Content creator based in NYC. Interests: design, architecture, environment, biking, history, travel, storage space. Executive Editor at @designerstoday.
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An app that shows heat risk. Microinsurance that pays outdoor workers to stay home when it's hot (👍@KBMcLeodFL). New rules to protect farmworkers from extreme heat.
Excellent @SominiSengupta story on innovations that save lives during heat waves.
nytimes.com/2024/06/25/clima…
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Scientists have made a white paint that can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing inside temperatures and cutting air-conditioning needs by as much as 40%.
nyti.ms/44mDs1l
ALT Xiulin Ruan, a professor at Purdue University, wears goggles and holds a paint brush dripping with white paint. His other hand holds a plastic container of the white paint. Photo credit: John Underwood/Purdue University
Andrea Lillo retweeted
“There is no reason to only use water once,” says an expert.
"We now have technologies to enable us to process and reuse water over and over, at the scale of a city, a campus, and even an individual home.”
Read about 'extreme' water recycling @YaleE360: bit.ly/42vbVJi
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Here's our piece from last night about water...youtube.com/watch?v=jtxew5XU…
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The push to promote disposable plastics created mountains of new waste that will never biodegrade.
The burden of that waste has been placed almost entirely on the shoulders of low-income communities of color.
On this week's #TraceMaterial, we ask why:
healthymaterialslab.org/proj…
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Join thought leader Rosa Nuñez, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, @FoleyHoag, and Executive Editor Allison Zisko for an insightful #Empowered Wrap-up and Q&A, discussing steps home furnishings can take to create inclusive workplaces.
Our agenda: bit.ly/2U2xRyf
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This is the conversation about poverty that America doesn’t want to have: We discuss the poor as a pity or a blight, but we rarely admit that America’s high rate of poverty is a policy choice, and there are reasons we choose it over and over again. nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opini…
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BROOKLYN always shows up.
Love this marching band keeping energy levels high as voters wait outside Barclays Center.
Early voting runs from 10/24 thru 11/1 across NYC. Questions? Call 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683). #MakeItCount #VoteEarly #VoteEarlyny
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The decisions we make about where to live are distorted by politics that play down climate risks, expensive subsidies, and incentives aimed at defying nature. But now, California is on fire. Grantees @AbrahmL, @MeridithKohut report for @NYTmag @propublica. nyti.ms/33vyXn8
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Do you want to vote in the 2020 election? Are you confused about how to do it safely? Then look no further than @StephenAtHome's BetterKnowABallot.com! It's got a state-by-state breakdown of all the information you need to make your plan to vote! #BetterKnowABallot
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How, and why, we need to move beyond air conditioning and re-learn the art of the local.... #DeepGreen
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this is a terrifying story & real scoop for WP. washingtonpost.com/health/20… but... the research on which it's based isn't yet published & no one else seems to be covering? curious...time to freak out or wait for peer review or at least preprint?
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‘One way or the other, we will get through this.’ The prospects are particularly dire for small institutions like the Tenement Museum, whose very survival is suddenly uncertain. nytimes.com/2020/04/21/arts/…
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HFN asked rug buyers what their strategies were in approaching this month's busy market season: bit.ly/2QPTqOe
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Our #HFNIdeaBook for the winter markets is here! Know the trends before you hit the showrooms. Click to view now: bit.ly/30kq7GJ
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Here are all the amazing @NobelPrize awarded women who changed the world
@PattyArquette @ABAlbrectsen @Lise_Kingo @CarolNdosi @Joselyn_Dumas @deespeak @rbalsaud @kiranshaw @biz @Benioff @grfCare @_PriyankaCRaina @kapoors_s @ShinKoyamada @metecoban92
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America’s most well-known brothers — Jonathan and Drew Scott — debut at @Kohls this month with the launch of its exclusive Scott Living collection nationwide. bit.ly/2ON3OG4 @ScottLivingHome @MrDrewScott @MrSilverScott
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Greetings from Phoenix! #ALAlightingconference is getting underway, and #HomeAccentsToday lighting editor @alillo snapped this lovely shot of ... the #firstlight 😊💡☀️#ALAconf2019 #ALAlighting @ALALighting
