Now libraries are getting hit in Canada:

"She said the 'book banning people' have attended almost all board meetings since trustees voted down the review."

"...the recent scale and tone of these recent challenges mimics what is happening in the United States – albeit to a lesser extent – where religious and political activism has led to widespread book bans. "

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-library-books-have-faced-challenges-for-decades-but-a-recent-shift-has/

Shade is critical infrastructure. Look at these photos from Safford, AZ today, with a forecast high temp of 111°F (44C). The conventional parking lot hits a surface temp of 154F (68C) with a 300 yard walk to shade. Traditional development is cooler in both the sun (140F, 60 C) and shade (97F, 37C), with almost continuous shade. I only had to leave shade for short stretches.

Why make shadeless pavement the default in #SaffordAZ ? #Urbanism #shade #placesforpeople #parkingreformnetwork

I understand the desire to create enzymes to degrade plastics (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04599-z) but we should think carefully about the consequences.

When plastics are depolymerized, the fossil-origin carbon in them is converted to small molecules, now accessible to metabolism. Thus this carbon will turn into CO2 (or methane under anaerobic conditions)

There are currently gigatonnes of plastics sitting in landfills, currently sequestered as inert solids. #chemistry #biochemistry