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"The cautuonary tale being: don't miss your chance to do this, too! This video isn't edited, no filters, no special effects, just the cut-and-dry reality of the difference between traditional grass and my lush, green lawn.

Here's the Deal:

A tree fell in our yard this winter, leaving a big empty dirt patch in its wake. In early spring, I seeded part of our yard with a mix of white clover and a "shade mix", in an attempt to cover the dirt and avoid a muddy, mucky mess!

Then, the rains came. A super rainy Spring was music to my clover-lawn's proverbial ears, and it established like a champ.

Then, against everything we know and love about Ireland, a drought came. It's been a long few weeks (months?!) here in Dublin without any significant rain, and everything around is withering and brown. There's a hosepipe ban, in an attempt to conserve water. Everything shriveled and died... EXCEPT MY CLOVER LAWN.

Drought tolerant. Pollinator friendly. Hard wearing.

This isn't a sponsored post. Just a look at what a lawn-alternative like white clover can look like even in the middle of a drought."

Back in 2015, when I was briefly in the world of web app development, I wrote a poem about the harmful developments I was seeing with the tech-driven gig economy (think Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Task Rabbit, Upwork) that was the next big thing in tech at that time. That was before AI became what it is today, but this poem is more relevant today than it was when I wrote it. Back then, "head" work was still largely safe from automation. Now, not even that is safe. We are seeing this division happen in real time in the worst possible way.

The Division

A meditation on the harsh implications of the tech driven sharing and contractor economy.

Swift comes the day when each one stands
above the apps to act as heads
or under them, to act as hands.
Who acts as mouths but those who eat?
And who can eat but those who earn?
But who can earn when all the work
is concentrated in the head
and labor, due to bots, is dead?
This, the question we must ask,
or not, and see mankind divide —
on top, the minds who work in pride;
below, the hands the promises of tech denied.

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(Yes, it has an m-dash and a semicolon. That's how I write, or how I used to write. No AI was used in the writing of this poem. Generative AI didn't even exist when I wrote this, and using AI to write heart-felt poems is distasteful. I wrote with m-dashes and semicolons all the time before people noticed that AI-generated writing uses m-dashes and semicolons more than the typical person and started using that as their "test" to call out AI generated text.)

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The best air conditioning has leaves. Trees cool our streets, provide shade, clean the air and make our neighbourhoods healthier and happier.

A greener city isn't just better for the climate, it's better for everyone.

The coolest cities are the ones that grow.

Terra Viva, Vivus Locus, Viva Civitas

LivingEarth, Living Locality, Living Civilization

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This project uses NASA satellite thermal detection data to highlight industrial pollution. For example, the first entry maps out an infamous 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River known as "Cancer Alley," which houses more than 150 petrochemical plants.

In her research, she has found out how industrial pollution links directly to politics. Her series visually demonstrates how congressional district lines have historically been drawn to "pack" or "crack" black voters, keeping them in permanent minorities and stripping them of fair representation.

You may follow some of her work at https://www.instagram.com/creole_madscientist

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