Month: August 2024

Housing Justice

Relief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

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Source: https://chesapeaketrees.net/2020/08/28/relief-from-the-heat-in-rapidly-warming-cities-trees-can-save-lives/ Research links increased heat vulnerability to unjust urban planning Story by Sadie E. Francis Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, increasingly tenacious hurricanes, and regular flooding have dominated…Continue readingRelief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

Climate Justice Justiça na Transição Energética

Investment treaties are undermining the global energy transition

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Globally, 2 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) of potential annual greenhouse gas emissions is protected via investment treaties. The G7 is responsible for protecting 50% of these emissions abroad. Investment treaties with investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions are misaligned with international efforts to achieve net zero emissions. Countries with climate ambition need to lead the reform of investment treaties to eliminate the risk posed by ISDS to the global energy transition.…Continue readingInvestment treaties are undermining the global energy transition

Ark Tech Housing Justice

Sustainable Standards: Pervious Cover Minimums and Incentives

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Source: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/pervious-cover-minimums-and-incentives-2/ Kerrigan Owens (author), Jonathan Rosenbloom & Christopher Duerksen (editors) INTRODUCTION This regulation provides local governments with the flexibility to either create incentives, set requirements, or do a combination…Continue readingSustainable Standards: Pervious Cover Minimums and Incentives

Ark Tech

Cal-Earth Makes Disaster-Resistant Superadobe Construction a Reality

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By Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe* Source: https://www.theearthandi.org/post/cal-earth-makes-disaster-resistant-superadobe-construction-a-reality Building safe and sustainable housing is a challenge, especially in disaster-prone regions, and ensuring that it is affordable and accessible can seem impossible. At last,…Continue readingCal-Earth Makes Disaster-Resistant Superadobe Construction a Reality

Housing Justice Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

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Webinar Date (Wednesday, 7/10/2024, 1 – 2:15pm EDT) Source: https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/indigenous-voices-and-stewardship-urban-landscapes It is a surprise for many to learn that 70-percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live off reservation in urban settings.…Continue readingIndigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

Indigenous Wisdom

Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science  

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Based at UMass Amherst, the five-year, $30 million international National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center will focus on addressing the impacts of climate change, threats to cultural places…Continue readingWestern Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science  

One Health, One Heart

Where have the trees gone? L.A. area’s green cover down dramatically in just 10 years

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USC Dornsife researchers say mass-produced dwellings and home expansion have reduced residential green cover as much as 55 percent Source: https://today.usc.edu/mass-produced-dwellings-home-expansion-reduce-l-a-areas-residential-green-cover/ May 01, 2017Ian Chaffee Plant a tree, save the…Continue readingWhere have the trees gone? L.A. area’s green cover down dramatically in just 10 years

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