I have often said, the fact that modern zoning encourages the largest residential buildings near some of our biggest sources of pollution is a major environmental justice issue. We canāt keep doing this. Itās fine to put apartments on residential streets.
In new research on housing & highway locations @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that: 1āZoning concentrates dense housing near highways 2āLarger buildings are disproportionately built near highways 3āPeople of color & low-income people are disproportionately exposed to highway pollution
New Urban research shows high-density housing in Los Angeles is disproportionately concentrated near high-traffic roads compared with single-family homes, exposing apartment residents to the adverse h...
related: "Elon Musk's xAI facility is expected to use more than 1.3 million gallons of water daily for cooling purposes, which at the moment is directly pulling from the aquifer" news.yahoo.com/news/memphis...
Several Memphis environmental groups and advocates called for more transparency from the Greater Memphis Chamber on Elon Musk's xAI project.
Pierre Poilievre continues to be weirdly evasive on anything related to India's ongoing interference in our democracy. Why? www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/16/o...
The Conservative Party of Canada leader doesn't seem to want to talk about the RCMP's bombshell allegations against Indian diplomats in this country. In the process, his silence may speak loudest of a...
Overlays are widgets or technologies that promise to improve a site's accessibility with third-party source code. More than 700 accessibility advocates and web developers have signed an open letter to explain the limitations and dangers of these products. overlayfactsheet.com
'There is substantial evidence that high grade FFP3 respirators can provide up to 100% protection in the ward, whilst staff wearing standard issue surgical masks face a significantly increased risk of catching COVID.'šš¬ļø@Kit_Yates_Maths @trishgreenhalgh open.substack.com/pub/kityates...
Last month's testimony on masks and airborne spread has left many bemused
People keep saying that the genocide of Indigenous people happened years ago. This just passed today
HEPA filters in classrooms: "HEPA filters... predicted to reduce PM2.5 by 40ā60āÆ% and viral RNA by 30ā50āÆ% depending on... classroom design and window opening... The energy cost of... HEPA filters is likely to be only 1āÆ%ā2āÆ% of the classroom heating costs. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The quality of the classroom environment, including ventilation, air quality and thermal conditions, has an important impact on childrenās health and ā¦
This is probably going to annoy everyone but more information is not the solution to whatever the crisis is, be it covid, climate or genocide www.donotpanic.news/p/how-covid-...
Iāve got to get something off my chest.
