I use mine during work hours, right before bed, and toilet time. After that I sometimes forget where it is. I don't take it with me into places like movies, restaurants, ball games, etc...
Yeah I was wondering about the weeds myself. He’s got a great climate for growing trees granted, and it seems like he selected his site and species thoughtfully. So I accept that irrigation wasn’t necessary even though nothing grows in my area without that. But in most areas the weeds will swallow anything unless controlled. I’m surprised he didn’t have a bigger issue with that.
Yeah I agree with all that, I just expected way worse outcome with just popping the trees in the ground in a rushed manner and then leaving for 2 years. In my area you would be lucky if a single tree made it from that. I’ve seen sites have much lower survival even with considerable follow up care.
At my old org we usually saw about 70-80% survival after two years with some level of care. Admittedly that’s in an urban area where a lot more things can go wrong, and most of the tree care was done by poorly trained property owners, so not exactly comparable to your type of project.
At least in my area precipitation is not predictable enough to rely on that way. We try to time our plantings with the rainy season but predicting which year will be wetter if dryer than average is more or less impossible. Last year was expected to be dry but it was very wet. This year is projected to be wet but so far has been dry. Long range models aren’t good enough to stake your project success on.
Plus, as you say, it would be difficult to maintain professional staff around working only once every few years. Such a system would be totally lacking in expertise and would also create much inferior working conditions. If the rains don’t come, you need to irrigate more. That’s just how it is and I don’t see a way around it.
I’m not sure I understand the breakdown of numbers there. Are you counting replants in your survival there? I would not include those because they are of a different age cohort unless planted shortly after the original trees. My number doesn’t include replacements.
Regardless of your feelings on the conflict, blocking freeways is beneficial even if done for no reason at all. Urban highways were a mistake and never should have been built. Every minute they continue normal operation is a minute they continue destroying our neighborhoods, poisoning the innocent and vulnerable who live nearby, and destroying the future for our descendants.
So I commend these activists and hope we see more of this.
This assumes the same number of people will use them, just more slowly. But this is quite obviously false if you think it through. If the highway is so backed up you can’t get onto it then you won’t use it, will you? I would be fairly confident that this more than offsets the idling engines. Covid was a big eye opener in realizing how much traffic actually protects us from the real dangers of unfettered high speed traffic.
This individual protest may only have a small effect but it seems we’re seeing more of these as time goes on, and the more often they happen, the bigger the impact.
Based on the species, I’m assuming this is coastal Southern Australia. That is a pretty mild and excellent climate for trees, so that might have been a factor. In my area (California) you will have much higher mortality if there is no care after planting.
Sounds like he was thoughtful about the specifies and site selection. If you are careful about those things, the trees can get by with less care. The worst projects that see total failure are poor species planted poorly at poor sites with poor care.
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.
Basically Rotterdam banned investors from owning housing in certain neighborhoods but not others. This allowed for a comparison on the effects of the ban.
In short, the ban did not decrease prices for homeowners but it did reduce the availability of rental properties which had negative impacts on poorer residents, young people, and immigrants. They conclude that the ban led to gentrification and a better policy would be to expand the production of housing, especially affordable housing.
I noticed during the pandemic that when healthy my body temperature is usually from about 95-97 degrees. So all those times before when I felt like shit and measured myself at a “normal” 98-99 I was probably not fine actually.
I am so so divided on if I should vote for biden or not. I wanna vote third party to at least do something or should I just stay home and protest and advocate where I can? Thoughts?
Democracy isn’t black and white. It exists along a continuum. Voters in the US do have some influence on policy outcomes, albeit less than they might in a more democratic system.
Well if your income increased more than inflation you might be fine. For my family this was the case and we have a fixed income mortgage as well so our expenses as a whole have gone up a lot less than inflation. I think this is true for a substantial minority of people.
Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk with three felonies and other counts for allegedly shredding and otherwise mishandling ballots from the 2020 and 2022 elections....
A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata....
If you want to reach your audience, you have to be on a platform they use. Despite loss of users, Twitter still has a much larger audience than alternatives. This remains a problem for people seeking alternatives. In my view the best approach is to use both and promote the less popular but better platform on the bad one. But this takes knowledge of what alternatives exist, willingness to learn them, and of course extra time.
Probably a status symbol to some extent. And some people are so rich they will spend a lot more for very slight, incremental improvements. For them, the difference between $5k and $15k might be more like $5 and $15 for an average person.
