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Happy International Day of Forests!

The United Nations designated this day to recognize all of the vitally important facets of global forestry: sustainable forest management; biodiversity conservation; and contributing to the prosperity, well-being of current and future generations.

In America, the Bureau of Land Management manages about 65 million acres of forest and woodlands, protecting wildlife habitat, maintaining clean water and practicing sustainable timber harvesting, to name just a few aspects of its forest management plan. In essence, everything that forests provide today needs to be provided in the future. 

🌳 Learn more about BLM forests: https://goo.gl/qgVkCQ

Last week, during geography class 7th graders researched how to profit from volcanic activity and made a poster about the main points. Main points include cosmetics, tourism, geothermal energy, different minerals and agriculture.

The Most Photographed Stone East of the Mississippi

Very near the Soudan Underground State Park administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is what some people call “the most photographed outcrop in the state.” This is a pavement outcrop of folded banded iron formation. The outcrop consists of metallic hematite, red jasper and white chert. These originally horizontal layers have been folded multiple times. In some areas, the jasper and chert have fractures filled with milky quartz.

Powerful Photos From the Indigenous Peoples March on Washington

On Friday, January 18, Indigenous organizers took their movement to the capitol, inaugurating the first-ever Indigenous Peoples March on Washington (#IPMDC19). According to organizer Roberto Borrero, who spoke with Teen Vogue, over 1,000 people representing more than 100 tribal nations marched in Washington, D.C. — traditionally Paskatawe land — calling for policies that strengthen Native sovereignty and recognition of the deep injustices that continue to affect their communities.

Organizers for the event claim that the violence of settler colonization hasn’t disappeared into the past; today, it takes form as extractive industry land violations, police brutality, disappearing Native women and girls, systematic voter suppression, contaminated natural resources, structural poverty, and other manifestations of collective oppression. These challenges afflict communities everywhere, from South Dakota to Guatemala.

Speakers at the march inspired the crowd to keep organizing to protect their rights and also facilitated group prayers and dances. The day in Washington, D.C. was as much about strengthening future coalitions as healing from past trauma. After centuries of forced assimilation, genocide, and erasure, the Indigenous movement shows tremendous resilience — as signs held by those on the ground read, “we are still here,” “we are unafraid,” and “we are rising up.”

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📸: Hanna Wallis

My first cat tail mat!! We only had only thin leafed cat tails to work with, so instead of being neatly sewn together in a few places down the length, they are instead loosely woven. Not as sharp as ones made of broad leaves, but not bad for what it is- and it taught a lot of people while it was being made to boot!

Just a list of the problems that have been left to our generation to solve. Feel free to add!

Gun control

Climate change - renewable resources

Wage gap

Racial intolerance

Saving the bees

LGBTQ+ intolerance/other issues

National debt

Student loans

Malnourishment

Natural disasters

Global conflicts - refugees & nukes

Bipartisanship in politics

Mental health

Harassment

Rape

Here’s to hoping that gun control is the first issue we solve, but not the last.

Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz

Let’s give it up for another amazing young scientist! ❤️

25/01/18

Donkey Digging a Well 🐴💭💡💧

Donkeys are documented as saving human and animal life by their propensity to divine for water in arid conditions.

Wild burros are territorial and like to occupy territory that they know holds resources. All Donkeys like to dig for succulent roots and water holes.

The Most Photographed Stone East of the Mississippi

Very near the Soudan Underground State Park administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is what some people call “the most photographed outcrop in the state.” This is a pavement outcrop of folded banded iron formation. The outcrop consists of metallic hematite, red jasper and white chert. These originally horizontal layers have been folded multiple times. In some areas, the jasper and chert have fractures filled with milky quartz.

Though the general state of the energy industry is in constant flux, from changing oil prices to the rise of more affordable renewable energy, natural gas has been long thought of as a viable option to improve decarbonization. As such, it is likely that it is not going anywhere in the immediate future. However, some believe that gas is an ineffective stopgap when it comes to transitioning to cleaner energy. The reality is somewhat more complicated; the need for gas in certain industries, such as transportation, will fuel demand while industries simultaneously try to implement new solutions.

An increasingly networked world has given rise to more decentralized power infrastructure. These virtual power plants (VPPs)  are made up of remotely-managed smaller units, many of which make use of renewable energy. Virtual power plants provide a degree of flexibility unheard of in traditional plants, allowing for easier management not tied to a large and unseemly facility. It also lays the groundwork for a transition to sustainable energy sources that can compensate for the variability of factors such as sun and wind.

