The Evolution of Smalltalk
From Smalltalk-72 through Squeak

Daniel Ingalls

https://doi.org/10.1145/3386335

#SmallTalk

See also "Greenway":

> Greenway is a vision of an ecological neighborhood, where basic needs – food, water, shelter, transport, communications – are provided in ecologically sustainable ways with renewable energy. It’s a network of homes, greenhouses, garden, and businesses, connected by sheltered corridors. Housing is integrated with agriculture. Biology is integrated with technology. People are integrated with the cycles of the Earth.

https://newalchemists.net/2020/09/07/greenway/

Andrew Millison has a great explainer video about the basic idea.

How to Recycle Waste Water Using Plants"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sRcVkZ9yg

> Over the past 27 years, John Todd Ecological Design has completed projects on five continents dealing with waterborne waste streams ranging from domestic sewage to industrial wastes.

https://www.toddecological.com/about

> "The most interesting thing I have learned is the ability of living systems—given enough biological diversity—to self-organize, self-design, self-repair, self-replicate, and solve multiple problems for people. These include growing foods, generating fuels, cleaning up pollutants, treating sewage and other wastes, and repairing damaged environments." John Todd, 2017

> Todd and his colleagues were some of the first people to actually create miniature ecosystems, largely self-perpetuating, which applied ecological principles to address human needs.  Todd's approach is one of biomimicry, in which a complex natural ecosystem such as a marsh is studied, recreated and adapted.

> Wendell Berry wrote admiringly: "The bioshelter idea, then, proposes to make a household on the pattern of an ecosystem, adapted to the local landscape and climate, using local materials... Its governing principle is symbiosis: the food production system heats the house; the fish tanks raise fish, heat the greenhouse, provide irrigation water and fertilizer for the plants.

> One of the approaches they developed was the concept of bioshelters, "greenhouse-like architectural structures containing ecosystems for various purposes: food for humans, waste purification systems, etc."

> In 1969 the Todds and William O. McLarney co-founded the New Alchemy Institute in Cape Cod, Massachusetts to "engage in scientific research in the public interest on ecologically and behaviourally planned agriculture systems and rural land based communities."  The institute was a "fusion of technology and counterculture"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Todd_(Canadian_biologist)

"Ecological design applied", 2003, John Todd, Erica J.G. Brown, Erik Wells

> The five case studies presented here represent applications of ecological design in five areas: sewage treatment, the restoration of a polluted body of water, the treatment of high strength industrial waste in lagoons, the integration of ecological systems with architecture, and an agriculturally based Eco-Park.

https://www.uvm.edu/giee/pubpdfs/Todd_2003_Ecological_Engineering.pdf

#Permaculture #SolarPunk #SolarPunkSunday

"Capillary irrigation of container grown nursery stock"

> This factsheet summarises the benefits of low level irrigation systems in the production of container grown hardy nursery stock. It covers the principles, requirements, management needs and costs of the following systems:

Capillary sand beds
Capillary matting
Ebb and flood systems
Sand in-fill beds

(Free PDF)

https://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/capillary-irrigation-of-container-grown-nursery-stock

#Permaculture #SolarPunk #SolarPunkSunday

"West Coast Food Forestry-A permaculture guide"
by Rain Tenaqiya

(Free PDF)

https://archive.org/details/permaculture_West_Coast_Food_Forestry-A_permaculture_guide

#Permaculture

I got an old, heavy Singer sewing machine and sewing table from someone who wasn't the person who used to use it. He doesn't know how to install the machine in the table. It came with these four metal bolts and five black rubber grippy feet.

ETA: The model number is 158.905

Any advice? Please boost for reach!

#AskFedi #SewingMachine

@carapace

If anybody reading this decides to give this a go, be very careful. The orange flame of the alcohol stove he demonstrates indicates that the alcohol is impure. If the purity is high enough, the flame is practically invisible in anything brighter than dim light. If you set the system on fire, you won't know it until it's too late.

Sidebar: It sucks that alcohol outdoor stoves are banned in some places. It's the only non-petroleum option for convenient outdoor cooking.

