#Spooky season &what it does for us:

👻Every door creaks, every picture has eyes that follow you, every call is coming from inside the house.

👀Night falls, mist swirls, dry leaves – or footsteps? – whisper along every path.

🦇Bats fly out of the old house at the edge of town, and surely phantom hitchhikers wait…

https://deftspacelab.com/spooky-hollows-fear-and-protecting-nature/

Special guest appearance: Split Rock in #Syracuse and #Chernobyl

#nature #rewilding #30wildpod #DesignByDeficit #sustainability #halloween #ecosystem

Spooky Hollows: Fear and Protecting Nature | DeftSpace

...use of spaces after dark – lighting, security, visibility
15) Capitalize on vacant lots and other overgrown urban wilds to create more green space and cooling vegetation. I wrote Design by Deficit about this so of course I left it til last #DesignByDeficit

I’m a landscape architect and sustainability expert, but everyone can do something!

👻 🎃 It's the season for stories about places we fear, sites of hauntings, tragedies, mysteries, or monsters.

We might be drawn to these places - or we might stay away at all costs.

"Staying away" can create an oasis for resurgent nature. Like Chernobyl, but also unsung places closer to home.

A new way to think about your town's haunted house and places that frightened you as as child.

More: https://deftspacelab.com/spooky-hollows-fear-and-protecting-nature/

#nature #halloween #ecology #DesignByDeficit #spooky #rewilding

Spooky Hollows: Fear and Protecting Nature | DeftSpace

Dept of Energy installing rooftop solar in poorest and most isolated parts of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
What a contrast to throwing them a roll of paper towels, huh? 🍊

After Hurricane Maria in 2017, there was a lot of talk about rebuilding the shredded island grid as microgrids powered by solar, which would be able to run independently (cont.)

#energy #renewableenergy #solar #puertorico #microgrid #resilience #hurricane #infrastructure #designbydeficit

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/energy-department-puerto-rico-rooftop-solar-batteries-energy-resilience/

Low-income Puerto Ricans to get $450 million for rooftop solar

A federal lifeline for households vulnerable to island's frequent blackouts.

Mother Jones

15) Capitalize on vacant lots and other overgrown urban wilds to create more green space and cooling vegetation.

I wrote a book about this - link in bio - so of course I left it out 🤪

#DesignByDeficit