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O Parque Urbano das Paivas, em Amora, Seixal, é um espaço verde central na malha urbana densa da Margem Sul do Tejo. A imagem ilustra o seu núcleo, com um lago artificial e repuxo que ameniza o clima e um pavilhão poligonal que alberga um estabelecimento de restauração, ponto de encontro para visitantes. O parque oferece zonas de lazer, circuitos de manutenção e parques infantis, integrando-se no tecido urbano com a sua vegetação consolidada, que inclui palmeiras e árvores de folha caduca. Este espaço foi projetado para melhorar a qualidade de vida dos residentes, oferecendo áreas de caminhada, descanso e atividades ao ar livre, além de mitigar o efeito de ilha de calor urbano. A infraestrutura reflete o investimento municipal em áreas de convívio que equilibram a densidade populacional, contribuindo para a coesão social e o bem-estar da comunidade, potenciado pelas acessibilidades a Lisboa.
The Paivas Urban Park, in Amora, Seixal, is a central green space in the dense urban fabric of the south bank of the Tagus River. The image illustrates its center, with an artificial lake and fountain that softens the climate and a polygonal pavilion that houses a restaurant, a meeting point for visitors. The park offers leisure areas, fitness circuits, and playgrounds, integrating into the urban fabric with its established vegetation, which includes palm trees and deciduous trees. This space was designed to improve the quality of life of residents, offering areas for walking, resting, and outdoor activities, as well as mitigating the urban heat island effect. The infrastructure reflects the municipal investment in social areas that balance population density, contributing to social cohesion and community well-being, enhanced by accessibility to Lisbon.
O Parque Urbano das Paivas, localizado na freguesia de Amora, concelho do Seixal, constitui um importante espaço verde urbano na margem sul do Tejo. Na imagem observa-se uma das zonas centrais do parque, onde se destaca uma fonte circular rodeada por áreas relvadas e árvores, proporcionando um ambiente de lazer e convívio à população local. Este espaço verde foi concebido para promover a qualidade de vida urbana, oferecendo infraestruturas de apoio, zonas de recreio infantil, percursos pedonais e áreas de descanso. O Parque Urbano das Paivas reflete a aposta do município do Seixal na valorização ambiental e na criação de espaços públicos acessíveis, essenciais para o bem-estar das comunidades urbanas. A envolvente habitacional, visível ao fundo, evidencia a integração do parque no tecido urbano da Amora, funcionando como pulmão verde e espaço de socialização.
Paivas Urban Park, located in the parish of Amora, municipality of Seixal, is an important urban green space on the south bank of the Tagus River. The image shows one of the central areas of the park, featuring a circular fountain surrounded by lawns and trees, providing a leisure and social environment for the local population. This green space was designed to promote urban quality of life, offering support infrastructure, children's play areas, walking paths, and rest areas. Paivas Urban Park reflects the municipality of Seixal's commitment to environmental enhancement and the creation of accessible public spaces, which are essential for the well-being of urban communities. The residential surroundings, visible in the background, highlight the park's integration into the urban fabric of Amora, functioning as a green lung and a space for socialization.
Recently found a little spot for sunsets that shake things up a bit! I like how the lines in the grass lead our eyes through the picture and to the tree and the sun. I hope you enjoy this shake up of sunset moments in my usual wee spot!
“Carbon justice for All!” A global carbon tax will play a crucial role in climate reparations! Indeed, tax justice is the right mechanism to deliver climate reparations. Tax justice is a contributor to social(ist) justice, all of which tie into climate justice. “Climate justice is peace!” Climate change is not affecting everyone equally, but it is affecting the poorest countries and the most marginalized communities the most. Nations impoverished by colonialism cannot afford the infrastructure, the health care, or the loans needed to protect their citizens against the climate crisis, much less to invest in renewable energy. Resources were stolen by colonizing nations from countries that are now climate vulnerable. However, tax justice will allow us to rectify this imbalance by redistributing global wealth. It’s the communist way! Tax justice must be instituted to rectify the wealth gap between nations.
