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"A recent World Meteorological Organization report called heat waves the “deadliest meteorological hazard” from 2015 to 2019, affecting people living on all continents, and setting new national heat records in many regions.
Canada’s top weather event in 2021 was British Columbia’s record-breaking heat, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. The temperature in Lytton, B.C., hit 49.6 C on June 29. The following day a wildfire destroyed 90 per cent of the town, killing two people and displacing 1,200 others.
Heat waves also exacerbate existing health issues, including cardiovascular and respiratory disease. They’re associated with increased hospital admissions, psychological stress and aggressive behavior, as well as excess mortality.
During heat waves, the highest temperatures are often found in urbanized areas. Urbanization is almost always associated with an increase in paved, impervious areas, and often a decrease in greenery. Concrete and asphalt roads, and other built materials readily absorb, store and release heat, raising city temperatures, a phenomenon called the urban heat island.
Many studies have shown that urban forests can reduce the urban heat island, and many policies focus their attention on large green spaces.
Small green spaces, such as yards, rooftops and small parcels of undeveloped land, can make impressive contributions to lowering urban heat, but they are often overlooked when developing strategies for urban cooling.
The effect of small green spaces
Cities rarely have the opportunity to add large green spaces to help counter the effects of heatwaves. Smaller vegetated spaces, however, can still meaningfully decrease local land temperatures.
Small green spaces, such as yards, rooftops and small parcels of undeveloped land, can make impressive contributions to lowering urban heat, but they are often overlooked when developing strategies for urban cooling.
A recent study in Adelaide, Australia, found that tree canopy cover and, to a lesser extent, grass cover decreased local daytime surface temperatures by up to 6 C during extreme summer heat conditions. Further inland, suburban yards and gardens can decrease local surface temperatures up to 5 C.
At a quite small scale, on the order of tens of square metres, trees reduced daytime surface temperatures twice as much as grass cover. But grass and other small, low-lying plants, grow relatively quickly, compared to trees.
Cities should adopt short-term and long-term strategies to respond to extreme heat, including the replacement of paved and impervious surfaces with grasses and turf, and increasing tree plantings to boost canopy coverage.
Amplifying the cooling effect
Furthermore, when managing small green spaces, city planners and foresters can select tree species based on their ability to cool the environment. Green spaces with a high diversity of tree species have a greater cooling effect in spring, summer and fall. They also have a larger maximum drop in temperature in the summer, compared to spaces that are less diverse.
For example, tree canopies with large leaves and high transpiration rates — the evaporation of water from plants occurring at the leaves — could provide more cooling.
Planting a variety of species, of different heights, can have a larger cooling effect than tall trees alone.
The structure of green space may also influence its cooling efficiency. In summer, a plant community with multiple layers of trees, shrubs and herbs can further decrease air temperature by 1 C on a sunny day and 0.5 C on a cloudy day, compared with an area only dominated by tall trees...
But overall, trees usually have a stronger effect on cooling than grass. Planting trees in groups, not individually or in lines, is recommended for regulating the microclimate (local climate conditions near the Earth’s surface).
Small green spaces can offer a lot of summer cooling in cities. And cities can learn to manage the configuration of small green spaces better to get more cooling benefits and minimize the trade-offs."
-via GoodGoodGood, July 4, 2024
#green space#urban#urban landscape#urban forest#urban green spaces#food forest#permaculture#gardening#microclimate#cooling#conversation#global warming#climate change#climate action#solarpunk#rooftop garden#ecopunk#meterology#ecology#ecosystems#environmental science#plant trees#good news#hope
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Does Mr. Turner like rubbing his “son’s” successful career in Dinkleberg’s face??
He does! He brags about Timmy's success to every person within the neighborhood's vicinity. Mr. Turner loves how successful his son is! It really secures his reputation at the neighborhood HOA meetings they host at their house.
Timmy's worked very hard to gain more successes than failures. The more successful he is, the greater his family's social standing!! And the less he gets to overhear his dad ranting to the neighborhood about his failures.
