Two states of the same lake…and beginning of the west-to-east landscape gradient of the Great Lakes… #lakeeffect #forloveofwater

”Friendship can change from being a relationship…to become a kind of atmosphere that one walks within…what was just a person is now a holiday without limits.” #thanksgiving - Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/colema…

Chicago and Great Lakes friends, please retweet.

As design professionals and academics, action speaks volumes. Might we ask what are we doing in response to the many recognitions found in these short statements. Places Journal #doingactivism

Important piece by anjulie is on other socials now has us reflecting on the problem of architecture criticism’s detachment from the lived experience of inequity and what equity and design justice truly is and by whom. Chicago Reader

This (excerpt) has long been underneath the idea of Depave Chicago…ultimately a collective and enduring work of art by people in the present time. A proposal as a way of seeing to become absorbed into reality. Those words credited here to Michael Heizer…

One ocean that unites us. One ocean that supports life on this planet. One ocean we must all fight to protect. #PlanetOcean #Ocean Oceana

Chicago, our community with McKinley Park Development Council n4ej and others are working to halt the sale of the Damen Silos site to MAT Asphalt owner Tadin, please join us. craig reschke led some amazing landscape architecture design studios on the silos site. Hoping to post alternative visions!

True words by Anthony Moser on the cost to communities. On OTL Radio

I want to read every one of these stories! 🌊 Our Finalists - Save Our Seas Foundation saveourseas.com/ocean-storytel…

The way this call for proposals is framed is a demonstration of care itself. Asking people to submit expressions of work/ideas, but not burden their time for a full paper that may not be accepted. Thank you Zannah Mae @tim_waterman Landscape Research

Starting now! Making history!

Lots of other work going on. 30+ educators have been meeting regularly to discuss landscape history and how to make adjustments (someone will scream if I say "change"). 1/5

When things fall apart, we find new assemblages. Stay present and keep your senses open for the next path.

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week: July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

Hi do I have any friends out here still? If you see this, will you send a quick like or thumbs up or other sign. Let’s stay connected. Love you and thank you!

This is the massive hail flow generated by the violent thunderstorms in the Milan area this morning (July 21, 2023). These are the streets of Seregno: an authentic ice river [read more (IT): buff.ly/44RA3aL]

Sharing a powerful conversation among Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop, & Resmaa Menakem -it may change your ways of thinking and being re crises in the modern world. resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/three-…

It’s hard to understate the incredible contribution of Neighbors for Environmental Justice (N4EJ) and other community-based organizations for their incredible effort in this exposure and truth-telling work. Critical reading.

👇🏽Good debate on the afforestation of deserts.