Andrés Hirunatan

@hirunatan@xarxa.cloud
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Activista social desde hace unos cuantos años. Programador de Software Libre en @penpot. Participo en movimientos por la Nueva Economía, y asociaciones de barrio.

Y friki. Y músico. Y hago Taichi.

#developer #opensource #degrowth #feminism #anarchism #taichi #tolkien #heavy #folkmusic #solarpunk

Pronombre:él / him
Milito enhttps://economiadelbiencomun.org
Y también enhttps://weall.org
Y en otra vida soy dehttps://sociedadtolkien.org
I'm imagining a sort of #solarpunk "shopping" platform where you entered the item you wanted and first got a list of local libraries of things where you could borrow one, then a list of local ones available secondhand, then national secondhand, then handmade ones and only finally links to buy it new.

Hi, I’m Mahmoud, 27 years old, from Gaza.
I hold a degree in Business Administration, but right now, survival is my full-time job.💔🍉

The war has taken everything our homes, our safety, even food
I’m doing my best to support my family in the middle of this crisis.

I share this not to ask for pity, but to be seen to remind the world that we are still here, still human still hoping.

Any support, even a kind word, means more than you can imagine.🙏😔
To donate⤵️
https://gofund.me/ea27de1c

I hope everyone follows me. I’m new here and would be honored to get to know you and be friends with all of you. I kindly ask for your support in sharing and boosting this post.💙🫂🇵🇸

Acabo de enviar cartas a través de Action Network a los representantes políticos para avisar que, según la ONU, al barco de la Freedom Flotilla Coalition que lleva ayuda humanitaria a Gaza se le debe permitir el paso. Cualquier agresión contra él será considerada una grave violación del derecho internacional y posiblemente un crimen de guerra.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/formal-notice-regarding-the-civilian-humanitarian-vessel-madleen-and-the-legal-obligations-of-the-state-of-israel-under-international-law-2?source=direct_link&

#FreedomFlotllaCoalition #Gaza #Genocidio

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¡XWVM finalmente publicado! La versión de prueba ha sido lanzada en la red para su testeo.

'XWVM is a facilitator app to play Star Wars X-Wing from Lucas Arts and Totally Games. We are re-implementing the executable to extend the game beyond its original hardware support. The app requires the player to own and have installation of the original X-Wing game, or have the GOG or Steam versions of X-Wing Special Edition.'

https://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm/news/xwvm-release-announcement

Bichos primero y armas después?

No! Esquivar y escurrirse. Armas primero y luego bichos.

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A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away.

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If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime

este artículo es muy interesante "Así se han disparado las notas de corte en la universidad: las carreras que piden más de un 13 pasan de cuatro a 73"

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/han-disparado-notas-corte-universidad-carreras-piden-13-pasan-cuatro-73_1_12337641.html

pero si no se hace una lectura atenta de la misma, se nos escapa que uno de los factores fundamentales es la decisión política que implica la gestión de la oferta pública de plazas en las universidades públicas, cuya reducción paulatina -al menos en la comunidad de Madriz- ha ido en favor del lobby universitario privado

Así se han disparado las notas de corte en la universidad: las carreras que piden más de un 13 pasan de cuatro a 73

La subida de las calificaciones en Bachillerato y un aumento de la competitividad en la última década han elevado la nota media de corte de todas las carreras más de un punto; todos los ámbitos de conocimiento han subido la nota mínima de acceso, excepto Periodismo e Información

ElDiario.es
El Mar Menor y sus derechos, la culminación de un proceso pionero en Europa
¿Funcionará o seguirán matando nuestro mar Menor?
@nuestromarmenor.bsky.social
https://climatica.coop/el-mar-menor-y-sus-derechos-la-culminacion-de-un-proceso-pionero-en-europa/
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Countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles.

