How a Biodigester Works

https://tube.blueben.net/w/ekbeBgTKe2EFGFM9UxrTBM

#Urbánika’s #SolarPunk Bus Tour and Video Course on the #Commons

By David Bollier, July 24, 2024

Excerpt: "The course is free to access, and the bus was developed, thanks to donations by thousands of people. The course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, so that it can be reproduced, remixed, and shared at no cost. In the notes section underneath each video, there are links to resources, weblinks, a self-test review of the content, and an invitation to apply one’s knowledge of commons to the real world. Schools are invited to use the videos in their teaching about commons. Social-action groups may find the videos useful in reflecting on their own organizational dynamics.

"The #PostCapitalism and the Commons video series is a follow-up to a lighter series of educational videos produced by Urbánika two years ago. This series, '#Commoning101 – Learning Pills,' (with #Spanish subtitles), is a series of amusing virtual-reality animations that introduce the commons to viewers in short gulps. The animations feature a space alien, Kin, who engages with an avatar version of me (looking twenty years younger!) in conversations about commons.

"Urbánika plans to use the videos – especially the first series, 'PostCapitalism and the Commons' – as part of an educational bus tour that will soon travel to twenty cities in seven #LatinAmerican countries.

"For this, the group has crowdfunded funds to create a state-of-the-art, climate-friendly 'SolarPunk bus.' This full-size bus has many eco-features as a rain water harvesting system, wind turbine, a rooftop biofilter (to treat gray water to make it drinkable), and dry toilet. There is a black soldier fly #biodigester for organic waste and a vertical garden for food production, among other tech features. The bus will function as a mobile school and home throughout the course of the tour, which aims to 'facilitate the emergence of neighborhoods as urban commons.' It will also encourage the use of 'open source Web 3.0 tech that can help people break free from hierarchical dependencies of the government and the markets.' "

Learn more [includes links to videos]:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-24/urbanikas-solarpunk-bus-tour-and-video-course-on-the-commons/

#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunkBusTour #SolarPunkBus #ImmersiveActivism #VideoCourse #UrbanCommons #PostCapitalist

As the contract/company troubles continue with our sort of current propane tank company, the concept of making & using gas from a #biodigester comes back as a more realistic long-term solution to this larger need issue, namely for cooking fuel. One important part being (& it's not at least superficially highly shown in research) is that the result of a biodigester is a product that when bought otherwise is called "natural gas" & that it's mostly methane. Beyond a basic biodigester I'd be pretty certainly adding some filtration to it & likely insulation. The first to decrease odors & increase appliance parts life with it. The second to insure it was kept warm enough to function through the winter months.
#SelfSufficiency #Gas #Homesteading

*One of the biggest 3 problems with the current contract attempting to be forced on us being that we don't use anywhere near as much as the "minimum", our household's overall low rate of use being a big part of why a pretty small biodigester should work decently for our needs.

The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat https://newrepublic.com/article/177575/never-trust-green-meat

#climate #plantBased #meatBased #meatIndustry #meat #bullshit #greenwashing #astroTurfing #astroPasturing #astroGrazing #methane #bioDigester #bioGas #ecoModernism #technoHopium #climateSmart #climateClown