an important one is just planting trees that grow edible fruit on them in public places. A person at a restaraunt I was at today was liking climbing around poking in the leaves of a tree and we were wondering what they were doing until they came down with a fig! Did not realize the thing was a fruiting plant at all at first glance.

Ok these are pretty amazing

life's a ditch

dig it

@rechelon also permacultureplantdata.com claims to have a list of polycultures, but they hide it behind a (free?) registration wall...

@rechelon plantengildes.saiwala.nl seems to be something like what you're looking for, but it's in dutch...

pfaf.org (plants for a future) has lots of good info on individual plants, but lacks the focus on associations...

practicalplants.org is a wiki using the pfaf database to form lists of guilds/polycultures, but it seems fairly inactive/undeveloped...

"As hunter-gatherers we were brilliant scientists, but we were nodes locked in a complex network we had little to no say in. And so we warped and mutilated our world with fire and countless other inventions, trying to have as big of an impact as we could, to extend our reach beyond our arms. [...] Cambrian explosions of the meme, even while we warped the land to collapse diversity of the gene."

- @rechelon William Gillis' review of James C Scott's Against the Grain

https://c4ss.org/content/51209

"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it [a] train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea: they will disappear."

Ralph Waldo #Emerson, “Circles”

#quotes #words #impermanence

"What are you doing?"
"Reading."
"Always reading. Do you want to live in those books?"
"No, it's the other way. I want them to live in me."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published https://goo.gl/8PAVuJ https://t.co/nER7NeOF28

life goal:
build a library full of books you would have wanted to find as a kid growing up

Life is hard for a dirty salvager on this junk planet. If the heat of the desert's twin suns don't kill you, the molten rain coming down from the ship graveyard orbiting the planet might. But today is a good day. Today you found what looks to be a fully operational spacecraft.
#writingprompts #writing

Textiles Trader selling his wares Textiles #Aliens #fantasyart #scifi #conceptart #illustration #worldbuilding #comics

"For markets to be made innocuous, a society needs unimpeded, non-monetized access to their basic means of survival. Land, as well as people’s vital activity, must be inalienable..." - Peter Gelderloos

Defying Power: Different Views on How Best to Understand the Evolution of the State

Part 1: https://c4ss.org/content/50774

Part 2: https://c4ss.org/content/50991

life is short, spray paint your own bike lanes

#TIL about bacteria-based self healing concrete: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958946514001322