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Science Fiction of Climate Change: “Cli-Fi”
Science Fiction of Climate Change: “Cli-Fi”
BY KATIE BABSON The emerging genre “cli-fi” refers to the science fiction of climate change. It describes a post-apocalyptic world where climate change was left unchecked and has resulted in societal breakdown. This genre encourages conversations, triggers discussions, and reframes eco-anxiety through its call to action and critical rebuttals to climate change denial. Stories have always inspired audiences to engage in empowering change and speak directly on an emotional and literary level throu
·ucsdclimatereview.org·
Science Fiction of Climate Change: “Cli-Fi”
An Easier Way to Navigate: Company Gives Every Location on Earth a Three-Word Code - Core77
An Easier Way to Navigate: Company Gives Every Location on Earth a Three-Word Code - Core77
Unless you drive a new Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Land Rover or Lamborghini, you may not be aware that those automakers have embraced a new, easier and more precise way to navigate by voice. All five companies have incorporated or are incorporating what3words technology. To explain, what3words is a company that
·core77.com·
An Easier Way to Navigate: Company Gives Every Location on Earth a Three-Word Code - Core77
Drawdown Framework | Project Drawdown
Drawdown Framework | Project Drawdown
Climate solutions are never just climate solutions. Climate and social systems are profoundly connected, and those connections open up solutions that are often overlooked.
·drawdown.org·
Drawdown Framework | Project Drawdown
Kula Bio | Kula-N Nitrogen Biofertilizer
Kula Bio | Kula-N Nitrogen Biofertilizer
KulaBio’s Kula-N is a crop agnostic, sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer that helps all farmers improve crop yield and reduce environmental impact.
·kulabio.com·
Kula Bio | Kula-N Nitrogen Biofertilizer
Transit Network Maps: Draw, and Market, Your Own! — Human Transit
Transit Network Maps: Draw, and Market, Your Own! — Human Transit
Recently I posted on the importance of frequency mapping in network maps.  Most transit network maps, I argued, show all the transit lines but make it impossible to sort through them to figure out, quickly, which are likely to be useful.  The bottom line:  A map that makes all the lines look equally important is […]
·humantransit.org·
Transit Network Maps: Draw, and Market, Your Own! — Human Transit
Easy as A to B: designing the perfect transit map
Easy as A to B: designing the perfect transit map
Public transport maps are easy to take for granted but surprisingly difficult to master; conveying a mass of data in one simple design is no easy task. Veteran graphic designer and transit map enthusiast Cameron Booth runs through the dos and don'ts of effective map design.
·railway-technology.com·
Easy as A to B: designing the perfect transit map
Rolling in the deep: Sound Transit’s downtown Seattle tunnel would bring riders 145 feet below the street
Rolling in the deep: Sound Transit’s downtown Seattle tunnel would bring riders 145 feet below the street
After two years at the drawing board, Sound Transit designers devised downtown Seattle stops as deep as 145 feet, virtually unreachable by stairs. Such a plan is exorbitantly expensive but politically easier than fighting for cheaper, shallow routes.
·seattletimes.com·
Rolling in the deep: Sound Transit’s downtown Seattle tunnel would bring riders 145 feet below the street
The Golden Circle
The Golden Circle
A detailed essay about Spokane's regional market influence, lost economic potential, and splintered political interests.
·spokaneplanner.com·
The Golden Circle
A gondola for Seattle?
A gondola for Seattle?
With so much talk of a gondola to connect SFU Burnaby with the SkyTrain system, Seattle is now considering one as well. The promise of an aerial gondola would connect the waterfront, Seattle Center…
·sfuurban.wordpress.com·
A gondola for Seattle?