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

via what-even-is-thiss

https://justdiggit.org/about-us/

#Africa
#Sahara
#reforestation

The #UNCCD is the global voice for land. We promote practices that avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation and are the driving force behind Sustainable Development Goal 15 and Land Degradation Neutrality.

https://www.unccd.int/our-work/overview

#reforestation

[4k] The Man Who Planted Trees (1987) - Full Movie (English)

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@appassionato I saw a documentary about this - marvellous.
Bill Mollison Permaculture 1( 1) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

one permaculture book of Bill Mollison for permaculture practionners

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@appassionato which reminds me, Andrew Milson has been dropping videos on this if you're interested in seeing more:

https://youtu.be/xbBdIG--b58

Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project

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@appassionato

Good news. ✔️

Instead of terror-farming other planets we can terraform our own planet using natural resources, such as peoples needs... 🦋

@appassionato actually, by adding water (which was promoted by the half circles)
@appassionato Is this a rebranding of the "Great Green Wall" ?
Great Green Wall (Africa) - Wikipedia

@appassionato The only difference I spot is that the Sahel is not part of it any more, just Kenya, Tanzania and Senegal. The half moon technique I have already seen in various films on the Great Green Wall.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not making any critique of the new project, just trying to understand its relation to the one I already knew about. The absence of Sahel in particular is regrettable but quite understandable:

https://standrewseconomist.com/2025/01/31/progress-or-empty-promises-the-realities-of-africas-great-green-wall/

Progress or Empty Promises: The Realities of Africa's Great Green Wall - The St Andrews Economist

By Charlotte Corcoran

The St Andrews Economist
@ducasleo @appassionato fascinating article. Thank you

@ducasleo I also thought it was part of it. The half moon digging being the method used for the Great Green Wall Project and everybody kinda joining into this one big effort with smaller task forces.

We've tried this technique in Brandenburg, Germany at #ArschDerHeide on our very poor dry sandy soils. Even there you can see its impact. It is not just the water soaking in. It is also the small wind break and shade that helps young plants to sprout & establish in the semi circles.

@appassionato

@ducasleo Was also my first thought. It's always important to check independent sources. Would be interesting to find scientific studies about what really works and what is only a campaign.
A good article - thank you!
@appassionato
@ducasleo @appassionato 6 months ago, seems to be going well so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58
Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel to see an innovative land reco...

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@appassionato Musk dreams of terraforming Mars. Real heros are the one who can terraform Sahara.
If We Nuke Mars, Would It Really Become an Earth-Like Planet?

Is Elon Musk's suggestion to nuke Mars a feasible plan? Some scientists are skeptical, while others have their own ideas for terraforming Mars.

Green Matters
@appassionato Geez, this man... 🙄@FrancoisPrague
@levampyre @appassionato @FrancoisPrague Actually I think this is a good idea. Provided that he personally monitors the developments on site.
@appassionato @FrancoisPrague Let's not try! Let's not put any nukes on any spacecraft: spacecrafts are quite prone to failure, so, you know.... bad!

@feike

Or bombers.

Or submarines.

They're bad for your health, you know...

@FrancoisPrague

No terraforming is necessary in Sahara, just accessing the water underneath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_System

#Sahara
#water

Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System - Wikipedia

@appassionato @FrancoisPrague I am not convinced extracting water that took hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate, and use up in a few decades is a sustainable or fair to future generations. Maybe if it could be managed as a commons in a wise way, planting trees and maybe some climate specific agriculture.

@dacig I think the same. Groundwater is one of the most important treasures for our future - and we see a lot of new desertification where people take too much of it, in countries that never had deserts.

@appassionato @FrancoisPrague

@NatureMC @appassionato @FrancoisPrague That happens back in Mexico where I'm from.
Pozos Profundos, deep wells, seem like a good idea at first, making agriculture possible where the sun is plentiful, but they will dry up rather quickly.
Extractivism is not the way forward. Shepherding resources is.
@dacig @appassionato Your doubts are more than justified indeed.
Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia

@FrancoisPrague @appassionato this is an huge understatement. This project looks simple, but they are really making a difference. It's refreshing to see people not giving up the planet

@jnk @FrancoisPrague

A man posing with picture of a barren valley he brought back to life by planting trees all his life, all by himself.

#reforestation

@appassionato

Now *that* is a fucking legacy to celebrate. He deserves a friggin sainthood or something. What an astonishing achievement.

@jnk @FrancoisPrague

@bytebro

Watch The Man Who Planted Trees (1987). A different man, but also a true story, one of the most beautiful I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTqUnKsuUY

[4k] The Man Who Planted Trees (1987) - Full Movie (English)

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@appassionato

Sounds interesting. I'll catch that when I get home later, thx!

