So This Is A Legit Thing That Happened (x)

So this is a legit thing that happened (x)

This is solarpunk, right?

Urban Treehouse Uses 150 Trees To Protect Residents From Noise And Pollution

Luciano Pia, an architect in Italy, has a beautiful vision for how people and nature can live together even in a thoroughly urban landscape. 25 Verde, an apartment complex he designed in Turin, Italy, is a woven 5-story mix of lush trees and steel girders that let urban residents feel like they live in a giant urban tree-house.

Every step in the building’s design was taken with natural integration in mind. The organic and asymmetric shape of its terraces allow potted trees to “sprout” out from the building at random intervals. The ponds in the courtyard provide residents with a refreshing place to relax in the summer, and the 150 deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter, allow light to filter in to the building during the darker months. The building helps keep the city’s air cleaner and isolates the residents from the urban sounds and smells surrounding them.The building, which was completed in 2012, is located at Via Chabrera 25 in Turin, Italy – you can even check it out on Google Maps‘ street view!

Via:http://www.boredpanda.com/urban-treehouse-green-architecture-25-verde-luciano-pia-turin-italy/

themanfromnantucket:

tyrannosaurus-trainwreck replied to your post:

Hunting mittens. Your trigger-finger is free, but the rest of your fingers are all toasty and warm instead of freezing like you would in straight-up gloves.

That sounds like a very reasonable answer, actually. However it does bring up the question of why anyone would have hunting gloves.

And the answer has nothing to do with hunting, I can assure you.

After 12 hours, Snakey still did not understand how to hide under substrate so I buried her.

She’s still buried, right how I left her. Maybe she likes it, maybe she is just tired and sleeping.

More on this when I’m actually done my paper (lol so like at 4 am or so I’ll be here again) but basically there’s a marine hypothesis and a terrestrial/burrowing hypothesis on snake origins.

The former came about because the only well-characterized early snakey fossils are...

chargetransfer replied to your post:

Aliens.

This is true.