Doomerism abounds for all ages, but it is certainly most harmful for our young people. Solarpunk could be an awesome tool here - giving them tools to envision a future where solutions are realistic and actionable can be very therapeutic. Imagine our kids working on arts and science projects for climate change instead of just being bombarded with only constant negative projections. They need to know the truth, but they also need to be given hope.
mycelium
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What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety. Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help.
Coffee grounds and Reishi mushroom spores can be 3D printed into a compostable alternative to plastics
incorporating coffee grounds into the substrate for mushroom growth has been a common practice in the mushroom cultivation community for small-scale production
I can finally call it "research!"
new materials often demand new hardware systems. [...] we developed a custom extrusion printhead [...] extrusion printhead is easy to assemble, inexpensive yet functional, compatible with existing slicing software, and can be integrated into mainstream 3D printer control boards
🤯 This is what most papers on these miss. These materials have the potential to have a huge impact on small scale, local community solutions, but only if it's done like this! Incredible work.
Open-source biomaterial deposition system design
Ok, now they're just flirting with me
This is exactly an argument Kohei Saito makes in his book Degrowth - even if we know the odds are slim, do we not have a moral imperative to try while we still can?
So, their front-facing research sharing will disappear as well as any content that was exclusive to it. More immediately concerning, part of their internal network is going dark. When does this start to effect weather modeling then? Because the private sector very much relies on NOAA for its forecasts, they surely don't want this either, not that it would stop them but still.