See we'd never be so smart about the ocean's flora if we didn't get bathed in Mel's Well of so much Goodness, but I think you need an assist with your poem my dearest heart.
Protect the green, the aquamarine,
The sea grass, sea weed and sardine,
Where sea horses, sponges and shrimps can thrive,
Keep algae and kelp and sargassum alive.
Forever live green where wild things teem!
Awomen. Awomen. Awomen.
With this little change I'm sure you can see we'd kelp make plenty many more
Thank you, dear Tom, for your always kind and encouraging words. You’ve been the wind beneath my wings on more than one occasion and I’m grateful always.
Haha I’m down with your correction altho it just doesn’t quite have the poetic flow I’m always after. A quick look at the etymology of “amen” is that it’s an old Semitic word first appearing in the Hebrew Bible: αμην ameen, meaning verily or truthfully. Good enough!
Looking in my psychedelic revolution handbook, a women is a universal word that means someone eternally strong who digs deep to create Wells of Goodness ;o))
Thanks for the walk on the beach, Melanie. I did enjoy that. Environmental mindfulness has long been my companion. Been collecting materials and recycling since I was a teenager.
While I am not an environmentalist, I am a lifelong conservationist. Conservation is a way that strives for synchronicity, a companionship with nature and environment. As for plastic, I do whatever I can to minimise my use of it. Fabric choice in clothing is a simple way to reduce microplastic pollution. And natural fibers last longer. A lot longer by my estimation. Nearly all of my clothing is natural fiber. No synthetic blends. When synthetics are laundered, microplastic is introduced directly into the water. Worse yet, when the fabric is put into a clothes dryer, presto, microplastic is airborne, and it literally goes everywhere.
Of course, outerwear like coats and such, difficult to avoid synthetics there, but I almost never launder those items. Sweaters, always natural fabrics.
Not a fan of single stream recycling. No choice but to use it, and we have environmentalists to thank for that. It basically turns otherwise valuable recyclable material, into garbage, and it costs a lot of extra money to do it. SMH. I even spend a lot of time carefully sorting and preparing plastic for recycling. Even though I know it is a complete boondoggle. I'll spare you all the tedious details. I do it hoping to put pressure on the system and bring about change.
Thanks again for the stroll on the beach. I did enjoy that.
You are welcome, dear Mike, my pleasure! Thank you for being here and for representing so well how to be environmentally mindful in very practical ways. I love that your goal is to put pressure on the system and bring about change. That encourages me. I can become weary of sorting the recycling into the proper bins, thinking about all the people who don’t care and who counterbalance my efforts. But I can’t not. It’s so good to know that we stand together and work together for the good. Keep on keepin on and I will too.
Miguel we can only do what we can do. If half the world had your attitude how much better could it all be. Food seems to be the main source of most plastics and fresh markets (for you guys, farmer's markets) helps tremendously to reduce plastic waste. Food waste recycling was a huge game changer in the scope of the amount of waste generated for landfill. I still own the first two cotton shirts I ever bought and they still serve me well as they have been relegated from dress shirts to farm working shirts and still work fine and dandy ;o)) https://photos.app.goo.gl/tGfSbW9TnTgY2HMK7 Still functioning (no not me the shirt ;o)) and of course the overalls were my grandpa's so collectively about 150 years worth of cotton still doing the job. hi ho
Grandpa would be impressed, Tom. That's a good look. I'm waiting for hemp to make its market presence known. It's coming. That is a game changer. I don't believe any crop can compete with its versatility. It is an amazing plant. A conservationists dream. Can grow damn near anywhere. Its deep roots draw water deep and and their density then traps the water letting seep into the aquifer. Did I mention that is isn't very thirsty in the first place? It isn't.
The plant is useful in countless ways. I am hoping to see more clothing. It is tough stuff. They like to mix it with cotton for shirts and such. I hope someone figures out how the soften it up and eliminate the cotton (people have to want the product). While cotton products are nice, it's really a lousy crop. Needs loads of water and lots of chemicals.
We grow it as a cover crop and then disc it back into the soil for green manure when it gets to this stage of flowering. It is a nitrogen (the most used chem fertilizer and bazillions of tons are used to grow non-organic cotton) fixer. So it takes the nitrogen from the air we breathe (79% of air is nitrogen and only twenty something is oxygen) and fixes it onto its roots in little nodules similar to tiny potatoes. The nitrogen we get from the decomposing green plant material and the roots makes the rice very happy, like me in this photo when the rich organically amended soil gives us overhead rice loaded with grain and ready for harvest https://photos.app.goo.gl/FnYGvkAR7qriVFhW8 Yup I am a huge fan of hemp in any and many ways.
Amen & Awomen to that ☺️
So many things I didn’t know about seaweed (but now I do) thanks Melanie and thank you for your beautiful words and pictures.
I like the idea of imperfect environmentalism, it helps to circumvent the overwhelm.
Alas, I can think of no good puns, my brain is all at sea today (that’ll have to do 😘)
Thanks, dear Rae! Ooooo I love the concept of imperfect environmentalism which makes it much more approachable and do-able for the average person!
And I love that your brain is all at sea… I’ll join you there! You’ve kept me afloat, my friend.😘
See we'd never be so smart about the ocean's flora if we didn't get bathed in Mel's Well of so much Goodness, but I think you need an assist with your poem my dearest heart.