Under the United Nations, we will have inclusive international tax governance. The UN must oversee tax justice, climate justice, and human rights. They must set international standards and eliminate financial secrecy. We must have transparency to make a fair global tax, to fight inequality and promote equality. A carbon tax will hold each one accountable. A carbon footprint tracker will take into account emissions, income, wealth, individual carbon footprint caps, and carbon footprint inequality. Climate change is a human rights issue.
The United Nations will tax the green economy. They will tax the digital economy with its digital services to fight climate change. They will implement a financial interaction tax, changing the financial landscape. The global carbon tax will finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. This tax will contribute to the achievement of sustainable development in three dimensions: economic, social and environmental. This global tax framework will fall under international law and will not be overridden. The United Nations (world government) will tax all countries (satellite states), corporations, and people (global citizens) to fund and promote policies aligned with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The carbon market of the net-zero economy will be a powerful tool for the advancement of carbon justice. Carbon markets are trading systems in which carbon credits are sold and bought. Each offset credit is equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide that is either reduced or removed from the atmosphere. The global carbon tax will align with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles, which will significantly reduce emissions, incentivize investments in clean technologies, and generate substantial revenue. This will reduce poverty and inequality while enhancing societal wellbeing. Climate justice means putting equity and human rights at the core of decision-making and action on climate change. We will not tolerate any carbon leakage (cheating). The United Nations has declared that access to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a universal human right.
The revenues from carbon taxes will be used for green infrastructure and low-carbon technology development. It will ensure a just transition, which will steer all society towards a net-zero future. This will achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. A just transition doesn’t just help advance climate action, but it also helps advance the Sustainable Development Goals. The core purpose of a carbon tax is to shift the market towards less carbon-intensive fuels, energy efficiency, and clean alternatives. This will affect all sectors, including electricity, transportation, and manufacturing. Essentially, there will be a ban on carbon-intensive activities (such as a ban on coal-fired power stations). That is why you will own nothing and be happy. That is why you won’t drive or leave your 15-minute city. Just like Nova Scotia, you will be banned from the forest. Climate lockdowns! Don’t leave your house! Decarbonizing the planet is a systems-based circular (problem, reaction, solution) approach (dialectic) rooted in social(ist) justice principles. Decarbonization means decarbonizing you.
The future is headed towards carbon taxes, digital biometric IDs, central bank digital currencies, and social credit scores. Like every socialist state, a leader arises. Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, a future leader will rise up. The world will bow to the Antichrist! And the Antichrist will implement a digital Mark, which will be your global digital biometric ID. This Mark will be tied to a one-world digital currency and a one-world social credit score system. This Beast system will also track your carbon footprint. Then you’ll see what it’s like to serve the Antichrist. He will suck the life out of you, he will decarbonize you! BTW: this message is brought to you by the World Health Organization! Hahaha!
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
Recently found a little spot for sunsets that shake things up a bit! I like how the lines in the grass lead our eyes through the picture and to the tree and the sun. I hope you enjoy this shake up of sunset moments in my usual wee spot!
An Ogeechee Tupelo, called the Ogeechee lime due to the tart nature of the fruit, grows as an island in the Suwannee River. On day one, the Expedition team paddles from Turner Bridge Road upstream toward the Georgia line.
Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridor of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.
One of several locations I visit here in the west on a semi regular basis. Now with new infrastructure for bicycles.
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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Longleaf Pine trees over an understory of wiregrass in Ocala National Forest.
Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridor of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.
Nature is a critical element of patient-centered care. Together with Peter Walker Partners, we installed Silva Cells in the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Longleaf Pines over wiregrass in Ocala National Forest.
Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridor of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.
LUC has worked with a large multi-disciplinary team to deliver a sustainable infrastructure and development masterplan to guide the long term transformation of Shawfield in Glasgow’s East End. LUC also led the design and implementation of an advanced phase of public realm and landscape works that now forms a framework for new development to be realised over a 20-25year horizon.
