Every Sunday I write a long post on X for SundayX where I share a virtual cup of coffee with my followers.
Today's post seemed worthy of sharing with a larger audience.
Happy Sunday ✨ Have a beautiful day ✨✨
#substack #digitalpause #techfreeday #Reconnection #mindfullness #presence #grounding #autumnequinox
https://baccusbee.substack.com/p/the-great-digital-pause-proposed
#Poland - #UrbanGardens help cities fight #ClimateChange
By Andrei Ionescu
July 1, 2025
"Warsaw isn’t short on parks or tree-lined boulevards, but a trio of Polish universities wondered whether smaller, resident-run gardens could add something crucial to the capital’s climate resilience.
"To find out, researchers from SWPS University, Warsaw University of Technology, and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences mapped every vacant meadow, former orchard, and post-industrial lot within easy walking distance of apartment blocks.
"They came up with a staggering 1,864 hectares (4,600 acres) – more than enough space, they say, for a citywide network of community gardens that soak up stormwater, cool overheated streets, and capture carbon.
"The investigation combined that spatial analysis with more than 250 in-depth interviews. The goal was to see who is already gardening, what motivates them, and how much social capital – trust, shared norms, cooperative spirit – might be harvested alongside tomatoes and herbs.
Who uses the urban gardens
"It turns out the movement is surprisingly broad. Urban gardening brings together all social groups, the team reports, from school children planting pollinator patches to cultural institutions converting courtyards into micro-farms.
"Still, two cohorts dominate the regular volunteer lists: retirees – often women with higher education – and young middle class families.
"Most gardens revolve around a core group of 10 to 15 steady hands, supplemented by casual helpers and passers-by who stop to chat, water, or simply lounge among the raised beds.
Motivation of urban gardeners
"Why do they show up week after week? According to study co-author Piotr Majewski of SWPS University, the motivations of urban gardeners vary.
" 'The most important ones are: #reconnection to #nature, positive contribution to the #environment, social relations, and mutual learning between #gardeners,' said Majewski.
"Food, interestingly, is not the primary driver. Leaders said harvests help, but real value comes from #biodiversity, #composting, and public workshops on #sustainable living.
Tiny plots, big impact
"Those activities tally with an expanding body of international research linking urban agriculture to climate adaptation.
"Even pocket-size plots act as #CarbonSinks, trap particulate pollution, and soften the #UrbanHeatIsland. Raised beds can be engineered to hold back flash-flood water, while #compost heaps divert organic waste from #landfills.
"For #Warsaw, the numbers are compelling. Nearly all of the identified 1,864 hectares (4,600 acres) lie within a quarter mile of housing, meaning a potential garden is no farther than a ten-minute stroll for most residents – and often half that.
"Such proximity, the experts argue, makes it easier to harness gardens as a distributed #GreenInfrastructure network in a warming metropolis of nearly two million people.
"Yet the real strength may be social. Garden groups knit neighbors together, boosting the informal networks that cities rely on during #heatwaves, #floods, or other climate-related shocks.
"Many interviewees said they joined to cultivate community first, vegetables second. Regular workdays double as impromptu skill‐shares: retirees pass on horticultural know-how, children learn ecological stewardship, and newcomers forge local friendships.
#UrbanGardens in city plans
"Majewski and his colleagues believe Warsaw’s planners should take that social-ecological synergy seriously.
" 'The system of community gardens should also be considered as a tool to support climate change adaptation solutions in urban policies in spatial planning – provided that they are considered an important link in the urban green infrastructure system,' he explained.
"To get there, the researchers lay out a handful of recommendations. First, city hall could weave gardens into official zoning strategies rather than treating them as informal afterthoughts.
"That might mean leasing public land at peppercorn rents, streamlining permits, or integrating gardens into new housing estates from the design phase.
"Second, municipal agencies could supply starter kits – soil, timber, rain barrels – while leaving day-to-day management to residents. Third, wider publicity would help spread the idea beyond the usual eco-activist circles.
Scaling gardens citywide
"The study also flags areas for further research. At what point does a collection of isolated plots start delivering measurable cooling or flood mitigation benefits?
"How can Warsaw ensure that garden networks thrive in all districts, not just affluent ones with vocal community groups? And what responsibilities will fall on municipal departments when gardens become part of critical infrastructure rather than hobby spaces?
"Those unknowns aside, the evidence is clear: Warsaw already hosts a vibrant cohort of 'hero #activists' who coax life from overlooked corners.
"With modest institutional backing, their trowels and #CompostBins could double as #ClimateAdaptation tools – cooling concrete and absorbing rainfall.
"Perhaps most importantly, they help draw neighbors together in a city that will need every ounce of solidarity as temperatures rise."
https://www.earth.com/news/urban-gardens-help-cities-fight-climate-change/
#BuildingCommunity #ClimateChange #CityPlanning #Resiliency #SolarPunkSunday #UrbanGardens #SpendingTimeInNature #GreenTime
Magnetic Reconnection–driven Energization of Protons up to ∼400 keV at the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ada697 -> SwRI-led research finds particles energized by magnetic #reconnection in the nascent solar wind: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-led-research-finds-particles-energized-magnetic-reconnection-the-nascent-solar-wind
"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions." - Nhat Hanh.
