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A little bit of green can make a big change. Observe the contrast on the same street. The asphalt road registered 33 degrees Celsius, while the newly installed semi-hardened parking lots showed a considerably lower temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. 📸 Gina Kranendonk, Rotterdam 🇳🇱

4/8/26, 3:24 pm35 reposts117 likes

Peter K Owen

@pkowen.bsky.social

4 Aug

For family reasons, I moved to a location with a subtropical climate. They have the worst kind of development - massive empty asphalt parking lots everywhere. In green spaces, it’s tolerable. Out in the “business districts” it’s insufferably hot.

Lior Steinberg

@steinberg.nu

4 Aug

It's so sad to see, and to imagine how long it will take to reverse it

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD

@jsargentr.bsky.social

9 Aug

And this should help with runoff, right?

Jan van de Velde

@jwvld.eurosky.social

5 Aug

Driveways don't see heavy loads. We installed recycled plastic interlocking tiles, even without a sandbed underneath, when we needed a driveway for homecharging our EV. Photo was taken 6 weeks after sowing. Almost looks like a normal lawn now.