A short article about the exciting new partnership among Ohio State’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, Artfluential, Ohio History Connection and Columbus Landmarks Foundation - community visioning and imagining of the past and future of the Bronzeville neighborhood of Columbus:
https://cura.osu.edu/news/bronzeville-universe-community-visioning-workshop
“We are hurtling remarkably fast toward a world distinct from the one our societies developed in.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/hottest-day-on-earth/679255/
High temperatures, droughts and wildfire last year caused some forests to wilt and burn enough to degrade the ability of the land to lock away carbon dioxide.
A great turnout for the first @OSUCURA / Artfluential workshop to understand the past and imagine the future of Bronzeville, Columbus
Excellent news for democracy in Ohio!
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/23/its-official-ohioans-will-vote-on-whether-to-remove-politicians-from-congressional-and-statehouse-re/74336416007/
Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide.
Kamala Harris has a strong record on the environment in vivid contrast with Donald Trump, who has vowed to rescind climate change policies should he return to the White House
Sunday’s record might one day be seen as “anomalously cool” if the world did not rapidly reach net zero emissions.
“How will we remember 2024? It’s up to us to make sure it goes down in history as the year the world finally started to act to save our planet.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/voices-2024-is-history-s-tipping-point-for-climate-change/ar-BB1qqhbH
What Project 2025 would do to climate policy in the US: “It's real bad."
https://grist.org/politics/what-project-2025-would-to-do-climate-policy-in-the-us/
“This was not, however, an unforeseeable freak accident, nor will it be the last of its kind. Instead, the devastation was the inevitable outcome of modern social systems that have been designed for hyper-connected optimization, not decentralized resilience.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/crowdstrike-failure-warning-solutions/679174/
“When powerful people deny climate change, it threatens to rob the Earth’s inhabitants of a chance to avoid climate catastrophe by enacting sensible national policies. The members of Congress who continue in their denials are shirking their responsibility to recognize facts and act on them.”
Despite record-breaking heat and public concern over climate change, the Republican National Convention focuses on expanding fossil fuel use, dismissing climate science.