Beetle party on this wild Rosa species. Mating and getting covered in pollen in the process! Plant-insect interactions are so cool.#beetles #rosa #iamabotanist #mating #NaturePhotography #naturelovers pic.twitter.com/qyCoOB9MNw
— Dr. Cassandra Quave (@QuaveEthnobot) June 7, 2018
As Lyme goes global, a new book sees it as ‘first epidemic of climate change’. I check myself at least twice a day, as well as spraying my ankles w/insecticide before going out. https://t.co/6TYSXuHmOj
— Grass Creek Farm (@GreenRoofGrower) June 9, 2018
Fire prevention … goat browsing #goatsquad #citygoats #urbanagriculture @ucanr @ucdavisvetmed @UCUrbanAg pic.twitter.com/98Noy6XipG
— Alda Pires (@piresalda1) June 9, 2018
First time I’ve seen a canoe being towed on the downtown #yeg bike grid. #yegbike pic.twitter.com/QcemoJhr2M
— Damian Rogers (@abcrimlaw) June 7, 2018
Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to love them back? https://t.co/A7mrxmd5tn pic.twitter.com/bJ7EleD3ef
— Timber Press (@timberpress) June 9, 2018
On building your dream (floating) home-studio, the Dutch way: https://t.co/vBozflpUr1
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 9, 2018
Returning a Town’s Perennial Border to Lawn? | Garden Rant https://t.co/qIk3vCBIxK
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 9, 2018
Now, we consider Burbank’s ‘Santa Rosa’ plum an heirloom fruit…112 years later! https://t.co/a1zkd9w0zR
— Fruit Cornucopia (@ValenzuelaJohn) June 8, 2018
Cilantro is one of our favorite crops to succession sow. Start a row in your garden every couple of weeks so you have a constant supply. Plant some this weekend! pic.twitter.com/MbbEacOH2k
— The Works Seattle (@theworksseattle) June 8, 2018
LAPD Announces Arrests in Hit-and-Runs that Killed Frederick Frazier and Injured Quatrell Stallings https://t.co/oZBTRwQQen via @StreetsblogLA
— sahra (@sahrasulaiman) June 8, 2018
This commitment does not mention
Walking♀️
Bike lanes
Denser housing
Building near transit
Trees https://t.co/wRgHFi3t15— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) June 8, 2018
If you don’t have time to read the full 70-page UCLA study, then watch this short video on why transit ridership has declined and what can be done about it https://t.co/09uPpcyDCK
— StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) June 7, 2018
Beautiful gardens in the back of Japanese mini pickup trucks https://t.co/Euw432jyF4
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 7, 2018
At the peak of its technological advancement, human civilization became enthralled with a form of machinery known as the “car.” In order to make space for these deadly, highly inefficient machines, large portions of human cities were replaced with uninhabitable concrete barrens. pic.twitter.com/t178MD8GN0
— Nick (@WallaNWalla) June 5, 2018
In essence, if Uber/Lyft trips are replacing either transit or single-passenger auto trips, they’re increasing total vehicle miles travelled. A good explanation for why many cities are seeing increasing traffic without much increased population. https://t.co/srPsR3kroO
— Yonah Freemark (@yfreemark) June 6, 2018
The Dutch are famous for re-orienting their larger cities around bicycle transportation since the 1970s. What’s less known is that some of their newer suburbs have never been auto-oriented.
Instead, they were built with bicycling in mind from day one.https://t.co/q9RBaD0CgM pic.twitter.com/hR7ZuKbEKt
— Modacity (@modacitylife) June 6, 2018
When you live in a city that’s congested with traffic and plagued with pedestrian and cyclist deaths, where a second of driver inconvenience outweighs the collective good of a loaded streetcar, it’s hard to argue for the value of a single person in a car. https://t.co/PcElCHYRP9
— jennifer keesmaat (@jen_keesmaat) June 3, 2018
One year ago today
LA’s progress to become a safe place for vulnerable road users has been stalled and the tech moguls who catalyzed the pushback are invisible now that their financial interests have been protected
I wonder if Chirs & @peterpham realize what they put in motion https://t.co/Hr1XOP2IzJ
— Peter Flax (@Pflax1) June 2, 2018
NYDOT put their foot down about the queens blvd bike lane. Why can’t @MayorOfLA do the same for all the cancelled or reversed road diets in LA?https://t.co/ypSzlu7iaq
— Andrew Winkler (@realAWinkler) June 2, 2018
How Bad for the Planet Are Your Building Materials? https://t.co/HABvugg7kk pic.twitter.com/9aF4DkrRri
— Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 5, 2018
Delicious crunchy spicy tender pods of Burmese… https://t.co/oX6lQXVyNd
— Sandor Katz (@sandorkraut) June 3, 2018
Amazing visit to a place called Chysauster Ancient Village in Cornwall today, “a Romano-British village of courtyard houses,” nearly 2,000 years old. https://t.co/z6SsYbk5Ly pic.twitter.com/FwpgvaMzHB
— Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) June 3, 2018
My wife Sharon’s first op-ed, on food waste. She’s @naturegrrrrl
Food was our 2nd largest source of GHG emissions. So we became vegetarian, and started growing food, composting, and eating from the waste stream as much as we can. https://t.co/pRtNoomUCj
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) June 3, 2018
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Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry. The jewelry of the Wiener Werkstätte blurs the lines between gorgeous ornament and miniature sculpture. The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, was founded in 1903. The firm’s artistic cofounders, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, subscribed to the English Arts and Crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and executed by specialized craftsmen. Following the example of near contemporaries René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany, Hoffmann and Moser shared the belief that jewelry should be valued for its artistic merit and not simply for its monetary value.
You put together a really fabulous collections of links this weekend. I kept sharing them with friends while reading, especially the Japanese truck bed gardens. They’re like something from a gentler, more beautiful alternate reality.
Thank you!
So, I think the argument by AutonomousLaw is incorrect. There’s many people, such as myself, who can, by using TNCs, keep a car lite lifestyle where they would otherwise have to own a car or not own a car. By using Lyft, I can do most of my trips by bike, and the take Lyft when I need to go further. This is in fact what I do. And a few times, when I have been injured or sick, I take Lyft to work, but most of the time I bike.
This means I can choose a low driving lifestyle, lose the car, and save a bunch of money. In the process, I add a barrier to driving = not owning a car. And every time I do use Lyft, I see clearly the cost of my transportation. So it clarifies and aligns incentives in such a way that I am much more choosy about how often I use a car to get places.
(to be fair, my SO has a car and I use it for grocery trips and to get to trailheads, but the premise still holds = my mileage is less than it would be if I was paying a bunch of money each month to keep a car)