SUCCESSFUL GLASS RECYCLER ALSO BUILDS WETLANDS

🍾 Franziska Trautmann started a recycling facility in a backyard 5 years ago. Now she's Louisiana's biggest glass recycler.

✋ She has fought against the many obstacles that keep glass recycling in the U.S. to only around 30%.

🦉 The facility operates 3 days a week. Her team uses the other days, with some of their glass, to build coastal wetland islands. And wildlife is returning: Birds, gators, crabs, otters.

✨ Need some positive environmental news? Watch this 13-minute video.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-louisianas-recycler-rebuilds-wetlands-with-crushed-glass-2026-1

#SolarPunk #SolarPunkSunday (Belated)
#EnvironmentalConservation
#WasteManagement #Environment #Biodiversity #Wetlands #CoastalConservation #Recycling

SUCCESSFUL GLASS RECYCLER ALSO BUILDS WETLANDS

🍾 Franziska Trautmann started a recycling facility in a backyard 5 years ago. Now she's Louisiana's biggest glass recycler.

✋ She has fought against the many obstacles that keep glass recycling in the U.S. to only around 30%.

🦉 The facility operates 3 days a week. Her team uses the other days, with some of their glass, to build coastal wetland islands. And wildlife is returning: Birds, gators, crabs, otters.

✨ Need some positive environmental news? Watch this 13-minute video.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-louisianas-recycler-rebuilds-wetlands-with-crushed-glass-2026-1

#SolarPunk #SolarPunkSunday (Belated)
#EnvironmentalConservation
#WasteManagement #Environment #Biodiversity #Wetlands #CoastalConservation #Recycling

Visions of little things and big things and projects on a scale larger than any one person; any one community. I draw lines between trees, a mycelial network connecting what I touch.
Unseen. Underground. Undervalued.

Mushrooms grow beneath the surface, fruiting with the rush of water and light.
And the best we can do in the dark is keep spreading, and pray for
rain.

#solarpunk #journal #poetry #endure #resist #fungi

Geothermal heat pumps are feasible for residential heating and cooling - it will make a difference as long as we organize and make it happen. If we leave it up to the people "in charge" we'll never see it, because it's not profitable to them.

Building the technology is hard. Scaling the technology is a LOT harder.

#solarpunk #energy #energyfuture #affordablehousing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/cheap-geothermal-energy-system-makes-us-comeback-minnesota

This road in Shah Alam, Malaysia was recently pedestrianised. I passed by in the morning while there wasn't anyone around. I like the mix of passive and active cooling. Looks like a render of some solarpunk concept art. The future is being built.

#solarpunk

This road in Shah Alam, Malaysia was recently pedestrianised. I passed by in the morning while there wasn't anyone around. I like the mix of passive and active cooling. Looks like a render of some solarpunk concept art. The future is being built.

#solarpunk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cliff_spab/115974947659217541

Yes! I want to build affordable housing! Instead, I'm driving a school bus.

Don't get me wrong, working with kids and making school days better are great. I just wish that, you know, they had a place to live that is more than glued-together sawdust and VOCs.

We CAN build durable, energy efficient, sustainable, generational housing.

#solarpunk #affordablehousing #montana

@tankdigital There seems to be an bot with the given name " #solarpunk" that is boosting stuff that is more or less using the hashtag #solarpunk.

What is up with the #solarpunk hashtag? It's boosting things that are several months old.

If it's automatic, why the delay?

If it's not automatic, can the admin do basic vetting of the content before it gets pushed?

I'm not an admin, I don't know what is going on, but I'm about to unfollow one of my favorite tags because of this crap.

Its been a long time since they have been to the city. Back then, it was too noisy, too stinky and too expensive. Today they enter it with their SolarCycle. The streets are wonderfully empty of motors and magnificently full of art. Colors over colors, on all surfaces. Lots of vivid green. The space, which used to be occupied with parking, is now used for gardening. People sitting on all corners. Chatting, playing games and jamming. They are here, to meet their friends.

#MicroFiction #SolarPunk

Its been a long time since they have been to the city. Back then, it was too noisy, too stinky and too expensive. Today they enter it with their SolarCycle. The streets are wonderfully empty of motors and magnificently full of art. Colors over colors, on all surfaces. Lots of vivid green. The space, which used to be occupied with parking, is now used for gardening. People sitting on all corners. Chatting, playing games and jamming. They are here, to meet their friends.

#MicroFiction #SolarPunk