Thanks to state schemes and solar installations on rooftops Australia is on track to achieve 50% renewable energy by 2030 without government intervention.

So there’s still some hope. Scott Morrison may love coal until his dying day, and his lack of a transition plan will likely lead to a boom-bust investment cycle and a sudden mass loss of jobs… but at least the rest of us can get on with making the transition to renewables like reasonable sensible people.

I’m proud to say that 100% of my devices are now solar powered!

My GoPro charging cable plugs into my computer (which I *didn’t* know prior to purchasing either), so by that timely stroke of luck, my entire mobile device and accessories life is completely solar powered. It took less than 6 months (June 1st - November 20th) to get everything I carry around with me off the grid! I haven’t plugged anything but my computer into a wall in 6 months! (I literally no longer own wall outlet adapters)

My phone, my wireless headphones, my Bluetooth speaker, my Amazon Echo Dot, my GoPro, my video camera, my running headphones, my roommate’s PS4 controllers, and now, finally, my laptop.

Sunlight. Is. Awesome.

Make the leap. Go portable solar.

Honestly, the world is run by fucking idiots. Whoever green lit fracking in England is responsible for the earthquakes. Whoever it is is a fucking moron.

It makes me so mad because renewable energy is the best economic option. It creates jobs. Coal is being phased out around the world because of climbing prices. Renewable energy costs less to produce more power. Even if there wasn’t this great looming environmental disaster happening as a result of climate change RENEWABLE ENERGY WOULD STILL BE THE OBVIOUS BEST CHOICE. And yet our government STILL wants to bury its head in the sand and prove how aggressively bad they are at economic management.

2018 was the fourth year in a row Costa Rica generated more than 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. For 300 days, the country used no fossil fuels to make electricity.

Clean Energy Created By Nikola Tesla Sent Through Conducting Earth

In the photo above, Tesla is showing a transmitting circuit connected to earth and to an antenna. He shows how the transmitter produces two effects; Hertz waves, which pass through the air, and a current wave, which traverses the earth. The Hertz waves, which we use in radio and wireless technology today, propagate with the speed of light, and their energy is unrecoverable in the circuit because they eventually disperse and diminish with distance. The current wave on the other hand, proceeds through earth, first at infinite velocity, then gradually diminishing velocity until at a distance of about 6,000 miles (near a quarter of earth’s circumference, which is 24,900 miles) back down to the speed of light. From there on it will proceed with increasing velocity, reaching infinite value at the opposite point of the globe. Tesla established in numerous observations, experiments and measurements, both qualitative and quantitative, that these currents from his transmitter traveled around earth and back to his receiver at a mean velocity of 471,240 kilometers per second, or *292,814.96 miles per second*. That’s over 106,500 mph faster than light. In properly attuned receivers the energy of this current is recoverable in its entirety.

The Hertzian waves we use in today’s technology are 90% radiation and 10% current, while Tesla flips it and gets 95% current and only 5% radiation. This is clean, renewable energy at its finest. All Tesla needed was the hydro power coming from Niagara Falls to run this transmitter to bring cheap, wireless power to the world.

Organic solar cells set new energy record

Cheap, flexible solar panels could become a reality as organics achieve the same power efficiency as silicon.

Getting closer to a solarpunk world!

Fuckin yasssssss, Renewables are class🤘

#MadRhymz

Nikola Tesla was a Croatian inventor, engineer, futurist and physicist best known for his contributions to designing modern alternating current electric supply. Later in his life, through his study of Vedic Philosophy and Spirituality, he began to understand the cosmos and his place within it which gave purpose to many of his inventions that have revolutionised and improved the world we live in today. He developed a fundamental appreciation that he was a conduit for the greater good of mankind.

Nikola Tesla Spiritual Quotes:

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.“

“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife… Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment…”

Just a list of the problems that have been left to our generation to solve. Feel free to add!

Gun control

Climate change - renewable resources

Wage gap

Racial intolerance

Saving the bees

LGBTQ+ intolerance/other issues

National debt

Student loans

Malnourishment

Natural disasters

Global conflicts - refugees & nukes

Bipartisanship in politics

Mental health

Harassment

Rape

Here’s to hoping that gun control is the first issue we solve, but not the last.

Just got roy from gamestop! I’m staying up all night playing this! 👌

Virtual reality

Jakub Rebelka

What Virtual Reality looked like in the 1980s and early 1990s. People were always looking at their hands, weren’t they?

(The last image is a screenshot from VR game, Dactyl Nightmare (1991).)