@samnabi's spore.social bookmarks https://spore.social/@samnabi Custom Script Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:01:45 +0000 <![CDATA[<p>We must knit together climate and health, forests and people, food and biodiversity I say in the book, and I don’t minimize the patience required for multisolving. After all, it takes community building. Connecting with the more-than-human life of the planet. Moving at the speed of trust.</p>]]> https://spore.social/@bethsawin/113883932621172514 https://spore.social/@bethsawin/113883932621172514 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:01:45 +0000 We must knit together climate and health, forests and people, food and biodiversity I say in the book, and I don’t minimize the patience required for multisolving. After all, it takes community building. Connecting with the more-than-human life of the planet. Moving at the speed of trust.

]]> Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the "Squeeze" of Being Palestinian-Syrian | Antidote Zine https://antidotezine.com/2024/12/19/killing-is-killing-yarmouk/ https://antidotezine.com/2024/12/19/killing-is-killing-yarmouk/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:12:39 +0000 New transcript of a talk from June 2022

Elia @ayoub spoke with Nidal Bitare about:

- Yarmouk camp in Damascus, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world before the Assad regime laid siege to and destroyed it

- The legacy of Lebanese-Palestinian-Syrian leftist writer Samir Kassir, who was assassinated presumably by the Assad regime in 2005

- The sad hypocrisy of pro-Assad politics in the movement for

And much more. Truly a must read.

antidotezine.com/2024/12/19/ki

]]> Same/Different | Antidote Zine https://antidotezine.com/2023/01/14/same-difference/ https://antidotezine.com/2023/01/14/same-difference/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:01:27 +0000 As the situation develops minute-to-minute in and the public communications of different factions and their supporters trickle out, showing little signs of trust or repair following years of antipathy, our thoughts turn to this 2022 article by Andrea Glioti which we liberated from its academic paywall.

It is hard not to think, once again, that Arab-Kurdish rapprochement is the key to victory over tyranny and multipolar imperialism. There is so much common ground.

antidotezine.com/2023/01/14/sa

]]> Life’s Swell https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/lifes-swell/ https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/lifes-swell/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:02:11 +0000 🏄‍♀️ _Blue Crush_ is 20 years old, but did you know that, like _Adaptation_, it's an adaptation of a non-fiction story by Susan Orlean? And the non-fiction story is right here:
outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve

]]> <![CDATA[<p>I have made prints of the constellations of the zodiac, those that straddle the ecliptic and loom large in the human imagination.</p><p><a href="https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/117139930" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">minouette.etsy.com/listing/117</span><span class="invisible">139930</span></a></p><p>🧵2/2</p>]]> https://spore.social/@minouette/113249154160577698 https://spore.social/@minouette/113249154160577698 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:29:14 +0000 I have made prints of the constellations of the zodiac, those that straddle the ecliptic and loom large in the human imagination.

minouette.etsy.com/listing/117

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]]> Disaster Recovery Efforts Can Serve More than One Goal https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-21/disaster-recovery-efforts-can-serve-more-than-one-goal/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-21/disaster-recovery-efforts-can-serve-more-than-one-goal/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:15:58 +0000 From one mountainous state pummeled by climate-exacerbated flooding to those in the NC/TN mountains, I send love. And, because we need to pool creativity and knowledge, I send this, written after VT's 2023 flooding disaster. resilience.org/stories/2023-07

]]> <![CDATA[<p>"Ford has largely ignored the strong prescriptions set out by his own housing task force, and last week Global News reported that the “massive density” Ford proposed around transit stations is gone because Ontario PCs gutted their own housing bill." <a href="https://buff.ly/4gM4BRS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4gM4BRS</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>]]> https://spore.social/@dtkmelissa/113226390865711785 https://spore.social/@dtkmelissa/113226390865711785 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:00:14 +0000 "Ford has largely ignored the strong prescriptions set out by his own housing task force, and last week Global News reported that the “massive density” Ford proposed around transit stations is gone because Ontario PCs gutted their own housing bill." buff.ly/4gM4BRS

]]> Why Won’t Anyone Listen? Elizabeth Sawin on How to Talk about the Polycrisis https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-27/live-event-why-wont-anyone-listen/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-27/live-event-why-wont-anyone-listen/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:21:06 +0000 Today - 2PM ET. Who do we need to be and how do we need to communicate to keep up our and others courage and find creative ways forward together? I have some ideas (mostly from hard won mistakes!) and I look forward to hearing what works for others. resilience.org/stories/2024-08

]]> Community Democracy Project – Our City. Our Budget. Imagine That. https://communitydemocracyproject.org/ https://communitydemocracyproject.org/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:08:39 +0000 @zspencer @adarsh @seachanger eyyyy you all are essentially describing Community Democracy Project.