Watch these videos! Learn how the living Earth works!

Prof. Czerski is an awesome speaker and the material is fascinating!

Don't be a bobo, watch these lectures and understand the real world!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU3TaPgchJtQjm5jpziEllM-fNntDePWx

(Note that the playlist is in reverse order.)

#Permaculture #SolarPunk #Ecology

If it wasn't for Baba I'd be fucking terrified. But that's me. Most people don't have a faith that comforts them in the face of pretty obvious doom.

I've been looking at the numbers and, yeah, the numbers are bad. These are bad numbers. We're gonna have a bad time.

It might not get cold again.

Do you realize that?

There might not be a winter this year. There might not be winter again for a long time. No one's saying that out loud?

The oceans are hot now.

> In this short talk, Dave Blume explains how alcohol can be used to inexpensively and ecologically create high-quality edible protein using cattail plants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xLy6_BLiw

But wait, there's more! The process of fermentation improves the feedstock as animal fodder!

The yeast converts starch and sugar into protein (the yeast!)

The non-alcohol byproducts of fermentation are more valuable (on the farm) than the inputs! That's why you want to integrate your alcohol fuel production with your small farm, so that you get the benefit of these synergies between systems.

Small-scale ecologically integrated ethanol production for a SolarPunk transition.

Make your own fuel in your backyard. Extremely easy to make. $1/gallon.

Clean burning!
No pollution!
Carbon neutral!

Most engines can be converted to use it.
(You don't have to trade a working car for an EV car to drive green.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTIdomst-A

#Permaculture #SolarPunk

Are Y'all following the news about dangerously low water levels in rivers and lakes around the world? The U.N. calls this freshwater crisis "global water bankruptcy."

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166800

An old nazi warship was visible and had to be hauled out of the Danube, a river cruise ship ran aground, there are extremely low levels in reservoirs in places like Colorado and Wyoming, Lake Mead giving up secrets we don't want to know. The Rhine and especially the very low Danube provide critical resources for transportation and cooling for power plants. Water reservoirs in Spain are down to only 71% full. In France, loss of groundwater is making some soils unstable. The Dutch have declared level 2 restrictions.
Officials in Italy are trying to reassure (gaslight?) residents and tourists that the levels in Lake Garda are just fine. The Greeks are alarmed to see that Lake Mornos has lost HALF of its capacity over the past four years. It could rain every day and you'd never catch up. Australia is in a full-on water crisis. Water flows from rivers into Perth’s dams has fallen by over 80%. China and 75% of Asian countries are experiencing a severe water crisis. Not only is most of the region water insecure, but also there is a contamination problem from upstream construction dams in rivers like the vital Mekong, the third longest river in East and Southeast Asia, which is at its lowest level in 100 years. 1 out of three people on the largest continent: Africa, lack access to just basic clean drinking water. South America's biggest cities are facing severe strain on their water resources. Same in Central America and the Carribean. Some wise guy will suggest we just build a bunch of desalination plants, not realizing the devastating damage to our soil, air, waterways, and ecosystem.

Everyone depends on (disappearing) snowpack to melt into rivers, lakes and streams. For years, we've been saying that there's too much water use, that these bodies of water cannot meet the demand. And now we have these data centers wasting more water and electricity than whole towns.

Even with all the extra rain we've had, Lake Lanier* is still five feet below full pool. That's not much at all for a lake over 1k feet deep, but it is significant to me that if it is not at full pool, even with extra precipitation, what will happen if we get less rain than we need? As in other places, we depend on lakes and rivers for drinking water.

At least the Great Lakes are very deep and pretty much drought-resistant. Lake Louise and associated rivers and streams were at near flood stage earlier in July, not sure about now. I hope Canada has had better snowpack than most places.

Whoever controls access to critical freshwater resources will have the most power. Wars will be fought over this.

*If you really wanna know why Lake Lanier is for real haunted, and why so many swimmers die there, look up the town of Oscarville.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/lake-lanier