Catherine Brinkley
@drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social
Community Development Professor with a focus on One Health- health is shared between humans, animals, and the environment (planner, veterinarian)
Read these trees.
How old are the trees with burn scars?
Why do the smaller trees not have burn scars?
What does this story written on the landscape mean for the coming years?
How old are the trees with burn scars?
Why do the smaller trees not have burn scars?
What does this story written on the landscape mean for the coming years?
March 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Read these trees.
How old are the trees with burn scars?
Why do the smaller trees not have burn scars?
What does this story written on the landscape mean for the coming years?
How old are the trees with burn scars?
Why do the smaller trees not have burn scars?
What does this story written on the landscape mean for the coming years?
Reposted by Catherine Brinkley
Stand Up for Science day nationwide. Find events at the link. standupforscience2025.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Stand Up for Science day nationwide. Find events at the link. standupforscience2025.org
March brings us into Women's History Month- and a chance to celebrate the many contributions of women to their hometowns.
March 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
March brings us into Women's History Month- and a chance to celebrate the many contributions of women to their hometowns.
Reposted by Catherine Brinkley
Kroger’s is partnering with Microsoft to install facial-recognition tech in stores to identify individual customers and set prices per person. The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
Article says it will be based on ability to pay, but pretty sure that won't be it.
Article says it will be based on ability to pay, but pretty sure that won't be it.
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Kroger’s is partnering with Microsoft to install facial-recognition tech in stores to identify individual customers and set prices per person. The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
Article says it will be based on ability to pay, but pretty sure that won't be it.
Article says it will be based on ability to pay, but pretty sure that won't be it.
Reposted by Catherine Brinkley
At today's University of California Regents meeting, Regent Sures told us "the concept of having faculty perform self governance, it's not working at all."
He said this in a convo about faculty due process in disciplinary actions, a bullet placed prominently on his desk.
This is the UC.
He said this in a convo about faculty due process in disciplinary actions, a bullet placed prominently on his desk.
This is the UC.
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
At today's University of California Regents meeting, Regent Sures told us "the concept of having faculty perform self governance, it's not working at all."
He said this in a convo about faculty due process in disciplinary actions, a bullet placed prominently on his desk.
This is the UC.
He said this in a convo about faculty due process in disciplinary actions, a bullet placed prominently on his desk.
This is the UC.
"The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years"
constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-mar...
constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-mar...
How the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday became a holiday
The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances including Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy, and the National Football League.
constitutioncenter.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years"
constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-mar...
constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-mar...
P.s. this year we're in a Major Lunar Standstill on the 18.6 yr lunar cycle... So the waning crescent moon coming up in a few days in the northern hemisphere well look like a "wet moon" or "cheshire" smile this month. search.app/8KX7U85eXhif...
Major Lunar Standstill -- Moon Teachings for the Masses
Sunwheel - Proposed and constructed under the watchful eye of Professor Judith Young of the Astronomy Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst
search.app
January 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
P.s. this year we're in a Major Lunar Standstill on the 18.6 yr lunar cycle... So the waning crescent moon coming up in a few days in the northern hemisphere well look like a "wet moon" or "cheshire" smile this month. search.app/8KX7U85eXhif...
About to go bad
January 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
About to go bad
This rapid uptick in #homelessness has been a federal policy choice... which is why so many local organizations are innovating approaches.
We review these attempts at #poverty alleviation with a survey of 105 #guaranteedincome programs in the US: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
We review these attempts at #poverty alleviation with a survey of 105 #guaranteedincome programs in the US: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
January 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This rapid uptick in #homelessness has been a federal policy choice... which is why so many local organizations are innovating approaches.
We review these attempts at #poverty alleviation with a survey of 105 #guaranteedincome programs in the US: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
We review these attempts at #poverty alleviation with a survey of 105 #guaranteedincome programs in the US: doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
Nearly every California jurisdiction considers the risk of "wildfire" in their land-use plans.
