How We Can Build A Solarpunk Future (ft.

[@furaitaro3422]

"we are part of it, after all. Not toxic, burdensome outsiders." didn't expect a quote about waste management to be so touching and beautiful, and encapsulates the reason why I love solarpunk so much.

[@ForeignManinaForeignLand]

DAT NEW DREW HIT LIKE NECKBONE STEW 😍 plus Our Changing Climate in here too? Movieeeee

[@Nkanyiso_K]

It's always mind blowing to hear how people around the world 🌎 are creating the Solar Punk future I want to live in

[@toxictroll7843]

communism always fails eventually, solarpunk is no different

[@JavierGomezX]

@@toxictroll7843 Dude... I freakin love your username

[@renge3084]

@@toxictroll7843 lol

[@gbf111]

@@toxictroll7843 communism and solarpunk have never been without mixing in a giant capitalist system

[@nerag7459]

@@toxictroll7843 Solarpunk is not communism.

[@OurChangingClimate]

This was so good!! Great working with ya :)

[@DaCompostKing]

This is my favorite collaboration

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@#lettheearthbreathe Savonius wind turbine may be worth looking into. Could this be how Solarpunkt comes true?

[@blinkbones3236]

Cool vid, made me think, as usual. Re: waste management, I've seen a project in Bordeaux, France, that is exploring the potential of composting toilets in towns. They're working with a test crowd of I think about a hundred homes, which were given composting toilets with a separating system resulting in two tanks (liquid and solid). Then, regularly, they have some people bike around the circuit of the concerned homes to collect the tanks and exchange them for fresh clean ones. They bring the full tanks back to a place where they turn each into fertilizer for the local farmers. This is written from memory, so I apologize if I misremembered any detail. But the gist is there. They're called la Fumainerie.

[@Andrewism]

I recently visited a farm that utilised compost toilets. it was far cleaner and more sanitary than i expected. it does take a year for the straw and poop to break down into fertilizer, but it seems to work quite well for trees and such.

[@jimcrelm9478]

Separation as you describe solves a lot of problems: smells caused by anaerobic conditions, different levels of biohazard, different thresholds for reuse, and even the excess nutrient problem. A simple, cheap, passive device inserted into the plumbing can separate waste effectively using surface tension and centripetal force - I saw one at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales (amazing place: buildings made of hemp and rammed earth that have lasted decades, gardens, off-grid energy). It is crazy that those who build our homes are not installing waste separation already. Even without industrial treatment plants, liquids can be made to pass through reed beds where the salt and nitrogen are taken up by the plants while the flow ensures adequate oxygenation. Solids can be diverted into dry tanks, combined with sawdust, and allowed to decompose aerobically over years - tanks are swapped out periodically, much more easily than the sceptic tanks that are widespread in rural areas already. The end product can fertilise trees.

[@ricos1497]

@@jimcrelm9478 yep. Or just a bucket and some wood chip.

[@blinkbones3236]

also it's practical when you want a toilet in a place that's not connected to water pipes. plus if it's a rainy area you can just give it a slanted roof and a water tank and there you go, pop-up comfort/hygiene station in your field or whatnot.

[@ombelle5284]

@@ricos1497 bucket and woodchip 🙆🏻‍♀️

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

Just wanted to say, I love your content man, it gives me so much happiness and hope, I basically binged ALL of your videos last week to get me in a good mood, now I’m gonna try and turn my grandmas backyard into a permaculture!

[@Andrewism]

Glad you enjoyed! Good luck on the project, hope it works out well :)

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

@@Andrewism Can i just say you breaking down and laughing when talking about the ways we can restructure waste management made me smile

[@boikanyontsimane8641]

@@TheParadoxGamer1 did i not also cackle?😂😭

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

How's it going????

[@TheParadoxGamer1]

@@BeautifulEarthJa it’s a p r o c e s s a lot of life stuff got in the way, n the backyard really needs refurbishment but the plans are moving into this summer rather well!

[@SarahMaeBea]

This video is making me actually look forward to the future. Being hopeful usually feels abstract. Thank you for offering some tangible hope.

