Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌳🚇🚌🚲🚶♀️🌆
What better way to celebrate than to take transit, ride a bike / mobility device, or go on a stroll
Not sure about your local transit options? For MoCo folks, these can help!
rideon.app/directions
www.wmata.com/schedules/tr...
Or my personal fave:
transitapp.com
The feelings seem to be a mix of performance (how plasters regulate humidity) & evolutionary (we're draw to nature). There's lots to learn to promote better living, working environments. Everyone can incorporate biophilic design (natural light, plants, wood/stone, etc)
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Workers are exposed to even higher levels due to number of hours & intensity of use. Occupational health is a primary driver in eliminating gas for cooking & roasting in our new facility
business opportunity, rural, urban, we need these factories everywhere to replace the fossil, linear, synthetic construction materials. Biobased, agricultural byproducts are the PV panels, wind power and the bicycle of the construction transition.
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'A turtle makes tracks on a beach after burying its eggs in the sand in June 2021 in the Ras Al Hadd Turtle Reserve in Oman. About 10,000 green turtles make the trip on this beach every year' (Haitham Al Farsi/Solent News/Shutterstock)
The Strait of Hormuz + surrounding seas are critical ecologically as well as politically.
Coral reefs, whale sharks, dolphins, endangered Arabian humpback whales, seagrass meadows supporting dugons, islands harbouring green turtles - just some of the creatures + ecosystems in + near the Strait.
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #ShakespeareSunday #HopeBudget #ActionBias
Amazing that the fairtrade sticker is recognizable
It's paradoxical. The more years of textbook training the further we get from the people who built the homes & businesses of our great great grandparents. We actually need to go backwards to go forwards & that's a different training than people are getting today
Wonderful photo w/ beautiful, rich color
🫶 His legacy is a reminder that kindness & compassion exists to be shared. Knowing you lost a companion animal around when we did, your message means even more ❤️
Can't even imagine the structural engineers & code people today looking at this, nor the 3rd party inspectors. We've got examples of incredibly well built structures of 100, 200, 500 years, but would rather a system that engenders worse outcomes for people & planet for higher cost that won't last
The trees! 💚
Definitely. In a systems or holistic view it's all interconnected & we'd do better not to silo these but seek co-dev
We can build fast electric rail between nearby city centers. We can insulate and seal our buildings. We can eat how doctors recommend for our health and longevity; that, plus reducing food waste, can cut the (fossil-fueled) fertilizer/energy/pollution intensity of agriculture by ~half.
The solutions aren't just buying electric widgets. We can also shift from car-dependent sprawl to attached housing in dense multi-use neighborhoods with frequent public transit and protected active transit. This can reduce energy demand by >half while improving convenience and public health.
Right. Much better to preserve open land for rewilding than solar if choosing one course. The car parks are already paved & the already degraded space is better utilized in that scenario
“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective
Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.
Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth
Post the best photo you have ever taken of your pet.
The best 📸 of the best alley cat rescue, now living his best life in the 🌟
Can you hear forest recovery? In Costa Rica, scientists analyzed 16,000 hours of audio to measure the success of payments for ecosystem services.
The data shows that naturally regenerated forests now sound more like protected primary forests than pastures, signaling a true return of biodiversity.
Short term almighty dollar though, right? In no world can one argue that this is the best optimized cost-benefit for any longer term scale (and even that is being quite generous as we see the impacts from climate change every day)
Eventually we will come to realize that carbon-free electricity needs to be built and maintained as a public good. Markets have been far too slow to decarbonize grids. Major structural barriers remain and may even get worse just when we need to accelerate faster.
Cannot argue that we are governed by people not using the best available information or decision making frameworks & the harms are catastrophic for humans, other animals & plants alike
The idea that doing nothing would be less costly is wild work. Cleaning up the environment is ~always more expensive than preventing damage. Worse, some damage can't be fixed -- see recent stories about whale starvation deaths on the west coast. There isn't always even a fix money can buy
The way you captured the sun shining through the trees evokes a serenity we could use more of
Today is the last day to #vote early on redistricting in Virginia #planyourvote #participateindemocracy
It's wild to think about how many cities made it possible to open a laundry, restaurant, shoe repair in the first floor of your residence & how far away from that we are now. ACUs would allow more sb to test the market & evolve w/ lower failure risk than the 10k/mo rental option in the strip mall
Finding space to open a sb venture is very tricky in many cities due to this point exactly. If the only option is for rent by a handful of corporations in 5/1 developments vs small commercial incl accessory commercial units that are better scaled & walkable, there are more chains & less one-offs
After 100 years of copper mining, parts of Tasmania’s King River are "biologically dead."
As the demand for minerals for EVs and AI surges, these rivers serve as a stark warning: the cost of mining lasts centuries.
@slovgren.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Such a cheerful piece! The color, texture & native coneflowers
It's a bit of magic with every find