Join #BikeLoudPDX, #StrongTowns, #Depave, CCC, and #SunrisePDX for a group ride with #Portland city officials and #transportation planners

7pm from Ankeny Rainbow Plaza (at SE 28th) #pdxBikes #BikeFun #ClimateAction #pdx #urbanism

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tihggv2lcgqpw5fu4ilri5cq/post/3lupgrfnq3k26

https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-22043

Despavimentar no es solo un acto de rebeldía sino una acción ciudadana cargada de sensatez ante el cambio climático. Las ciudades necesitan un urbanismo centrado en el bienestar humano ante los nuevos escenarios climáticos. Y la gente lo sabe

#depave #despavimentar #lasaluddelahumanidad #cambioclimatico #ciudades

https://youtu.be/BheaLJlgEzA?si=iPswYpJCaCS3p-Bq

The Depave initiative aims to help depressed urban communities adapt to climate change by converting paved surfaces into green spaces #depave

https://www.depave.org/

Enquanto em Portugal se continua a pavimentar e impermeabilizar tudo: cidades, estradas, parques de estacionamento, praças... um movimento mais à frente está já a despavimentar! Despavimentar significa mais solo permeável, mais espaços verdes, mais biodiversidade, melhor ambiente, menos calor, menos probabilidade de inundações, mais resiliência das cidades, e o material pode ser reaproveitado! Veja o vídeo de Sam Bentley

#depave #despavimentar #sustent_accao

https://sustentabilidadeeaccao.blogspot.com/2024/08/despavimentar.html

Roads to deforestation

"A Brazilian judge...issued an injunction to stop the paving of a highway through the center of the Amazon rainforest, amid fears the roadway would boost deforestation and further drive climate change."

"Paving the road would allow illegal loggers and land grabbers to more easily access remote and relatively untouched areas of the world's largest rainforest, environmental experts said. Deforestation is the largest source of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions that help to drive climate change."
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/brazil-judge-blocks-paving-highway-through-heart-amazon-rainforest-2024-07-25/

The roads driving Amazon deforestation
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/BRAZIL-ENVIRONMENT-
HIGHWAYS/0100B2DS1JV/index.html

#Roads #roadUpgrades #deforestation #BellingenLogging #NSWlogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #roadkill #koalas #GlenifferRoad #cement#ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis #DePave

Gleniffer road widened with a lot of cement to entice vehicle to go faster and logging machinery to push further in to the bush of Tuckers Nob SF

We are reframing ecosystems as infrastructure

"Living landscapes are a form of infrastructure in the sense that forests, for example, clean our water and our air."

"...It is not enough simply to restore natural systems to their former condition. “There is no ‘pure nature’ that’s outside of us, untouched up there in the foothills somewhere...We’ve ‘made’ the world what it is already, so now we need to take a very, very strong hand in the remaking. … A big part of climate adaptation may simply be unbuilding what we’ve already built.”

"A big part of climate adaptation may simply be unbuilding what we’ve already built. Rather than thinking of design as something merely additive or “beautifying,” we need to think about undoing our environmental mistakes, like damming rivers, bulkheading our shorelines, and concretizing streams. We need to start making room for rivers and floods."

"What we are trying to do is integrate many local projects into a larger-scale systemic approach, into a larger-scale resilience plan."
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/kate-orff-interview
#extinction #biodiversity #nature #restore #depave #RegenerativeDesign #MobilityDesign #ReFraming #beautification #rivers #floods #NativeForests #transition #resilience #ClimateEmergency

"Asphalt contributes to the urban heat island effect and makes places more prone to flooding."

I keep saying it: #depave parking lanes on streets and plant trees and gardens there. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/these-cities-are-depaving-for-a-cooler-future-removing-asphalt

💨 When you sell a car (even for an EV), your gas car gets re-sold and keeps on polluting and emitting.

🛞 Tires are the worst form of car pollution. They shed microplastics and toxins every day — which kill everything.

The only way to end the problems of cars, is to end cars.

Boost on Twitter too, so people know:

https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1696560829586461143

#Depave #WarOnCars #CarFree #TacticalUrbanism #Urbanism #Bikes #Transit #Housing #Plastic #Microplastics #Pollution #FuckCars #StrongTowns #Planning #UrbanDesign #Policy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Climate

Story here — feel free to comment on it (or continue it) at the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oktfLapDz4nZr5Ri3ve6gutnCGk5x_vsaCodVVkxjA/edit?usp=sharing

#Depave #WarOnCars #CarFree #TacticalUrbanism #Urbanism #Bikes #Transit #Housing #Plastic #Microplastics #Pollution #Suburbia #Roads #Writing #ShortStory #Screenplay #Script #Fiction #CreativeWriting #SpeculativeFiction #Solarpunk #FuckCars #StrongTowns #Planning #UrbanDesign #Policy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Climate