Prior to construction the site was heavily contaminated and consisted of large areas of vacant and derelict land together with dated business and industrial premises. The site was completely cleared and underwent significant ground remediation in advance of the public realm works to ensure the site is ‘development ready’.
LUC developed a green infrastructure strategy to inform the masterplan design with an emphasis on integrated surface water drainage and pedestrian connectivity to surrounding communities, transport nodes and the River Clyde corridor.
The Clyde riverbanks have been manipulated to provide new pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and this now provides an extension to the strategically important Clyde Walkway.
An ecologically diverse mosaic of riparian woodland, grassland and wetland habitats has been created that will improve the biodiversity of the River Clyde corridor.
A new strategic pedestrian and cycling link has been created linking the new South Dalmarnock Smart Bridge with the centre of the masterplan site, improving connectivity in the area. In contrast with the more naturalistic riverside treatment this link is more formal in character with strong tree avenue planting, lighting and paving patterns.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
I have recently made a short editing video, or "reel" as the kids call it nowadays (I am 26...) so that is pretty much my reason for sharing this unseasonal photo. However we have had some snow here and there so it is just a little unseasonal when you think about it! I love the tones in snow photos and it is like when you tell yourself you are warm, you feel warmer. Looking at this photo makes me feel a little cooler as things get warmer.
LUC has worked with a large multi-disciplinary team to deliver a sustainable infrastructure and development masterplan to guide the long term transformation of Shawfield in Glasgow’s East End. LUC also led the design and implementation of an advanced phase of public realm and landscape works that now forms a framework for new development to be realised over a 20-25year horizon.
Prior to construction the site was heavily contaminated and consisted of large areas of vacant and derelict land together with dated business and industrial premises. The site was completely cleared and underwent significant ground remediation in advance of the public realm works to ensure the site is ‘development ready’.
LUC developed a green infrastructure strategy to inform the masterplan design with an emphasis on integrated surface water drainage and pedestrian connectivity to surrounding communities, transport nodes and the River Clyde corridor.
The Clyde riverbanks have been manipulated to provide new pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and this now provides an extension to the strategically important Clyde Walkway.
An ecologically diverse mosaic of riparian woodland, grassland and wetland habitats has been created that will improve the biodiversity of the River Clyde corridor.
A new strategic pedestrian and cycling link has been created linking the new South Dalmarnock Smart Bridge with the centre of the masterplan site, improving connectivity in the area. In contrast with the more naturalistic riverside treatment this link is more formal in character with strong tree avenue planting, lighting and paving patterns.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
The term "green infrastructure" is being applied at a wide range of landscape scales, from statewide conservation networks to streetside rain gardens. Fundamentally, green infrastructure is just a framework for recognizing the valuable services that nature provides for the human environment. At a bioregional scale, green infrastructure supports essential ecosystem functions. At a metropolitan scale, green infrastructure forms a tapestry of open space that serves and guides smarth growth. At a site scale, green infrastructure integrates functions and makes life-giving processes visible and meaningful. Large protected and connected natural habitats are the foundation for any regional green infrastructure network. Parks, trails, greenways, and other open spaces should link communities to each other and a regional landscape matrix. Holistically conceived, a green infrastructure network is also a regenerative solution to urban challenges associated with stormwater and waste management, mobility and public health, local food and energy security, and even protection from natural and man-made hazards.
In 2009, a series of stormwater management features such as bioretention / bioinfiltration areas were constructed in Parking Lot 18 on the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) campus. Also known as the “Spiral Garden” project. This project was spearheaded by Associate Professor Jim Wasley of the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning, as one of the first steps in a long term plan to drastically reduce stormwater discharge from the UWM campus. Final design plans were by Arnold & O’Sheridan and are publically available through the State of Wisconsin Division of State Facilities. I’ve uploaded a couple of the most relevant site plans. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) provided partial project funding. There is much more information online about this project, on the uwm.edu site and elsewhere, if you search for it.
