Walmart replicated this at massive scale. “And so what the big-box discount department store effectively did was consolidate and transpose almost every classic #MainStreet enterprise—clothing, toys, crafts, decor, electronics, hardware and groceries —and place them all under one roof, under one corporate enterprise, in a massive, car-oriented property on the edge of town"...the desirability of #commerce in a #walkable setting transcends political lines.

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/08/125003-walkable-urbanism-big-box-stores

#CarFreeCityCentersPlease #WalkableCites

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/07/25/where-have-all-the-three-bedrooms-in-walkable-neighborhoods-gone

at the absolute minimum, cities should enact zoning reforms to make three-bedroom apartments legal to build in #walkable, #transitoriented areas. But beyond that, developers could be incentivized…
#inclusive #WalkableCites #880cities

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/07/14/old-ev-batteries-store-solar-power-california-desert/

Used B2G before V2G: B2U Storage Solutions is using the excess supply of #used #batteries to meet the high demand for stored #cleanenergy. “It’s pretty simple: Take it out of the #car, put it in, cable it up, and it’s ready to go,” says Rachel Harper, B2U’s operations project manager. 
#WalkableCites

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/heatwave-climate-omen-change-course-weather-models

The only way to avoid crossing these #tippingpoints is to stop #heating up the #planet. And comprehensive #Earth system models show that if we stop adding #carbonpollution, the warming of Earth’s surface stops soon thereafter.
So that brings us back to where we started. Yes, we have failed to prevent dangerous #climatechange. It is here. What remains to be seen is just how bad we’re willing to let it get- Michael Mann
#keepitintheground #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #WalkableCites #CarFreeCityCentersPlease

In the year after the excavation, the density of active swimming animals, such as fish and shrimp, dropped by 43% in areas directly affected by sediment kicked up by mining, and by 56% in adjacent areas. The results show that effects are felt beyond the mining areas “by a pretty substantial amount”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02290-5

#BanCarsInCities #WalkableCites #BendTheKeelingCurve #maladaptation

#PricePollution: Wear and tear on #tires and #brakes produce more #particlepollution, by mass, than #car #exhaustsystems... fine #particles (known as PM 2.5, with diameters up to 2.5 microns) and #ultrafine particles (known as PM 0.1, with diameters of 100 nanometers), which can enter through our #bloodstream and harm our #organs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/

#PollutersPay
#CarFreeCityCentersPlease
#WalkableCites

In Barcelona, Kids Bike to School in Large, Choreographed Herds.

The ‘bicibús,’ is considered a highly replicable model that makes getting to school fun, safe and sustainable.

Love this so much.

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/students-ditch-school-buses-for-bicycles-in-barcelona/

#WalkableCites #NotJustBikes

#WalkableCites #PublicHealth recipe to build #immunity and wards of #ChronicDisease: #Walk a little faster than you normally do. Your breathing and heart rate should increase, but you should be able to talk comfortably. For 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Break it up into any schedule that works for you. #FifteenMinuteCity #CarFreeCityCentersPlease

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/healtharticle.benefits-of-walking?wt.tsrc=email_pih&cat=2a&mkt_tok=NDkyLU5RVS0wMTQAAAGLGiIvgAixyIWtupFgPNXsTe8JseJdcfsA7TjjY56qIxdmI7fNNx5CIGtjsvIRf99AfL3Ym194vyCSD3xctiSqP3KCyJTquRoKxcdE9vGt2w