SolarPunk
Currently halfway in ruins, the Jardin d'Agronomie Tropical of Paris has a complicated history. It was used to celebrate colonization, under the angle of agronomy. Even today, this history is put under the carpet, and few are the reflections or critics of…
Walking through it today, you can be left clueless about it's history. Some panels talk about the name, past usage and architecture, but they is no mention about the political use that was made of it.
For example, the greenhouse was used to study the tobacco plants, chocolate trees and more, but it should of mentioned how, and at which cost, theses plans where brought back to Paris.
They are also places where the history of the different colonies is totally eclipsed. Starting in 1889, it was built at a time where the French Empire was looking for justifications. And doing so, it overlooked the role local people had in maintaining, growing and influencing the nature around them, that the French saw as savages.
Some of these people where even exposed as beasts in a zoo.
For example, the greenhouse was used to study the tobacco plants, chocolate trees and more, but it should of mentioned how, and at which cost, theses plans where brought back to Paris.
They are also places where the history of the different colonies is totally eclipsed. Starting in 1889, it was built at a time where the French Empire was looking for justifications. And doing so, it overlooked the role local people had in maintaining, growing and influencing the nature around them, that the French saw as savages.
Some of these people where even exposed as beasts in a zoo.
You can read more about it here : https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/aux-lecteurs-emancipes/article/070417/entre-les-ruines-du-passe-colonial
( in French )
( in French )
Club de Mediapart
Entre les ruines du passé colonial
« Jardin des colonies », de Thomas B. Reverdy et Sylvain Venayre n'est pas seulement une errance érudite à travers les ruines de notre passé colonial. Il reflète l'état d'esprit d'une époque, la nôtre.
Jardin d'agronomie tropicale de Paris
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuareg_1907.jpg
During the exposition of 1907, a Touareg Camp
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ATuareg_1907.jpg
During the exposition of 1907, a Touareg Camp
Jardin d'agronomie tropicale de Paris
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3APavillon_madagascar.JPG
The current state of the Pavillon du Congo.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3APavillon_madagascar.JPG
The current state of the Pavillon du Congo.
A Developer's Notebook - Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server
https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/02/repurposing-android.html
https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/02/repurposing-android.html
lbrito.ca
Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server
A programmer's blog with posts about Ruby, web development, algorithms and data structure.
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0205-y?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution
Read for free at : https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41477-018-0205-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0205-y?WT.feed_name=subjects_evolution
Read for free at : https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41477-018-0205-y
Nature
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
Nature Plants - Fossil records suggest that the Amazon rainforest in the pre-Columbian era was home to polyculture agroforestry, with multiple annual crops providing subsistence for indigenous...
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Tesla has defeated “tree pirates” and resumed plowing down a forest in Germany
By Michelle Cheng
Despite environmental protests, Tesla, with its eco-friendly credentials and solar-loving CEO Elon Musk, was given clearance this week to plow down a forest near Berlin for its next Gigafactory. Yesterday we learned that the tree removal is proceeding nicely.
In November, the electric-car maker announced plans to build a Gigafactory in Gruenheide in the eastern state of Brandenburg that surrounds Berlin. It would bring 12,000 jobs and was lauded as a vote of confidence in Germany.
But hundreds of demonstrators protested over what they say is a threat to the local environment, eventually getting a temporary halt to the project. This week, a court rejected environmentalists’ efforts to stop the land clearing, with a ruling that was final.
Yesterday, activists calling themselves the “tree pirates” (motto: “Up with the trees, down with capitalism”) said it had been occupying the forest to prevent the US company from following through with its plans.
While Tesla states on its website that it’s “committed to improving the natural environment near the factory” and aims to “replant an area three times the factory plot,” the environmental group seemed unsatisfied, saying in a statement yesterday, “The factory is here mainly to build sports utility vehicles. Snob cars which kill people.”
As Tesla continues to expand its fleet of electric cars, this will be its first European car and battery factory. It has other large production facilities in California and China.
https://qz.com/1806824/tesla-resumes-clearing-forest-in-germany-for-next-gigafactory/
By Michelle Cheng
Despite environmental protests, Tesla, with its eco-friendly credentials and solar-loving CEO Elon Musk, was given clearance this week to plow down a forest near Berlin for its next Gigafactory. Yesterday we learned that the tree removal is proceeding nicely.
In November, the electric-car maker announced plans to build a Gigafactory in Gruenheide in the eastern state of Brandenburg that surrounds Berlin. It would bring 12,000 jobs and was lauded as a vote of confidence in Germany.
But hundreds of demonstrators protested over what they say is a threat to the local environment, eventually getting a temporary halt to the project. This week, a court rejected environmentalists’ efforts to stop the land clearing, with a ruling that was final.
Yesterday, activists calling themselves the “tree pirates” (motto: “Up with the trees, down with capitalism”) said it had been occupying the forest to prevent the US company from following through with its plans.
While Tesla states on its website that it’s “committed to improving the natural environment near the factory” and aims to “replant an area three times the factory plot,” the environmental group seemed unsatisfied, saying in a statement yesterday, “The factory is here mainly to build sports utility vehicles. Snob cars which kill people.”
As Tesla continues to expand its fleet of electric cars, this will be its first European car and battery factory. It has other large production facilities in California and China.
https://qz.com/1806824/tesla-resumes-clearing-forest-in-germany-for-next-gigafactory/
Quartz
Tesla has defeated “tree pirates” and resumed plowing down a forest in Germany
It's clearing the land for a new Gigafactory.
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