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skhoeppner.bsky.social

Working on climate neutrality for a city Also: dog owner, nature lover, design aficionado

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Winter maintenance of cycling paths is an investment, not a cost - a preventive healthcare investment. This video from the Winter Cycling Capital of the World, #Oulu, Finland, shows you why. 📸 8.Jan.2024 #MeanwhileInOulu #VisitFinland #VisitOulu

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Remember, when Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted this street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid, businesses sued. They actually won. But by decision-time, the businesses had decided they actually like it. citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments

Es passiert. www.spiegel.de/auto/china-e...

submitted 75 days ago • 33 comments

"Unser Toilettensystem ist eine Einbahnstraße... Sinnvoller wäre es, unser Sanitärsystem wieder am natürlichen Kreislauf auszurichten: vom Acker auf den Teller, ins Klo und wieder auf den Acker." Weg vom einfachen "flush and forget" ist auf jeden Fall sinnvoll. Lesenswertes Interview.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Was Christian Lindner da jetzt ganz offensiv versucht, ist wahrscheinlich der gefährlichste populistische Vorstoß aus einer demokratischen Partei seit sehr, sehr langer Zeit.

submitted 92 days ago • 22 comments

And there we have it, folks. Saudi Arabia, Russia & Kuwait successfully block plastic production curbs. “If we address plastic pollution, there should be no problem with producing plastics,” said Saudi delegate. “The problem is pollution itself, not plastics.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/c...

submitted 92 days ago • 13 comments

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/90182112/wan...

submitted 92 days ago • 15 comments

Imagine if, tomorrow, everyone at the Williamsburg Trader Joe's was forced to shop with a full-sized cart. No matter how urgent their trip, or how few groceries they needed, they had to take up a cart's worth of floor space. This is our city on cars. 🧵

submitted 133 days ago • 14 comments

This is an AI-generated reporter holding a CNN microphone in an AI-generated location, reading an inputted script. If you think fake news is bad and dangerous now, we are about to enter a whole new era.

submitted 144 days ago • 157 comments

Autumn find and finder

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.

submitted 154 days ago • 45 comments

AfD once more by far the strongest party among those who consider their economic situation as bad in Brandenburg vote. Feels like Germany is running a nation-wide experiment to rigorously demonstrate that austerity really does fuel the extreme right.

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand.

submitted 182 days ago • 27 comments