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Time is math I think in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Babylonian calendar and relation between time and distance is incredibly interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber in c/[email protected]
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The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighborhood - “cars are not welcome here”. (www.theguardian.com)
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A Traditional City Primer (and how modern cities are utterly broken, and even New Urbanism doesn't fix the core issue) (www.andrewalexanderprice.com)
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15min-City | platform allows you to see maps showing how close parts of each major city is worldwide to being a 15-min city (whatif.sonycsl.it)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13859498

Related paper

I'll note that in the US, their urban area definition includes a lot of outlying and substantially unpopulated areas which fall within county boundaries; these areas tend to show up as having long travel times to services.

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Architects Are Coaxing Downtowns Back to Life | nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com)
 

Gone are the days when designers made a splash with a shimmering new building torquing this way and that. The season’s debuts forge links to regional designs and new connections.

This article touches on some of the problems of downtown areas but focused on architectural changes that might lure people back. It's less theory and more implementation within the existing system.

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Illegal transgender alien (slrpnk.net)
 
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Illegal transgender alien (slrpnk.net)
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Would you buy an affordable EV made in China? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious what your current vehicle is and what the range is?

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Startup [Bio Reform] Replaces 6 Million Plastic Bags with Prototype Made from Corn Waste That Decomposes in 180 Days - Good News Network (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
 

An Indian entrepreneur is using sugar, cellulose, and corn fibers to make a plastic-like carrier bag for small Indian businesses.

His company Bio Reform has already replaced 6 million plastic bags in the checkout counters of stores all over India.

Based in Hyderabad, Mohammed Azhar Mohiuddin first got the idea during the general mayhem that arose during the pandemic. Mohiuddin was looking at global environmental issues with the hope of finding one his entrepreneurial spirit had the capacity to tackle.

Startup Replaces 6 Million Plastic Bags with Prototype Made from Corn Waste That Decomposes in 180 Days - Good News Network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

An Indian entrepreneur is using sugar, cellulose, and corn fibers to make a plastic-like carrier bag for small Indian businesses.

His company Bio Reform has already replaced 6 million plastic bags in the checkout counters of stores all over India.

Based in Hyderabad, Mohammed Azhar Mohiuddin first got the idea during the general mayhem that arose during the pandemic. Mohiuddin was looking at global environmental issues with the hope of finding one his entrepreneurial spirit had the capacity to tackle.

Thoughts on EV motorcycles? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't own an EV motorbike but I've been following a couple different manufacturers:

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How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities (www.youtube.com)
 

This video is an exploration of Culdesac Tempe , a 5-minute city located in Arizona.

From LinkedIn: Building the first car-free neighborhood from scratch in the U.S.

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? August 13 in c/[email protected]
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PostCapitalism and the Commons - complete course (www.youtube.com)
 

David Bollier and the Urbánika team brings you a complete course on the Commons. This course is the result of decades of research from David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, and many, many, many other people from all around Gaia.

We hope that it will be highly inspiring, engaging, and useful for both beginners and advanced practitioners or researchers. We aim with this course to bring awareness and with it, accelerate the ontoshift we need to take to transition into a postCapitalist way of living and relating.

Planned Phase-outs of Gasoline/Diesel Cars in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The 2025 and 2040 colors are definitely identifiable as separate colors…

Planned Phase-outs of Gasoline/Diesel Cars in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Check out [email protected] if you are passionate about this!

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Planned Phase-outs of Gasoline/Diesel Cars (cdn.statcdn.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22605592

Source

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6 Ways to Take Back Your Community from the "Parking Void" (www.strongtowns.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11597120

This is an article that dates back from 2019 but I think it's pretty relevant still.

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The Secret to Japan's Great Cities (www.youtube.com)
 

Not Just Bikes dives into how urban planning makes a good neighborhood.

Watch ad free here: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-secret-to-japans-great-cities

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