Retired science writer. Follow the climate crisis, museums and research on type 1 diabetes.
Enjoy kayaking on Boston Harbor and blogging about the waterfront at https://ericbender.co/safe-harbor/. Occasionally update a printed color scrapbook about the harbor, https://bookshop.org/p/books/safe-harbor-wandering-the-boston-waterfront-as-the-sea-rises-eric-bender/d956312bf0dd6db1
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“The internet is not dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying.”
by @tg
Boston Has a Plan for Sea Level Rise. What Next?
Decades of land reclamation left the city vulnerable to flooding. Now Boston faces harder questions: how to finance flood protection, whether to keep building on the waterfront, and whether retreat is the right move.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/boston-has-a-plan-for-sea-level-rise-now-what
Boston has developed clear plans to protect its shoreline but "not yet identified large-scale investments to turn these plans into reality."
#climatechange #climatecrisis #Boston #sealevelrise #waterfront
An appreciation of interlopers
Why not allow more spontaneously growing vegetation in urban area?
by Courtney Humphries
"I grew up in the desert Southwest and had little experience with Northeast gardening. I was totally unprepared for the sheer carnage necessary to maintain a yard in this climate."
Sharon Gascoigne
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