unaware of how subjective this perspective is - and how strongly it favours well-marketed multinational corporations over local solutions. How can telling different stories help us democratize technology, especially in the Global South?"

https://19.re-publica.com/en/session/solarpunk-cyberpunk-popculture-technological-narratives-tldr

Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables
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Conservative estimate of 4° of change, as compared to the 5° we are now locked into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rY3jIsGMqM

This is a fantastic talk. We are facing harsh times ahead of us, but in community and solidarity there is strength to persevere and even thrive. Get involved, we all have a part to play.

A SELSS is essentially a garden within which a human population can sustain itself indefinitely as an integrated function of its host ecological complexity. A SELSS is not just a home for humans supported by ecological systems (Closed Ecological Life Support system CELSS), but a home for a complex ecological system within which the day today life of its human inhabitants is fully integrated with the ecological system itself, an organism in its own right. The fractal nature of the FESA combined with SELSS ensures a uniform environment within which ecological complexity can grow and evolve over time. By this method, a FESA can theoretically span an entire planetary surface and thrive doing so.

https://astroekistics.com/2017/06/30/fractal-emergent-settlement-architecture-fesa/

SELSS can be best understood by its contrast with CELSS specifically the function of the humans and there cultural relationship to its ecology as a regulating mechanism. SELSS are essentially CELSS that fully integrate the self organizing complexity of ecology with humans fulfilling an integrated role within the environment replacing automation technology for the transport of materials such as water and organic wastes, as well as regulation of atmospheric systems through burning of materials or stimulation of plant and algae growth.

This kind of life support systems is an all encompassing way of life where the human culture is entirely integrated with the ecological systems hence the distinction between ecological (E) and socio-ecological (sE). Industry would still need to exist for the maintenance of the shell that contains the CsELSS and for imports of materials for expansion, however by the time we implement this method on mars, industry should be self maintaining and fully automated.

In my view SELSS are a path towards transcending civilization as we know it, and even the human organism. I see an eventuality where SELSS becomes a kind of organelle providing diversity of consciousness to a larger technological organism. Much like mitochondria inhabit our cells, one day we (Gaian ecology) will inhabit the cells of massive organisms that are independent of planets, forming clusters in solar orbit. It is a true fractal iteration of our own evolution, and represents a future of harmony between our technological and our ecological self. (https://astroekistics.com/2017/04/03/introduction-to-socio-ecological-life-support-systems-selss/)