if we're serious about centering equity in rezoning, why are we preserving the very neighborhoods whose history is most clearly linked to the inequitable processes of the past?
26.11.2024 16:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jeremyscience.bsky.social
Director of Climate Justice & Impact at Groundwork USA. Affiliate Faculty at VCU and University of Richmond. NCA5 Lead Author, Southeast Chapter. Opinions mine; facts peer-reviewed.
if we're serious about centering equity in rezoning, why are we preserving the very neighborhoods whose history is most clearly linked to the inequitable processes of the past?
26.11.2024 16:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it is wild to watch how present-day city rezoning processes perform the mental gymnastics equivalent of an olympic gold-medal floor routine to preserve the most affluent, whitest, and most-exclusive neighborhoods for seemingly no reason whatsoever other than "the lot size is already big so..." π«£
26.11.2024 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What an honor it is to work with Richmond's own Southside ReLeaf to reduce environmental burden while beautifying new public green spaces - www.richmonder.org/southside-re...
25.11.2024 19:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hadn't seen this StoryMap about #redlining, environmental inequity, and health outcomes before. Many of the data links are now broken (an all-too-common problem with StoryMaps!), but the visual communication of the data is still really effective: gisweb.nbbj.com/arcgis/apps/...
20.11.2024 15:11 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A new global atmospheric CO2 reconstruction was released today, and it shows *yet again* that present-day levels of CO2 in the atmosphere only ever occurred alongside much, much higher (~150 feet) global sea levels: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
07.12.2023 22:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*tap, tap*
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