#Wisdom #Insight #Peace #reconciliation #ConflictResolution #EmotionalMaturity #Peacemaking #Reconnection #PersonalGrowth #Quotes #Unity #HigherSelf #KillYourEgo #humanity #empathy #compassion
🌿 I’ve just launched a new Substack: Terracosmos — a space for collective regeneration through deep ecology, reconnection, and grief.
It began with a moment of belonging under the stars on La Palma.
This is for those feeling eco-anxiety, grief, wonder, or the ache to reconnect with the Living world.
📝 First post is up:
https://terracosmos.substack.com/p/welcome-to-terracosmos
#DeepEcology #EcoAnxiety #Grief #Reconnection #Ecopsychology #Substack
Reposting: Last December, I embarked on a journey back to #Brazil and I (re)discovered much more than I anticipated. In this blog post, I share the profound impact of reconnecting with loved ones and how it helped me to refocus on what truly nourishes my soul.
From the laughter shared over #family meals to the quiet moments of self-reflection, this trip showed me the power of our roots and the strength they provide: http://roqueneto.com/2024/01/16/rediscovering-my-inner-sanctuary-reflections-on-my-time-in-brazil/
A Mother’s Joy: Woman Who Gave Her Son Up For Adoption Decades Ago Reconnects With Him in Remarkable Twist of Fate https://shinemycrown.com/a-mothers-joy-woman-who-gave-her-son-up-for-adoption-decades-ago-reconnects-with-him-in-remarkable-twist-of-fate/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MothersJoy #Adoption #Reconnection #TwistOfFate #LenoreLindsey
seems to me in all the recent #aurora excitement there were fewer news presenters, weatherpeople etc. saying 'particles from the Sun' and more 'particles from the Sun causing a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field' which is more accurate. I'd love to think my wee article, which has been read quite a lot, helped to move things this way. Who knows? https://theconversation.com/are-the-northern-lights-caused-by-particles-from-the-sun-not-exactly-174019 #auroraborealis #northernlights #solarwind #reconnection
…i just realized that yesterday i suggested y’all engage in #reconnection with someone you haven’t been in touch with for a long time and today, tens of millions of people just had the ground come up from under them.
so i guess i should modify that with “ideally in a way that doesn’t tie up phone lines”?
Challenge for tomorrow:
Tell someone to care about, that you haven’t spoken to in a long time, that you care about them.
#Reconnection is the most important thing we can do over the next couple years as we start to emerge from the low pandemic period next to researching #LongCovid and #PostInfectionSyndrome.
and the kids that are there, knowing that there will always be buffalo on their lands from that point forward, that to me is a #reconnection and a reestablishment of that relationship that #Indigenous people have had with buffalo.
“A lot of times it’s about #healing and reconnecting to a life way that was a good way for many Tribes for a long time,” says Heinert.
22/23
We are bound in a complex relationship
That is filled with both tension and), relief
It's a partnership that we must maintain
For our mutual benefit and gain
A rapprochement, we are seeking
To forge a bond, one that's peaking
The day we both reconnect
A future much brighter, we expect
🌑 Embracing the shadows of solitude, I ventured off the grid, seeking wisdom in isolation.
🌟 But amidst the silence, I found the craving for human souls, like stars in the night sky. 🌌 Reconnecting, I've unearthed the treasure of human interaction. 🤝 #EpicJourney #Reconnection
I think the #fediverse #reconnection potential, at least with how #mastodon seems to work for me right now works like this: when I follow (or maybe just interact) with someone living on one instance, all the people on the same instance in whose follow list I am in from before the nuke suddenly follow me again. Hello mutuals!
Reconnecting.
Fixing our fragile and fractured connectivity with nature
The climate and biodiversity crisis cannot be solved without addressing the issue of how people relate to the wider natural world.
#RegenNotes #ZoomRegenerative #BiophilaCamp23
#LivingFutureEurope #Reconnection #MilesRichardson #Nature
"The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further." - Joanna Macy
[ID: A photo of looking up at trees from the forest floor, their branches interweaving from different directions, with new green leaves.]
#joannamacy #theworkthatreconnects #reconnection #trees #forest #pnw #sdayes #lifeboatacademy #penderisland #community #mycelium #mycelialnetworks
I've thought about my own eventual #passing as I get older. Today for example I woke up with a feeling of #reconnection. I wonder if that is how it will feel to not be anymore. Basically I felt like there was nothing to remember and suddenly I'm waking up in this couch and oh I remember falling a sleep here last night but #nothing in between those two #events. And you can't fake nothing. If you try, you're still aware. So I think we simply are not there anymore.
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#Sun #corona #magnetic #fields #solar #wind solar-#terrestrial #relations #magnetic #reconnection #geomagnetic #field
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original TaNaishaJ
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1618339209743564802.html
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