PlanSearch.caes.ucdavis.edu
PlanSearch.caes.ucdavis.edu
January 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Nearly every California jurisdiction considers the risk of "wildfire" in their land-use plans.
PlanSearch.caes.ucdavis.edu
PlanSearch.caes.ucdavis.edu
New publication alert: we review 105 guaranteed income pilots in the US- programs that offer a guaranteed amount of cash at regular intervals (unusually monthly).
doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
Who funded them? How was success framed? When did participants shape the program?
doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
Who funded them? How was success framed? When did participants shape the program?
Guaranteed Income: A Policy Landscape Review of 105 Programs in the United States
Cash assistance programs have been piloted as Basic or Guaranteed Income across the United States. This research asks how programs are being designed and evaluated, with implications for how collectiv...
doi.org
January 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New publication alert: we review 105 guaranteed income pilots in the US- programs that offer a guaranteed amount of cash at regular intervals (unusually monthly).
doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
Who funded them? How was success framed? When did participants shape the program?
doi.org/10.1515/bis-...
Who funded them? How was success framed? When did participants shape the program?
Reposted by Catherine Brinkley
Wrote a piece in @nature. Eliminating the massive carbon footprint of academia is the job of academic institutions, not individual scientists. Yes, fly less and then call on your campus to electrify and stop operating fossil fuel infrastructure.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 2, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Wrote a piece in @nature. Eliminating the massive carbon footprint of academia is the job of academic institutions, not individual scientists. Yes, fly less and then call on your campus to electrify and stop operating fossil fuel infrastructure.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Fossil Free UCD, a grassroots organization of students, faculty, and staff, calls upon the Chancellor of @ucdavis.bsky.social to officially establish targets of 75% reductions in Scope 1 and 2 emissions below the 2019 baseline by 2030, 81% by 2035, and 95% by 2040, among other asks.
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![We write with appreciation for the actions campus staff are taking to reduce UC Davis’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and to ask you to ensure that UCD sets strong goals for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions reductions in response to UCOP’s call for campus targets for all UCs to be submitted by 1/1/2025 (for background see here).
Specifically, we would like UCD to officially establish targets of 75% reductions in Scope 1 and 2 emissions below the 2019 baseline by 2030, 81% by 2035, and 95% by 2040, which are the feasible potential reductions identified by our own Fossil Fuel-Free Pathway Plan (FFFPP).
We view the strong intermediate 2030 target from our campus FFFPP as particularly important, given the urgency of the climate crisis. Communicating around near-term goals that are meaningful for our undergraduate students will show them our commitment to leading on the climate crisis.
We would also like to encourage campus to accelerate the process for tracking and reducing Scope 3 emissions (those generated off-campus, for example by travel and commuting). The state is requiring public and private companies to submit annual reports of such emissions by 2030 (a date which may be moved up to 2027), and strong near-term Scope 3 reductions will be needed to set us on a track toward UCOP’s goal to “reduce total emissions (scope 1, 2, and 3) at least 90% by 2045 without relying on carbon offsets.” We would like to be a part of campus discussions around Scope 3 targets and processes.
Finally, we would like to let you know that a group of us has formally asked the Academic Senate to consider a detailed proposal for a Climate Crisis General Educational (GE) Requirement so that all UCD undergraduates will graduate with some background in climate science, action, and justice concepts. This one-course requirement would probably be allowed to overlap with other GEs so as not to increase time-to-graduation.
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December 12, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Fossil Free UCD, a grassroots organization of students, faculty, and staff, calls upon the Chancellor of @ucdavis.bsky.social to officially establish targets of 75% reductions in Scope 1 and 2 emissions below the 2019 baseline by 2030, 81% by 2035, and 95% by 2040, among other asks.
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Really loved "Our Moon" - a sweeping history of geological formations, evolution of life, and the history of science.
