In the 1980s as railroads abandoned thousands of miles of track following deregulation,
Congress provided for “#railbanking,” seeking to preserve rail corridors while allowing for interim use as trails.
Today, there are nearly 26,000 miles of rail-trails in the U.S., according to RTC.
• More than $830 million in U.S. Department of Transportation funds announced last week under the ⭐️Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods ⭐️grant program went to #trails, #walking and a #biking#infrastructure, according to the Rails to Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit advocacy organization.
• Among the projects selected for the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program are at least four that will 🔸repurpose former railroad lines into trails.🔸
• Additional funding of nearly $45 million is now available under the ⭐️Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment ⭐️program for planning and construction of #connected#pedestrian and #bicycle#networks within communities or along transportation spines between communities, regions or states.
I wonder how many people here use #smart or #connected appliances. My friends and I who work in tech jobs all refuse to let any such things into our home.
I will never buy any appliance that requires an internet connection. I love my simple dumb appliances!
I never thought I would ever enjoy going to #school on this earth. 🤓 But my wife and I look forward to our #thai lessons every day like little kids to Christmas! The teacher is super nice, funny and challenges us quite a bit. 😅 The class is great too! Lovely people from all corners of this wonderful plane. And the more we dive into the #thailanguage the more we feel #connected to our new home and the #goodbeings here. 🥹🥰
1/ When I mentioned rehoming the kitty who moved in here this summer, I talked about his safety- cats outdoors here don't live very long.
Another serious concern was for all the other little people- he was a very keen/ very effective hunter!
After he left (see posts from couple of days ago) it seemed like #GreatMother#Mara#EarthGoddess#BirdGoddess (all synonyms/facets of the same #nature principle) was sending me messages: remember all the other lives and : life is still here. more-replies-
5/ in other words, a thing does not have to be literal to be true. I don't have to think there is an entity in the woods sending creatures for me to see, in order to feel that there is a principle of life, a force, an energy that may be seen and experienced in ways that speak to me. There doesn't have to be a concrete messenger for a there to be a message that is meaningful. You can say it comes from my own mind, but it comes from my mind being #connected #mystic#animist#pagan#SolaceInNature
Requiring a "skilled person" write a report before mass surveillance is imposed does little
Especially given that the UK gov HAS ALREADY heard from hundreds of skilled experts restating longstanding consensus: there's no such thing as a safe backdoor.
That's what I still miss in our actual fight for #climateprotection : Our planet lives and deserves #respect like we do. Feeling #connected with the Earth helps on every level.
Why not counterbalance unpopular ways of protesting with other forms of action like dancing in the public sphere? For example, 2 backgrounds - one green nature, the other grey destruction area - for 2 different styles of dancing...