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#fairly oddparents#fop#fop a new wish#fop timmy turner#fop timmy#timmy turner#chimmy changa#asks#raven with a pocketwatch#itty bitties fop au#tw parental neglect#<- ask to tag#using the neighborhood gossip is a very good way to reign in your son when he gets too cocky or proud for your liking.#but its also a good way to boost your social standing!! wow!! the joys of reaping the rewards from someone else's hard work!#by contrast mrs. turner doesnt mention his successes to her friends#which timmy does appreciate somewhat but she also doesnt really. give him much of anything.#so.#cant really tell whats worse. the oversharing or the ignoring.#timmy's parents hosts a LOT of events at their house#so he's usually juggling like. hundreds of tasks at once.#he has to get the drinks the plates the food the clean up watch the kids get more drinks respond to his dad's calls handle 3 conversations#prevent his mom from offering him to clean her friends yards stop that kid from spilling ketchup over the grass catch the loose dog#get more drinks for his dad watch the grill avoid the aunt's mlm scheme pitches reject the neighbor's pitch for a potential girlfriend-#all while picking up work calls and scheduling office hours and fixing his coworkers' mistakes and emailing clients and and-#....which is all to say that timmy does most of the hosting. while his parents partake in the celebrating and partying.#man. you'd think doing this for 20 years you'd be able to handle stress
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maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"
sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"
"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it
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the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet
#matthew tkachuk#aleksander barkov#florida panthers#2425#the famous vanha kauppahalli date™#we know how bad he is at pronouncing words not in english he does not want to fuck up his husbands language in front of him#(the nhl stars try to speak german video has entered the chat)#different attitudes here lmao#“he did good” mate he was... eating food... what... what is there to praise here..?#i shivered sweet mary and joseph sasha this is how you praise maffhew? yeah id be an annoying little shit about it too#whatever they have. unexplainable. i wont even bother#im glad to see pie and cake are still very confusing for esol#somehow ive had the conversation with several different people in my lifetime and realised even i dont know what the fuck it is#in the sense that when i translate pastries into english for my american friends i just pause and go#wait... i think this is a pie... but its called a tart in spanish but its also kind of a cake? and- [windows reboot sound]#ive had to do this with pastafrola and im like please just eat it dont make me explain im gonna cry if i do#I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT BECAUSE IT DOESNT EXIST IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT TO ME JUST EAT IT#“so whats the difference between a torta and a tarta and isnt a tarta kinda like a pie-” “stop asking questions you dont want answers to”#you have no idea how upset i get trying to explain#im glad sasha at least protrays a little of that frustration by going “i dont know english word” girl SAME
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Is it just me or does anyone else barely see any canon x OC for the girls in Sonic? In art, fanfiction, whatever.
And this is not a “Y’all are being a problem” post. Obviously pretty much everyone here loves Sonic. Got it. Fair. I love that dude. Makes sense the most popular content will be around the main character.
But I almost NEVER see any OC x Canon ship art of like an OC and Amy. (I’m using Amy as an example but the other girls are equally as applicable.) Either people draw NSFW of the girls or they are paired with canon characters. I know there are people out there that do this, but it seems to be an incredible minority.
I’ve seen more OCs with Mighty than I have Amy, Blaze, Sally, whatever. It’s not bad, but I do wonder why that it is. It’s undeniable that people obviously like the girls. I have seen it on rare occasions. I mention it because… I guess I want to see more people write relationships with their OCs and the women.
Why don’t I do it? Probably for the same reason a lot other people don’t. Of course my sweet baby angel is going to date my favorite characters. Which are…
…Sonic and Shadow. 😅 Big shock. I know.
I’m not ignorant to why it may be that way. Just kind’ve a food for thought thing.
#I’m cool about being wrong about this#I just barely see it myself.#sonic ships#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#amy rose#sonic comic#sonic comics#sega#sonic fanart#sonic oc#sonic the hedgehog oc#sonic fc#sonic fan character#blaze the cat#rouge the bat#sally acorn#food for thought#not Cream. Nah. Y’all are good to leave her out of the conversation.
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Headcanon that Seven of Nine and Naomi actually find Neelix’s cooking to be fine because it’s the only food they’ve ever eaten/their first introduction to food and when they get to Earth everyone’s so excited to show them Alpha quadrant foods but neither of them likes anything they’re offered very much. Seven doesn’t really care either way except that she has to get used to a whole new palette and Naomi likes the obvious (Ex: candy, cake) but frequently complains that nothing tastes ‘right’. Naomi: -pushing away a slice of pizza- I don’t like it... Tom: You’re kidding me. You don’t like pizza? Naomi: It doesn’t taste right! Make it how Neelix used to. Tom: You want me to put gerhalorian beets and yuk mushrooms in the sauce so it congeals into a lumpy, slightly sour mess? Is that what you want, Naomi? Naomi: Yeah :( I want Naomi and Icheb to work tirelessly together on a side project for years until finally doing it - being able to communicate clearly with those in the Delta quadrant! Icheb uses it to speak to the other borg children (now adults) and Naomi immediately uses it to call Neelix and ask him to find the nearest time portal and toss a big box of leola root into it. She’s been craving it for years! No one told her the Alpha quadrant didn’t have leola root, she wouldn’t have gone otherwise!