For all the urban plans oriented along cardinal directions, this book explains humanity's repeat cultural homage to our place within the cosmos.
Thank you, @rboyle31.bsky.social
For all the urban plans oriented along cardinal directions, this book explains humanity's repeat cultural homage to our place within the cosmos.
Thank you, @rboyle31.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Really loved "Our Moon" - a sweeping history of geological formations, evolution of life, and the history of science.
For all the urban plans oriented along cardinal directions, this book explains humanity's repeat cultural homage to our place within the cosmos.
Thank you, @rboyle31.bsky.social
For all the urban plans oriented along cardinal directions, this book explains humanity's repeat cultural homage to our place within the cosmos.
Thank you, @rboyle31.bsky.social
1/9: I teach in the Department of Human Ecology- and this is our introductory textbook, written in 1949 by George Zipf. The scholar would die the next year at the age of 48. I often think of what might have happened to the field had he lived.
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
1/9: I teach in the Department of Human Ecology- and this is our introductory textbook, written in 1949 by George Zipf. The scholar would die the next year at the age of 48. I often think of what might have happened to the field had he lived.
Awesome student team at PlanSearch has finished uploading all the updated + adopted city and county comprehensive plans for California.
That's 1,709 PDFs covering 138M words. These are essentially advertisements of what communities want: density, greenbelts, preservation...
That's 1,709 PDFs covering 138M words. These are essentially advertisements of what communities want: density, greenbelts, preservation...
December 8, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Awesome student team at PlanSearch has finished uploading all the updated + adopted city and county comprehensive plans for California.
That's 1,709 PDFs covering 138M words. These are essentially advertisements of what communities want: density, greenbelts, preservation...
That's 1,709 PDFs covering 138M words. These are essentially advertisements of what communities want: density, greenbelts, preservation...
1. Given the many interventions to cure a "food desert" in the face of increasing agrifood consolidation -- what works?
Join us December 4th for a #AAAS panel discussion on Food insecurity and food access
Join us December 4th for a #AAAS panel discussion on Food insecurity and food access
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:53 PM
1. Given the many interventions to cure a "food desert" in the face of increasing agrifood consolidation -- what works?
Join us December 4th for a #AAAS panel discussion on Food insecurity and food access
Join us December 4th for a #AAAS panel discussion on Food insecurity and food access
This is a particularly nice solution for farms near urban areas - with transmission lines and direct to consumer markets for solar wine (also great shade for livestock)
Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%.
That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%
French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...
www.pv-magazine.com
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
This is a particularly nice solution for farms near urban areas - with transmission lines and direct to consumer markets for solar wine (also great shade for livestock)
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After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)
What Can US Cities and States Do for the Climate Under Trump? Plenty
Federal progress on climate may stall, but city halls and statehouses are in a good position to build on recent gains.
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)
This break I read 3 great books that are melding into a delicious mind stew.
December 1, 2024 at 2:48 AM
This break I read 3 great books that are melding into a delicious mind stew.
Gearing up to teach Sustainable Cities of Northern Europe this summer. Study abroad at #Wellesley was easily one of the most transformative educational experiences for me- and I delight in passing it on. If you know of students interested, please share. Spots tend to fill day one
Summer Abroad Europe - Instructor
Catherine Brinkley has a PhD in city and regional planning, a veterinary medical degree, and a masters in virology.
globallearning.ucdavis.edu
November 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Gearing up to teach Sustainable Cities of Northern Europe this summer. Study abroad at #Wellesley was easily one of the most transformative educational experiences for me- and I delight in passing it on. If you know of students interested, please share. Spots tend to fill day one
Come learn about the National Zoning Atlas project and PlanSearch - two planning efforts to make planning easier to understand and improve upon - plus lots of additional cool GIS applications/tools. #free
November 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Come learn about the National Zoning Atlas project and PlanSearch - two planning efforts to make planning easier to understand and improve upon - plus lots of additional cool GIS applications/tools. #free