what it comes down to is that he really just loves that rock. that's his guy. seven billion people on earth and none of them were his guy and you know what??? he's in luck because he got shot into space and his guy just happened to be in space also. sometimes life is just beautiful
one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?
i don't think bodily autonomy for minors should be a luck of the draw type thing where you have to cross your fingers that your parents are chill about it.
if a job of some kind is necessary -and though itâs not like being, say, a garbage man, it makes sense for clerks of some kind to continue to exist- then the person doing that job shouldnât make poverty wages. the idea that some jobs are just worth underpaying in general is wrong, because it creates a chronically mistreated and undervalued group of people who are nonetheless keeping society functioning with their work.
With âgreen corridorsâ that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees coole
"With âgreen corridorsâ that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures â and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring â nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate â has found a way to keep its cool.
Previously, MedellĂn had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect â raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sunâs heat for much longer than green infrastructure.
âMedellĂn grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,â says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. âWe built and built and built. There wasnât a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.â
The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the cityâs roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.
These plant and tree-filled spaces â which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city â produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.
Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at MedellĂnâs City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.
âItâs like urban acupuncture,â says Paula Zapata, advisor for MedellĂn at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the worldâs leading mayors. âThe city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.â
At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.
âThe technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,â explains Zapata.
The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in MedellĂn at absorbing PM2.5 pollution â particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease â and surviving in polluted areas due to its âbiochemical and biological mechanisms.â
And the urban planting continues to this day.
The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...
âIâm completely in favor of the corridors,â says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. âIt really improves the quality of life here.â
Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the projectâs possibilities for his own future. âI want to learn more and become better,â he says. âThis gives me the opportunity to advance myself.â
The projectâs wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. MedellĂnâs temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...
In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the cityâs morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]
Thereâs also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back â one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterïŹy.
Other cities are already taking note. BogotĂĄ and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.
âFor sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,â says Zapata."
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