If You’re Gonna Make Something Wheelchair Accessible, Don’t Make It A Thing

If You’re Gonna Make Something Wheelchair Accessible, Don’t Make it a Thing

Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:

Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.

The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.

The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.

Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:

The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.

In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.

I get that it is difficult to design for wheelchair accessibility, but folks need to start considering the overall quality of the experience versus just thinking about meeting the minimum requirements.

Solarpunk Activities for the Socially Anxious

- Read up on the philosophical background(s) of solarpunk. I’ve got a bibliography page if you are looking for more. - Figure out which plants that are indigenous or endangered in your area. Read about their history (and if you can make seed bombs.) - Enjoy Alan Watts lecture on nature - Make a herb drying rack by using string and push pins. You can eat, burn or drink tea from the herbs. - Consider growing food from your scraps - Watch a Ted Talk on Conservation - Draw nature, real or imaginary. Take time to map out fantasy lands. (Think about it as an environmental vision board) - Consider if composting might be right for you - If you have houseplants, learn how to propagate them (or even just take the time to learn more about them…their history, and how best to care for them). If you do want to learn how to propagate, I suggest starting with succulents. They are hardy, fun, and fairly cheap. -Learn how to Talk to Trees with Charis Melina Brown - A National Geographic explainer on how trees talk to each other. - Listen to this amazing, free, nature meditation with Jessica Snow

1K notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago

I haven’t even read any communist stuff my ideology is “share and be nice” like the first two rules of a kindergarten

Tags

solarpunk

110K notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago

About 50 people answered “What does solarpunk mean to you?“ during my first giveaway—both new and familiar to solarpunk—and this is the word cloud of their replies. Reblog to “show don’t tell” what solarpunk is all about.

233 notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago

How To Turn Shoe Pockets Into A Vertical Vegetable Garden

How to Turn Shoe Pockets into a Vertical Vegetable Garden

Tags

how to solarpunk

736 notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago

“Every worm, every insect, every animal is working for the ecological wellbeing of the planet. Only we humans, who claim to be the most intelligent species here, are not doing that.”

—

— Sadhguru (via

nonconformist-vegan

)

Facts.

(via rawveganrawmacita)

6K notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago

Basil, How To Grow More Than You Can Eat - Gardening at 58 North

~~~

Things I learned today #6

You can buy a single basil plant for around $5 or less, and take cuttings forever. Basil is an amazing plant and can be used for a lot of things! Including pesto, which you can make at home with a morter and pestal! (https://youtu.be/6-dOZezSwwM)

Tags

how to solarpunk

117 notes View Post

copperfingertips

6 years ago