#Naomi's suffering through the worst case of 'food you had ALL the time as a kid but can't get as an adult'#Her next goal is constructing some way for ships to pass through the quadrants quickly and safely so Neelix can come visit her and also#Voyager's crew can stop getting themselves hopelessly lost and presumed dead out there#Naomi's favorite joke is that if she knew the alpha quadrant had/didn't have X she wouldn't have come! Her mom doesn't love it v_v#st voyager#Naomi Wildman#Seven of Nine#Neelix#I also think every member of the crew has a certain food they really loved but can never eat again v_v either bc alpha quad doesn't have the#ingredients or the replication abilities or bc it was something that was given as a gift by a delta quad alien or Neelix was only able to#make it once etc#I believe Neelix's cooking is a mixed bag. Some of his dishes are earnestly not good and some of them are for a palette that#the crew doesn't have...but after seven years you develop a palette. Like they still PREFER alpha quadrant food but every so often they're#like DAMN...do you remember when Neelix made-? and it's always a happy conversation#OH and also he has limited ingredients bc of Voyager's situation and doesn't know what the human foods they ask for are or what they should#taste like so it's trial and error babey!!!
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I think this episode really had some of the strongest moments this season with very necessary and hard-hitting conversations. I struggle to pick a favorite, the Larys – Aegon scene was incredible, as was the Gwayne –Alicent scene, the Daemon – Alys scene and the Rhaenyra – Mysaria scene at the end. Incredible performances from all actors.
#having actual conversations that establish the characters and acknowledge the cruelties of the world they're in#good food#hotd#house of the dragon#hotd spoilers#house of the dragon spoilers
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Me: Is this Farmer Boy sequel written in 2012 really going to be able to feel like a legitimate follow-up to the style and atmosphere of the original, or is it just another modern cash-grab?
Heather Williams, on page 2: Best of all, he knew that fall meant crispy spareribs and sweet cider and hot roasted potatoes with melting butter and all the pumpkin pie he could eat.
Me: ....it looks like I can trust you. Carry on.
#little house#farmer boy goes west#i'm about halfway through and i'm fairly impressed#she seems to be making a legitimate effort to match some of the stylistic quirks of the original#there are pieces that are anachronistic or too modern#or elements that fit better into the laura books than the almanzo one#(mrs. wilder of farmer boy would not give an explanation of the history of jenny lind trunks even though caroline ingalls would)#there is a lot of focus on food (good)#perhaps a bit too much focus on horses (he wouldn't spend *all* his time thinking about starlight)#the throughline of 'what does he want to be' is stupid when we know he wants to be a farmer#the parents feel less old-fashioned than they did in the original#the sibling dynamics are pretty good (especially with alice)#there are some things that are fun in light of the later books but aren't obnoxious wink wink style foreshadowing#the author's note makes it clear that she did try to do her research and stick to real history and to laura's heavily altered timeline#and i can totally forgive her for a really shoehorned in conversation#because when you find out that the future founder of sears was in spring valley at the same time as almanzo#you *have* to stick that in no matter how clunky it is
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Drove myself to work and didn't kill myself yet even though I feel like I should have
#personal#god what a strenuous day I feel like the start sucked I was like spacing out so bad#stared at a man for a good second until he was like oh so the bed and the food?? and I was like oh#🧍🏻♂️ yeah let me get that from the back for you#then i stopped being as anxious and was able to converse semi normally#i got $30 worth of tips today thank you god whoever decided that was okay#i knew i might make something cause the owners but not $30
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I woke up this morning from the weirdest this-fandom related dream ever. So, in my dream, Vash and Wolfwood were sitting by a campfire and griddle talking about weird meats. They had some weird meats with them, as in meats from different animals that they were planning on cooking and eating. Vash drew out a plastic wrapped package (vacuum pack, looked like my local store brand) that looked like a pork chop, but declared that it was, in fact, human meat. He'd gotten it from a little post-apocalyptic Noman's Land shop that specialised in such things. He said that, as a Plant, he wanted to try it to see if he was compatible for eating human. Dream!Vash? What the actual FUCK?!!! And so unwrapped it and put it on the griddle and creeped out Wolfwood, but Wolfwood understood. Something like that. And then I flashed back into my body. This entire scenario was one that I was writing as a fanfic on a public counter in some kind of cafeteria at an anime convention. Above it, appearing almost immediately, was a fancomic someone else did on the upright part of the counter that recounted the events of my fanfiction (a fancomic of my fanfiction) except that whoever did it made it more Vashwood than I had intended my story, ending it with Vash and Wolfwood kissing. At the same time, I was thinking "My fanfic doesn't deserve this, it's not that good. It's not like Sin Eaters by dragonofeternal, which has a similar theme done much better." Yes, I was literally thinking of a real fic I'd read in my dream! I commented aloud on the comic that "This is more Vashwood than I'd intended, but I'll take it." As in, it's not really my ship, no one that I see as canon, but I like people in fandom shipping whatever they like and I enjoy Vashwood when it's done well and makes sense, which it kinda did in this fancomic even though it was inspired by my fanfic, which hadn't gone in that direction. Cue some snotty twenty-something with blueish purple dyed long pigtails and a Goth look sitting around nearby looking at all of this informing me "Vashwood is canon." and I said "No it's not." And she argued that she'd read some very obscure comic where it was - and it turns out we had both, by then, shifted into Batman fandom and she was referencing some obscure storyline in which Batman and Robin had fucked like animals. I further argued that I was going by a very specific canon (ala, "Batman the Animated Series" - which was somehow Trigun now), but concededed that while I wasn't as much into the deep lore of the comics, that I wouldn't be surprised if Batman/Robn (Vash and Batman now? Huh?) was canon in some form. Brain.... what are you doing?