[@abigailbaxter5530]

You and me both! Cool avatar Sarah :)

[@millykendrill5301]

Just imagine if Christianity never existed and how advanced our world could be by now. It reminds me of that episode of Family Guy where the entire world lives in peace and paradise and everything is perfect.

[@oro7114]

@@millykendrill5301 I don’t think it’s fair to just say Christianity is the cause of all the worlds problems.

[@lunarna]

@@millykendrill5301 This is a transphobic troll trying to make christians seem oppressed, I hope Andrewism will ban this person from the channel

[@millykendrill5301]

@@oro7114 If you think about it it really is though. If Christianity was no longer a thing, there's literally no more racism, slavery, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, abelism, capitalism, conservatism, pro-life, etc.

[@disruptivebawdyslive]

I just want you to know, you are my favorite KZbinr on the "left" (fellow anarchist here). Whenever I am loosing hope in humanity, or faith in the movement, I come to your channel. Your calming voice, beautiful visual imaginary and reassuring explain of what the we and the world good be is inspiring. Thank you, Thank you for existing and doing this work. With pure solidarity, much love to you comrade. I hope our paths cross soon.

[@gonzalo4722]

I loved your documentary, gave me a lot to think about

[@BrianM-44041]

Lol. Comrade he says. I was in Russia in 89. You wouldn't have liked it. Anarchy? Sounds good til it kicks you upside your dome. Grow up kid

[@SiSwitzer]

That wastewater aquaculture idea is not something I’ve heard of before, what a beautiful and gratifyingly simple idea it is 🙌😁 more often than not, the old ways are the best, from a time when we better understood the cyclical way of nature (that is us too, as clearly we don’t exist apart from ‘nature’. Thanks for another awesome video👌

[@BrianM-44041]

I for one don't want to eat tilapia fed garbage and poop.

[@EezhamDemon]

Whoah these are really cool. Taking humans back to an inalienable connection and understanding of nature, food, energy, and waste is something we all should be striving to do.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Savonius wind turbine may be worth looking into. Could this be how Solarpunkt comes true?

[@Raw774]

One thing that I think might play a role in a sustainable future is the return of *non-fossil fuel steam power: Steam power is incredibly low-maintenance, easier to build and replace than electric infrastructure, while requiring fewer resources to produce consistent uninterrupted mechanical work.

[@Andrewism]

I'll have to do more research on this, sounds interesting.

[@ErnestoCore]

non-fossil fuel steam? I can only think of geothermal? What other options are there?

[@collinb2767]

@@ErnestoCore Nuclear, but I'm sure wood fired is possible, solar steam power maybe? Also there are some biopellet reactor things that look neat

[@ErnestoCore]

@Collin B yeah, nuclear; wasn't my first option, but yes, it's in that category. I going check those biopellet reactors!

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

@@collinb2767 wood fire is possible and I believe sometimes, though rarely, done today. Not sure how environmentally friendly it is, though it's probably pretty renewable given enough time and sustainable tree replacement. I don't think it's steam power but I have heard of algae powered buildings and the like. No clue if they work or were a developing technology that hasn't gotten off the ground though.

[@jmgajda8071]

This is so exciting! Thank you for making another video on this. I'm going to show my 3 youngest (7, 9, & 10) this video when we get home. My 7 yo is very interested in architecture and I've been trying to teach her about this concept in case that's what she ends up doing. Also, you have such a lovely voice. Seriously. It's lilting and almost musical and it's a delight to listen to your videos!

[@Andrewism]

Glad it was helpful, good luck to her! And thank you!

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@Andrewism "Mad scientist's homestead is parking size, off-grid system", a video worth checking out.

[@taylorbaratka6883]

Community micro-grids are absolutely essential and can easily pair with mesh internet infrastructure, eliminating the control that large companies like google and Facebook can have over information. Excellent video as always 💘

[@gorillaguy9902]

It is so important to communicate to those who do not know that created a green, carbon free world does not mean that peoples quality of life needs to decrease. Great video!

[@matthewbalch3324]

With respect to micro-grids, while large power companies may balk at the idea, places served by electricity cooperatives and municipally owned services, which are under the control of the people being served, should pair well with the idea. Such cooperatives are common in the rural United States as a legacy of the New Deal.

