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Hirondelles & Zebra Robe in Bedroom | Image credit: desenio.com Desenio raises money for mental health. The role of art and its therapeutic potential is the focus of a new collection being launched by Desenio in May 2025. Art for a Cause brings together unique pieces by artists from around the world in an eclectic…
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Getting the Most Seed Diversity to the Most People. Replay of Seed Up Saturday 2025. In This Podcast: Hosted by Bill McDorman and Greg Peterson, focusing on increasing seed diversity and local seed stewardship. Sponsored by GreatAmericanSeedUp.org and SeedUpInABox.com, the event encourages community-based seed saving efforts. Guest speakers include Julia Dakin of Going to Seed,…
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Estimated reading time: 17 minutes Most of us have experienced the occasional power outage. They’re usually short-lived, often during a storm, and typically just an inconvenience. But a summer power outage is a different beast entirely. It’s not just an inconvenience; it can be deadly if you aren’t prepared. Without air conditioning, fans, or refrigeration,…
The Oakland Athletics baseball club is still looking into where it should locate in Oakland. In January we looked at car and parking access at the sites under consideration. Folks, a lot of folks, get to games via transit – especially rail transit. Let’s look at how the sites stack up for current transit access…
Discover the right time and method to water plants so they stay cool and hydrated all day. Ever felt like your plants were giving you the “help me, mama” look at high noon? Don’t worry — we’ve all been there. One minute, your kangkong looks perky; the next, it’s floppier than last night’s leftover fries….
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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m glad to share the preprint of a new study where we propose “A time interval metric for cumulative opportunity accessibility”. check the abstract below. If you’d like a non-academic summary, here is a Twitter thread summarizing the key findings of the paper. Tomasiello, D. B., Santos, D….
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Clearwater, FL and Dallas, TX – [May 21, 2025] – Voeks Inc., a leading innovator in agricultural and horticultural irrigation and sustainable water technology growing solutions, proudly announces the appointment of Christopher Higgins, President and Co-Founder of Hort Americas and founder of Urban Ag News, as its new Industry Advisor. This strategic addition to the advisory…
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This joint-essay was wriiten by Aushaf Widisto (aka Oswald / Oz), an urbanist, writer, and cultural researcher based in Melbourne, and Ann Guo, an urban anthropologist based in Seattle and Istanbul. Part I: Melbourne Into the Library Photo by David Iliff on Wikimedia Commons. In The Image of the City (1960), urban theorist Kevin Lynch…
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Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, publicly-oriented writing in history as a way to teach beyond the classroom, develop marketable skills, and promote the enduring value of the humanities. This year’s theme is Light We are looking for…
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This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Become A Member We’ve never done anything big in this country without little banks. Yet the number of community banks in the U.S. has been steadily declining for decades, giving way to…
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