Mostly urbanism and eco memes

WalksTheSky

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Taylor Swift is the number one Co2 emitter among celebrities due to her prolific private jet use

She did a Got Milk? ad. Switching to dairy alternatives like oat milk saves a lot on carbon emissions and water consumption.
Here’s the ad: https://youtu.be/C4klWmwC2ds?si=KuzeVSCLv1BuYvL3

It seems to be trending this way, millennials really are favoring mixed-use development (which is a good thing). I bet Gen Z feels the same way, too.

Every time.

I’m pretty sure this is the way to my heart

Single family homes will never be enough to solve the housing crisis. An easy first step is to allow for more duplexes, and mixed-used developments.

You ever had the feeling that if you didn’t have a car, that you’d be stuck? Living in a place like this made me passionate for walkable communities with good public transit

Western Water Girl on instagram is a great resource to learn about the water crisis in the Western US, specifically in regards to the overconsumption of the Colorado River

You know how Bitcoin is really energy intensive? It’s like that but with water

iucnredlist.org

Maybe we just need an emo president to fix everything.

This is known as the urban heat island effect

So pretty much the matrix

We’ll have to describe what snow was to them

Most of the memes were from the following pages on instagram: Planning_Peeps (urbanism memes), Economics left (leftist memes), and Go Green Save Green (eco memes).

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu shows you the drought in the US. I have it bookmarked and it’s fun to watch the changes after a big storm.
One last thing: Seek is a free plant identification app and Merlin is a free bird ID app that can recognize birds from the sounds they make

ilikeriker

Worthy post

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@ZeCosmicRrope a new dump for you

DoseOfScience

You don't understand! The left picture let them sell a whole two foot strip of land for more money!

laserfrog

How do you search the red list by location? It seems broken. No way to get pins on the map or make search results based on zoom in.

hipifreq

From the homepage, hit 'advanced' next to the search bar. Then hit the little polygon button top-left of the map

KarateCanine

#3 it depends on the alternative milk. Almonds require 3 gallons (10 Liters-ish) of water to produce one (1) almond. Average tree produces 500 lbs of almonds. Around 400 almonds per lb. So that's 4000 L per lb. So about 2 million Liters of water per almond tree. Or around 528,000 us gallons if my math is correct. A dairy cow drinks between 50-200L per day. So between 8-32000L per year. And don't forget turn the almonds to almond milk takes 4:1 ration of water to almonds. So almond milk is 1/

Takes about 8 million liters per tree if you turn the entire harvest into almond milk

Oat milk is a great alternative. It requires less water and has the fewest emissions

I'll take your word for it. I only know about the almond stuff. L

and here’s the source: https://www.statista.com/chart/22659/cows-milk-plant-milk-sustainability/

I wish that had the break down, because I find it hard to believe. Dairy cows drink about 125-150L per day. And produce 45L of milk per day. And none of the crops around here are irrigated.

A lot of it comes down to what is being grown to feed the cows. Alfalfa is essentially solely grown to feed cattle, and is a very water-intensive crop

Alisvarius

#13 If you are forbidden to leave (too often)/punished for it, or forced to use specific means of transportation - yes, 15 min cities are prisons. Otherwise great idea.

treed240z

Forced to use specific means of transportation....like cars? :)

Nope, can't leave in own car too often: https://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/joint-statement-from-oxfordshire-county-council-and-oxford-city-council-on-oxfords-traffic-filters/
"If a vehicle passes through the filter at certain times of the day, the camera will read the number plate and (if you do not have an exemption or a residents’ permit) you will receive a fine in the post. "

Aweptimum

There's this little concept called park&ride where you park your car at the outskirts of a walkable zone and get on a bus. Works pretty well for transitioning from a car-dependent environment to a walkable one. Most college towns in the US with a decent population size have such a system

Sure, that could work. Assuming the transit inside the zone works perfectly 24/7. And the parking place is reasonable priced. And the car (soon electric only) can be charged there without waiting personally.

piperdude

#18. Isn’t the water used for cooling in a closed cycle?

LinkWieldsTheTriforceOfCourage

Yes, just like a normal water-cooled PC at some sweatlord gamer's house. It uses more electricity but not more water.

evilspock

In my personal experience for industry, no, but that's 20 year old data. Water is relatively cheap and if you're not polluting it with anything but heat it's both cheap to dispose of or re-use for other purposes, whereas a closed loop is an expensive thing to maintain.

snatchingbabies

Cooling yes, closed cycle largely no. Much cheaper to release the warm water and take in new cool water. Unless the local ordinance mandates it you can assume it's an open system

I mean, it can be, but why build sustainable infrastructure when you can just turn on the spigot?

Because then the DC isn’t reliant on an outside supply of water that may or may not be reliable.

Because it's cheaper in the semi-long term and all companies care about is money?

Hoptimonium

If our economic system supports destroying the planet to make billionaires richer then perhaps we should collectively demand a new social contract with a different system (like a hybrid of market socialism and democratic socialism)

For the record, I didn't think this needed a /s.

Oh shit, my bad

Nah, it's fine. I know there's a lot of shitheads besides me out there.

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