[@jmh8817]

Writer here. Wastewater is one of the most difficult aspects of fully conceptualizing a solarpunk world to me, but you've given me some food for thought that I hadn't considered previously. Great vid, as usual.

[@SANCTUM-SANCTORUM]

It’s insane I’ve never heard of you or your work. I have some of these exact same concepts in a journal dated a year ago. Also for independent future cities, or what you call solar punk.

[@abigailbaxter5530]

The city of Arcata in California has a super cool wastewater treatments system, it’s incorporated into our local marsh and it increases the biodiversity!!!

[@krrowthemyuii]

The Arcata Marsh is really cool. Lots of birds like to live there and you can walk around and see the place and look for birds (and other things, such as plants and frogs and insects).

[@conflictfree88]

Hearing you break around 9:10 made my day

[@akauppi2]

Very great way of visualizing oil as a spill 6:17 :)

[@terran9264]

This came at such a great time! One of my classmates started a group to discuss solutions to the climate crisis and other world issues, and of course I will be contributing with all the lessons I learned from you and OCC.

[@Anja_Pearson]

Wow, that group sounds really awesome! I am trying to plan an event surrounding climate change that would be somewhat similar! How many people are in your group? How do you get everyone engaged?

[@MixMeMcGee]

🙏🏻 so amped to hear this one! These Solarpunk mental models (especially per your vision casting) is some of the most hopeful vision casting for my heart. And personally, when I’m more hopeful I’m more active towards that hope :)

[@-Bloomingtales]

Before I even had a way to describe this world, I knew this was/is the environment I’ve always wanted to live in. I also don’t see enough videos and content about this. This is the kind of world I literally see in my dreams and I don’t know if it’s a foretelling or fragments from a past I’ve lived before. All I know is that I want to experience this in my lifetime. It just feels right.

[@strawberrythiefproductions]

I fucking love how you started off with coppicing - really sets the vibe off correctly. Technology isn't gonna save us - the thinking that causes the problem will not create the solution. The future needs to be something we remeber as much as create. Love everything you do, keep it up💚

[@andrewchoi5808]

Solarpunk generation has begun

[@CityasNature]

Nice work, as usual Andrew. The waste stream issue has been a focus for a lot of our friends these years. So many interesting solutions. Years ago an artist did a project to extract salt from treated sewage in Alviso (where the sewage from Silicon Valley ends up) and have it analyzed by a lab. They found that even with strict quality standards, many pharmaceuticals routinely made it through, anti depressants, birth control hormones... which have some pretty gnarly effects on marine dwelling lifeforms. So we can add that to the 'industrial waste' category that you mention needs to be minimized in the first place. Its going to be quite a list! The direct composting that has been mentioned elsewhere is interesting too. It removes the need for flushing drinking water down a series of pipes in the first place, which means homes would produce mainly only greywater... and this can be managed on a household or neighborhood level. There is a great historical example in Japans Edo era, where all of the poop in Tokyo (a city of about a million people, which back then was called Edo) was sold to people who would cart it out to the farms and sell it on to the farmers for fertilizer. Fresh water was seen as saceed and precious, so it was never used to move feces down pipes. There is a really intersting book by Azby Brown called Just Enough... which has a nicely illustrated series of historical solarpunk-ish solutions from Edo era Japan. Might be interesting to do a feature on some of this at one point. Keep up the good work!

[@samtalksaboutlife464]

New Solarpunk videos of you two make me so happy

[@iwein]

Found you through the OCC channel yesterday! Thank you for introducing me to THE word that describes all my, so far uncollected, hopes and ideals. I hope diving into the solarpunk topic will provide me the inspiration I am searching for as an artist to visualize the future I want to fight for. It's been something scratching at the back of my head for a while now but I have not had enough 'data' and inspiration to actually imagine and paint/visualize how my vision should look. love and rage from Amsterdam

[@NikkiLayne]

An excellent, and very educational video! Keep fighting the good fight, brother!

[@climateteacherjohnj7763]

How good to see you both getting together. Good work, gents, ladies, and other amalgamations of being, good work indeed!

