I feel like I always think of solar punk as a macro thing where a lot has to change but there are still smaller wins we can implement, what have you been doing?

  • dumples@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I was thinking I haven’t made much progress but writing it down, I have a few going right now.

    • Purchased a used eletric car (With a new baby we couldn’t get by without one, but we are considering an e-cargo bike)
    • Continue gardening and urban foraging skills
    • Planted a large native garden in my front yard (Over 400 sq ft.)
    • Continuing my herbalism practice for my own healthy and family (my lotions and salves are working great)
    • Continue to purchase the majority of my child clothes used or second hand. Getting lots of things free
    • Continue my practice to try to give things away instead of throwing them away
    • Volunteer with a native lead oprganization doing prairie restoration. (I went to one of their interesting hands on demo on three sisters gardens and learned tons about drying food).

    So I am making some progress but plently to go. I want to try to reduce my food waste but I haven’t gotten in the practice of saving or drying things when getting low.

    • No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      If you’ve got a young’n:

      • Go cloth diapers over disposable most the time. We went woth a diaper servce to start, then bought our own once we had it figured out.
      • For the ebike: we waited until kiddo was old enough for a bike seat (10 mo in our case, but ~12 mo) for the ebike. This let us get a longtail that is cheaper, mechanically simpler, and we can store inside instead of a bucket style bike
      • dumples@piefed.socialEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        Our daughter is 10 months so we’re just starting looking for bikes. I was thinking about getting a long tail because that’s what people around us seem to be using.

        I know cloth diapers are better for the environment I just can’t.

        • No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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          4 hours ago

          Cloth diapers can definitely be hard if you dont have on-site laundry. We were lucky enough to live somewhere with a diaper service when we didn’t have laundry.

      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        It takes something like 500 years for a store bought disposable diaper to decompose in a landfill, and we use billions of them every year.

        If one can use cloth, I say one should.

        • No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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          5 hours ago

          We did use some disposables throughout (mostly for logistical reasons) but we still saved 5,000+ diapers fron landfill.