@jspector I'd love to know your system for preparing for a launch - do you have it all planned and ready and scheduled ahead of time? Do you have a system for what you are going to do? If it isn't performing as expected, how do you detect and what do you adjust?
@NIvdrip@jessekb@MassGovernor And I would add - (for the Concord site) - provide a way to cross rt2 near the roundabout so the two nearby bike trails (Minuteman and Freeman) can flow together towards boston. Would make a huge difference to allow for walkability/bikeability in a massive section of metrowest.
What if—instead of misery and stress—our streets could bring us joy?
What if—instead of incentivizing physical inactivity—they could help us build movement into our daily lives?
What if—instead of isolating and pushing us apart—they could encourage cooperation and conviviality?
@KevinEspiritu Interesting... Recipe templates and cooking websites have lately been inspiring my thinking about new content around garden design/ putting plants together. This looks cool and even more thought provoking...🤔
@tonythill Example - I have 44.5K followers, 2.2mil monthly views. This translates to 4K users/mo and 4.5k sessions/mo from pinterest. Is this good or bad? 🤷♀️ seems low, but don't know how to judge? Also, not sure how to systematically improve.
@tonythill How do you identify the top-ranking competition? just followers and views? (what else can you see?) I have lots of follower and lots of views - but constantly am trying to increase clickthrough rate -big followers and views numbers don't always translate directly to big traffic.
Redeveloping just 10% of the Boston area's 3,024 strip malls into mixed-use housing and commercial space could provide 125,000 new homes for the Boston metro region.
It might be hard, but definitely not impossible to change our streets. We did it before, and we can do it again!
—Barbarosseplatz, #Cologne (1900, now and future)
(📹 by digital gardener @jan_kamensky)
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Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.
His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.
Humans outlive their ability to drive safely by ten years, yet most cities are built on the assumption they’ll do it forever.
To allow for successful aging in place, we must rethink our car-first streets and provide amenities within a short walk or roll.
https://t.co/Dg25FAaNra
City design is making cities hotter. Here’s the fix: the hottest spots in cities have less than 6% vegetation cover, while the coolest spots in most cities have over 70%. Add trees everywhere to cool cities. https://t.co/xiSTgJxKUN