New here, you can find me on twitter under the same name
Data Engineer, home gardener, voting to save Victoria's native forests in the coming state election #hawthornvotes
With each new surge of Mastodon users, I feel the need to point out:
1. Welcome!
2. There is a learning curve here, but most people find it short and not very steep. Play around, explore. You'll get it.
3. Lots of people are willing to help.
4. Yes, it's different than Twitter. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes not. But you'll figure it out.
5. With surges especially, things sometimes get slow/glitchy, but they usually get fixed pretty quick.
Be patient.
Queensland is clearing land at the rate equivalent of about 567 Melbourne Cricket Grounds a day
New OA science hot off the press!📢
Lead by @thamicroeser from RMIT's ICON Science, here's a novel, interdisciplinary assessment of the potential urban biodiversity & sustainability gains when we convert street parking into spaces for people & nature.
🚗🚙 ➡️ 🌿🐝🐦💧🧍
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-022-00073-x
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are recognised as a means to address challenges such as heatwaves, flooding and biodiversity loss. Delivering these benefits at scale will require large areas of scarce urban land to be converted into green space. Here we show an approach by which cities can make substantial progress towards their sustainability targets using NBS, by converting redundant street parking into biodiverse green space. We demonstrate that up to half of street parking in our case study municipality (The City of Melbourne) could be accommodated in garages within 200 m, freeing up large areas for greening. Our modelling projects significant benefits in terms of tree canopy over, stormwater and ecological connectivity. These would represent strong progress towards a number of the city’s ambitious NBS targets. As many cities allocate extensive areas to both street parking and off-street garages, this approach to freeing up space for nature in cities is widely applicable.
Everyone wants a greener city, but where do we find the space for all those new trees?
We've just published new research that shows how to do exactly that. It's actually pretty simple: park your car in a garage!
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via @thediscourse study.
This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath #walking #bikes #cities #publictransit #transportatio #economics #urbanism #cityplanning #mobility
Cockatoo caught on video dropping pot plants from Melbourne apartment, council warns residents
He's just having a laugh
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-30/cockatoo-video-dropping-pot-plants-melbourne/101710478
Twitter has quietly changed their policies to allow COVID-19 misinformation. This change will literally kill people.
https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html#2021-jul-dec
Push to convert thousands of Melbourne CBD parking spots into green space!
The benefits to come out of this include reducing the heat island effect, allowing rainwater to be better soaked up for floodwater management, and more green space will attractive to everyone in general
Mike Masnick ✅
Holly Kirk
Thami Croeser
Brent Toderian
Dr. Lucky Tran 
Diphi