They're working to bring direct, active, sustained democracy to Oakland with community control of the budget. A future with monthly opportunity to participate in voting and discussion in neighborhood assemblies.

communitydemocracyproject.org/

]]> <![CDATA[<p>AramcoWorld has a lovely feature on the dates growing in California’s Coachella Valley, the USDA’s agricultural explorers that brought them to the US and the signature milkshake treat that has been popular since the 1920s. </p><p><a href="https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2024/America-s-Arabian-Superfood" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-</span><span class="invisible">2024/America-s-Arabian-Superfood</span></a></p>]]> https://spore.social/@UnconventionalEmma/112908999975427565 https://spore.social/@UnconventionalEmma/112908999975427565 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:43:33 +0000 AramcoWorld has a lovely feature on the dates growing in California’s Coachella Valley, the USDA’s agricultural explorers that brought them to the US and the signature milkshake treat that has been popular since the 1920s.

aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-

]]> How Postwar Ads Got Us Hooked On 'Disposable' Single-Use Plastic https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vintage-ads-plastic_n_5cdb1768e4b01e9bd3540ffa https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vintage-ads-plastic_n_5cdb1768e4b01e9bd3540ffa Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:26:15 +0000 How Postwar Ads Got Us Hooked On 'Disposable' Single-Use Plastic

„We were trained to buy this stuff, these identical, multiple objects that are meant to be used for a short period of time and then replaced with an identical one, and that took cultural training,” Odile Madden, a plastic conservation scientist at Getty Conservation Institute, told HuffPost.“

huffpost.com/entry/vintage-ads

]]> The Center won't beat Fascism https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-center-wont-beat-fascism https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-center-wont-beat-fascism Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:59:28 +0000 Centrism will not beat fascism.

When the far-right attacks immigrants, the center moves right. The the far-right attacks the homeless, the center moves right.

Now we're seeing the results in the form of lynch mobs and the criminalization of the homeless.

jphilll.com/p/the-center-wont-

]]> The Obliteration of Thinking https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-obliteration-of-thinking https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-obliteration-of-thinking Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:57:28 +0000 "The pace of contemporary life obliterates thought because it asks and expects us to do more in an ever-narrowing window of time while consistently distracted by technological products designed to hoover up as much of our attention spans as possible." davidmoscrop.com/p/the-obliter

]]> Pride of Place https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/pride-of-place https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/pride-of-place Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:59:05 +0000 "Love wins, but housing loses. No human is illegal, but their housing is. Black lives matter, but they can’t live here. Diversity is celebrated—at the grandstand but not at the ballot box. So much for inclusivity." -Ryan Puzycki ryanpuzycki.com/p/pride-of-pla

]]> We're Israelis who study fascism. This week, our country took a terrifying step toward the abyss https://forward.com/opinion/618223/israel-fascism-academic-dissent-law-crackdown/ https://forward.com/opinion/618223/israel-fascism-academic-dissent-law-crackdown/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:25:31 +0000 “We are Israelis who study fascism. This week, took a terrifying step toward fascism# – The Forward forward.com/opinion/618223/isr

]]> My mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/jun/05/sailing-voyage-the-wash-norfolk-potatoes-chip-shop-kings-lynn https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/jun/05/sailing-voyage-the-wash-norfolk-potatoes-chip-shop-kings-lynn Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:07:10 +0000 One man is trying to revive zero-carbon cargo routes by sailing produce along England’s eastern seaboard – and taking paying passengers along for the thrilling ride.

theguardian.com/travel/article

]]> First ever planet-wide analysis shows conservation work is making a measurable difference https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/first-ever-planet-wide-analysis-shows-conservation-work-is-making-a-measurable-difference/ https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/first-ever-planet-wide-analysis-shows-conservation-work-is-making-a-measurable-difference/ Thu, 02 May 2024 19:33:57 +0000 “If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, the executive vice president of the conservation group Re:wild, who took part in the new study.

“What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working.”

anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/

]]> The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/soft-life-why-millennials-are-quitting-the-rat-race https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/soft-life-why-millennials-are-quitting-the-rat-race Sat, 06 Apr 2024 19:30:46 +0000 I found this news article very inspiring!
I'm myself on my way to reducing from working 100% to 80%.
In today's fast-paced society we need more time to rest and recover - we need to live a softer life.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

]]> The Outrage Economy https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-outrage-economy https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-outrage-economy Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:19:43 +0000 I wrote about how our rage is being manufactured, mined, and monetized.

jphilll.com/p/the-outrage-econ

]]> Frank Kanawha Lake: Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Can Save Our Ecosystems - Bioneers https://bioneers.org/frank-lake-indigenous-traditional-ecological-knowledge-zmaz2008/ https://bioneers.org/frank-lake-indigenous-traditional-ecological-knowledge-zmaz2008/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:47:58 +0000 10/10 interview with Frank Lake: "The first law enacted in Alta, California, was by a mission to prevent the natives from burning. They took away that energetically efficient tool to manage the resources as a way to subjugate [us and make] American settlement of the West successful. . . . [Cultural Burning means] Your landscape is then really linked to fire as your pharmacy, your supermarket, your hardware store, & for some sacred places, your church." bioneers.org/frank-lake-indige

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