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#affordability

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Georgiana Brummell
Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2024/11/30/14-year-old-boy-invents-digital-braille-reader-and-wins-3500/

#access #ACB #accessibility #affordability #blind #braille #BrailleDisplays #children #education #employment #independence #India #learning #NFB #ocr #parent #reading #science #school #students #teachers #technology #work #writing
Forbes14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.
#writing
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Georgiana Brummell

Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!

forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton…

Forbes14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.
#access#ACB#accessibility
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Miss Gayle

Communal housing, multi-generational housing, housing for religious communities, intentional community housing, and other forms of collaborative living arrangements are going to be a big part of the future, when corporations buy up more and more housing and make it more and more unaffordable.

Co-housing doesn't have to be rural or involve a lot of farming, either.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

Six Reasons for Communitarian Living Elizabeth Sawin, originally published by Island Press April 9, 2025 Cobb Hill isn’t the only way to find these six things, thank goodness. You’ll find them in smaller groups and larger ones, in cities, in the tropics, on the coast. In this time of transition and reflection in my own family, I hope that knowing they exist in one place might make it easier for you to imagine (or create) them elsewhere, too. Arial Photo of Cobb Hill houses and farm buildings: credit: © Cobb Hill CoHousing 2022 "As disasters become more frequent and politics destabilizes, it feels more important than ever to live connected to other people. People who can be there in an emergency or help make sense of the tumult. But not just people, these specific people... No one knows how to live sustainably and equitably in our current society or how to prepare for coming climate shocks. So we need to learn. And learning is faster with more minds in the mix... In these times when the federal government’s ability to keep the food system safe is faltering, there’s also peace of mind in seeing at least part of the supply chain right outside your door... It’s the capacity to cope. It is, hopefully, the capacity to help each other and offer support to wider circles when surprises come and the pace of change speeds up... I like to think they’ve all taken something with them, a new skill, a lesson in what NOT to do, a belief that dreams can become physical stuff..."
#Sustainability#Housing#Affordability
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Miss Gayle

Oddly, "LGBTQ people might use a public bathroom" is not actually on this list.

Number one? The economy. No big surprise there.

Drug Use (fentynol, etc) - cheeto's excuse for trashing our relationship with Mexico & Canada? Near the bottom.

Immigration? Also near the bottom, far below concerns about Social Security, homelessness & healthcare affordability.

Maybe the coup party should get a clue.

Article Link: sherwood.news/culture/most-ame

Going Concerns: What are Americans' Top Worries? Percent of Americans surveyed that worry about these issues "A great deal" in 2025 Economy 60% Healthcare affordability & availability 59% Inflation 56% Federal Spending / Budget Deficit 56% Social Security 53% Hunger & Homelessness 52% Federal Govt Size & Power 48% Income & Wealth Distribution 48% Crime 47% Quality of the Environment 44% Illegal Immigration 40% Possibility of future US terrorist attacks 40% Drug Use 39% Unemployment 36% Energy availability & affordability 35% Race Relations 33%
#Economy#coup#SocialSecurity
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LM Little

"This will be shocking news to #Canadians who blamed the #carbontax, or #immigrants, or #JustinTrudeau personally, for #inflation and #affordability challenges after the pandemic. It’s no accident that vested interests—from the #oil industry to the Conservative Party—have tried to divert Canadians’ righteous anger toward those scapegoats. They don’t want us to know where the true problem originated. "rabble.ca/economy/fossil-fuels

rabble.ca · Fossil fuels are hurting affordability, not helping itConservatives like to blame a lack of affordability in Canada on the carbon tax, but this is a misdirection from the real cause of rising prices.
#BigOil#NeverVoteConservative#cdnpoli
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Miss Gayle

@petergleick

Yes, and if you have family or friends who live in those areas, you should be prepared to take them in, possibly permanently, b/c govt is not going to help them. Just the opposite: feds & local govts will refuse to build new affordable housing, refuse to forgive unpayable underwater mortgages, deny unemployment, and refuse to guarantee jobs for US climate refugees.

The fact that this is what the Magats voted for won't exempt them, btw.

#ClimateCrisis#Affordability#Housing
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

HAHAHA.... Trump doesn't like that we have cheaper eggs and milk than his “winning" economy?

"Trump used profane language more than once during a heated exchange around dairy that took place on Wednesday."

We'll keep the "socialist" price control boards that we still have. (that weren't sold to the Saudi's by a former Conservative Canadian PM anyway)

Go Suck Eggs Donald!

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Economy #CPC #Farmers #Affordability #USPoli #Trumpcession #Trumponomics

bbc.com/news/live/cy4v0x27jrpt

BBC NewsTrump pauses most Mexico tariffs as Canada pushes for deal - live updatesThe US president had imposed sweeping 25% tariffs on goods coming from Mexico and Canada earlier this week.
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Miss Gayle

One way we *can* have nice things...
resilience.org/stories/2025-02

"Many of the households that could benefit the most from weatherization or energy upgrades like heat pumps and rooftop solar are also those who might not be able to afford it, due to lack of access to credit, loans, or savings that would pay for the upgrades...Taken together, IUIs can result in lower overall bills for customers, more energy-efficient homes, and significantly lower energy usage"

How Inclusive Utility Investments bring the energy transition to rural residents Aaron Fernando, originally published by Shareable February 5, 2025 By expanding the prevalence of IUI programs, and making sure the specifics of these programs are tailored to the benefit of working people, it is possible to effectively tackle both the climate crisis and affordability crisis at once. This article originally appeared on Shareable.net: https://www.shareable.net/how-inclusive-utility-investments-bring-the-energy-transition-to-rural-residents/ Photo credit: Rural Power Coalition and Story of Stuff Project: A line drawn map of the US with states participating in the program colored in black: N Caroline, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, California, and Hawaii (in an inset box). For working people, the imminent need for a clean energy transition might seem like it has to take a backseat because of financial concerns at the household level. Yet, with a relatively simple financing mechanism—one that can be put in place by power utilities anywhere—the opposite can be the case. It is possible to address both affordability and climate crises at once. Programs known as inclusive utility investments (IUIs) make it feasible to accelerate the rate of the energy transition that’s already underway, while ensuring that the most cost-burdened households can benefit from that transition.
#Energy#ClimateCrisis#Affordability
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Miss Gayle

As long as our community is at the "mercy" of big business, we can't survive, much less thrive. We must stop the rape & pillage of our labor & resources. We must bypass their system.

"We must find ways to work together where we can, in our cities & states, communities & bio-regions, to build the kind of future we want. Otherwise we are at the mercy of forces that will overwhelm us."

resilience.org/stories/2025-01

To confront the oligarchy, we need to build power at the community level Patrick Mazza, originally published by The Raven January 24, 2025 If social, economic, ecological & political breakdowns intensify, we will have created strong communities capable of weathering the storms. We cannot know if this will be enough. What we can know is that we will be pursuing the kind of future that leads to a world more in tune with the needs of people & nature. We have to try. Teaser image credit: Community fridge & public bookcase in New York City. By Middleground1 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118122466 The key is gaining control of money through creation of public banking & other community financing tools. These can fund development of cooperative housing, worker coops, local food networks, circular economies, community energy installations, and other alternative economic and social models. The central proposition is to build models that move beyond purely bottom line considerations to serve the needs of people & nature. There are plenty of obstacles... Business interests determined to perpetuate existing power structures, the tendency of...groups to narrowly focus on their own issues & support bases at the expense of broader alignments. But the situations confronting us, promising increasing crises while the institutions of national govt become less effective in dealing with them, indeed helping to create them, will drive us together.
#ReLocalization#Community#PublicBanking
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