Samantha Bennett
Moving image enthusiast.
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“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it … so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you’re done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Food waste, composting, and a cool idea for earth-conscious earthlings.
In developed countries about 220 lbs of food, per person, per year is tossed. This is tragic, because the majority of this waste rots in landfills, where it is digested by microorganisms that release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. When I say powerful, I mean 21 times more powerful than carbon-dioxide in terms of warming the atmosphere.
So composting seems like a unique solution to this problem, but wouldn’t that just release methane in your backyard instead of a landfill?
Actually, no.
When food waste is in a landfill, it’s crammed tight in an environment without oxygen, so bacteria digest this waste anaerobically and produce methane as a result. If these bacteria can break down the food in an aerobic environment, like a small loose compost pile aerated by worms in your yard, then they’ll just produce carbon dioxide as waste, and you’ve helped save the planet. Also, you might accidentally grow some some delicious plant whose seeds you tossed in said compost heap. It happens, I swear.
“We have very primitive emotions. It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa
My name is Mr. Allison Barton Rice (I’m a man) and I’m seeking an apartment mate - man or woman - starting March 1, 2012.
“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.”
—Victor Hugo
Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men. Approximately 150 women live together under the leadership of 30-something Katerina Tarnousk. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. French photographer Guillaume Herbaut met the Asgarda and documented their daily life and studies.
Via Teenage
How awesome is this? and in the Carpathian Mountains no less?
