Adam L Tate
@altate.bsky.social
Writer & Urban Planner working to make cities happier & healthier. Focused on solutions to the urban heat island effect.
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Adam L Tate
@altate.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Urban Cooling | Adam L Tate | Substack
Welcome to the Urban Cooling Institute. Here we explore design strategies and technologies for combating the Urban Heat Island effect. A how to guide on ways to make our cities cool and make our citie...
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Hey BlueSky! Follow me here for ways we can fight the #UrbanHeatIslandEffect through better #UrbanDesign #Planning #Architectire and the integration of the built environment and the natural environment.
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The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
momentummag.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
Via @momentummag.bsky.social
FFS, that is the opposite of what we should be doing. This administration is complicit in genocide and ecocide at this point.
"The White House is offering 'concierge, white glove service' to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
FFS, that is the opposite of what we should be doing. This administration is complicit in genocide and ecocide at this point.
This. Time to put grandpa in a home. Just tell him the padded walls are there to protect the gold and that it’s part of the stupid White House ball room he’s so excited for.
I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This. Time to put grandpa in a home. Just tell him the padded walls are there to protect the gold and that it’s part of the stupid White House ball room he’s so excited for.
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A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience
A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on Fox News and explained the consequences of Trump’s government shutdown in one minute.
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on Fox News and explained the consequences of Trump’s government shutdown in one minute.
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Ohhh, you think you can call in the 82nd Airborne to quell this uprising?
Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.
Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Ohhh, you think you can call in the 82nd Airborne to quell this uprising?
Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.
Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.
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I will never not repost this
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I will never not repost this
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Portland small business boosters, it’s time to embrace the inflatable animal costume economy. The people are willing to shell out cash for these and we need as much variety as we can get!!!
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Portland small business boosters, it’s time to embrace the inflatable animal costume economy. The people are willing to shell out cash for these and we need as much variety as we can get!!!
And we have made is beautiful, inclusive and kind. We do not need ICE, we do not need the National Guard, the only thing we need is to continue making Portland the weird and wonderful place it is.
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And we have made is beautiful, inclusive and kind. We do not need ICE, we do not need the National Guard, the only thing we need is to continue making Portland the weird and wonderful place it is.
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'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:
share.google/zBYUeSC7k0tY...
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How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study
Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:
share.google/zBYUeSC7k0tY...
share.google/zBYUeSC7k0tY...
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Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
Urban Cooling: Table of Contents
A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles
urbancooling.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
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Every crisis of 2025 in a nutshell.
September 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Every crisis of 2025 in a nutshell.
Close your account and move your money to a local credit union.
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Close your account and move your money to a local credit union.
Of course he is, even though DAC has proven problematic and difficult, it was worth trying, especially in one of the most polluted places in the world: the petrochemical hubs along the Texas and Louisiana coast.
NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere
The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge
by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/politics/doe...
The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge
by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/politics/doe...
Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana
A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.
heatmap.news
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Of course he is, even though DAC has proven problematic and difficult, it was worth trying, especially in one of the most polluted places in the world: the petrochemical hubs along the Texas and Louisiana coast.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What's happening in Chicago is not normal.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
October 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What's happening in Chicago is not normal.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
Urban Cooling: Table of Contents
A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles
urbancooling.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.
#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability
This was fantastic. As someone who grew up in DFW, it is a question I’ve pondered many times over the years and I think Ray nailed it here.
October 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This was fantastic. As someone who grew up in DFW, it is a question I’ve pondered many times over the years and I think Ray nailed it here.
This! Paris is a model for the rest of us to follow. I’ll be writing an article soon about how Anne Hidalgo’s efforts there have been some of the best urban planning policies of the decade.
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This! Paris is a model for the rest of us to follow. I’ll be writing an article soon about how Anne Hidalgo’s efforts there have been some of the best urban planning policies of the decade.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Far right influencers, pundits and politicians have really ramped up their “who can spread the biggest, most asinine lie” contest.
October 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Far right influencers, pundits and politicians have really ramped up their “who can spread the biggest, most asinine lie” contest.
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Go small, or go home.
Index motor tax to vehicle size & weight please @darraghobrientd.bsky.social. If people want to drive big, they should pay big. And any EV subsidies should favour small vehicles.
#RoadBloat
Index motor tax to vehicle size & weight please @darraghobrientd.bsky.social. If people want to drive big, they should pay big. And any EV subsidies should favour small vehicles.
#RoadBloat
This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...
October 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Go small, or go home.
Index motor tax to vehicle size & weight please @darraghobrientd.bsky.social. If people want to drive big, they should pay big. And any EV subsidies should favour small vehicles.
#RoadBloat
Index motor tax to vehicle size & weight please @darraghobrientd.bsky.social. If people want to drive big, they should pay big. And any EV subsidies should favour small vehicles.
#RoadBloat