Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out?
-
@jpoesen If you're referring to in-person pursuits, adding a location or region where you live might be helpful if you're wanting more locally tailored answers.
@Quinn9282 Fair point! I guess I'm mostly looking online for now, but otherwise I'm in the greater Malaga city area...
-
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
@jpoesen Craft breweries, garages, maker spaces, libraries, metal recyclers, used computer shops, diners, campsites, trails...
-
@jpoesen what part of Spanish countryside are you in? We're thinking of moving to Galicia to explore similar pursuits.
@gerrymcgovern @jpoesen
Not in Galicia, but also in the North of Spain is Bioketa rural coliving project. You can check my profile if you are interested. -
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
@jpoesen I'd love to know too in London UK
-
@jpoesen what part of Spanish countryside are you in? We're thinking of moving to Galicia to explore similar pursuits.
@gerrymcgovern @jpoesen you can talk with @lacaiguda about the Galicia thingy.
-
@gerrymcgovern @jpoesen you can talk with @lacaiguda about the Galicia thingy.
-
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
@jpoesen this is an awesome and much needed thing. Thank you for throwing this out there!!
-
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
-
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
-
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
@jpoesen
Permaculture is more concerned with ethics than low tech (The ethics of earth care, people care and fair share).Practitioners tend to focus on appropriate technology. Solar panels have a negative environmental impact to manufacture, but are miles better than the alternatives. Sodium ion batteries are a better technology than lithium based chemistries, etc.
There is a an emphasis on natural building, but doesn't forbid things like foam glass insulation (despite embodied carbon).
-
@jpoesen
Permaculture is more concerned with ethics than low tech (The ethics of earth care, people care and fair share).Practitioners tend to focus on appropriate technology. Solar panels have a negative environmental impact to manufacture, but are miles better than the alternatives. Sodium ion batteries are a better technology than lithium based chemistries, etc.
There is a an emphasis on natural building, but doesn't forbid things like foam glass insulation (despite embodied carbon).
@jpoesen
Also:
https://permacultureglobal.org/
Community
Find what brings us all together here in the Community Forum - there are matches to be made with like-minded permaculture people, art and music to share, and communities to build!
(permies.com)
-
@jpoesen Apart from checking Mastodon you might have a look at the Lemmy software based https://slrpnk.net/communities
@regendans Thank you for sharing that, exactly what I was looking for
@jpoesen -
Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
@jpoesen #BikeTooter will get you a variety of bikes, there is also an asynchronous #BikeNite on Fridays where people submit questions and answer them in the comments, often with discussions continuing all weekend
also for funsies: #CarryShitOlympics
-
-
@707Kat @jpoesen I would love to volunteer to help people in this way.
The problem is a lack of demand. I don't hear about a lot of people who aren't already technically savvy about this stuff who are interested in moving away from big tech. Usually the reaction I see is "why would I care about that?"
@skysong @707Kat @jpoesen
For me it is happening slowly. I talk about this topic regularly in my circles, but it took a while for even the politically more concious people to take a step. Now some of them are slowly changing services and networks - two or three years after talking about it the first time.
Sometimes change takes a while
-
@jpoesen @nenon @liaizon I try to be more active in offline communities rather than posting about it. So... Go to a repaircafé (if there is none, be the founder of one), build fancy bikes and post about them, find a local critical mass. If we're talking about rural Spain it is possible that there's not a high density of diy nerds in your area. Also I'd like to know more about your choice of settling down on a farm.
-
You can find bicycle people weekly on #bikenite (question and answer session) and also on #biketooter
-
I've packed up a roll-up J-pole antenna in the past, stuck it into a saddle bag, then unrolled it and hung it from a hook on a nearby tree when operating. No ground plane needed. At least plausibly this works too if you have a suitable flagpole mount (fiberglass mast with a hook at the top).
Or build the J-pole right into the flagpole, https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/73-magazine/73-magazine-1982/73-magazine-09-september-1982.pdf has a design from Jim #W5AOX in 73 magazine from 1982.
