Kim Adamson

[Kim Adamson @kladamson]

@PrettyYende @MTGrepp What a gift you are Amazing Pretty

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Watch what happens when two monkeys are offered unequal pay for the same task: https://t.co/9bSvvkZBVN

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

R.I.P to the great and inspiring Vivienne Westwood who lead us through punk and beyond.
Laughed at by the fashion industry but without question she is the undisputed Queen of British fashion. I love you! Oh bondage up yours!

[Daniel @DanLCCCBWFC]

Not many tracks will ever get close to this.

Magnificent.

RIP Maxi Jazz #Faithless #Insomnia

[Mixmag @Mixmag]

Faithless performing 'Insomnia' at their legendary Pyramid stage slot at Glastonbury 2002

RIP Maxi Jazz 🖤

🎥 BBC

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

If you are a certain age, this is one of the greatest dance songs ever. RIP Maxi Jazz.

[Faithless @faithless]

Faithless Family. 27 years of No Sleep. 27 years of Insomnia. Thank you for listening.

[Sammy Porter @iamsammyporter]

For me, Faithless - “Insomnia” will forever be one of the biggest dance music records ever written.

RIP Maxi Jazz from Faithless 🕊️🙏

#faithless #maxijazz #dancemusic

[Pete Tong mbe @petetong]

Maxi Jazz R.I.P
A poet, a gentleman and a true original who together with @faithless made a handful of tunes that define both club culture and a generation. In a hundred years time if someone asks what all the fuss was about in 1996, just play them Insomnia, job done…

[Tannie @nubian6]

Proof that showing up,matters

[Kim Adamson @kladamson]

@MtnHelpDesk who do we contact to report a stolen phone

[NYSE 🏛 @NYSE]

The NYSE welcomes @JSE_Group to the ring the Closing Bell 🔔 #NYSEInstitute https://t.co/7rrbjMN441

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

A statement from His Majesty The King:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Some things will never go out of style.

20 “old fashioned” ways to stand out (in your career, business, or life):

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

If you want to give yourself a personal MBA (in 6 months), read these books:

[Jack Niewold 🫡 @JackNiewold]

THE SEARCH FOR CRYPTO CASH FLOWS.

Are there any 'fundamentals' in crypto? Do real cash flows even exist? Is value accrual a meme?

I went on a hunt and found five crypto projects distributing actual cash flows to users:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The Danger of Minimalist Design

(& the death of detail)

A short thread...

[Kim Adamson @kladamson]

Zoltan Pozsar: We are witnessing the birth of a new world monetary order https://t.co/jB3wWxM4iY via @CreditSuisse