Yesterday @SaintlySin made a lovely white bean, squash and kale stew and popped it in the #Wonderbag while we went for a walk.

More info about Wonderbag/insulation cooking here: https://tangledbankforaging.uk/2022/09/28/economy-gastronomy-hay-boxes-wonderbags-and-insulation-cookery/

Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #Meditation #Contemplation #Hesychasm

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. #introduction #introductions

#til about #AppropriateTechnology

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

This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?

> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)

@risottobias I can understand your point. I often think that when it comes to #ClimateAdaptation there is no one approach and there is no defined final destination. So we can strive for #degrowth but we also can work towards #sustainability and #appropriatetechnology and #solarpunk among other things. Everyone can find something to latch onto that resonates. As long as we are heading to a good place I don't care how they do it. We don't need uniformity otherwise nothing will get done.

Hello, new intro as I've moved instances!

I'm a founding Director of the non-profit @thentrythis in Cornwall, where I do #Research #OpenScience #AppropriateTechnology #DataVisualisation #CitizenScience #FreeSoftware #SciComm #PublicEngagement #OpenHardware type of things, usually for #ClimateChange #Ecology and #Environment projects. I'm a happily recovered genetics #Academic.

Will post pics of #Dogs and #Allotment stuff too.

"...a convex lens was added above the Fresnel lens in order to improve the output power of the setup and reduce the need for the use of solar trackers."

'The use of convex lens as primary concentrator for multi-junction solar cells'

https://emergent-scientist.edp-open.org/articles/emsci/full_html/2018/01/emsci180002/emsci180002.html

#Introduction that I'm never happy with (and will probably keep editing):

I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic with #adhd & #anxiety ("neurospicy" is a fun word), #queer ("pan/demi-romantic" to be exact) 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada.

Interests include:
• #scifi (including #StarTrek ​​ & #DoctorWho ​​)
• #Linux ​​​
• #history
• #genealogy (trying to get by without paying for expensive services)
• #politics (oh noes an evil lefty socialist)
• #travel (as much as I can afford to), member of #HIHostels & #Saintlo nonprofits. Would love to travel to: Australia, New Zealand and of course visit some of my Fedi friends.
• secretary of #ARTAO: an #AppropriateTechnology non-profit building a small community in the Outaouais region of Quebec
• ....way too many special interests; there really needs to be three of me to pursue them all

Generally nice to everyone, talks in #memes, replies in GIFs & needs a job to support my #travel habit.

Prefers cats more than people. Still trying to figure out how to use my brain to make money. It'll come to me any day now...

(I'm not averse to the possibility of meeting Fedi friends, but I've had one bad experience with that already so let's try to avoid what happened there: I'm not meeting anyone in person without getting to know them first for at least 6 months. In that time, I should be able to determine whether or not personalities mesh enough.)

#Introduction that I'm never happy with and will probably keep editing:

I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic with #adhd & #anxiety ("neurospicy" is a fun word), #queer ¹ 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada.

Interests include: #scifi (including #StarTrek ​​ & #DoctorWho), #Linux , #history, #genealogy (trying to get by without paying for expensive services), #politics, member of an #AppropriateTechnology non-profit building a small community in the Outaouais region of Québec, occasionally talks in #memes & needs a job to support his #travel habit.

Prefers cats more than people. Still trying to figure out how to use my brain to make money. It'll come to me any day now...

¹ For those who care about labels (I'm not a fan of them) - "pan/demi-romantic" would be the label. ...I usually just say "queer" for short & let people figure it out.

Please read thru this post by Emilio Velis, it brings together so many insights as well as other people/groups' work and their synergies that is really worth the link click-through.

director of Appropedia, long time open hardware + appropriate technology researcher, implementer, proponent.
He has long been in the place many of the rest of us need to get to.

Postgrowth Institute Fellow blog post
https://medium.com/postgrowth/cultivating-a-post-growth-relationship-with-knowledge-d8cc0b3c7922

Hello vis.social, thanks for having me over from the big instance!

I'm a founding Director of the non-profit @thentrythis in Cornwall, where I do #Research #OpenScience #AppropriateTechnology #DataVisualisation #CitizenScience #FreeSoftware #SciComm #PublicEngagement #OpenHardware type of things, usually for #ClimateChange #Ecology and #Environment projects, with #privacy and #ethics taken seriously. I'm a happily recovered genetics #Academic.

Will post pics of #Dogs and #Allotment stuff too.

“The appropriate technology movement is attributed to E.F. Schumacher, a German-British economist … During the 1970s, he became widely known for his heterodox economic ideas that lambasted the mainstream emphasis on profit over human needs. In his best-known, 1973 book, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered”

His book was titled WHAT?

Must read it. So sad to learn he died the year after I was born.

https://reallifemag.com/appropriate-measures/

#JamesMullarkey on the #CarbonFootprint of the web:
"There’s a chance of a double win here. If we design and build our websites to be smaller, and use less energy we will be both making them accessible to more people and scorching the earth a bit less."
https://www.jamesmullarkey.com/2019/11/its-not-as-hard-as-you-think-to-be-a-climate-crisis-influencer/

About 20 years ago I read 'Small Is Beautiful', E. F. Schumacher's 1973 economic manifesto on what he called "intermediate technology". This fits neatly with the "slow and small solutions" principle of #permaculture design. Folks in the movement talk a lot about #AppropriateTechnology, and I've been thinking for a long time about how to apply these concepts to the design of communication technology:
http://web.archive.org/web/20170409211024/https://permaculture.org.nz/content/web-team-coordinator-end-contract-report

I never did one of these and I told someone yesterday so here is an #introduction / #reintroduction

I'm Geoff. I have lived in parts of Texas, great lakes areas, and a new state.

I have a fine arts/nonprofit background but I write software now.

I'm interested in and will sometimes post about:
#permaculture
#gardening
#elixir / functional programming
#AppropriateTechnology
dank shitposts
sincereposts
#socialism
#printmaking

I joined witches.town in the winter/spring of 2017 and moved to cybre.space after