Links Worth Sharing
any/all | radiant | Leo
any/all | radiant | Leo
There are so many people out there trying to make the world a better place. I thought it would be a good idea to keep a list of links to their efforts, especially groups you can join and resources yo can use yourelf if you want to join in the better-world-creation process. These links aren't in any particular order - just the order I put them on the page. Please give them a look because there's a lot of super cool stuff happening in this beautiful world of ours.
Mossy Earth is a really cool organization dedicated to ecological restoration, which is both super important to the planet and super important to me. You can donate them a few USD each month to help their efforts. If you want to see those efforts in action, they have a YouTube channel where they take you through the process of each restoration project.
Freecycle is a network dedicated to passing free stuff to one another. You can sign up for alerts from any town or city (though it might be limited to the USA), and you'll get daily emails with alerts of people giving away free things. I've seen clothes, furniture, a plastic bag full of plastic bags, toys, electronics, concert tickets... it's really a great resource for keeping perfectly good stuff out of landfills. You can even request items, just in case someone has one they're willing to send your way. It's like a more advanced version of the Free section on Craigslist (which I also recommend checking regularly).
Don't think this list is complete! I intend to keep adding to it!
Open Source Ecology is extremely solarpunk, if that's a moniker that excites you. Started by a PhD student, OSE designs industrial and agricultural machines that are open-source - meaning the designs are free for anyone to build and use. They've got aquaponics greenhouses, sustainable energy generation, mineral extractors... all sorts of very cool stuff, and all of it is intended to be far cheaper than their commercial counterparts (which can still be pretty pricey, but they do what they can). They have a wiki where you can take a look at the designs yourself. I'm also including a link here to the Open Building Institute, which uses a similar model for designing houses and other structures, because as far as I can tell they've been absorbed by Open Source Ecology.
Beautiful Trouble is a cool org that provides a lot of resources, from articles to trainings to strategic tools, all dedicated to causing trouble for the dracomanic drivers of terrible systems. I don't have a lot of say beyond that - just give them a look. You'll find some really good stuff.
