Ecological Microcosms is a seminal work which reviews the expanding field of enclosed ecosystem research, and relates the results and models of microcosm studies to general concepts in ecology. Microcosms are miniaturized pieces of our biosphere, ranging from streams and lakes to terraria, agroecosystems, and waste systems. The study of these simplified ecosystems is providing provocative insights into ecological principles as well as issues of environmental management and global stability.
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One general signature of hopepunk is that its stories counter tales of emotional darkness or rottenness, not just grimdark with its characteristically violent, amoral, and often dystopian/apocalyptic trappings, but also stories whose settings may be less recognizably grimdark but whose plots and character choices either advance zero-sum narratives where achievement requires causing someone else’s fall, or portraits of human nature in which, in the end, people will always be selfish, backstab, let you down, or look out for number one, and in which systems will always be corrupt and unsalvageable. In Hopepunk, people—often ordinary people, including minor characters—take a stand, resist, work together, follow through and help each other, and in the end, while some characters make bad choices, enough make good choices to leave a positive sense of the capacity of humans to choose good. Put another way, hopepunk presents an image of human beings where, in a prisoner’s dilemma situation, not everyone but enough people actually do choose the thing that helps everyone to make it possible to make the world a better place. https://news.1rj.ru/str/hackernewslive/113367
Morgan Hazelwood: Writer In Progress
Introduction to Hopepunk
In a grimdark world, filled with politics, truth, and lies, many of us have been longing for a literary escape that can give us some hope. For this generation, Hopepunk is our solution.
Dreamed up by a man named Skip Lisle, the Beaver Deceiver is a two-part system. There are two fenced-off areas, one above and one below the dam, to prevent beavers from directly clogging the culvert. And there’s a pipe system underneath that connects the two. Water, fish and small animals can flow through, but the beaver can’t sort out how or why. So they just keep patching their dam, while humans control the water level.
Nelson explains that had the beavers been completely in charge of this dam, the surrounding land – and runways – would have been at risk of flooding. But instead, the beaver-friendly technology has struck a balance. A typical drainage ditch would run dry in summer and fill with dirty rushing water after a rain. But I was looking at pond habitat that supports not just beavers, plants and fish but a whole rich ecosystem of invertebrates, insects and birds. https://www.rewildingmag.com/can-beavers-make-our-cities-better/
Nelson explains that had the beavers been completely in charge of this dam, the surrounding land – and runways – would have been at risk of flooding. But instead, the beaver-friendly technology has struck a balance. A typical drainage ditch would run dry in summer and fill with dirty rushing water after a rain. But I was looking at pond habitat that supports not just beavers, plants and fish but a whole rich ecosystem of invertebrates, insects and birds. https://www.rewildingmag.com/can-beavers-make-our-cities-better/
Rewilding Magazine
Can beavers make our cities better? | Rewilding Magazine
For six decades, beavers were unwelcome in Vancouver. Now, they’re taking up residence across the urban core. But can we make this relationship work?
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