Love this story! What a great idea -- #FruitWalls!

[Photos] Restored #FruitWall in the #Netherlands

November 2, 2022 by kris de decker via #NoTechMagazine

"Melle Smets, Dutch artist and our collaborator at the Human Power Plant, stumbled upon this beautiful fruit wall in #Dorrepaal, the Netherlands. By planting fruit trees close to a specially built wall with high thermal mass and #SouthernExposure, a #microclimate is created that allows the cultivation of #Mediterranean fruits in #TemperateClimates. Previously: Fruit walls: urban farming in the 1600s."

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2022/11/restored-fruit-wall-in-the-netherlands.html

#SolarPunkSunday #UrbanFarming #GardeningForClimateChange #GrowYourOwnFood #RestorativeAgriculture #Gardening #LowTech

#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de decker

via #NoTechMagazine

Illustration by Luis Quiles

"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:

- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush.

"With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.

"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html

#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime

I can't fully grasp why, but I find this terribly cool:

https://feelings-about-machines.superhi.hosting/

(via #NoTechMagazine)

Workshop in Barcelona: How to build a low-tech website?

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2024/05/workshop-in-barcelona-how-to-build-a-low-tech-website.html

#Barcelona #website #NoTechMagazine #web #technology

One of my favourite long time blog feeds is to "NO TECH MAGAZINE
Technology for Luddites" - always thought provoking.

https://www.notechmagazine.com/

"This website runs on a #solar powered server located in #Barcelona, and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather."

Their latest post leads to: Places Journal - "an essential and trusted resource on the future of #architecture, #landscape, and #urbanism" and a new series entitled #Repair Manual.

https://placesjournal.org/series/repair-manual/

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