syntropic agriculture

If you want to avoid supporting industrial agriculture’s land-grabbing violence and ecological destruction without sacrificing the nutritional and gustatory marvels of fruits such as these, then growing your own veganic permaculture food forest is the ideal solution.

The reclaiming of Darién national park should help protect one of the region’s largest carbon sinks and the Indigenous groups and many animal species that live there. It also comes as tropical forests across Central America are collapsing.

“Nicaragua is gone. Mexico, Guatemala – everything is going now. If you look from Google Earth we are down to these little green patches. It’s the last 10% of what was there 100 years ago. So if we don’t get it right real soon …” Morgan says, trailing off, preferring not to elaborate on the implications of losing the greatest intact rainforest north of the Amazon.

Chilling. Truly a “guys, I think we’re fucked” thought.

Its thorny protective canopy supports biodiversity and helps alleviate flooding risks from summer thunder-showers through effective water uptake.

Diverse trees also provide benefits to the garden because different species have different root architecture, which improves the health and structure of the soil.

layered canopies, ranging from ground covers to herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees of various sizes, which has the benefit of maximising species diversity in limited spaces, and providing protective benefits against climate extremes (hot and cold) offered by this approach.

more benefits of planting native forest trees

For the automotive industry, I think that they mean Interior parts that aren’t exposed to the weather.

Yeah, those are some stilt roots.

As a logical conclusion of this course of action of only consuming a diet of basically fruits and humans who died naturally, the hivemind acknowledges that they will eventually run out of food and starve to death

I’m not familiar with this fictional world, so I may be missing something obvious, but is there something preventing them from planting more fruit trees?

In addition to Flamengo Park, the talipot palms can be found in Rio’s Botanical Garden, where they are also flowering.

That’s because they were brought across from southern Asia together, have the same metabolism and have been exposed to the same Brazilian rhythm of daylight, according to Aline Saavedra, a biologist at Rio de Janeiro State University.

Saavedra said that environmental laws strictly regulate transporting species native from another continent, although talipot palms are not invasive due to their slow development.

The interest the phenomenon has generated is positive and could encourage a sense of belonging for human beings to preserve rather than destroy the environment, according to Saavedra.

The palms themselves don’t make for such an impressive story beyond being pretty, but this is an important point. People often conflate “foreign” with “invasive” or “harmful” when it comes to plants and even to other humans, but on what basis? In some cases, sure, plants can grow out of control with no natural competition or certain groups of people can refuse to live peacefully alongside people who don’t share their background, but in most cases, migrants are harmless. Regulating and restricting migration or transport of plant material is an attack on personal freedom. These palms are an excellent example of a harmless species from a foreign land adjusting to their new home and co-existing peacefully with an untold diversity of plants, both native and non-native, in the park and the botanical garden, yet the government still discriminates against them due to their ancestors’ foreign origin. Are we not all native to the Earth? Do we not all have the birthright to move freely? If someone wants to bring seeds of a beautiful plant (which takes decades to reach sexual maturity!) from one place to another, who are they harming?

Perhaps seeing these towering palms flowering so prolifically and then bearing fruit may inspire even a few people to recognise the interconnectedness of life on Earth and that the divisions are human social constructs. If farmers in Brasil can grow soya from China, and if vineyards in California can grow grapes from Italy, and if hardcore fruit people in Japan can grow watermelons from East Africa, and if peasants in Ireland can grow potatoes from the Andes, and if all of these introduced plants can become so thoroughly accepted by the local people as to become economically important, then surely we can extend that acceptance to other plants, and other organisms including sentient beings, as well.

The closest cyclone to the equator was the 2001 Tropical Storm Vamei which formed at just 1.4°N. Cyclone Senyar formed at 3.8°N.

The safe zone at the equator is narrow. If choosing to settle near the coast, there really isn’t much choice when it comes to latitude.

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but to me that seemed to imply that you were suggesting it as a solution that might be worth trying, not as something worth trying that might be a solution. Language is tricky.

That’s what I thought too, but I could be wrong.

Fair enough, but it would make sense to include a “this may or may not help” when suggesting something that requires setting up a new account like this would.

So are you proposing that OP marks such posts as NSFL instead? Do posts marked as NSFL get more engagement than posts marked NSFW? You could be correct, but I don’t think that it’s obvious from your comment how your suggestion solves the issue.

Respectfully, I don’t think that this answers the question.

Too big to be Diospyros blancoi. The bot doesn’t know.

I know what it means; I wasn’t being serious. I know that Sunshine is not the type to use speciesist slurs. :)

Is that a slur? When used as a verb? And would that be against the rules here? If so, oh the irony. 'Twas nice knowing you, valiant Sunshine…

re: politics, if you subscribe to the Platonian/Aristotelian system of philosophy, then banning all discussion of an entire branch of philosophy… doesn’t make much sense. If you think through which specific behaviours that tend to arise in political discussions would be a problem for you, or which specific topics in politics are unlikely to lead to productive discussions, then you can make rules pertaining to those things rather than banning politics entirely. Of course this depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put in as a moderator to determine whether a post about politics violates the rules. Just an idea.

EDIT: I see that you have the community up and running with some rules in the sidebar. You might consider adding a rule about citing sources for empirical claims that are not common knowledge (or something to that effect). I imagine that that would help to keep political discussions civil and productive.

Dr. Barnard’s presentation (the video link) has information regarding the insulin response to carbohydrate consumption in the presence vs absence of excess fat. It has been years since I have read the literature on which he based that presentation, but his book, Program for Reversing Diabetes (available online but which I will not link directly here for DMCA reasons), cites many different sources which you can consult.