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Laura Hartman
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Bringing my religious ethics flavor to environmental humanities and environmental justice in Roanoke, VA. Obsessed with buses and church parking lots.
Roanoke, VA Katılım Ekim 2017
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The mobilizing power of youth in planning. I made a 5-minute video summarizing our participatory action research project to address adaptation to rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA: youtu.be/WEM5ASM-QXY?si…
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"GRTC's historic hiring and training program has successfully allowed for the full restoration of pre-pandemic service levels..."
Read more of our State of Transit report at buff.ly/3XGzhwT
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@jer_science Interesting stuff! I know in Roanoke where I live, the hospitals are located somewhat far away from the most heat-intense neighborhoods. I wonder if that’s a factor in Richmond and if it slows down the help people receive?
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Check out the paper here, open access! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…
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🚨🚨🚨 New paper alert! We explore how ambulance responses for heat-related illness in Richmond vary across patient demographics and around the city in relation to several heat metrics. 1/
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@ThunderWolf08 amazon.com/Moving-Minds-C… This book, Moving Minds by Weyrich, makes the case for strong intercity bus service for multiple reasons that appeal to politically conservative folks, including national security and the economy. (It’s a bit old now but still relevant.)
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@RVARapidTransit @GRTCTransit We’re getting micro transit in Roanoke! Some day soon. So we’ve been promised… exciting to see how yours works!
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Today, Diana and Richard will be trying out @GRTCTransit's newest form of transit service, micro-transit, dubbed LINK. They will be taking it from Ginter Park Library to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hanover County
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Sorry, I'm not very good at this platform... trying to share a link to publicity about a grant I'm involved with, including @CHAOLIM85 which is why I tagged him.
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Cool to see my poem, “shall I compare thee to the anthrop’cene” in this new anthology!
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@roanoke_rambler That discounted parking thing is, among other things, an indictment of our bus system. If our buses were better, low wage workers might not need to drive at all, saving gas money and parking fees.
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In this week's edition of Ramblings, we report on:
🚗 A city proposal to offer discounted parking for downtown service workers
🗽Today's unveiling of a statue honoring Henrietta Lacks
🏦 Funding to guide restoration of Roanoke's historic Fishburn Mansion
roanokerambler.com/ramblings-city…
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So excited to work on this!!
Theo Lim (@chaolim85.bsky.social)@CHAOLIM85
We received a $1M @NSFCIVIC Innovation Award to continue or work on building capacity to deal with rising temperatures in Roanoke, VA! Our team is co-developing and evaluating a "trauma-informed, healing-centered" approach to resilience planning #image-caption-credit-block" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">new.nsf.gov/news/civic-inn…
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@demiurgently dragonrcorg.wordpress.com/research/ people really research this. Dragon lore corresponds to places where there is coal. Which burns. 🤷♀️
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
fastcompany.com/3062989/50-rea…
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@Kenmcld @City_of_Roanoke (Though I should note, in your map, none of the historic streetcar lines go to Gainsboro, the predominantly black neighborhood of the time. At least now our buses — inadequate though they are — serve all neighborhoods in the city.)
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@Kenmcld @City_of_Roanoke Yes! I often think of Margie Jumper, who protested the segregated streetcars in the same vein as Rosa Parks. The streetcars became integrated… and white people stopped riding them… and the city spent less and less on public transit infrastructure only used by “those” people.
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Makes me think of @City_of_Roanoke which like most cities in the United States used to have extensive streetcars
cars.destroyed.our.cities@CarsRuinedCity
Maps of Omaha’s public rail networks. 1927 vs 2023
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@Kenmcld @City_of_Roanoke Margie Jumper’s transit experience was terrible because of the segregation but it was also pretty decent in terms of service and usability. Underprivileged people in Roanoke now, arguably, experience worse service (frequency, coverage) than she did.
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@roanoke_rambler @CHAOLIM85 great advocacy before our city council!!
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ICYMI: Roanoke City Council has moved to fold a new Climate Action Plan into the city's comprehensive plan, which guides development over the next decade. roanokerambler.com/roanoke-counci…
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