As we talk about energy, we need to talk about a decrease in *overall* energy use—especially as so-called AI is a topic of conversation. Moving to renewables alone will not cut it. We also CANNOT afford to count on technology that might, eventually exist (e.g. meaningful carbon capture with some device or facility).
The time to take real action for ourselves was yesterday. Let’s push for it now
#agriculture #building #climate #construction #energy #landUse #transportation
(Edited: hashtags)
New #OpenAccess research in JTLU: “How #bikesharing changed destination distance for its users: A case study of Chicago Metropolitan Area” by Shubhayan Ukil, University of Michigan, and Aditi Misra, University of Colorado, Denver.
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2597
The paper examines the impact of #Divvy shared bike services in the #Chicago metro region on trip distance of its users across all trips from 2008 and 2018, finding an 0.84km reduction in average trip distance among Divvy users when #bikeshare was available.
Recommendations include planning for shared bike services that are integrated with #transit in urban areas and promoting mixed land use so that users can choose proximate destinations in dense urban areas.
In case you could use some joy this morning, a brief clip from the 20th Chiditarod in Chigago:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2xAwsuf/
Because the streets are for people, not mostly-empty cars and trucks
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber,
evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so
and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
After many years of maltreatment by colonists, the Karuk of California may once again burn their land:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/california-karuk-tribe-cultural-burns
This, as European Americans acknowledge that we fucked things up, that native people actually do know better.
@DemonHusky they're allowing six stories by right! :)
While I love cows, we gotta stop breeding so many and let the population come down.
A Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal
ICYMI, car-focused transportation is the opposite of freedom:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2rrqxVb/
It’s amazing once you realize this—how we can move in the direction of making our communities pleasant, satisfying, fun. But some of y’all have Stockholm syndrome
"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.
"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."
https://www.rewildingmag.com/when-golf-courses-go-wild/
#rewilding #ecology #landuse #SolarPunkSunday
"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.
"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."
I have been digging out my old copies of John McPhee's #books, dipping in, remembering what it was like to be a new #geologist, and how it has carried across into #spatial #data, #geomorphology, #geomorphometry, #hydrology, #landcover, #engineeringgeology, #environmentalscience, #landuse, #massmovement and so much more......
This one paragraph reminded me so strongly of that time,, although I cannot of course write as eloquently:
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"I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive. It was a fountain of metaphor—of isostatic adjustments and degraded channels, of angular unconformities and shifting divides, of rootless mountains and bitter lakes..."
#GIS #JohnMcPhee #science #scientificwriting #readingforpleasure #geology #water #landforms #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal
Dearest Fediverse (and apologies for the absence),
my book "Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier" was just recently published in full digital open access. (Print-on-demand and oa epub out soon!)
https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-29/
"Hard Work explores the complexities of natural resource extraction, looking at both large-scale processes and personal human-environment interactions. It combines a political ecology focus on the connection between environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized."
#OpenAccess #anthropology #PoliticalEcology #PapuaNewGuinea #NaturalResources #LandUse #SwiddenHorticulture #logging #OilPalm
Hello Mastodon! Here's my introduction since moving to urbanists.social from mastodon.social:
I make Youtube videos at https://youtube.com/@nathandaven , and often cover urbanist related topics! Most of my videos are #Atlanta based, talking about #housing, #transportation, #landuse, #bikes, etc. I will be porting some posts from over to here shortly!
My most recent video (RIP msplost): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLIFYnIYJKU
IPCC’s land report shows the problem with farming based around oil, not soil #ClimateChange #farming #landuse #IPCC https://theconversation.com/ipccs-land-report-shows-the-problem-with-farming-based-around-oil-not-soil-121643?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
Peaches Spread Across North America Through Indigenous Networks, Radiocarbon Dating And Document Analysis Show
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https://phys.org/news/2024-11-peaches-north-america-indigenous-networks.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52597-8 <-- shared paper
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https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/nov/27/meet-the-peach-that-traveled-the-trail-of-tears/ <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #FirstNation #cultivation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #indigenous #forest #farming #sustenance #foodsecurity #traditional #deliberate #garden #ethnobiology #archaeology #anthropology #biology #forestgarden #transplanting #management #wildplant #biogeography #culture #ethnohistory #peach #peaches #fruit #tree #orchard #introduced #Spanish #indigenised #dates #dating #radiocarbondating #pits #peachpits #chronology #chronological #model #modeling #landmanagement #landuse #practices #socioecology #colonialisation #NorthAmerica #USA
What’s nuts about this development (pun intended!) is that Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell (@MayorOfSeattle on dead bird site) still blames workers who refuse the long traffic commute from neighborhoods or other cities to telework and people who need the housing so denied by this Selig illusion of prosperity, turning to tents on sidewalks. Does Harrell think another Gold Rush is coming? 3/3 ###
#capitalism #goldencalf #realestate #housing #LandUse #Seattle
Those readers know few topics rile my sense of conscience the way capitalism and real estate speculation can. Selig’s ruthless gambler persona persuaded powerful Seattle business oriented politicians and media through zoning and other tax breaks to embrace the promise of commercial development over much needed housing. Now he defaults on $240M loan. It’s gambling and white collars can’t cover the criminality. 1/3 #capitalism #realestate #landuse #sharingeconomy https://www.seattletimes.com/business/developer-martin-selig-defaults-on-240m-debt-as-seattle-office-woes-mount/
Greg Cocks 