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#cw: cannibalism#but is it really if the guy who is a “humanitarian” is a Plant?#no no Vash would see it as cannibalism#vashwood#apologies to vashwood fans for this#the fancomic in my dream was a very good one though#please don't pay attention to my brain#go read Sin Eaters for yikes horror tender sad content#it is actually very beautiful#if you can handle some body horror#I wonder if this dream came about because last night I was talking to a friend...#about how I'd gone to a jerky store recently and had picked up sticks of weird meats#gator camel kangaroo and whatnot#I have yet to try them#it came up in a conversation about food and her reluctance to try new things vs. my enthusiasm for novel experiences#sadly no human jerky#because we do not live in the Fallout universe#the brain is weird#dreams#entertaining dreams#looks like I write fanfiction in my dreams now
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Ladies! (gn)
1. Shall we grab a drink? I'm around in London next week! And then in mid July!
2. Please can I meet your boys? Brothers, cousins, uni friends, colleagues, etc! 27-40! Ideally over 6"! Have the fizzle! (aka a smartie and a good conversationalist). I honestly trust most of you more than algorithms so please, help me meet your boys!
#s speaks#ladies (gn) this is a serious call#love y'all#don't be afraid of sending me s boy that isn't quite right! i appreciate the effort!!#skilss: fun conversation great cook decent at tennis#and mostly a quite good time (esp if we're having a food time)#also i know all the good bars in north London#negatives: autistic (but we can work into it) snd i have s very loud very fun family i love to the ends of the earth#okay secret three i have some v short and easy writing to read for a competition closing next week#thoughts?
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Gratitude time
#today im doing it because it's easy and im overflowing with thankful things#very often i do it because it's hard#probably good to remember it CAN be easy#anyway#thankful for my team im gonna be travelling with and the enciuragement they are#its good to remember i am not on this ceazy ride alone#thankful for a genuinely good rich fulfilling day of class/prep#and the stories of God’s amazing provision from an incredible middle eastern guy who shared with us#and for the moroccan lady i met who now somehow is cooking us lunch tomorrow so now i get to try moroccan food#and her hospitality#and for a good comfy bed and the gift of a private room this qeek#and wifi cuz hey that's a bonus (not to be taken for granted this next month)#and a remarkable number of solutions for dumb lil problems#and for the fact that my goodby with The Boy tonight (the big goodbye. for 8 months)#which both of us were dreading because yknow the Big Sad#didnt actually hit either of us emotionally while we were together#which was such a gift. we got to spend 3 hours together just being peaceful and present and having good conversations#and thinking about how to do dating well this year#and praying together#and it was just. so good#and i am so so glad i get to date him this year and share this crazy thing with him even though itvis gonna be really really hard sometimes#and he made me a bracelet to take with me 🥺
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#UNSERIOUS ASS TEAM#“a couple of guys that are trying to get finnish passports right now [loaded silence.] JUST on the food alone!”#good save paul lol#“a couple of guys” paul it's okay you can say maffhew and roddy we knows its them#ekky honourable mention because im sure they had the passport talk back in the first finland trip so <3#sorry the newly weds are going through passport conversations#maffhew on his honeymoon with sasha and mikksy who finally stopped hiding his secret spouse roddy aka “half finnish”#rivetting narratives here#sorry the kitties falling in love with finland that paul joked about it is very special to me#it really was a couples getaway
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gauging how much my coworker wants me to infodump about this movie over our banana pancakes and scrambled eggs
#hes the only other movie guy here lol. one of the other coworkers i get along w kinda is but not as much as this guy#every now and again if the kitchen makes a good friday breakfast i go upstairs and have some and if hes there we movie talk#and today was like whoa hold on i should probably stop myself before i speak at length about the cinerama process#he said he's gonna look into the movie (yay) but its anyones guess when that will happen (oh well)#i have to tell everyone about my favorite only recently restored in beautiful technicolor 60s fantasy movie. but anyway#im still not a banana fan so the pancakes were just ok. such is life#this guy eats his food in like the fastest way possible so our movie conversations are always short rip#and then when he leaves im sitting in awkward silence w a couple of the other coworkers i dont know so well#but this is it my last day before two weeks off sayonara you weeaboo shits#vacation time........ finally
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[TUVOKTOBER: Day 13] Do you have slor-tukh-sa money, Elieth?
