One day in 1983, while studying a hand-drawn map from 1792 of his home town in Ecuador, Galo Ramón, a historian, came across a dispute between a landowner and two local Indigenous communities, the Coyana and the Catacocha. The boundary conflict involved an ancient lagoon, depicted on the map.
“The drawing depicted a lagoon brimming with rainwater,” says Ramón. Ravines were depicted forming below the high-altitude lagoon, indicating that it supplied watersheds further down – contrary to the typical flow where a watershed feeds into the lagoon.
Ramón had discovered a long-forgotten ancient water management system conceived by the Paltas, a pre-Incan civilisation that inhabited the semi-arid region more than 1,000 years ago.
One day in 1983, while studying a hand-drawn map from 1792 of his home town in Ecuador, Galo Ramón, a historian, came across a dispute between a landowner and two local Indigenous communities, the Coyana and the Catacocha. The boundary conflict involved an ancient lagoon, depicted on the map.
“The drawing depicted a lagoon brimming with rainwater,” says Ramón. Ravines were depicted forming below the high-altitude lagoon, indicating that it supplied watersheds further down – contrary to the typical flow where a watershed feeds into the lagoon.
Ramón had discovered a long-forgotten ancient water management system conceived by the Paltas, a pre-Incan civilisation that inhabited the semi-arid region more than 1,000 years ago.
Ramón set out to recreate the Paltas’ lagoon system and, 40 years on, the region has enjoyed an environmental regeneration, offering solutions for Ecuador – which regularly faces severe droughts – and other parts of the world struggling to address water scarcity with limited resources.
Hello friends, it's been a productive day here. We worked in the garden and inspected beehives this morning, then went to the butterfly house and a large candy store at Ellie's request. We also picked up two fig trees from a private nursery. The guy is asking me to set up a beehive or two there next year if I'd like to expand my operations. I'm considering it as it would spread my resources over two locations.
the irony is that geoengineering will probably be necessary to address climate change because people like her refused to do anything to curb emissions instead
wait, isn't this the hypothetical technology the fossil fuel industry has been using as an excuse to keep emitting? They're criminalizing the excuse to keep profiting off fossil fuels?
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Fatigue, disorientation, cognitive difficulties - these are daily occurrences for a large number of people, including those in the music industry.
Musicians, DJs and other music professionals dealing with the persistence of Long COVID face unique challenges related to their work, which is often physical in ways that require a great deal of fine motor control, concentration and stamina, leading to forced breaks or even having to give up their vocation entirely.
And, given that many musicians are freelance, they’re particularly vulnerable economically.
While COVID received a lot of media attention in the first few years after the pandemic, it has since moved away from the public eye. But for those with Long COVID
Fatigue, disorientation, cognitive difficulties - these are daily occurrences for a large number of people, including those in the music industry.
Musicians, DJs and other music professionals dealing with the persistence of Long COVID face unique challenges related to their work, which is often physical in ways that require a great deal of fine motor control, concentration and stamina, leading to forced breaks or even having to give up their vocation entirely.
And, given that many musicians are freelance, they’re particularly vulnerable economically.
While COVID received a lot of media attention in the first few years after the pandemic, it has since moved away from the public eye. But for those with Long COVID, there’s no moving past it.
We spoke with two musicians - cellist Joshua Roman and transdiciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom - about their ongoing struggles with the illness and the ways they’ve had to adapt.
According to the Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) Clinic at Stanford Medicine, 30% to 60% of people with COVID-19 have symptoms that continue after recovery.
Though the 2020 COVID pandemic had many negative effects on the music industry, an underreported aspect is how Long COVID has left some professional musicians unable to continue with their careers
@HighHorseStrong 🩸 What's more the version spilled on the floor isn't all that hazardous, people used to drink a pound as a cure for constipation because it is heavy and would force things through but it is not readily absorbed into human tissue in metallic form, now add a methyl group to it and you've got a substance that even the tiniest skin contact is guaranteed death but that's not the metallic form.
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