Kate Orff

landscape architect, founder @SCAPE_studio Prof @ColumbiaGSAPP, @ColumbiaUD #PetrochemicalAmerica, @allwecansave

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

Hi everyone. I’m going dark here. Last post via @NYTimes https://t.co/NlHF5vnlid

[The Architect's Newspaper @archpaper]

The new 31-acre Tom Lee Park in Memphis by SCAPE and Studio Gang activates a riverfront site with playgrounds, a pavilion, native plantings, and new walking paths.
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Architectural crime scene ⁦@McCormick_Place⁩ ⁦@chicago⁩ ⁦@archpaper⁩ ⁦@ArchRecord⁩ https://t.co/DJQhgyya4B

[Tristan Baurick @tristanbaurick]

In 1990, an Army Corps engineer warned that deepening the Mississippi for ships would trigger a drinking water crisis in Louisiana.

33 years later, he says the Corps' dredging - more than drought - brought salt water to New Orleans’ doorstep https://t.co/FkUURh5cFI

[Field Museum @FieldMuseum]

Nearly 1,000 birds died after striking the windows at McCormick Place convention center on October 5: the most Field collecting efforts have documented in the past 40 years.

📸: Lauren Nassef

[Kate Orff @KateOrff]

A moment of truth ⁦@NewYorker⁩

[Wild Bird Fund @wildbirdfund]

Window collisions are preventable, and contrary to popular belief, they are not a skyscraper problem. Birds collide on lower floors where trees and foliage are reflected in the glass. If birds are hitting your windows, please mark them!

📷: @tristanahigg

[Wild Bird Fund @wildbirdfund]

There was a big movement of woodpeckers last night, and the yellow-bellied sapsuckers have arrived in force. We've received 7 so far today, among our 25 window-collision victims. It's always hard to see these beautiful birds hurt and killed so needlessly.

📷 @tristanahigg

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Flushing Meadow Park #NYC

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by @PaulNoth. #NewYorkerCartoons

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NYC rn

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Corps to barge 36M gallons of freshwater daily to fight salt | Environment | https://t.co/4Qq7DQn4Kr https://t.co/Rg0EU8aaCF

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The web of life : Red knot numbers have declined by 94% over the past 40 years, https://t.co/P1nvEXIAva

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Ahem @NYTimes @nytimesbusiness REWRITE this headline. How can you have decades of climate reporting confirming fossil fuel consumption = ongoing global collapse of livelihoods & ecosystems & promulgate false narrative of “growth.” Get someone new on this beat like @amywestervelt

[Wild Bird Fund @wildbirdfund]

This magnolia warbler was also among the lucky, if unhappy, few yesterday. If you see a window-struck bird stunned or lying on the sidewalk, you have been chosen to help! Please place the bird in a paper bag (ideally) and bring it to WBF or a rehabber near you.

📷: Phyllis Tseng