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@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange transportation and war, too.
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Tyler Simonds
@tylersi@c.im
mastodon 4.7.2I'm really interested in spaces inspired by the rest of nature, buildings that support people who want to thrive. My work revolves around air quality and energy efficiency considerations. This includes thoughtful lighting and reduced noise pollution.
Michigan ➡️ PSU ➡️ Boston
For fun, I’ll occasionally share stained glass here. It’s a cool medium to see what people do with. Hope you enjoy!
#airQuality #buildings #construction #darkSkies #energy 🏳️🌈 #stainedGlass #Boston
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large leaning tree in park setting; a hand sculpture apepars to support it
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me; brown hair tied back, orange-lensed glasses, full short goatee; background is boat wake and shoreline
How's everyone doing with their allergies today? Thankfully I don't have much sensitivity but it sounds like tree pollen has been Extreme, so I hope people are okay. An N95 mask can help if you need to be outside at all
Boston.
Massachusetts.
What do we make of Mayor Wu shutting down the office of green infrastructure? While there is certainly work to do in the private sector, I feel disappointed considering she looks to have also pumped the brakes on common sense transportation work. (And I’ve heard from multiple sources that this is true.)
#BosPoli #climate #MAPoli #news #transportation #water #Boston #MA
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@markwyner@mas.to beautiful. I'm not (currently) in the design or IT worlds, but I think about the former and their intersection a LOT. In any case, I may just reach out
This #Pride Month, can we highlight teams that embrace queer people? I don't mean they're happy to include gay white men. I mean groups that GET IT, that we simply cannot afford to manage optics or accept tokenism for long. Surface level performance alone will fail us all.
Do you know of a team that kept DEI throughout the pandemic, throughout the Trump election? A group that actually plans to be around for a while?
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A lot of people don't know this, but trees provide shade AND air conditioning ❄️
This doesn't mean plant them willy-nilly, but that a good, healthy tree in the right place has a *massive* positive benefit. Yay learning!
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Air conditioning when I believe our window units just make everything hotter.
This isn't to say trash your mechanical A/C, only that trees are incredible.
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@jencmars@mastodon.art amazing. I love what we can notice when we slow down and pay attn
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@themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt interesting, I've heard of the third one. Is Wallabag a sort of automation that brings information into your Obsidian vault?
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A breeze can feel nice, but when that breeze carries HOT air into your home, this can backfire on you. I recommend a fan instead
This is incredible. I want to share about the work that Allie O'Brien is up to, as primary elections continue in the U.S.
Allie is someone I've followed for a while now. They made a map of viable progressive candidates. I believe California wrapped up voting yesterday, sadly, but numerous other communities still have an opportunity to get solid people into the race - people who will actually fight for us.
https://www.linktr.ee/allie_202_
--> Progressive Voting Guide
So please check this out as you can. One voting guide you can find is Allie's, called Allies Against AIPAC. Recommended. Qasim Rashid has a group on here, too.
I don't know that I can support Graham Platner at this point, but it could be that people are making a good argument for them.
Please be involved in PRIMARIES somehow - event if that's just reading a bit and noting when your community has one ^
NOT an exhaustive list, but these are states that look to be active still:
#California #Colorado #Illinois #Maine #Massachusetts #Michigan #Missouri #NewYork #Pennsylvania #Texas #Wisconsin
Everyone please check this out even if your state is not listed above.
https://www.linktr.ee/allie_202_
--> Progressive Voting Guide
THANK YOU!
A number of the big projects on this Newsweek list are atrocious for air quality (data centers, fossil fuel processing...) but here are two that I feel excited about.
Who here is from California, Las Vegas, or the U.S. east coast? Is America about to get it's first high speed rail?!
#airQuality #Amtrak #rail #transportation #California #LasVegas #Maryland
"The environment isn't a line item. It's the foundation everything else sits on." 🔥
For a long time now - since before any of us existed - people have been treating earth like a canvas or a world to dominate. It can be neither of these things.
Extinction of homo sapiens is fully possible. I don't know how long it will take, but I'd rather not subject ourselves to the misery. You?
Many an indigenous community of Turtle Island has treated earth with the respect it demands, has shown us what we have to do, how we must be. I hope we'll listen soon.
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Credit to Alizabeth George Antone for that language at the beginning there. We DEPEND on a healthy planet every day.
#airQuality #AQ #climate #climateChange #currentEvents #environment
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@knizer@toot.boston I'll probably need some help if I am going to take the day off from work, unfortunately