UK folks, you can reply to the government consultation on land use. This is an important opportunity to advocate for rewilding, increasing transparency into land ownership, banning destructive practices like driven grouse shooting and burning moors, and more.
You can respond as an individual or on behalf of an organisation until April 25.
My responses, which you are free to use or adapt, are here: https://resilienceweb.org.uk/news/land-use-consultation
My thoughts on 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Ren Hu & Nicholas J. Gill, 2022).
This paper includes a very thorough literary review and insights into the perceptions and experiences of Illawara dairy farmers as the region is urbanised.
The paper is perhaps worth a read if you are concerned with land-use issues in rural communities.
https://joesilver.micro.blog/2025/03/25/my-commentary-on-the-paper.html
Fascinating short article for your Monday. It looks like Paris residents DID vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
A solid majority said yes to the plan.
Developments like this block not only neighbours' views but also the prospect of adapting planning regulations to facilitate economic growth.
Nacton giant warehouse leaves neighbours 'in tears'
What People Do
Lovely bit of dappled sunlight on the mountains. Scots Pines of the Caledonian Forest growing on the slopes. River trickling through a gorge.
Path intruding.
Disused quarry a gaping wound on the hillside.
Full of refuse - 10 oil tanks, a caravan, farm slurry tanker and a boat amongst other things.
A year ago, the quarry floor was also full of rainwater with oil-slick rainbows.
Prints etc: https://shiny.photo/photo/What-People-Do-4e1d0c5874ff8168311b45e4a87de394
As we talk about energy, we need to talk about a decrease in *overall* energy use—especially as so-called AI is a topic of conversation. Moving to renewables alone will not cut it. We also CANNOT afford to count on technology that might, eventually exist (e.g. meaningful carbon capture with some device or facility).
The time to take real action for ourselves was yesterday. Let’s push for it now
#agriculture #building #climate #construction #energy #landUse #transportation
(Edited: hashtags)
Local Food
Can public institutions procure food locally? How do land grabs impact local food movements? What are the local food discourses in Canada? What are the ethical considerations of eating locally?
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
New #OpenAccess research in JTLU: “How #bikesharing changed destination distance for its users: A case study of Chicago Metropolitan Area” by Shubhayan Ukil, University of Michigan, and Aditi Misra, University of Colorado, Denver.
https://jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/2597
The paper examines the impact of #Divvy shared bike services in the #Chicago metro region on trip distance of its users across all trips from 2008 and 2018, finding an 0.84km reduction in average trip distance among Divvy users when #bikeshare was available.
Recommendations include planning for shared bike services that are integrated with #transit in urban areas and promoting mixed land use so that users can choose proximate destinations in dense urban areas.
The next paper I'm reading is 'Neoliberal peri‐urban economies and the predicament of dairy
farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales' (Hu & Gill, 2022).
Feel free to follow along at home and look for my commentary in about a week or so.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10372-9
#Agriculture #UrbanPlanning #LandUse #Neolibralism #LandUseConflict #Dairy
In case you could use some joy this morning, a brief clip from the 20th Chiditarod in Chigago:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2xAwsuf/
Because the streets are for people, not mostly-empty cars and trucks
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber,
evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so
and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
After many years of maltreatment by colonists, the Karuk of California may once again burn their land:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/california-karuk-tribe-cultural-burns
This, as European Americans acknowledge that we fucked things up, that native people actually do know better.
@DemonHusky they're allowing six stories by right! :)
While I love cows, we gotta stop breeding so many and let the population come down.
A Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal
Reintroducing #wolves to Scottish Highlands could help expand native woodland and store a million tonnes of CO2 annually. Currently growing red #deer populations eat tree saplings and suppress natural regeneration of #trees & woodland: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/5734/reintroducing-wolves-to-scottish-highlands-could-help-address-climate-emergency #landuse #biodiversity #forests
(3/4) Animal-based foods consistently impact #landuse, GHG emissions, #nitrogen input & ammonia #emissions more than #plant-based alternatives. A high demand for animal feed necessitates extensive utilization of cropland & for #fertilizers substantial nitrogen inputs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281
Key drivers of dietary impacts of Swedish #children – for #carbon footprint, #landuse, phosphorus & #nitrogen inputs, blue #water, ammonia #emissions, #pesticide use, #biodiversity loss, #antibiotics use, and #animalwelfare – were red #meat & #dairy products… (1/x) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281
Animal products have substantially bigger impacts on species’ #extinction risk than staple crops: animals require #grazing or cropland for feed production, which—with their inefficient feed conversion—leads to high #landuse and hence extinction impacts… (1/2) https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2024-fl5fk-v2
Greg Cocks 