#GreenSpace

[kiteknots]

Dams to Darnley // Glasgow

[mindblowingscience]

Surrounding ourselves with nature does wonders for our bodies, from better mental health to healthier hearts and stronger developing immune systems. So much so that some doctors are literally prescribing nature as a treatment. New research may have found a potential explanation for some of these benefits: People living in areas surrounded by nature tend to have younger biological ages.

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[reasonsforhope]

"Construction of a massive municipal park—over 20 years in the making, is finally underway in the city of Irvine.

They say if California became its own country, it would have one of the world’s largest economies. The new Great Park of Irvine is a reflection of the always lofty ambitions of the state, and is expected to dwarf Central Park by more than 500 acres.

It was on May 23rd this year that the “Great Park Project” broke ground on the long-derelict El Toro Marine Corps Base, 21 years after voters approved a ballot measure ordering the state to create a park on the site.

Expected to take another 10 years to complete, the park will span 1,300 acres and include several museums, an amphitheater, a veterans memorial garden, an aquatics center, a sports complex, and not one but two lakes.

“After many years of community input and after the last year of intensive planning and design, we are excited to be launching what is a $1 billion investment to establish the world’s next great metropolitan park,” said Irvine City Councilman Michael Carroll who serves as Chairman of the Great Park Board...

First item of work on the agenda is to demolish and clear away 77 old military buildings while leaving the El Toro air traffic control tower which will be leased by the FAA. However a portion of the Irvine Great Park, as it’s being called, is already open to visitors and includes a soccer pitch and some other amenities including tethered balloons to take visitors up into the sky."

-via Good News Network, July 12, 2023

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More of this, please!!!

Also, I checked, and somehow the tethered balloon thing is not only real it's actually free. They go up 400 ft in the air

[amyhaigh]

The Layered Woodlouse Mounds [Wildlife habitat sculpture] Stoneware with glaze June 2023

Amy Haigh

This new commission by Amy Haigh is a sculptural habitat (in stoneware with glaze), to be situated outdoors in a publicly accessible greenspace. The Layered Woodlouse Mounds (2023) act as a monument to its namesake species. Although the inhabitants are not seen by human observers for the most part, they live and search for food within the Mounds’ hidden sanctuaries, revealing themselves in fleeting moments as they leave and enter. … for more of my work see www.amyhaigh.com

The Mounds were shown at the Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in 2023.

[searchsystem]

Greenspace / Bicycle Therapeutics / Pictogram / 2024

[pwnicholson]

Nashville, Riverfront Park

[unrealityliminal]

[a-hearts-a-heavy-burden]

If I don't

make it back

from where I've gone

just know I

loved you all along

[calilili]

We Get HEARD🗽

When We Don’t Vote

We Get HERDED 🛤️🚉🚊

Election Train (Revisited)… Revisited

© cali lili

“ Cattle train

Coal train

Picture train

Toy train

Soul trains

Trains of thought

People trained

Sold and bought

Cattle train

Coal train

Picture story

(Holocaust)

War train

Peace train

People trained

Sold and bought

What kinda broken knees

Built these tracks

We got missiles goin’ forward

We got nothin’ comin’ back

Dream

Dreamin' up

The Iron Beast

Gotta get some

Get some

Get some rest

See me

I'm a plastic priestess

Screamin' through the window

Of ‘Emergency Release’

What kinda broken backs

Built these tracks

We got

Missiles goin’ forward

We got no-one comin’ back

Robber trains

Gravy trains

They foot the cost

Of another movin’ picture story

(Holocaust)

What kinda broken dreams

Work these tracks

We got missiles goin’ forward

We got zero comin’ back

Come and See

The slow decay

Ridin' the rails

of another day

Come and ride

The ‘Election Train’

Follow me

Ridin’ up

The drain

What kinda broken dreams

Work these tracks

We got missiles goin forward

We got zero comin’ back

Sure is gettin’ darker

on the ‘twilight express’

movin’ on without us

this Election Gotta Press

Sure is gettin’ darker

on the ‘twilight express’

can’t see nothin’

from a bullet train with no address

Come and See

The slow decay

Ridin' the rails

of another day

Come and ride

The ‘Election Train’

Follow me

Ridin’ up

The drain

Come and See

the slow decay

Ridin' the rails

Of another day

What kinda broken knees

Built these tracks

We got missiles goin’ forward

We got nothin’ comin’ back

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Sleepin’ with a monster

See dreamin’

dreamin’ of a beast

Me

Me

I'm a pretty plastic priestess

Scream

Screamin’

For My

Pretty shattered dream

Leave behind

What I couldn’t find

Sleep inside

A monster in motion

What the hell

My country ain’t for sale

Drown my sorrow

Cry me an ocean

Movin’ on

‘Cause I'm movin’ out

Rockin’ out

‘Cause I been rocked over

Trackin’ down

Trackin’ down a nightmare

Nightmare of a livin’ locomotion

Leave behind

What I'll never find

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Gotta get some rest

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get some

get some rest

Gotta get some

get some

get some rest

Cattle train

Coal train

Picture train

Toy train

Soul trains

Trains of thought

People trained

Sold and bought

Cattle train

Coal train

Picture story

(Holocaust)

War train

Peace train

People trained

Sold and bought.”

©️

#savedemocracy 🗽 #savetheplanet #mybodymychoice #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lesbiancommunity #womensrights #womensupportingwomen #blacklivesmatter #votingrights #democracy #climateaction #climatecrisis #climateemergency #votebluetosaveamerica🇺🇸💙 #scotus #voting #vote #election #supremecourt #roevwade #calililihauser

MusicVideo

on YouTube

written and directed by cali lili

Lyrics by CaliLili

Music by

Cali Lili

&

Wings Hauser

song streaming everywhere including

AppleMusic 🍎 etc

[nameofjones]

[geewhizze]

Ohori Park Japanese Garden in Fukuoka, Japan

28.07.2023

[kiteknots]

East Burn Woods // Shetland

[urbansoulfarmer]

When The Wilderness Society, Theodore Payne Foundation and Urban Soul Farmer come together for an event.

[wadegriffith]

The newly renovated Downtown Garland Square was built by Hill & Wilkinson and designed by Studio Outside, with lighting by Essential Light Design Studio.

On track to become a can’t-miss destination for festivals, live music, and special events, the City of Garland Square renovation includes an expansive recreational lawn, a tree house playscape within a larger imaginative play area for kids, a shade pavilion for impromptu concerts, starlit patios, an urban water feature, and a distinctive vertical prism gateway feature that illuminates at night. The prisms will also serve as a colorful background for live music on the Square.

© Wade Griffith Photography 2023 Drone operator: Casey Reid / Dallas Drone Photography

[searchsystem]

Greenspace / Bicycle Therapeutics / Wayfinding / 2024

[pwnicholson]

Nashville, Riverfront Park