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by carvink 11mo ago
Here's a link to WHO's guide for "unhooking from difficult thoughts and feelings". https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003927 It includes links to audio. It can be helpful fo
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by carvink 3y ago
I made a PDF flyer with a QR code for WHO's "Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide" (How to unhook from difficult thoughts and feelings), in case anyone would want to print some out and staple them to a
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by carvink 3y ago
The WHO has a guide for "unhooking from difficult thoughts and feelings". At one point it says "You cannot stop these thoughts from arising. They are normal and natural. But it is not so helpful to get hooked by them." a
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by carvink 3y ago
Also free and relevant - a link to WHO's guide for "unhooking from difficult thoughts and feelings". There's audio you can download. It's not even an app. https://www.who.int/publications/i&#x
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by carvink 3y ago
Also, WHO's guide for "unhooking from difficult thoughts and feelings" which is not an app, is free, and has downloadable audio exercise guidance. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/978924
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by carvink 4y ago
Some have ambitions to green the Sinai Desert: https://www.greenthesinai.com/back-to-the-garden-john-d-liu https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/our-bigg...
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by carvink 4y ago
Yes, according to WHO. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003927
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by carvink 4y ago
I like to say 'When people drink they relax, and when they relax, I relax. It works out fine." It does depend on the group.
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by carvink 4y ago
It's common to find people on https://shutupwrite.com/ doing the same.
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by carvink 4y ago
The World Health Org has an illustrated guide that includes a more validated *how* practice to reduce stress. Their terminology is different. They discuss how to unhook from distressing thoughts and feelings. It seems like a better approa
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by carvink 5y ago
About 93% of global warming goes into the surface layers of the ocean, cutting of circulation of nutrients, which has led to seaweed ecosystem and harvest reduction or collapse in different coastal regions (Australia, California,SE Asia for
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by carvink 6y ago
Here's my source material: https://youtu.be/Y1nlQ6bGX4c?t=4018
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by carvink 6y ago
That slight colour blockage, or the tint those solar panels have is helpful. There are two reasons. One, plants grow better under red light. Red light has the highest efficiency for photosynthesis in plants, that why LED grow lights are t
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by carvink 6y ago
Some of that work about possible solutions has been done by Paul Hawken. His Project Drawdown book is at least an organized and reasoned list of 100 possibilities. I attended a talk about one of them - marine permaculture arrays. This is a
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by carvink 7y ago
There are silent writing meetups too. https://shutupwrite.com/
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by carvink 7y ago
It does take some practice, and best not to overuse it. The book 'Words That Work In Business" by Ike Lasater is a very good guide to NVC in the business world.
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by carvink 7y ago
Recently I heard someone talk about MPA, Marine Permaculture Arrays, that gave me a bit of optimism. There's plenty of pessimism, but we can choose where to focus. Imagine regenerating vast rivers of the fastest growing plant, kelp,
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by carvink 7y ago
I saw a presentation about marine permaculture arrays (MPA) recently, which are floating kelp farms. Floating, but submerged, using wave action to power pumps that provide nutrient laden cold water to help the kelp grow. These pumps are li
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by carvink 7y ago
I was recently at a workshop about Marine Permaculture Arrays (MPA). Picture square-kilometer kelp farms in the open ocean, using ocean current eddy shear levels to move MPA to different locations in a region (different vertical layer curr
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by carvink 8y ago
A truism I've seen - the best predictor of back pain is having had back pain. After an initial injury about 20 years ago, Alexander technique made it worse, but only because an incompetent instructor shoved my back when I was not expec