@appassionato
It's an interesting technique, it's kind of the same principle as creating horizontal swales on a slope.
@appassionato Thanks for posting this. Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday
I wonder what are the upper limits for this. And if economically speaking this is a viable strategy. Sometimes people do test to see how things work, but those tests don't necessarely lead to a viable product. The way they did in Dubai with those island that ended up not so profitable. As far as I know at least. Fighting the desert... Hard task.

@chelucupar It's small scale. Not everything has to be Big to function economically.

A fast, drought tolerant crop doesn't need much, nor do some indigenous plants - and greenerey brings rain, trees best of all.

Looks good. I'm just terrified that someone might think this is a good idea to transform into a large scale endeavor. And especially do that without actually verifying it's worth doing, relying on publicity and stuff. Seen a lot of these things happening during the years. Just copy/paste projects that never bothered to understand the underlying idea.

@chelucupar I would hope that turning a desert into a jungle is something people would find worth doing without having to consider whether it's also economically profitable.

Of course, I can see it now... hundreds of individual small groups of people dig holes for 50 years and accomplish something amazing, and then the capitalists move in to turn it into profit (without compensating the people who did the work), probably turning it back into a desert in the process.

I actually meant Disneyland. Come everyone, let's look at the holes. Economically viable just meant that they save more CO2 than it takes to dig. That's the only thing. When I see something like this, I just fear Disney is trying to... whatever.
@appassionato There's this chap who does water wizardry with similar techniques. If someone hadn't blown up my computer I'd still have the link - and if youtube wasn't so rubbish now I'd still be able to find it by searching. I'll have a trawl, at the risk of my sanity.
@appassionato No luck, but I can describe - he would watch where water went when it rained, and similar to this, make hollows for it to collect.
This man changed the fortunes of a barren land using traditional water wisdom. The story of Dhun-1

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@TheDailyBurble @appassionato

Brad Lancaster? Lots of good info and videos! Books too.

https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/media/videos/

My fave. Really fun. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xDZlpInik

Videos - Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

See Brad Lancaster – Harvesting Rainwater, Brad's channel on YouTube, for additional videos. New videos will be added periodically. Scroll down for videos on the harvesting of Rainwater, Stormwater and Street Runoff, Greywater, Condensate & Dew, Fog, Sun & Shade, Soil & Fertility, and Neighborhood Food Forestry Rainwater Harvesting Videos…

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
@appassionato Every time I hear about this again I’m just as amazed at the results!
@appassionato It's also a technique that you can use everywhere in the world, using the slope of terrain and these half moons.
Even in europe, america, everywhere where you need to water plants. Since rain is getting scarce and falls in big single flashes every year.
@alsternerd @appassionato I've seen evidence of a related technique in Minnesota, probably made hundreds of years ago by the Dakota people, where you build small earthen berms across the crease of hills, where the water tends to collect and run, catching silt and retaining water, making the hilly grassland more fertile
@appassionato This is a wonderful idea, but why half circles? 

@jor @appassionato
Because the intent is to slow the runoff so that it soaks into the soil, and when saturated, the water continues across the land to the next semicircle.

You don't want to create ponds of standing water; plants don't grow in it, but mosquitoes do.

@jor @appassionato

The half moons face a slope - are on the downhill side of a slope - to capture the runoff from that slope, maximizing the amount of rainfall captured. A round pit would likely only capture whatever rain fell directly from the sky, losing the water gathering benefit of slope. The earth excavated forms the water-retaining berm.
These half moon pits vary in size and depth, and scalable to human effort.

@jor @appassionato I don’t believe the shape actually matters much. E.g. could be a V. the shape opens to the flow of water presenting a shallow slope down to a beamed catchment area. Seeds and plants do not end up covered in a deep layer of sediment like might happen with a deep hole. In a hotter, drier environment a hole would be the better choice for shade, wind protection and water retention, although, it would be necessary to better control water delivery and sedimentation.
@appassionato @jor In dryland farming there are people who build rectilinear grids of raised earthen walls with an excavated hole below, and they hand deliver water. Farmers who work sloped land have discovered that furrows that follow the curves of the hills work better because then the water does not just run away. All variations on the same concept: deliver the right amount of water to the plants.
@appassionato would something like this work in Vegas?