#Green news

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Fresh Today, July 24, in the Audio Garden

Open Mic 7-9pm, Democracy Minute, Anna Jinja, Green News Report, Nuestra Música, Box of Visions

Open Mic 7-9pm, Democracy Minute, Anna Jinja, Green News Report, Nuestra Música, Box of Visions Fresh Today: Open Mic Night – L&BH Open Mic on WLBH. Sign the list to join us live this Wednesday at 7pm. 2hr American Democracy Minute – At the Republican National Convention, Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that Democrats tolerated illegal immigration so noncitizens would fraudulently vote.  Such claims…

[littlestpersimmon]

Blessings Of The Wool Dragon

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[petnews2day]

Cat Torture Ring in China is Sweeping Across the Internet – One Green Planet

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/pYelu

Cat Torture Ring in China is Sweeping Across the Internet – One Green Planet

The issue of cat torture in China has gained international attention, with distressing reports and footage highlighting the severity of the problem. Across the internet, there are horrendous communities of people who are sharing their depraved instances of cat torture through videos and photos. In response, groups like Feline Guardians Without Borders and PETA are taking […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/pYelu #CatsNews #AnimalConservation, #AnimalRescues, #ConsciousConsumerism, #ConsciousConsumers, #ConservationNews, #CrueltyFree, #EcoFriendlyLifestyle, #EcoFriendlyPetProducts, #EcoFriendlyFashion, #EcofriendlyShopping, #EnvironmentalNews, #GlutenFreeRecipes, #GMOFREE, #GoGreen, #GreenFashion, #GreenLiving, #GreenNews, #GreenTips, #PlantBasedHealth, #PlantBasedLifestyle, #PlantBasedRecipes, #RawLifestyle, #RawVeganRecipes, #Recycling, #SocialJustice, #Sustainability, #VeganDesserts, #VeganDiet, #VeganFashion, #VeganHealth, #VeganMeals, #VeganProducts, #VeganProteinPowders, #VeganRecipesVeganFood, #VeganSupplements, #Veganism, #VegetarianFood

[humming-fly]

was anyone gonna tell me shadow saved rouge's life in sa2 or was I just supposed to find that out playing the game myself

(this worked out as a rather fitting closer for the Final Day in Year of Shadow haha, hope ya'll have a fun new year! 🎉🎉🎉)

[tuserlivia]

🧛🏼 VAMPIRES + SUNGLASSES 😎 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) Twilight (2008) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Near Dark (1987) The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) The Hunger (1983) Wednesday (2022-) Interview with the Vampire (2022-)

[nordsea-horizons]

lily’s home on nixie, with video bc the ✨vibes✨🌱🫧🍀

[politijohn]

Source

Source

Same company, three years apart

[hinamie]

I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

[anarcho-catboyism]

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.

(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj

This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.

If you don't know where to get started:

If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.

[cinader]

Today, July 19, on WLBH.org

Today on WLBH.org: Aging Matters, Choose to Be Curious, Flower Power, Green News Report, Out of the Woods, Nuestra Musica, What's the Frequency Kenneth?, The Listen & Be Heard Hour for Readers & Writers

Testing out Programming We’re still in beta testing here at WLBH.org. For today we are playing the following radio shows from the Pacifica Affiliate Network, on a 24 hour loop. Please let us know what you like and what you don’t like! Aging Matters: Music Education and Therapy CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: A Mile in Their Shoes: A River Runs through Us Flower Power Show Hour Three: Its a double…

[nudjismo]

PNGs by me ♥️

[razzafrazzle]

I think that I've only drawn Ford like. 3 times in my entire life. so here's some Fordsy (and some Fiddsy. and a Bill I guess)

[image description: a page of drawings of ford, mcgucket, and bill cipher from gravity falls. near the top are two portraits of ford, one in the gravity falls style and the other in a more realistic style. next to that is a simple doodle of ford and mcgucket smiling and embracing with the caption "old man yaoi!" beneath them. in the bottom left is a simple drawing of a younger ford, and next to that is a drawing of bill with a speech bubble saying "i'm here too! also i'm hatless for spacing reasons". next to that is bill's hat, as well as mcgucket in an orange and brown 70s-style outfit and a braided beard, and he is sitting on the ground, lost in thought. end id]

[petnews2day]

Three-Legged Dog Rescued by a Woman with Another Disabled Rescue Dog – One Green Planet

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/LqCp3

Three-Legged Dog Rescued by a Woman with Another Disabled Rescue Dog – One Green Planet

Pippa, a resilient three-legged dog, has captured hearts after her remarkable journey from the streets to a loving home. Found in 2017 with severe injuries in New Orleans, Pippa was rescued by the Southern Animal Foundation. Following the amputation of her leg and tail, and months of rehabilitation, she was ready for adoption. Lydia Crochet, […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/LqCp3 #DogNews #AnimalConservation, #AnimalRescues, #ConsciousConsumerism, #ConsciousConsumers, #ConservationNews, #CrueltyFree, #EcoFriendlyLifestyle, #EcoFriendlyPetProducts, #EcoFriendlyFashion, #EcofriendlyShopping, #EnvironmentalNews, #GlutenFreeRecipes, #GMOFREE, #GoGreen, #GreenFashion, #GreenLiving, #GreenNews, #GreenTips, #PlantBasedHealth, #PlantBasedLifestyle, #PlantBasedRecipes, #RawLifestyle, #RawVeganRecipes, #Recycling, #SocialJustice, #Sustainability, #VeganDesserts, #VeganDiet, #VeganFashion, #VeganHealth, #VeganMeals, #VeganProducts, #VeganProteinPowders, #VeganRecipesVeganFood, #VeganSupplements, #Veganism, #VegetarianFood