I feel the need to clarify that these types of projects usually don't bring "generational jobs and careers" but usually bring outside workforce who will leave when damage done.

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made a tiny berm out of all the leaves I raked and the grass I cut from the garden bed!

We could garden and farm by ourselves and the communities we can make, staying as close to nature as possible, without tilling, irrigating, or using chemicals, and by using mulch and some native plants instead.

Don't do it. Quit fighting nature. Move inland. Quit living in cities! Okay, I know no one is going to do any of this.

Benjamin Franklin wanted everyone to be apprentices.

I like this UI better because it's more compact than Photon, but I like both so far because it's easy to turn on dark mode. I also like the previews better than old.slrpnk. I like how Alexandrite discussions open up in something that lays over the rest of the content, and I could close the sidebar to get a better view. I'd like it better if I didn't have to scroll back up to the top to close the discussion, but maybe that's a work in progress or something I could post as a wish on their development site.

PS—Oh, I can just press Esc. Oh, I think there's also a navigation bar that will let me close the thread.

Also, I like how it shows the number of unread posts since my last visit, but I don't think there's a way to either take me to these posts or to highlight them while I'm scrolling the thread.

Privet also does just fine as a hedge, and people in the UK actually use it for this purpose. Ironically, that's where I've seen privet growing—along borders, so people who hate privet might as well leave the stuff unless it's in their way.

For biodiversity, for example, if the rate at which species disappear is less than 10 times the average extinction rate over the last 10 million years, that is deemed acceptable.

In reality, however, extinctions are occurring at least 100 times faster than this so-called background rate, and 10 times faster than the planetary boundary limit.

Will the miracle of life actually survive our self-induced extinction?

I would just do the cover crops along with some nitrogen fixers for several years.

PS – I would keep getting the lawn clippings and use them to mulch my plants.

Try clover again for the fall and winter. You can sow clover seeds until late spring. If necessary, you can start back again in mid summer.

With radical demands such as a 32-hour workweek

oh my gosh, go, go!

although the company has been successful, they haven’t paid the employees back for that.

This is why they deserve a raise and why we all deserve a raise. There's no reason to keep all the wealth at the top, but of course, saying so is blasphemy in America.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/24/the-united-auto-workers-are-redefining-what-is-possible-for-us-labor/

Many people without land can practice with a flower pot. They can learn all about germination, how a plant looks, harvesting, and collecting seeds! Sometimes, people are sharing land or renting out parcels for gardening, and sometimes, people use an abandoned lot.