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an attempt to categorize gender?

“Ancient Walled Gardens Designed to Nurture a Single Citrus Tree”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pantelleria-gardens-giardino-pantesco.amp

life is short, spray paint your own bike lanes

@evanarchitective @rechelon

Most cities I've been to are actually more diverse than the surrounding landscape. The biodiversity is bound to happen with so many people and micro-climates to utilize. Even then the biology isn't utilized. There's certainly a huge untapped wellspring of human creativity and ingenuity that could be directed toward actually useful human habitat that is not an overpass and does not exploit people within and without city limits.

Diversity is indeed very important.

We are the children of diversity

252 million years ago, 96% of all marine species and 70% of all terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct. All those species were adopting the same 'design pattern', mineralized skeletons

It seemed a good design. It turned into a common trigger that wiped out all those species that had made use of it

We are the children of those few species who were 'different', in that they used other patterns

Diversity is resilience.

#seedbomb

#TIL about bacteria-based self healing concrete: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958946514001322

@evanarchitective @rechelon if i may cut in, from a municipal perspective…we need biodiversity! e. g. tree cover mitigates the heat waves we're increasingly getting, and roots maintain banks against flooding.

In a big park near me they have an annual controlled burn, because the rare ecosystem there depends on small regular fires. it is possible to integrate nature (or rather, for us to integrate into nature) safely

in case u didnt know about polish chickens

Colonialism and the Lost Indigenous Housing Designs by Kayla DeVault — YES! Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/affordable-housing/colonialism-and-the-lost-indigenous-housing-designs-20180528 Also, passive solar cooling (using solar chimneys to pull hot air out through the roof and draw up cool air through underground ducts) can cool houses for free.

My review of Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the Future https://c4ss.org/content/50849

how masto federation works dot bmp

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trees uproot sidewalks and subsume fences, and are subsequently replaced with smaller trees. the concrete retains the damage, and the replacement grows to fill the gap and continue its predecessor's work. relentless. it is like they are waiting for the day the arborist stops coming, when the roads crack and never recover, when our terraforming falls in on itself and branches fill the void.

by the way, did you hear about the #open #source #seed #project? https://osseeds.org/