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)
It's the cars 🚗 (lemmy.world)
Source: seattle.gov/…/2020_GHG_Inventory_Oct_2022.pdf
Planting trees on rooftops? (yt.artemislena.eu)
Donating items to Food Banks and Little Free Pantries that people use most
Source: twitter.com/justfara/status/1716635421302497725...
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)
Getting bike lanes built quickly and cheaply (youtu.be)
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...
What Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors (youtu.be)
Not sure I completely agree with their takeaways but I thought this was an interesting case study on the unintended consequences of housing policies designed to encourage home ownership.
Are We Witnessing the END of the Car? (youtu.be)
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
Cincinnati was once one of the largest and densest cities in the country—before highways and sprawl tore it apart. I made a video about how it can get back on the right track - literally 🚋! (urbanists.video)
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....
The Lively Neighborhoods That Can't Be Built in the US (youtu.be)
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....
Pothole mosaics — a somewhat common form of city art, where the artist fills small cracks with colourful tiles. Photo from Marseille (media.kbin.social)
I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)
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