Some of the current (as of October 2012) bing.com “birds eye aerial views” of this location show the project area just after construction. You can see that the grading and hardscape features have just been constructed, but the bioretention areas are bare of plants. The bing photos are probably from late 2009. Notice how lush the vegetation has become in my photos from 2011. Interestingly, some of the Bing birds eye views appear to show the project location before construction, when it was just an open grassed area (depending upon your zoom level and direction of viewing in Bing). This project is located southwest of the intersection of Downer Ave. and Newport Ave. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Klotsche Center and Sabin Hall are immediately north of the site and Holton Hall is to the south.
Because it sits atop a parking garage and rail yard, Chicago's Millennium Park is considered the largest green roof in the world.
As part of CDOT's Cermak Road-Blue Island Avenue Sustainable Streetscape project, a portion of Cermak Road in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood was retrofitted with rain gardens, bioswales, pervious pavements, curb cuts, and native planting for better water management.
One neighborhood of Hinsdale, IL, contains curb cuts that allow stormwater to easily drain into rain gardens and bioswales. With dense vegetation, absorbent soils, and underground storage capacity, these installations help treat the stormwater and prevent flooding of homes and streets.
New York has been very public in celebrating it's adoption of painted bicycle lanes in Manhattan - however I think that in North America, Montreal deserves some special attention for it's pioneering bold move to create curb- separated (very permanent), bi-directional, bicycle lanes right through the downtown area. Montreal has been quietly installing these lanes in their downtown for a number of years - well before lanes in Manhattan, or planters on Vancouver streets.
For engineering schematics see page 44 and the appendices of this:
ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/arr_out_fr/medi...
A resident friend of mine (normally a driver) commented to me that an increase to respect/watch out for/accept cyclists by drivers had been tangible over the last few years - something she was still surprised by even though she was one of those who found herself being more aware of cyclists.
As of December 2009, the closest thing that I have seen to this in the Americas are some of the Ciclorutas in downtown Bogota www.flickr.com/photos/83423898@N00/3139669132/in/photostream . Otherwise I feel the concept is much more European, - such as seen in Seville Spain www.flickr.com/photos/adrimcm/5786731273/in/set-721576267...:
Temperature: a crisp +1 degree Celsius
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Enabling cycling makes it a lower hanging fruit for all - including for those who may already have a car parked in the driveway. Bike commuting can be an inexpensive and efficient way to work physical activity into our increasingly sedentary lives - imho in a more logical way than the evening or after-work gym schedule.
Photos of the River Forest Library and adjacent Roosevelt Middle School, October 2022.
The library and school share a parking lot that is paved with pervious pavers, a type of green infrastructure.
Flowers bloom in a rain garden between the Wolf Museum of Music & Art and Westlawn Mansion in Lancaster, Pa., on June 14, 2019. The museum's garden features hundreds of flowers and is able to capture stormwater before it becomes runoff pollution. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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LUC has worked with a large multi-disciplinary team to deliver a sustainable infrastructure and development masterplan to guide the long term transformation of Shawfield in Glasgow’s East End. LUC also led the design and implementation of an advanced phase of public realm and landscape works that now forms a framework for new development to be realised over a 20-25year horizon.
Prior to construction the site was heavily contaminated and consisted of large areas of vacant and derelict land together with dated business and industrial premises. The site was completely cleared and underwent significant ground remediation in advance of the public realm works to ensure the site is ‘development ready’.
LUC developed a green infrastructure strategy to inform the masterplan design with an emphasis on integrated surface water drainage and pedestrian connectivity to surrounding communities, transport nodes and the River Clyde corridor.
The Clyde riverbanks have been manipulated to provide new pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and this now provides an extension to the strategically important Clyde Walkway.
An ecologically diverse mosaic of riparian woodland, grassland and wetland habitats has been created that will improve the biodiversity of the River Clyde corridor.
