Light pollution is the easiest pollution to fix — so why aren't we doing it? "If we can't do this to simply not waste light... then we will have failed the fundamental test of progress and change i... (www.salon.com)
Planting trees on rooftops? (yt.artemislena.eu)
To Feel Less Heat, We Need More Trees in Our Cities (www.sierraclub.org)
New Sustainable Housing Solution Based on Lakota Tipi (yt.artemislena.eu)
The solarpunk building where I'm working in (slrpnk.net)
I usually work from home, but at the moment I’m working in that zero-energy building. It’s not the most beautiful, but it actually generates more energy than it consumes! There is a small garden on the rooftop with vegetables for employees to pick up and wooden picnic tables. The wooden structure holds solar panels and...
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
What Our Cities Are Missing - Andrewism (yt.artemislena.eu)
Hundertwasser - In the Meadow Hills (hundertwasser.com)
I’m very new to Solarpunk, but Hundertwasser seems to gel very nicely with what I’ve seen of the ethos....
To Fight Heat, Pacoima Started To Test A New ‘Cool Paint’ Last Year. The Results Are Becoming Tangible (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2051579...
Street trees are planted incorrectly in many cities! (inv.vern.cc)
Additionally: 99% of the time they specifically plant non-fruiting trees....
Streetmix is an online tool which you can use to 'design and remix' your own street (streetmix.net)
I thought Alt Urbanism might enjoy this! A fun little tool which I mainly use to redesign annoying junctions that I’ve cycled through. It’s a really good demonstration of just how much space cars take up and how much better things could be if less roadspace was dedicated to cars.
Henri Lefebvre's classic work, *The Right to the City*, an important work in theorizing urbanism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city...
Cars Are A Disaster For Society -- Here Are the Numbers | CityNerd (vid.puffyan.us)
Solarpunk Architects resource file (docs.google.com)
Via Raddle.me
YSK about urbanists.video - A Peertube instance for everyone interested in walkable, livable places. (urbanists.video)
Solarpunk: Post-Industrial Design and Aesthetics (medium.com)
Guerilla Gardeners turn Toxic Soil into Eco-Oasis (yt.artemislena.eu)
The Insane Ways Traffic Engineers Try to Make Streets "Safe" For Walking (CityNerd) (piped.video)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6168675...
Which cities have the most drinking fountains? (citymonitor.ai)
The Uniquely American Epidemic of Traffic Deaths (bettercities.substack.com)
Interesting article with some great linked research and practical solutions to the issue of traffic deaths.
‘It takes bravery to recognize mistakes:’ Ukrainian architects learn from Rotterdam to rebuild their own cities (kyivindependent.com)
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us - Not Just Bikes (yt.artemislena.eu)
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