Adam L Tate

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social

FFS, that is the opposite of what we should be doing. This administration is complicit in genocide and ecocide at this point.

This. Time to put grandpa in a home. Just tell him the padded walls are there to protect the gold and that it’s part of the stupid White House ball room he’s so excited for.

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on Fox News and explained the consequences of Trump’s government shutdown in one minute.

Ohhh, you think you can call in the 82nd Airborne to quell this uprising?

Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Portland small business boosters, it’s time to embrace the inflatable animal costume economy. The people are willing to shell out cash for these and we need as much variety as we can get!!!

And we have made is beautiful, inclusive and kind. We do not need ICE, we do not need the National Guard, the only thing we need is to continue making Portland the weird and wonderful place it is.

How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.

'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:

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Oh wow, I totally assumed the sign was an original, she did a good job! And yeah, wiring and attic work is not the most fun stuff.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Urban Cooling: Table of Contents A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles

Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.

A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.

#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability

The Tiffany lamps really complete the look. Well done!

Every crisis of 2025 in a nutshell.

Close your account and move your money to a local credit union.

Of course he is, even though DAC has proven problematic and difficult, it was worth trying, especially in one of the most polluted places in the world: the petrochemical hubs along the Texas and Louisiana coast.

A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.” “We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

Urban Cooling | Adam L Tate | Substack Welcome to the Urban Cooling Institute. Here we explore design strategies and technologies for combating the Urban Heat Island effect. A how to guide on ways to make our cities cool and make our citie...

That’s my goal! To help guide more cities to implement these solutions. It helps with the urban heat island effect, with biodiversity, public health, happiness, placemaking, traffic calming, climate change adaptation and mitigation, etc. I write all about it at urbancooling.substack.com

It fascinates me how Australia can get some things so right, and some things so wrong when it comes to this sort of stuff. Not surprised to hear Melbourne and Yarra are doing it right. Any city that gave birth to the Lucksmiths has to have some fundamental goodness to it.

That’s a good point, thank you Finn!

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Urban Cooling: Table of Contents A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles

Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.

A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.

#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability

This was fantastic. As someone who grew up in DFW, it is a question I’ve pondered many times over the years and I think Ray nailed it here.

This! Paris is a model for the rest of us to follow. I’ll be writing an article soon about how Anne Hidalgo’s efforts there have been some of the best urban planning policies of the decade.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Far right influencers, pundits and politicians have really ramped up their “who can spread the biggest, most asinine lie” contest.

Go small, or go home.

Index motor tax to vehicle size & weight please @darraghobrientd.bsky.social. If people want to drive big, they should pay big. And any EV subsidies should favour small vehicles.

#RoadBloat