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This is actually a really interesting type of water retention that long grass does that I've never thought about before!
You can see how much slower the snow on the long grass is melting, which creates a slower percolation of water into the ground!
It's amazing what a difference vegetation can make for communities that struggle with drought conditions!
I'm vibrating at the thought of getting to see what Essek was up to before he met the Nein!!
HELLO HELLO HELLO
Yes I know it’s been a few weeks I’m working three jobs to make ends meet so time has no meaning and also bi!Buck is canon so I’ve been insane.
For anyone reading this post when I’ve reblogged it onto my main: HELLO NEW FOLLOWERS. YOU ALL TERRIFY ME. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF YOU. It’s me, Mads aka @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels, and this is my author blog! Ta da!
I’ve been sharing my original fantasy murder mystery on Ao3, one chapter a week, and we’re almost at the end! So that’s what this is. Come and read about Matthias, a guard captain trying to solve a murder, who may or may not be based on my experiences in customer service. You can’t prove anything.
Bonus smut chapters, world building info, and more can be found on my Patreon. Yes! I have a Patreon! I hate talking about it because I hate talking about myself! It’s been sadly inactive since January because again: three jobs. making ends meet. etc. But in theory this is where I share chapters of my original novels as they’re written, bonus information, oh and also pictures of my cats.
I added a $3 a month option if you really like my fanfic, don’t care about my original work, and want to help me not work three jobs, since it’s hard to find time for a free hobby when you are. y’know. working yourself to death. I will note that being a patreon member you do NOT ever get exclusive or early-access fanfic. I firmly believe in fanfiction being free and for all, also the idea of getting sued makes me cry, so if you sign up for $3 you get my eternal gratitude and the knowledge that you’re helping me feed my cats and also myself.
I would really like to get back to working on my original novels, it’s just difficult when it requires frankly more brainpower than fanfiction (this is not an insult to fanfiction, it’s just easier for me personally to work with pre-existing characters and events), and fanfiction gives me instant gratification from everyone’s lovely responses, while original work is doing a lot of work in a vacuum. I also have editors to pay, and taxes on any money I make, and organizing releases… it’s a lot of scary work, in other words. But I do want to have the time and energy to get back to it. My plan is in June, when 911′s season is finished.
In the meantime I will still try and finish my planned fanfics by June so that YOU all are happy (yay! so much fic!) and I can work on my novels without feeling insanely guilty. XD
ANYWAY THAT’S A LOT OF TEXT HERE YOU GO THE FIVE PEOPLE AND A CAT READING THIS ORIGINAL NOVEL. YOU’VE ALL WAITED SO PATIENTLY FOR THIS.
TO THE NEW PEOPLE, PLEASE DO COME JOIN ME IN A DRAGON-FILLED FANTASY VENICE WITH A BUNCH OF MURDEROUS WOMEN AND ONE MAN JUST TRYING TO GO ON A DATE WITH A CUTE BOY! WOOHOO!
"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.
Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — 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 sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.
“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”
Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.
The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s 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 — 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 — 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 Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.
“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”
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.
“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” 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 Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”
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...
“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”
Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”
The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s 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 city’s 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.]
There’s 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 — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.
Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.
“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."
-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024
oh so when other people say "eat the rich" it's a rallying cry for the working class, but when i, sweeney todd,
i stopped the dental technician while he was applying fluoride to ask what the fuck the flavour was supposed to be. And he was like oh I was wondering that too. It says it's walterberry.
i love laying the FUCK down and sleeping
I feel like there's two levels of chronically online. There's like, the variety where you recognize obscure memes and stupid drama and post constantly but have some sort of tether to reality and have friends in the real world and read the news from time to time, and then there's the kind where you genuinely don't realize that your political position or feelings about popular media are not just non-mainstream but actively fringe and that it's not emotional labor to pick people up from the airport.
popular "average monkey learns one new thing a day" statistic incorrect. Curious Georg,
songs used to have a bridge and a third chorus
let’s get you to bed grandma
every time i think, i take 10 damage
And every time we kiss I swear I could fly
i cannot believe fcg died and the very next episode, robbie daymond returned to the table as dorian storm, confirming that dorian has been upset since leaving the bells, that he's unsettled in the realization that he's missing something, something he ran from, something that he didn't have but that he wanted, and wondering why he's with the crown keepers at all.
and i cannot believe the bells hells disappeared on orym's message to dorian:
“We’re home. Can you hear me? Northeast of Bassuras... Can you get there? I’m struggling... sorry… can you get here? Fuck, I miss you.”
which means that (so long as dorian survives this trek), we'll get to see his response to that message, and hear his reply, but more importantly: orym will hear his voice for the first time since episode 41.
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