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Architectural Greens
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Barriers Made of Concrete and Oyster Shells Mitigate Erosion and Offer Alluring New Habitats on Australia’s Coastline
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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
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Please sign the petition if you can!!
(Here’s the link to Alaina’s linktree which provides additional links to other important causes.)
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Took a year to complete this quilt! Pattern is by NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg called Cupola View. Fabrics used were also designed by Karen, the collection is called Earth Views.
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What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? And they not both saying: Hello?
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an appalachian environmental magazine i follow is calling for writing submissions from specifically indigenous people in southern appalachia and the broader southeast. the theme is indigineity, but the magazine covers ecology and climate change. there is no fee for submission. i am not indigenous, but i frequently see indigenous people sharing interesting perspectives regarding environmental science here on tumblr, so I thought i would share the link here.
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found this abandoned quilt top while cleaning and had to finish it up finally. screen printed and sewn last semester and finally quilted and bound yesterday. using holographic foils to emulate the glassy appearance of diatoms under the microscope, i sewed a log cabin pattern as a playful nod to the idea that diatoms live in tiny glass houses.
Glass Cabin, 2023, 40x42in, pieced cotton with textile foil screenprints, polyester batting, gifted fabric backing
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Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.
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If the dinosaurs never went extinct then would there still be fossil fuels?
- dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, birds are dinosaurs
- fossil fuels come from fossil plants and marine invertebrates. Dinosaurs are not the source of fossil fuels.
- fossilisation happens regardless of whether or not a species goes extinct, there are fossils of living species. It’s just something that happens to dead organisms in the right conditions
- fossil fuels amass when there’s just giant quantities of dead organic material, like in the Carboniferous Coal Forests. So yeah, they were always going to exist in a world where life does so well.
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Des Moines Tribune, Iowa, January 19, 1932
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“For a landscape ecologist, a landscape is made up of a spatial array of patches. Depending on the researcher’s perspective, patches may consist of ecosystems or may simply be areas of habitat for a particular organism. Patches are spread spatially over a landscape in a mosaic. This metaphor reflects how natural systems often are arrayed across landscapes in complex patterns, like an intricate work of art.”
—Environment: The Science Behind The Stories by Jay Withgott and Matthew Laposata
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more embroidered fish fossils
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Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)
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Solarpunks, we’re on YouTube!
Well… sort of. We have our two latest episodes up, and we’re going to make a concerted effort to get older episodes uploaded over the next couple of months, so that you can listen to us in video form, if you so choose!
Like, subscribe, comment, ring the bell, follow …. (Whatever it is that YouTube influencers say. We’re sort of new to this…)
-Ariel
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Computational design on the Biorock Pavilion:
Excerpt from Dezeen article:
The Biorock Pavilion is a concept for an amphitheatre-like event space that could be grown underwater. The form of the building is based on that of a seashell, as well as mathematical forms.
The basis of the pavilion would be a skeletal structure comprised of a network of very thin steel rods, which would be immersed in a solution of minerals.
It would be grown by electrodeposition of minerals
An electric current would then be run through the steel skeleton, allowing the remainder of the pavilion to be 'grown' as the minerals calcify atop the base structure.
"It takes those minerals out of the seawater and produces a structure similar to reinforced concrete," stated Pawlyn. "This uses an absolute minimum of material to grow a whole building."
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A climate scientists recommendations on climate change books :D🌎📚
For Absolute beginners!
•The Intersectional Environmentalist -Leah Thomas Gives a look into how social justice issues such as racism, sexism, and classism, further the climate change problem
•The uninhabitable planet -David Walles-Wells is an introductory level to the effects of climate change such as rising sea levels, greenhouse effect, etc
•Silent Spring -Rachel Carson, the book that is credited as one of the foundations to the start of the environmental movement. Explains how early observations of birds migration patterns from Carson hinted at the change in climate back in the 60’s
You’ve been to a rally or two
•This changes everything Capitalism v The Climate -Naomi Klein A lengthy read but highlights just what systems of power are in play in a global capitalistic economy, and how those systems abuse their power in name of profit over well being
•A (very) short history of life on earth - Henry Gee Gee explains the way life has existed on earth and just what extinction events took them out. Good intro to the geologic time scale but i don’t recommend if you don’t know basic biology as Gee uses a lot of vocab words
•Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid -Thor Hanson Highlights how animals are adapting to climate change, a gentle reminder every extinction event has had climate change correlated to it. Hanson shows what species are doing as a response to a biological hazard and the early steps of potential evolution (great adaptations kenneth catania is a similar read i havent gotten to yet)
You know what intersectional environmentalism is and support land back
•Braiding Sweetgrass- Robin Wall-Kimmerer- lengthy read again as Kimmerer highlights the struggles of bringing indigenous values into a white male dominated field as biologist and a white male dominated society through a collection beautiful essays (top 3 fav books)
•Countdown - Shanna H Swan Using many scientific terms but attempted to be simplified Swan uses her research on reproductive systems both human and animal to correlate pollution to decline in reproductive health. (for queer people! this book has an uncomfy chapter on intersex in animals and i dont think queer people were consulted when it was written tbh. I myself am queer and found it an odd chapter to read but it wasnt hateful, more just confused)
•As long as grass grows - Dina Gillo-Whitaker Whitaker explains the indigenous communities/allies fight for environmental justice indigenous values. Touching on just what those values are and the long history of fights to give indigenous communities the rights to their land and also incorporate indigenous values about land into the fight against climate change
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Awesome video on geologic time with an amazing and enthusiastic presenter!
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