u/hollyrose_baker

Hi, I live in a very hot and wet climate and I walk quite a lot. I want to wear socks with sandles to keep cool and also keep the brambles from scratching me up too much. Any suggestions for good sustainable options?

I have big feet, I wear a US men’s size 13 shoe usually

Hello, I am curious if there are any viable alternatives to paved roads.

The movement of people and things is clearly important, and it can be hard to have a planted environment that can withstand the level of soil compaction that comes from being regularly driven over.

Paved roads take up a lot of space, though. They are a destroyed habitat.

I know rail can take over a lot of problems, but would rail alone ever be fully sufficient for a society? I know there are was to have less roads. But are there alternatives to them?

Hello, I am looking for a very wide straw hat, ideally more than 25 inches wide and 6 inches tall. I am a pretty large and wide person who works outside, and I wanna keep the sun off. Not looking for anything plastic. Thank you.

Hello, I am looking for a very wide straw hat, ideally more than 25 inches wide and 6 inches tall. I am a pretty large and wide person who works outside, and I wanna keep the sun off. Not looking for anything plastic. Thank you.

I live in a very hot area, and I wonder why all our roofs are black or other dark colors? Wouldn’t a lighter color keep the heat off better?

It seems like petroleum use and extraction is one of the greatest threats to our world. When we are imagining a solarpunk future, is this a future without any petroleum derived products?

What are some examples of things we can use instead?

I find anarcho-syndicalism to be a fascinating idea. It seems to be based more on logistics than on ideology in many ways, but because of that it seems to apply both to ways to organize in the world under capitalism, and to a possible anarchist future.

What I am curious about are all the ways it could operate? I’m really looking for things like organizational structure and organizing principles. Ideally, the book would be an answer to the question “what would an anarchist industrial-organization psychologist write about this?” The closer to a textbook the better. Also good with podcasts and YouTube videos as long as they are in depth.

I am not really looking for books about the history of anarchist syndicates, but I’m open to that if it seriously covers the details of their operations and the principles of their organizing from an analytical lens.

What would you do for a botany themed birthday party for an adult? A native plant loving adult?

This is maybe a silly question, but I’ve never really been to a very large city. How many people can live in a large apartment building? How do you calculate something like that? People per square foot?

I’ve asked this here before but it’s my favorite thing to think about so I figured I’d ask again. This time I’m curious about some lesser known plants. How could you see them changing over several hundred years of human interaction? How do you see people maintaining their ecological value while increasing their human use? How do you image their gardening and farming systems built around these crops? Any interesting intercropping concepts? What would the cycle of the year look like?

Have yall given much thought to these? trap heat in greenhouses, let it naturally funnel upwards through a tower and power a turbine.

What I like about these is that they seem to be perfectly suited for agriculture and also produce power. Some versions of them have massive water pools underneath that could be used for a variety of purposes.

I love conserving native plants and their specific local ecotype genetics. It’s slowly becoming my life’s work. I helped found the native plant society for my region and we really focus on conserving hyper local population genetics + creating native plant food systems for generations to come. I find this so, so important.

But I’m also not a purist. I’m not mad at the local indigenous woman whose growing plants from two states away that her family has been cultivating for seven+ generations. Im not mad at local black communities who are actively working to conserve okra populations that aren’t native to here but are culturally and historically important + also aren’t invasive.

There is so much room for pluralism while still overall focusing on responsible ecosystem relationships, invasive species removal, and native plants restoration. And when we are open to these concerns, people are far more willing to open their gardens up to our native species that we recommend. It builds trust to be compassionate, nuanced, and understanding.

The key matter is that every plant has to be understood independently. No two are the same, and we can’t make blanket statements. Each plant species has to be evaluated on an individual level and especially understood in the precise location one is working in. We must be sure not to have invasives in our gardens, and to be on the watch out for them. And it is definitely important for our gardens, food crops, and restoration efforts to be mostly native plants. But there is room for other options. I think many of us are hesitant to that because the other options presented are often careless and purposeless, but that doesn’t mean we should shut ourselves out from it entirely. There are good faith opportunities to work with other gardeners in values based ways.

Hello, I am trying to practice reading Spanish. I find it’s easier to learn if I’m reading stuff I care about and reading from fields I already know a bit about, which so far has mostly been botanical writing. My other main interest is anarchy, so I’m looking for some Spanish language authors to read that would be good to practice with.

I know there are writings by Ricardo Flores Magón on the anarchist library and have started with those. Suggestions of his work or others would be appreciated. Thank you.

I was thinking about this earlier. The white lotus is a wise group of old folks holding out for a better world, and catching people who are walking down a bad way and turning them towards something good.

I wonder who Iroh’s mentor was. The Dragon of the West, crumpled to his knees. Mourning, full of grief. I wonder who gave him the wisdom he would need to rise up again, against who he had been?

I used to think he came to the place of wisdom alone. That he arrived there purely through self reflection. Now, I am not so sure. Was it Jeong Jeong? Or did they have some shared mentor? Or was it a thousand small mentorships as he traveled the world?

I know we will likely never know, but it’s a story I find much to imagine in.

Perhaps a bit meta, but I hope within the purpose of the sub.

What are the most interesting questions you’ve received about anarchy or read on here? Ones that really made you think, and helped you develop your understanding of anarchy.