[@maksschmidt]

Amazing video as usual. Also I love that you kept in the laugh at the sewer system. Feels like a more genuine human connection despite not being able to see you in the videos.

[@solarpunkstories]

Great video, love these solutions.

[@solarpunkstories]

PS - We shared this video on our Substack. Looking forward to more from this channel :)

[@LonelyParadiseKiss]

There was a little glimpse of a Solurpunk environment in Arcane, was so beautiful to see. Thanks for another awesome video Drew!

[@anyalei]

I so appreciate your grassroots perspective. Thank you for your kindness in sharing your thoughts and being a teacher 💜

[@jhines0042]

Amazing channel as always

[@nathanrodriguez8255]

Great video man, your content's really enlightening and I appreciate your ideas, and hearing actual steps as to how we can get to an ideal society is such a breath of fresh air. You're doing great :)

[@GayestWinston]

I was especially interested in the water systems! So sustainable and beautiful ponds. Solarpunk looks really cool :)

[@vigneshbanana]

your videos make me feel so hopeful

[@LautaroArgentino]

Very interesting, thank you for your time.

[@1Dimee]

I really love videos like this! They have lots of value in combating climate doomerism

[@youtility6685]

Thank you so much for another informative video. I'm working on the research phase of a comic and wanted to share a few I've found. Most of these already exist or exist in an experimental phase. This is solely tech, there's a whole bunch of land management practices that I've found that would also be beneficial for a solarpunk society. Biolumenece: Algae Lamps Other Lighting: Sun Jars, Daylighting Sustainable energy: solar panels, Wind turbines, algae windows, hydropower, wind trees, Solar-battery truck, kite turbines, clubs with floors that transfer kinetic energy to electricity, bio solar panels, solar balloons, cyanobacteria bioreactor Air cleaning: Moss city benches & walls Clean water: Warka Water Tower, fog harvesting towers Waste Mgmt: Green Heat Biogas Digester Vermicomposting, Mycoremediation, compost bench Earthships Animal-friendly architecture: Face bird feeders, Bee/bird Bricks on Greenhouses, bat-friendly bridges, animal bridges, birdhouse/feeders/birdboxes, Bat tower, bat boxes, beehouse, porous stones/bricks for insects, insect house, toad tunnels, squirrel bridges passive cooling- Cross draft ventilation, windcatcher, beehive terracotta cooling tubes passive heating- trombe wall, Barra system, water wall other heating- heater bloc alcohol heater Architecture: Earth House, earthed-roof house, Tree-leaf canopies, Walipini, seascraper, playful architecture, biophilic design (idea library), grown homes Communication: mesh networks (see also), Trash Robot's Off grid network Transportation: Car sharing, mass transit, water gondalas, Airless Tires, Bike Ambulances

[@byronlopezellington8839]

Awesome stuff as always. I love learning about this type of stuff.

[@artemiscephei1339]

Andrew, you guys are fantastic.

[@JamieW907]

I love your videos, your voice & accent sound really soothing I could listen to you talk all day

[@eltomy108]

Thanks for the information, friend. Hope more and more people apply this and others type of sustainable knowledge in their life and communities

[@rebeccahall4209]

I just came across your channel and wanted to let you know how inspiring it is. And I’m learning so much. Thank you!

[@othelliusmaximus]

0:25 - 0:32 Oh damn that sucks. Screenshots Drew's head Me: Step right up folks and purchase your very own Andrewism NFT! Buy now and I'll throw in a Tesla at a 3.51% interest rate! And remember folks here at it couldabeenfree anything's for sale!

[@mutableparameter4598]

Im so glad theres people like you making content man.. Didn't know i was building a solarpunk city but you just confirmed it..

[@Miuthemuse]

I'm glad to see a follow up to your previous video on the subject! I strongly encourage you to cite the artist names next to their artwork as they support the presentation of your content. Art can absolutely be aesthetic, but it is also a vehicule to spread awareness on the things they are presenting. Thus, contributing to being inspired to change. On this note, peace & happy belated Earth day🌸

[@Beckisphere]

09:08 "hopefully..." lmao. I love that you kept your laughs in there. :) Great video! Super inspiring!

