Not my Photo:

But about 10 miles from my place.
This shows the background fire damage.
Notice the dead trees, that are not black.
This will take years to clean out.

#CoSoEnvironment

How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again.

From the Neolithic to the beginning of the twentieth century, coppiced woodlands, pollarded trees, and hedgerows provided people with a sustainable supply of energy, materials, and food.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/09/how-to-make-biomass-energy-sustainable-again.html

#CoSoMathematics

For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42

Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.
By Jean-Paul Delahaye

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-math-fans-a-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-number-42/

#CoSoEnvironment
#CoSoBooks

A Review of:

All We Can Save:
Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor)

Natural Anthem
Interview By William Defebaugh

https://atmos.earth/ayana-elizabeth-johnson-katharine-wilkinson-climate-interview/

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53231994-all-we-can-save

Back in town for a few hours;
So getting my internet fix.

#CoSoMutualAid

Community Fridges Are Popping Up Across America for Mutual Aid Amid the Pandemic.

Fighting food insecurity, one block at a time.
By April M. Short

https://www.pressenza.com/2020/09/community-fridges-are-popping-up-across-america-for-mutual-aid-amid-the-pandemic/

Ok
I am NOW out.

see ya.

😎
🙏

More:

Also... I disagree, but this is an interesting idea:

Why books don’t work.

All this suggests a peculiar conclusion: as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly don’t realize it.
By Andy Matuschak

https://andymatuschak.org/books/

And Finely:

Something completely different.

How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.
By Maria Popova

Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/15/how-to-talk-about-books-you-havent-read/

Third:
In the same general theme.

Stones that calculate.

The idea of the Anthropocene as the new geological era assigns humanity a special role in the Earth’s ecosystem. This insight is undoubtedly important, but humanity is not the measure of all things. On the contrary, a view directed solely at humanity is blinding for larger systemic connections.

https://stones.computer

Second:

The Environment is not a System

It’s a good fit with the previous piece, where it spoke of re-using old media and old futures, of finding new ways of talking about new futures; here we see the importance of how we talk about things, and how we measure them.
By Tega Brain

https://researchvalues2018.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/tega-brain-the-environment-is-not-a-system/

Before I go.

Here are a few links to keep y'all busy.

SOLARPUNK - Life in the Future Beyond the Rusted Chrome of Yestermorrow

Fascinating piece here (based on a presentation so lots of visuals) by Jay Springett who sets the table by covering some memetic theory and media narratives, to then beautifully present and explain what Solarpunk aims to achieve.

https://www.thejaymo.net/solarpunk-rusted-chrome/

Fire update:

I am now off work for 5 days. So going back home. Talking to neighbors, and compiling a list of needs to take. Apparently someone went into Sisters yesterday, so no big things needed.

This means I will be totally off line, and incommunicado for at least a week. We do have a couple of Sat-Phones to use in emergencies.
No internet, No cell network.

I will see you all, late Saturday night, the 26th.

Be kind.
and remember:

"We Be The Humans."

To Watch:

Floaters.

High in the sky of a sci-fi metropolis a lone spaceship is confronted by a much larger and more intimidating vessel. When the bigger ship asks the small one why they share the same identification number a strange quandary forms and a mile-high debate ensues.

https://directorsnotes.com/2020/09/08/joe-roberts-karl-poyzer-floaters/

#CoSoBooks

Clash of the Geeks, Ten Years On.

It’s that last question that gave us the impetus for Clash of the Geeks, a small chapbook anthology whose several stories, by me, Wil, Patrick Rothfuss, Catherynne Valente and Rachel Swirsky, all centered on, what, exactly, was going on in the illustration.

(See article for free links to this)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/09/20/clash-of-the-geeks-ten-years-on/

@estherschindler
And All...

So how many people here, still write, and send letters ? Hand written, and mailed by USPS.

I have about 5 people that I exchange old fashioned letters with.

Got to say there is a lot to be gained by slowing down.

More on RGB.

By Teri Kanefield

https://terikanefield-blog.com/justice-justice-shall-you-pursue/

Rest in peace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. May your memory be a revolution.

First things first. Would you like to read about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early life (and a bit about the history of women and law)? I’ve made the first 9 chapters of one of my books—Ginsburg’s early life—available free.

To read the first nine chapters of Free to Be Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
by Teri Kanefield.

https://terikanefield-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/RGBFirst68pages.pdf

R.I.P.
Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch died Wednesday at a hospital in the Bronx, New York, ending five decades of his compelling, comprehensive and often controversial prose and commentary on jazz, politics and race. He was 74.

https://theundefeated.com/features/i-saw-a-different-side-of-stanley-crouch/

#CoSoScience
#CoSoSec

To Watch:

Here is a simplified explanation of:
What is quantum cryptography and how does it work?

By Sabine Hossenfelder

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/09/what-is-quantum-cryptography-and-how.html

#CoSoBooks

A review of:
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
by Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor)

“Without community, there is no liberation.” And community, for her, involved parsing difference, honoring it. In her time, as in ours, to speak of difference can court charges of divisiveness, even opportunism, but she regarded it as a fund of creativity and connection — the chance to “hone ourselves upon each other’s courage.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review-audre-lorde-selected-works.html

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50489367-the-selected-works-of-audre-lorde