Protect the green, the aquamarine,
The sea grass, sea weed and sardine,
Where sea horses, sponges and shrimps can thrive,
Keep algae and kelp and sargassum alive.
Forever live green where wild things teem!
Awomen. Awomen. Awomen.
With this little change I'm sure you can see we'd kelp make plenty many more
peace and love
Thank you, dear Tom, for your always kind and encouraging words. You’ve been the wind beneath my wings on more than one occasion and I’m grateful always.
Haha I’m down with your correction altho it just doesn’t quite have the poetic flow I’m always after. A quick look at the etymology of “amen” is that it’s an old Semitic word first appearing in the Hebrew Bible: αμην ameen, meaning verily or truthfully. Good enough!
Looking in my psychedelic revolution handbook, a women is a universal word that means someone eternally strong who digs deep to create Wells of Goodness ;o))
peace and love
fucking substack incorrectly "corrected" my above and "a women" should have read awomen
Thanks for the walk on the beach, Melanie. I did enjoy that. Environmental mindfulness has long been my companion. Been collecting materials and recycling since I was a teenager.
While I am not an environmentalist, I am a lifelong conservationist. Conservation is a way that strives for synchronicity, a companionship with nature and environment. As for plastic, I do whatever I can to minimise my use of it. Fabric choice in clothing is a simple way to reduce microplastic pollution. And natural fibers last longer. A lot longer by my estimation. Nearly all of my clothing is natural fiber. No synthetic blends. When synthetics are laundered, microplastic is introduced directly into the water. Worse yet, when the fabric is put into a clothes dryer, presto, microplastic is airborne, and it literally goes everywhere.
Of course, outerwear like coats and such, difficult to avoid synthetics there, but I almost never launder those items. Sweaters, always natural fabrics.
Not a fan of single stream recycling. No choice but to use it, and we have environmentalists to thank for that. It basically turns otherwise valuable recyclable material, into garbage, and it costs a lot of extra money to do it. SMH. I even spend a lot of time carefully sorting and preparing plastic for recycling. Even though I know it is a complete boondoggle. I'll spare you all the tedious details. I do it hoping to put pressure on the system and bring about change.
Thanks again for the stroll on the beach. I did enjoy that.
You are welcome, dear Mike, my pleasure! Thank you for being here and for representing so well how to be environmentally mindful in very practical ways. I love that your goal is to put pressure on the system and bring about change. That encourages me. I can become weary of sorting the recycling into the proper bins, thinking about all the people who don’t care and who counterbalance my efforts. But I can’t not. It’s so good to know that we stand together and work together for the good. Keep on keepin on and I will too.
Miguel we can only do what we can do. If half the world had your attitude how much better could it all be. Food seems to be the main source of most plastics and fresh markets (for you guys, farmer's markets) helps tremendously to reduce plastic waste. Food waste recycling was a huge game changer in the scope of the amount of waste generated for landfill. I still own the first two cotton shirts I ever bought and they still serve me well as they have been relegated from dress shirts to farm working shirts and still work fine and dandy ;o)) https://photos.app.goo.gl/tGfSbW9TnTgY2HMK7 Still functioning (no not me the shirt ;o)) and of course the overalls were my grandpa's so collectively about 150 years worth of cotton still doing the job. hi ho
Grandpa would be impressed, Tom. That's a good look. I'm waiting for hemp to make its market presence known. It's coming. That is a game changer. I don't believe any crop can compete with its versatility. It is an amazing plant. A conservationists dream. Can grow damn near anywhere. Its deep roots draw water deep and and their density then traps the water letting seep into the aquifer. Did I mention that is isn't very thirsty in the first place? It isn't.
The plant is useful in countless ways. I am hoping to see more clothing. It is tough stuff. They like to mix it with cotton for shirts and such. I hope someone figures out how the soften it up and eliminate the cotton (people have to want the product). While cotton products are nice, it's really a lousy crop. Needs loads of water and lots of chemicals.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XnDykQsFkp3sVvf49 last years crop of sun hemp https://photos.app.goo.gl/QKMiQZDkYNPVBYQc8
These guys, my nieces, are in and out of college now https://photos.app.goo.gl/SoMejcbTDXnbw2mf8 as this was our first crop. https://photos.app.goo.gl/n32YwSKDaRKLgmin8
We grow it as a cover crop and then disc it back into the soil for green manure when it gets to this stage of flowering. It is a nitrogen (the most used chem fertilizer and bazillions of tons are used to grow non-organic cotton) fixer. So it takes the nitrogen from the air we breathe (79% of air is nitrogen and only twenty something is oxygen) and fixes it onto its roots in little nodules similar to tiny potatoes. The nitrogen we get from the decomposing green plant material and the roots makes the rice very happy, like me in this photo when the rich organically amended soil gives us overhead rice loaded with grain and ready for harvest https://photos.app.goo.gl/FnYGvkAR7qriVFhW8 Yup I am a huge fan of hemp in any and many ways.
Pa isn't sad either https://photos.app.goo.gl/QQ44CWLxeP1KFZ6R9 ;o)) https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z8g2XohN9r77Ar3q6
peace and love