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Congrats @WeRadiateNY for joining the #cleantech ECO Incubator with @NYSERDA @Launch_NY. Best wishes for innovation… https://t.co/w1XR3po11D
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In addition to being a refuge space, @knollfarmvt is a farm! .
See the glorious blueberries as they grow! Witness the gracefulness if Habibi the guard llama! Bask in the glory of the genderqueer sheep (brown one in the front), born apparently female but growing male horns! Wrap yourself in the warmth of their grass-fee sheep-grown hand-dyed hand-spun small batch yarns!!! #love #❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
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#farm #vermont #betterselvesfellowship #betterselfie #blueberryfarm #blueberries #wool #llama #sheep #genderqueer #genderoutlaw #gendernonconforming #yarn

I was at @knollfarmvt working on my book (!!!), and the Water Temple was my workspace. Built over the spring that nourishes the farm, it includes a well, a bell and wonderful acoustics. .
Showing the approach, a peek inside the door, my view from opposite the door, and my working supplies. Note the small green stem stretching itself skyward. Every day I watched it grow, a great lesson in persistence. .
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#vermont #betterselvesfellowship #fellowship #farm #temple #water #writing #residency #writer #persistence

Adventures in composting toilets at @knollfarmvt !

One reserved exclusively for gnomes. #gnomespooptoo
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Art and quotes abound at Knoll Farm, including in the barn’s bathrooms. Somehow Thoreau made it to both loo rolls. .
Scott Nearing is a super cool guy I’m just learning about. There was also a text from Wendell Berry, “In Defense if Movements.” I didn’t snap a photo but it’s AMAZING. Posted excerpts and link follow. 👩🏽‍🎓💩🌈
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And so I must declare my dissatisfaction with movements to promote soil conservation or clean water or clean air or wilderness preservation or sustainable agriculture or community health or the welfare of children. Worthy as these and other goals may be, they cannot be achieved alone. They cannot be responsibly advocated alone. I am dissatisfied with such efforts because they are too specialized, they are not comprehensive enough, they are not radical enough, they virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can remedy or control effects while leaving causes in place. Ultimately, I think, they are insincere; they propose that the trouble is caused by other people; they would like to change policy but not behavior.
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The proper business of a human economy is to make one whole thing of ourselves and this world. To make ourselves into a practical wholeness with the land under our feet is maybe not altogether possible—how would we know?—but, as a goal, it at least carries us beyond hubris, beyond the utterly groundless assumption that we can subdivide our present great failure into a thousand separate problems that can be fixed by a thousand task forces of academic and bureaucratic specialists. That program has been given more than a fair chance to prove itself, and we ought to know by now that it won’t work.
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Full text here: https://orionmagazine.org/article/in-distrust-of-movements/ .
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Coming back into the US after a summer of travel, I had the great good fortune of being cradled by @knollfarmvt for a week. The Better Selves Fellowship brings together change makers, activists, environmental protectors and artists for a week of delicious meals, idyllic beauty and community building. So grateful to this whole gorgeous cohort! More pictures from the farm this week :)
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#farm #vermont #betterselvesfellowship #betterselves #fellowship #retreat #nature #cohort #thisiswhatdiversitylookslike #diversity

Thank you to @sindos_cc for welcoming us with such kindness and generosity! ・・・
It’s always important to be reminded of good hygiene practices, especially those surrounding poop. Yes, you read that correct. 🧻🧼🚽😄
Thanks @poop_project for teaching our kids about how the body digests food and why it’s important to always wash your hands.
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#health #cleanbody #refugee #poop #education #ngo

I’m so grateful for the global sanitation community! Despite the delicious food, fascinating culture, gorgeous architecture, etc etc - the best part of traveling is always the people I get to meet and learn from along the way.
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In the top left corner, Dr. @bindeshwarpathak , legendary founder of @sulabh.international .
Top right, @vijaychariar building waterless loos, compost systems and biological cleaners with @ekameco .
Bottom right chatting with #WASH specialists Swathi and Shalini at @unicefindia .
Bottom left with Ashwani, designer and waterless urinal manufacturer with @basicshit_org (cuz India is under major water stress). .
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#sanitation #water #toilet #sdgs2030 #swachhbharat #network #friends

Overnight train from Varanasi to Agra. 3.5 hrs down...7 to go...
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1. My current view and surroundings. Each of these sleeping cots is one ticket, yet has two or three people. @larabloch and I are sharing one because there was a family of five on one of the three we had bought. People are all over the floor, sitting at the entrance. The travel agent in the airport told us it would be an adventure...he was right! #incredibleindia indeed...
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2. @shawmel80 warned me about it, but I couldn’t have anticipated this exact thing. But maybe the train station should have been an indication of things to come. .
3. A cow waving our train on its way. I believe this holy bovine is thinking, “See ya later, suckers!”
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#india #varanasi #agra #train #indiantrain #cultureshock #ohthehumanity #hopeidonthavetopee

Friends and food!
Every meal I have eaten has been better than the last. India outdoes itself infinitely!
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1. An incredible dinner at @masalasam.chembur with new friends @gopsi_k and @nishkamath . The. Food. Was. AMAZING! Matched only by the company, their wit, wisdom and generosity. Someone told me that, in Hinduism, guests are a kind of demigod. As the feast continued well beyond this, they made me believe. With tripmate @ilanaperitt
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2. Enlarged for detail. Two kinds of spices on that idli, two different sambar (i think), a traditional coconut chutney and an experimental new coconut pineapple chutney edging its way into the plate. #MakeRoom
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3. I was told by many to try the Parsi cuisine in Mumbai. More on that culture in another post, but for now please enjoy dinner from Cafe Military. @raroundtheworld had egg pulav and mutton kheema - ground lamb meat in a rich sauce spices with coriander and enjoyed on top of that fluffy bread. What I really enjoyed was the chicken farcha that came next; basically fried chicken with masala spices. It was so good I refused to pause and take a picture, so I give you this one as a substitute 🤤😋🥰
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4. Caramel custard for dessert! Ie Parsi flan. #delicioso
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5. Bhelpuri with my new and dear friend Siddhanth. Fried crackers with veggies, puffed rice, spicy green chutney and sweet /sour tamarind sauce. #streetfood
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6. Your moment of zen: the most delicious coffee from Masalasam poured back and forth from a tall to shallow vessel in order to blend and cool it. I n s l o w m o t i o n . . .
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#india #indianfood #feast #desifeast #masala #idli #parsi #chickenfarcha #mumbai #bombay #chembur #coffee #bhelpuri #flan #dessert #kheema #pulav

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