[@haileymoore3428]

Your videos are always interesting to watch. Eutrophication is a huge concern in ecology right now - it doesn't only happen in aquatic ecosystems either, but whenever an ecosystem changes beyond its ability to self repair. Ponds with fertilizer pollution are the classic example and one of the most common instances. One of the serious problems with eutrophication is that even if you cut off the pollution so that nutrient levels return to their old norm, the ecosystem still can't repair itself. The pond will still be choked with algae. So you have to artificially reduce nutrient levels even further and starve the algae/disruption out before the ecosystem can finally snap back. Which is why wastewater and pollution solutions like this are so important to prevent that eutrophication in the first place.

[@rcb6ocs414]

These are some brilliant techniques/management practices. I would love to see more folks on youtube make videos about how to implement them in a solar punk context

[@artemkanarchist]

Thanks for your work 💚🖤

[@titankorellc2937]

I'm trying to work on a solarpunk scifi and I could use some input. A native american inventor builds what amounts to a high tech recycler, which allows a rag tag group of people from around the world to stop an alien invasion. Afterwards the new US president "rewards" her by giving back a small section of ancestral land that happens to be a burned up junkyard and heavily polluted, and enacts a "Tech/strategic resource Embargo" that is especially enforced on her. So now she has to take this polluted land, heal it and grow it into what she needs to stop the growing threats created by greed. (while there are monsters they are all monsters directly/indirectly created by corporate greed and or military industrial complex). Essentially she builds "Junkertown" but it hopefully grows into someplace more akin to Numbani (overwatch reference)

[@bradencolaner4811]

Been waiting for another one of these! Thanks so much 💚

[@athegrey]

not andrewism giving me hope yet again and making me excited about our potential futures instead of dreading them

[@coyharlingen]

so amazing. another brilliant piece of work. Thank you!

[@avialeywood4642]

Glad for a new vid! :)

[@MisterDaviso452]

If we are to move toward a true solarpunk world, the changes must reflect our evolving ethics. We must be truly unified as a single organism. If we distinguish between the suffering of humans and non-human animals, we perpetuate the separation of humans and the rest of nature.

[@fs2352]

It's extremely empowering to watch also videos about what to fight for (and not only what to fight against). Thank you so much!

[@thimblebarry]

Great video. Thanks for bringing up waste solution. I think for rural communities composting their waste either individually or communally is a great solution, especially for permaculture and agricultural areas. Cities can modify the sewers like you described. We use far less water by composting. 🌲

[@portentouslad5051]

Better things are necessary and possible.

[@Zaneclodon]

nice video! i just got my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, so the point about community microgrids stands out to me. i've been exposed to some research about microgrids already since even many already in the power industry recognize the need for more resilience and ability to operate when disconnected, but i'm sure those who benefit from the current way of running the grid are gonna fight to keep it that way for as long as possible. i want to use what i've learned in university to help with planning and organization of community microgrids to make our use of electrical power sustainable and better for us all! building a better world won't be easy, but pooling together our expertise and building on what others past and present have accomplished can't hurt!

[@Grimpy970]

In Phoenix we're doing something similar on a large scale.. but it's sort of 'putting the cart in front of the horse'. We recycle the hell out of our water. Much of the sewage we treat ends up cleaned and back in our taps. On the other side of the water treatment plants, you have human and animal affluence making a schmutzdecke. When they get cleaned out and backwashed, companies take the sludge on huge tanker trucks to get pasteurized and turned into biologically inert fertilizer. It's a really roundabout way of doing this kinda stuff, but I like to think we're a little greener than most major american metropolises

[@carinnify]

Thank you for your videos! I am working on a comic about a decentralized society and this is helping me develop the world view a lot better

[@gijsdahasdkfj]