A new strategic pedestrian and cycling link has been created linking the new South Dalmarnock Smart Bridge with the centre of the masterplan site, improving connectivity in the area. In contrast with the more naturalistic riverside treatment this link is more formal in character with strong tree avenue planting, lighting and paving patterns.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
Construction of bioswales for stormwater treatment and management, along Morgan Avenue in the City of Milwaukee. August 2022.
This is Milwaukee Department of Public Works project 89-2021.
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Bright green bromiliads from the genus Guzmania hand from the trees in Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve which protects nearly 90,000 acres. The 22 mile long swamp forest is 3-5 mile wide and connectd the headwaters in OK Slough to estuary in Florida Bay. Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridror of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.
LUC assisted The National Trust to address the difficult issues of the A21, Lamberhurst bypass which passes through the historic and registered landscape of Scotney Castle. The original proposals put forward by the Highways Agency would have severed and accordingly replaced a section of the historic drive - essentially, part of the “picturesque” landscape for which Scotney is famed – with an alternative approach. LUC advised the Trust and assisted HA in developing the alternative “landbridge” proposal which would retain the full extent of the drive on its original line and reconstruct the affected section as a contained and planted corridor passing over the new dual carriageway. In this way ecological and heritage benefits could be retained and even enhanced.
The revised scheme was taken through Public Inquiry with LUC’s participation and was subsequently confirmed. Construction has incorporated the fine detailing of landform and planting as well as placement of recovered tree stumps, sections of moss bank and other ground textures of ecological and visual merit. The scheme was necessarily tuned to meet HA constraints and specifications, tying in with positive landscape treatments in the wider A21 corridor.
The work was successfully completed in Spring 2005.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
Photographer Clyde Butcher joined the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition team as they crossed Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve which protects nearly 90,000 acres of the 22 mile long, 3-5 mile wide forest which connects the OK Slough to Florida Bay. Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridror of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.
Believe it or not, but not too long ago, the city used to look like this...sans the metal in the background.
One neighborhood of Hinsdale, IL, contains curb cuts that allow stormwater to easily drain into rain gardens and bioswales. With dense vegetation, absorbent soils, and underground storage capacity, these installations help treat the stormwater and prevent flooding of homes and streets.
PS 2M Meyer London School Community Playground ribbon cutting with Trust for Public Land, October 14, 2021. water absorbing pavers
One neighborhood of Hinsdale, IL, contains curb cuts that allow stormwater to easily drain into rain gardens and bioswales. With dense vegetation, absorbent soils, and underground storage capacity, these installations help treat the stormwater and prevent flooding of homes and streets.
Beloved community areas, such as this park, often become inaccessible after major rain events due to flooding.
Florida cowboys and conservationists from the Northern Everglades Alliance, a group of landowners representing nearly one million acres of land in the Northern Everglades watershed, hosted the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition team for a 17 mile horseback ride from the Creek Ranch in Polk County to The Nature Conservancy's Disney Wilderness Preserve in Osceola County. The trail ride traversed the Creek Ranch, a candidate for conservation easement protection through the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area. The Creek Ranch is adjacent to The Nature Conservancy's Hatchineha Ranch, which includes the first piece of the new Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge which could ultimately protect 150,000 acres of land primarly through conservation easements. The ride traversed the rim of Lake Hatchineha, across land owned by the South Florida Water Management District adjacent to the Avatar Ranch before entering the 12,000 acre Nature Conservancy's Disney Wilderness Preserve. Lake Hatchineha is in the Kissimmee Chain of lakes and the surrounding ranches protect the watershed that gathers and cleans waters ultimately flowing to the Everglades.
Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. From January 17 through April 25, 2012, a team of explorers including photographer Carlton Ward Jr, cinematographer Elam Stoltzfus, bear biologist Joe Guthrie and conservationist Mallory Lykes Dimmitt, set out to trek 1000 miles in 100 days to showcase the opportunity to protect a connected corridror of natural lands and waters throughout peninsular Florida for the benefit of wildlife and people. Learn more at FloridaWildlifeCorridor.org. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / CarltonWard.com.