#grocery shopping with the family <3#Vulcan telepathy is fun bc you can add a little stir-the-pot comment into a conversation from several aisles away#slor-tukh-sa is a branded sugary fruit cereal I made up. Very popular with children across several federation planets!#As a kid there's nothing you want less than a food that's advertised as being GOOD for you by your parent#also in the end they don't get the sugary cereal but they do all get a coin so they can watch a gum dispenser dispense a single piece of gu#in a flashy and interesting way (they have to beg Tuvok for this as well but he's tired after a long day of saying no#and distracted by the cashier and honestly having them leave him alone for a few minutes while he completes this transaction is worth it)#<- Sek keeps his coin and instead helps his father with the groceries though....show off#[REDACTED] family shenanigans#Tuvok#st voyager#bea art tag#tuvoktober
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really feeling what ikuhara said about young people looking at the adults around them and being unable to imagine the future but like. in the opposite and positive way. been around a lot of middle aged and older people the past few days and it really has given me a lot of perspective. i'm so so early in my life and there is so much ahead of me and so much i have yet to experience and learn and do, and of course it won't be easy but these people have made it and have treasured it so why wouldn't i?
#never underestimate what good nutritious food and deep conversations with nice people and fresh air and summer rain and sunny days#will do for your mental health#i probably sound insufferably positive rn but it'll go away again when i'm home i think lol#m
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for months i genuinely wholeheartedly could not tell the 911 guys apart and this is so important for me to stress bc throughout my life i have prided myself on being able to tell twins apart really easily and liking being that person to connect faces to other things ive watched or honestly just seen in passing like i could track down a random commercial actress and shit and i mean i suppose part of that is not knowing their characters and they just twin all the time but i apologize still im aware that mans last name is diaz and now i feel like im sitting here laid up @ all the tumblr lesbians like haha damn so thats buck x eddie? that said idk if im like happy i know any of this.
#but it’s chill it feels like a good part of the tumblr ecosystem most of the time i’m like just there enough to be like yuppp i know that#guy. sometimes u talk abt them and im like i just don’t know if its that crazy. then u say some other stuff and i’m like ok that is lowkey#crazy but still i think even if i ever watched it. which i dont rlly plan on. but if it happened i think id have to move in silence#oh god a skunk went off right outside my window man 🙄😒😒😒😒😒😔 anywayzuh i don’t think i need to contribute to any of these conversations but#god knows i love to jump on anything to give my thoughts. so. we shallnt#abby talks#and well u know i’m sorry i think u have to know i’m on a fragile branch (my way of saying thin ice obnoxiously)#when it comes to any of these shows. let alone these circumstances. like u have to know i’m looking any going hmm… is this really just some#guy tho. bc like many such cases. it feels good to know it’s a lot of dykes but like when is the last time everyone flocked to a character#as such. i’m blanking. it certainly can’t be unprecendented.#what are u SAYING bro 🤣😎‼️😭#ok woah this is so terrible im hungry i dont want to go downstairs and make food come back up and have to go down and brush my teeth again#but i don’t think i have anything up hereeee… and either way it smells of a skunk fucking everywhereeee. i say from the place ive been#sitting the past 15 minutes. in my bed <3#i feel like i’m confessing my sins#but what i was getting at is there’s certainly something there. compels me#who said that president snow or smth
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