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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

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/

They replaced the old wooden pole with a new pole, but they kept the house for the toucan.
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Bird threading pine needles through a leaf to shelter its nest
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Apparently opposable thumbs are overrated

Diderot’s daughter was about to be married and he could not afford to pay for the wedding. Despite his lack of wealth, Diderot was well known for his role as the co-founder and writer of Encyclopédie, one of the most comprehensive encyclopedias of the time. When Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, heard of Diderot’s financial troubles, her heart went out to him. She was a book lover and greatly enjoyed his encyclopedia. She offered to buy Diderot’s personal library for £1,000 —more than $150,000 today.* Suddenly, Diderot had money to spare. With his new wealth, he not only paid for the wedding but also acquired a scarlet robe for himself. Diderot’s scarlet robe was beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that he immediately noticed how out of place it seemed when surrounded by his more common possessions. He wrote that there was “no more coordination, no more unity, no more beauty” between his elegant robe and the rest of his stuff. Diderot soon felt the urge to upgrade his possessions. He replaced his rug with one from Damascus. He decorated his home with expensive sculptures. He bought a mirror to place above the mantel, and a better kitchen table. He tossed aside his old straw chair for a leather one. Like falling dominoes, one purchase led to the next. Diderot’s behavior is not uncommon. In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption that leads to additional purchases.

tl:dr there is a correlation between the ammount of greenery around you and the speed that you body is aging, but it's too early to point on a specific link

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/26/david-bangs-sussex-guerrilla-botanist-trespass-protecting-nature-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Guerilla botanists are a thing apparently 😁