I don’t think they will grow in caves either—just buried in the soil, typically beneath certain types of trees that they are symbiotic with. Usually you need a dog or pig that can smell where they are to harvest them. Very difficult to find as a smell impaired human without some extra help.
The removal of senescing trees or those which pose a genuine risk to health or property is part of professional urban tree management. However, there are many requests for tree removals that are not based on a genuine likelihood of injury or property damage, but rather on an unfounded fear of what might happen or where the tree...
Yeah unfortunately I’ve seen a lot of good people go through a similar process of trying to resist a bad system for as long as they can but ultimately having to leave. And then they get replaced with someone who just goes for the path of least resistance. I don’t blame anyone for this—there comes a point when you just need to do what’s best for you and I’ve avoided even working at my local municipality because I’ve heard it’s a bad department but this is how large organizations come to be filled with such mediocre people.
US moves to protect old growth forests as climate change threatens their survival (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9751948...
Saving the American chestnut: A story of renewal, regrowth and hope | Salon (www.salon.com)
How addicted are you to your phone? (kbin.social)
I use mine during work hours, right before bed, and toilet time. After that I sometimes forget where it is. I don't take it with me into places like movies, restaurants, ball games, etc...
I planted a forest two years ago, let's see how it turned out | Beau Miles (vid.puffyan.us)
Protesters Shut Down Los Angeles Highway to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza (truthout.org)
No more business as usual," the organization leading the protest said on social media....
Does anyone else resent the links to Reddit?
I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit....
What's your favorite quote from a Studio Ghibli movie?
Planting a small forest in 24 hours (1440 trees) | Beau Miles (vid.puffyan.us)
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations (www.wired.com)
TC on open source evangelists (lemmy.ml)
[email protected] - Oh my gosh I just figured it out....
[OC] Deep in the Western Rockies (i.imgur.com)
Forest Defense Is About More Than The Trees. It’s About Our Collective Future. (truthout.org)
Man Keeps Rock For Years Thinking It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable. (www.sciencealert.com)
There's Over 4000 Giant Oaks in this Forest - heres why (youtu.be)
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.
Air Cleaners Don’t Stop You Getting Sick, Research Shows (www.uea.ac.uk)
Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia....
US Escalates Essequibo Dispute by Militarizing Guyana (orinocotribune.com)
California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8446901...
People that don’t wear antiperspirant…
do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?...
The BEST time to plant a native tree! (yt.artemislena.eu)
Acorn by acorn, volunteers gather seeds to help save forests (www.washingtonpost.com)
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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)
visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforesta…
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OPINION: A timber town calls out the state’s climate credit double standard (www.adn.com)
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Has there been a horror movie scene where the killer jams an electronic meat thermometer into somebody and the camera zooms in on the readout and it's 98.6? Because I think this would be a natural.
Electorialism (tempted to vote biden) (slrpnk.net)
I am so so divided on if I should vote for biden or not. I wanna vote third party to at least do something or should I just stay home and protest and advocate where I can? Thoughts?
Ohio voters enshrine abortion access in constitution in latest statewide win for reproductive rights (apnews.com)
A staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19 (finance.yahoo.com)
Ex-Utah county clerk accused of shredding, mishandling 2020 and 2022 ballots (abcnews.go.com)
Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk with three felonies and other counts for allegedly shredding and otherwise mishandling ballots from the 2020 and 2022 elections....
San Jose officer fired after sending racially biased, ‘disgusting’ messages, police say (www.cnn.com)
A San Jose, California, police officer is “no longer employed” with the police department after sending a series of racially biased, “disgusting” messages, according to a news release from San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata....
Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter (mashable.com)
Hey, Stephen, I love you and all but really? Just join us over on Mastodon instead of sticking with the fascists.
Israel managed to kill a comparable number of civilians in just 25 days as have died in the war in Ukraine in 563 days (lemmy.ml)
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The dream 🚲 (jlai.lu)
These aren't truffles, are they? (yiffit.net)
Another one nearby:...
Defending and Expanding the Urban Forest: Opposing unnecessary tree removal requests (treenet.org)
The removal of senescing trees or those which pose a genuine risk to health or property is part of professional urban tree management. However, there are many requests for tree removals that are not based on a genuine likelihood of injury or property damage, but rather on an unfounded fear of what might happen or where the tree...