After a busy install season, #GrahamProjects is excited to finally share our recent public works! The #PigtownIconic traffic calming art crosswalk installation at Washington & Cross welcomes folks to Pigtown via bold shapes, bright colors, & prideful symbols.
Coulda been a riverwalk of storefronts but the wealthy wanted to get to the county fast so we have a brand new dangerous stroad immediately in need of retrofit.
Remember, when the fresh snow flies in your city, it reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars making them faster & more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people & public life. We call them #sneckdowns. HT @fietsprofessor
Point Reyes Seashore is the ranching industry’s crowned jewel of public land privatization. They’ve fought off lawsuits to keep it fenced, published endless greenwashing briefs on their amazing “carbon farming” plans.
Water testing shows they’ve completely poisoned it with shit.
Like in the 80s, a once protected habitat was exposed to fishing and in a few years, populations collapsed.
Can we chalk the crab calamity up to climate or are we letting fishing off the hook?
Did the fishing industry exploit climate change to raid the snow crab ice refuge?
WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
The “Colombia Maryland Paradox” on the news continues. Bad news = Baltimore suburb. Good news = DC suburb.
Latest example: flooding at merriweather pavilion = outside Baltimore. If Howard county gets another blue ribbon school you can bet news will say it’s a DC suburb
Bombing of Azovstal by Russia can cause the leakage of concentrated solution of hydrogen sulfide into the Sea of Azov what will completely destroy its flora and fauna. Then dangerous substances can also reach the Black and Mediterranean Seas, reports Mariupol City Council 1/4
Remarkable @BBCNews report: farmers in Vosnesensk ambushed 🇷🇺 forces as they approached the small community, halting their advance by blowing up the bridge, destroying all 🇷🇺 tanks vehicles w/ help from 🇬🇧 NLAW anti-tank weapons, inflicting heavy 🇷🇺 losses & full retreat
#Ukraine