I studied a lot about wastewater treatment in my degree, and I find it so interesting and key to social infrastructure, that nobody seems to think about. There are a few concepts I think you'd be interested in, that I've tried (and maybe failed?) not to get too technical about: In relation to domestic wastewater (from people), the influent can be separated into liquid stream, and sludge (a collection of solids). Sludge can be treated by feeding it into an Anaerobic bioreactor, where it is digested by microbes and produces a solid output that can be treated and used as fertilizer. The system is incredibly low cost to maintain because it also produces a gas that can be burned to generate power to run the system, and the reactor itself is quite simple and low maintenance. This system is relatively commonly used, and means the outputs can be turned into something useful rather than having to be dumped as waste. Bioreactors to produce cooking gas based on animal/farm waste are becoming quite popular in a lot of the world, particularly developing countries. One treatment method for the liquid stream that's growing in popularity is the "Constructed Wetland", which works similarly to hydroponics/aquaponics, and simulates a wetland ecosystem. The high nutrient liquid is introduced into a wide, shallow area growing (ideally native) wetland plants, which grow quickly by feeding on the nutrients and creating a new environment to host insects, frogs, birds, etc. The water exiting the wetland has enough nutrients removed that it can flow safely into normal streams and rivers, contributing to the general region's water/irrigation system. Although not the aim, it is possible to purposely plant specific plants to be used by the community, maybe for medicines or to be harvested and burned for energy, or used for agriculture. Something to note is in using wastewater directly for growing things to be consumed by humans, is that a major concern is human pathogens. This is why we can't just poop in our garden for fertilizer- usually the waste must be treated to be safe to grow things that people will consume. However, a more direct treatment system may be useful if you aren't growing food directly, but some other product (building materials? Animal feed?) that isn't directly consumed by people. Lastly, its important to consider many varieties of wastewater treatment solutions, since the local environment is one of the most important deciding factors. If the environment has a lot of water (Brittan, USA Midwest, southeast Asia, etc), then this would imply very different solutions to somewhere water is very precious (like a desert- Sahara, most of Australia, American south, central Asia). different systems should be used in different places and different communities. Anyway just some ideas I thought I'd throw in that hopefully add to our collective knowledge and inspiration. Thanks for being one of the only people I've seen to talk about this insanely integral part of physically building sustainable communities.

[@pongop]

Cool video with great ideas! I like these solarpunk videos and the collaboration between Andrewism and Our Changing Climate.

[@AnarchoPurp]

I had no idea poop water had so much potential!

[@CampingforCool41]

I’ve never heard someone mention coppicing as a potential solution, thank you for shedding light on it.

[@CampingforCool41]

Regarding wastewater, I also just watched this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmemd2Crorx_kMk It’s more of a technological solution but it creates its own energy and useful material. It seems like it might be a better fit for dense population areas. I’m curious what you might think of it.

[@irinaetcharren3138]

I love love love these videos!!!! I’m so glad you’re bringing more awareness to solarpunk with actual politics

[@carterlin1719]

A very good video. The part where you talk about wastewater management really hit home - I am a marine biologist who works in the Gulf of Mexico, and a lot of the major river outflows here (especially the Mississippi, which drains All the pesticides and fertilizer from the agricultural heartland) frequently suffer from blooms and chronic low oxygen zones. I recently watched a lecture by a biotech engineer who focused on wastewater research. I don't know how applicable his work would be to a solarpunk future, because it is pretty reliant on current scales of tech and genetic engineering of bacteria. But he figured out a way to use microbes' abilities to extract nutrients from their low-nutrient environments to extract phosphorus from wastewater. Essentially the proteins that they use to draw the nutrients into their cells have a much higher accuracy rate for binding to phosphorus than any current chemical solution that humans have developed. So his lab developed a technique for mass producing the cell proteins and attaching them to inert beads, and those filter beads can be reused at least 10 times before they degrade. That technique still generates chemical wastes that must be dealt with, and ultimately a lasting solution still requires significantly reduced production and a more integrated coexistence with natural systems and cycles. But work like that also makes me hopeful for the future.

[@fal_pal_]

Just watched all of your solar punk vids, really inspiring.

[@calladricosplays]

Thank you for acknowledging the food forests that the first nations had before they were levelled by colonists. Native food sources alone could solve a lot of issues with agricultural sustainability. Of course, many have been hit hard by disease and invasive species, so they are no longer viable, but anything is better than growing almonds in the desert. Phytoremediation is working great for eutrophication at my university

[@juliettedemaso7588]

Bless you, bless this channel.

