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commentary about aging. NO ONE has everything figured out in their teens or 20s. you still have your whole life ahead of you; just keep going and everything will be okay. happy belated birthday to these guys.

how it feels to tell people that i use tumblr

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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I know that many of us—including myself—are going back to school tomorrow and I just want to say this:

I hope that your first day back to school (either grade school or uni) is a good day. I wish nothing more than for you to be happy and be able to have the best experiences possible. Continue to grow and learn new things at your own pace. No matter how big or small your step is, a step is a step forward. Your growth is important and I greatly admire everything that you’ve accomplished so far. Remember that you can do it. You’ve got this! You are capable.

Make it a great year with great strides and memories. ❤️✨

silver the hedgehog meets some fans

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What Could A Climate Corps Do? Part 2

Living Machines: Turning Wastewater Into Life

Living machines are essentially intensive, indoor artificial wetlands. Technical names for living machines include "advanced ecologically engineered systems" and "fixed-film ecology wastewater treatment systems." What they entail is mimicking natural processes of biological decomposition in a constructed aquatic environment. Simply put: dirty water goes in, passes through a series of self-contained aquatic ecosystems, and clean water comes out. The water is, in fact, so clean that it can be safely discharged into sensitive aquatic environments, like natural wetlands. And it does all of this without any of the usual chemical treatments or high-energy inputs of conventional wastewater treatment. Living machines produce such safe effluent because they achieve what is known as "tertiary treatment," meaning they successfully abate pollutants. How does a biological system do this? Simple: it uses them as inputs. Let me explain. The most common such pollutants are nitrogen and phosphorous. These happen to be the two nutrients whose out-of-whack flows have pushed us past a key planetary boundary. The biggest reason for this is industrial agriculture: it relies on synthetic nitrogen and mined phosphorous to exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystems in which it operates. One of the big problems with industrial agriculture is that a great deal of the nitrogen and phosphorous applied isn't actually utilized by the food being produced: most of it runs off into waterways. This leads to far-reaching, ecologically catastrophic events ("eutrophication"). By constructing a complete food chain within the living machine, each step creates the food for the next step. Excess nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorous, feed microorganisms which are then consumed by larger creatures and so on up the food chain, until we are left with harmless components and a great deal of life. The living machine converts pollution into biodiversity and clean water, instead of run-off and eutrophication. It's a prime example of true "regeneration."

back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end