Not Your Average Cat Lady

Everybody wants to be a cat. At least I do.My name is Lauren. 21 years old from good ol' Wisco. I'm studying Environmental Science and German and I'm becoming more addicted to coffee by the day.

[nyangalore]

[htxtrinh]

@catrightsactivist

[sacheu-deactivated20200922]

he’s free

[faesoteric]

I watched this so many times just for the expression when he realises the ground is not as close as first thought.

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A Danish landscape architecture firm is using design to build climate resilient infrastructure in Copenhagen.

According to the IPCC, Denmark (among other things) will have to deal with more frequent and heavier rainfalls as a consequence of climate change. In recent years, 2011 and 2014, the city experienced two one-hundred-year floods. A risk assessment done as part of the city’s climate change adaptation plan showed that risk of flooding from storm water is already high and will increase every decade until the early 22nd century.

In its adaptation plan, the city of Copenhagen recognises that updates to its sewerage system will need to factor in the increased runoff volume. However, they also decided to build infrastructure that would disconnect rainwater from the sewerage system and thus take pressure off it.

The architecture firm Tredje Natur (“Third Nature”) was founded in 2012 by Flemming Rafn Thomsen and Ole Schrøder. That same year the firm made headlines for presenting their plans for Copenhagen’s first climate adapted neighbourhood in the Saint Kjeld’s quarter. The project uses water and potential runoff volumes as a defining design element, however, it does not so in a restrictive way. The architects tried to use water to create new urban experiences and how urban spaces are used.

One major feature in Saint Kjeld’s is ‘Tåsinge Plads’. At first sight this unassuming square resembles squares in any other city you might care to name. However here there is more than meets the eye. They key to unlocking its secret? Just add water.

It is only during heavy rainfall that its hidden qualities become apparent. Flowerbeds fill with water and become little ponds, upside-down umbrellas collect rain water which can later be used for irrigation, bicycle paths turn into little water channels – basically, the whole urban landscape changes. And it stays like that for a while by delaying water and relieving the sewerage system. These features, which also include large water storage tanks underneath the surface, help keep basements dry.

[wapiti3]

Collectanea botanica, or, Figures and botanical illustrations of rare and curious exotic plants

By Lindley, John, 1799-1865 

Richard and Arthur Taylor.

Publication info London :Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Shoe-Lane, sold by J. and A. Arch … ,1821-1826.

Contributing Library: Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library

BIODIV LIBRARY

[victoriajoan]

amy lowell, from “lilacs”

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[13daysiniceland]

[artoil]

Fjaðrárgljúfur. South Iceland.

[jennyhoelzer-deactivated2016120]

[thinknorth]

Looking back on old work.. Ursa Minor

[rawmanda]

[urtotallynotpunkrock]

things i like:

reading

learning

things i do not like:

reading for a grade

learning for a grade

so basically school ruins my motivation for things

[woodendreams]

High Tauern National Park, Austria (by Roland Maria Reininger)

[1000drawings]

House in the woods by Becca Stadtlander                

[floralls]

Monet’s house&garden, Giverny, France by  Rick Ligthelm

[teenagershine]

[just-shower-thoughts]

There should be one location for the summer and winter Olympics that all countries competing have to pay for and upkeep. This way countries wont have to spend billions and take huge losses for every new Olympics.

[cknd]

GreenLand Ice Berg

by Daniel Alford

[xmuvatokyo]

Shoutout to the girls with a space between their breast . Shoutout to the girls who have stretch marks on their breasts. Shoutout to the girls with sagging breast. Shoutout to the girls who have big breasts. Shoutout to the A-cup girls. U are all beautiful.

[trufemale420]

There are ppl who don’t have a space between their breasts?

[oud27]

i hate these posts so much lmao

like the implication here is that this stuff is abnormal and non-ideal but don’t worry you still get to be beautiful in spite of that bc… this person says so? you get a shoutout! yay! stop lol

(and ‘space between their breasts’ what? there are two distinct areas of breast tissue, they don’t meet, why are you trying to create even more categories of ‘abnormalities’)