[@sqweed653]

Thank you for making this

[@mluengo_sl]

Another alternative to wastewater treatment are microbial fuel cells, which uses bacterias to eat the waste (via metabolic oxidation) and then the electrona from their metabolism are captured with electrodes to generate electricity.

[@bwolff7364]

Thanks for commenting this, I had never heard of microbial fuel cells before!

[@ConstantlyVariedFitness]

Amazing video, thank you! New subscriber!

[@matthewgoetzka8855]

I've never heard of coppicing! I love the concept and plan to share my newfound knowledge with anyone interested in listening.

[@tweak8866]

This was awesome, thank you!

[@andrewthen8998]

NEW DREW BLESSED MY TIMELINE. HALLELUJAH

[@Bea-rq1uf]

this is so cool!! thank you for the video

[@DrustZapat]

Love your stuff, man! Thanks for sharing and brightening my day

[@michaelholtke4445]

This is fantastic video and introduced me to the idea of solar punk. Thank you so much!

[@tombastic5641]

keep going and thanks a lot for your inspraiting work!

[@raphaeliasoulaki2926]

these videos make me actually not fear the future so much

[@cameronmcleod8419]

Incredible video mate

[@dustind4694]

The discussion of forests is quite applicable to the problem of alienation, too. Trees, like people, are distinct and unique things that create microcosms of interaction and in our case shared schema. We need each other, yes, but preying on one another, blocking out the sun so to speak, damages the wilderness between us, and makes us individually more vulnerable and collectively poorer.

[@jonathanramsey]

😊 thank you, Andrew!

[@LogicGated]

Always thankful for OCC for introducing me to this channel.

[@reshanegi3268]

I'm dying to see it in the real World but when😭

[@Andrewism]

We all have a part to play 😊 here and now

[@justdoeverything8883]

You could actually use the micro-grid strategy for waste treatment too. Bio-digesters, small algae farms, aquatic plants, filtration through carbon / sand, solar distillation or a mix of all these could be used to treat water locally, and fast so it can cycle back into the communities. This approach might be better for places where water is more scarce and precious, like deserts, of course.

[@finnsharp6138]

Great video this is the hopeful future

[@sarahfourcassier2629]

I have much curiosity about the wastewater based aquaculture, mainly about the impacts of our pharmaceutical consumption (since a lot of it ends up in our urine/feces, for instance antibiotics, synthetic hormones etc) I wonder how we can take that into account. Similar questions are raised when we use our waste as fertilizers. I guess they can also be used as energy sources (heat, biogas and such)

[@DavidChiappini]

My family has been using a septic tank for around 10 years, and what we do is reintegrate the flora with small bags of bacterial spores (you should be able to buy them in hardware stores) thrown in the bathroom or directly in the tank, if the water coming out from the tank starts to smell. My parents have never given much attention to what they throw in the sewage but it never "died", and I think someone more attentive could keep an aquaculture pretty healthy for a long time even with a small amount of soap/detergent and medicines. If you buy/produce biodegradable soap most plants might even like it, especially if it contains phosphates.

[@babymilksnatcher]

That pharmaceutical consumption is a necessary evil though, considering that 1 in 10 people in the United States are disabled or have lifelong health conditions.

[@gatesjon05]

The wastewater requirements in US are now set were the effluent is not killing the fish. Proper effluent control is a huge part of what your local wastewater plant is doing everyday. If they are they are not meeting the law and proper enforcement and oversight is a much easier and efficient solution.

[@michaelcho1201]

Welp time to write ✍ my note 📝

[@coolkidruby3429]

I’m a little exited in the future! We can do this!! Nothing is outright impossible

[@terylmcalaster3443]

💛🌻 thanks for sharing

[@blahdelablah]

With the human waste treatment, another approach is to use composting toilets. It's possible to process urine and faeces locally, turning it into humanure, compost that is safe to use in gardens. If you search for humanure online (including on KZbin) there should be plenty of sources of information about it.

[@soencoda754]

Thanks, I needed it

[@outkast505]

I'm earlyyy for once. I got so excited when I saw the notification! I've been looking forward to this video 🙌🏼