Where do we go from here, Los Angeles?
That is the question of a new hybrid short course from TreePeople I am leading titled Climate Gardening 101.
First class is February 15th
Learn more and apply here: treepeople.org/climate-gardening-101/
Simple technologies are critical to wildfire resilience.
My home doesn't have an HVAC system to cycle and filter the air, so my indoor air quality solution during the LA fire siege is a filter duct taped to a box fan.
Orange sky over Santa Monica this morning
An Altadena adjacent house now up about $5k from its listing 6 months ago
One in the Palisades up almost $10k over last spring
Here's another one the evacuation boundary up 43% over two months
Rent increase yoy of 120%, <$13k to $28k, on this house just a few miles from the Palisades. Los Angeles housing inaffordability is going from ridiculous to only for the global elite overnight.
I am using the diurnal shifts in wind direction to plan outdoor activity for the windows when we are not downwind of the fires. It curently creates 100+ point shifts in AQI between the morning and afternoon.
Smoke from the #EatonFire and #PalisadesFire converging over Santa Monica this morning
Black sky at morning, Earth sailors take warning
Urban wildfire-housing scarcity nexus already in action. This house being offered for rent in Venice, a few miles south of the ##PalisadesFire, raised its asking price by $7k today
The gridlock, abandoned cars, and their impediment to evacuees and first responders will be what makes this a tragedy and what we remember. A case of our car dependence becoming deadly and making a public emergency into a disaster. #PalisadesFire
My first time being able to see a wildfire from my home. Climbed up on the apartment building roof and watched these enormous flames (picture doesn't capture them well) and this surreal sunset. #PalisadesFire
Searching up apartment balcony chicken coops
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How are the computers on wheels handling the snowstorm middle America? Are folks stressed about getting in $50k fender benders?
In a strange twist my corner store is selling eggs at their cost ($10 dozen) but they aren't moving. The cartons are getting soggy.
I'm splitting an egg between two breakfast sandwiches and substituting with avocado to cut expense
Anyone know how long this eggs as luxury good phenonemon will last?
And a truck has to either be actually useful for work needs or be able to communicate a working man or cultural rurality about its driver. Cybertruck accomplishes neither of those.
My main take on the Cybertruck is it is the endpoint on the gradual progression of trucks from a necessary work vehicle to superfluous show pieces.
No one has ever seen a Cybertruck and had any misunderstanding that something was going to get built with it.
After having about a drink a day for over a decade, two years ago, I tried Dry January. I enjoyed the results so much I kept going in February. I haven't looked back and consider cutting alcohol out of my life one of my best choices ever.
Lawns are short-statured grasslands that can store a lot of carbon in the soil.
For example, this rough, sparsely irrigated, C4 grass dominated lawn in a right-of-way, it has organic matter rich surface horizons formed to ~1' deep and the subsoil had OM that had translocated with clay particles.
The new moneyball: savvy analytics can't compete with billionaire hobbyists buying superstar lineups www.nytimes.com/athletic/599...
Increasingly #LandscapeDeath is being sold as a pro-environmental feature under the guise of water conservation
Artificial turf has been growing a well-deserved bad rap. Surprised/not surprised to see Trust for Public Land helping the industry recover its reputation. This stuff is a runaway freight train of a social-environmental nightmare. Grow real grass.
Research is a verb. And the communities we work in respect those whose labor is physical. Seeing us with calluses and boots has done more to open up dialogue than any ideas we may have.
TreePeople gives an annual work boot buying credit for those that need them. My first year, the Research Dept. did not make the cut and I made it a mission to change that. Now we are part of the boot needing crew. My next challenge is getting Research to require it's own serious work pickup truck.
End of an Eras tour. But I wonder if this global phenomenon will live on in landfills and act as a Cesium-137-esque marker in the archeological record of the Anthropocene.
Look at the beautiful manganese lines following the soil root pathways.
This redoximorphic feature indicates repeated short term inundation of the soil.
We found them starting at ~40 cm in urban soils of the lower Los Angeles River watershed