Pages Tagged “climate”
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- Prioritizing Trees vs Urban Heat
Combining data on current urban tree cover, heat, health, income, energy sources and more to determine where planting new trees would most help.
- Doom and Gloom are Not Enough
Doom and gloom alone aren’t enough to help us deal with climate change, or any of the other problems we face. Fear sustained turns to despair, and to inaction – because why bother? We have to celebrate successes to keep hope alive so we can keep going. We do need to know what we’re up […]
- Trees vs. Heat
Just walking around the neighborhood near work there’s a huge difference in temperature depending on: How many shade trees? (Palms don’t help) How much space between the sidewalk and buildings? (This affects both airflow and reflected sunlight.) Is that space paved or plants? Within the same block it can be… Comfortable along a stretch with […]
- Earth Day Thoughts
Protecting the environment isn’t just about saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves. It’s about being responsible custodians of nature not just for its own sake (though that’s important too), but so we can keep relying on it…instead of sucking the life out of everything we can like there’s no tomorrow, leaving a world that’s […]
- Recent Links: Geography, Internet and Comics
Live wind patterns, historical travel times, reliability of social networking, the importance of web page weight, emergency gadget power, UNIX Daemons and Seurat’s Justice League.
- Fall in SoCal
Fall in Southern California = checking the weather report daily to decide between shorts or a heavy jacket.
- June Gloom! Extended Tour!
Yes, coastal Southern California normally has morning cloud cover into early summer. We had morning fog in San Diego and gloomy skies north of La Jolla.
- Yes, it does rain in L.A.
An intense deluge woke us up briefly around 5:00 this morning. I think I was awake enough to say “Damn!” and fall back asleep. It reminded me of something that’s been bugging me. I looked through the first few pages of Otherworld #2 in the comic store yesterday. As at the end of the first […]