Audrey Wheeler
@aud_whee
Conservationist, feminist, and millennial trying not to fit the stereotypes. All views are my own.
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How to save America’s public transit systems from a doom spiral vox.com/future-perfect… via @voxdotcom
How current and future generations could have different experiences with climate change
Beautiful words by Terry Tempest Williams: "Grace can inhabit the paradox of being present with the living and dying. "I made a bouquet of bones and left them for coyotes." nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opi…
Check out my 10 Rules For Better Public Spaces 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 This is not intended to be an exhaustive list; I didn’t include public space healing, which is a significant part of my practice. But I’ve captured several key ideas. Thoughts? Additional ideas? #cities #public #space
What do 37,000 km. of separated cycle lanes get the Dutch? 74 minutes of cycling per week per capita; preventing 6,500 premature deaths and €19 billion in healthcare costs each year. Ask not whether your country can afford to invest in cycling—ask whether it can afford not to.
Okay #biketwitter, what is the correct way to use this bike rack? Any of the options pictured or something else entirely?
Big news! Great Sand Dunes National Park is growing! We're thrilled to announce the transfer of 9,362 acres of land at TNC's Medano Ranch Preserve in the San Luis Valley to @NatlParkService for inclusion in @GreatDunesNPS. Learn more about this project: nature.org/en-us/newsroom…
To this day, this Uber commercial has always been the perfect display of how inefficient cars are in cities.
This is the most important article I've read all week. And why I hate all the memes and videos that celebrate canceling plans and staying in alone - we need to push ourselves to try to be social more often! nytimes.com/2022/08/25/opi…
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Opinion | Why Your Social Life Is Not What It Should Be (Published 2022)
You’ll enjoy talking to strangers a lot more than you think you will.
"After decades of pouring billions of dollars into a transportation system that favors moving vehicles quickly above all else, Denver could see a significant shift away from road expansions and toward transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure." cpr.org/2022/08/15/den…
"Fossil fuels make enough money to corrupt politicians, cause wars and bend public opinion through the brute force of a firehose of propaganda." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
And most of all: NO BILLIONAIRES STOP SIMPING FOR THE RICH The ultra wealthy are ravaging the planet
MORE and BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TRAINS
STOP EXCESSIVE FLYING NO MORE PRIVATE JETS STOP MAKING PEOPLE FLY FOR WORK TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS
I grew up in Pakistan, which gets really, really unbearably hot in the summer. Here are some tips on how to manage the heat. 🧵
A record high temperature of 100 was set at Denver CO today. This breaks the old record of 99 set in 2020 and previous years. This is also the 4th 100 degree day this year. #cowx
Been reading more and more takes that climate bill failed because of shifting public opinion: e.g. the NYT "reported" this week (without empirical evidence!) that the public has soured on climate as the economy weakened. Nonsense. A short 🧵 1/ nytimes.com/2022/07/17/us/…
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