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DoomsdaysCW

#California: ‘Seeking seed donations': The #Altadena #SeedLibrary looks ahead to #regrowth

Story by Alysia Gray Painter, January 13, 2025

"Following the Jan. 7 fire that swept through the city, growers and gardening groups are beginning to think about what is next, groups that include the Altadena Seed Library.

"This community is enormously dedicated to native plants, but also had many farmers and growers who lost generations of crops at community gardens and in backyards.

"#Wildlife coming down from the foothills has lost habitat and food. the air quality will be poor and temperatures will be higher without the lush greenery that protected us. not to mention the vast natural spaces that have burned and may benefit from help #reseeding.

"If you have seeds to spare — particularly native plants — please send a message. please share widely.

"Monetary donations are also requested, if you are able to donate.

"Seeds may be sent to 37 Auburn Ave. #8, Sierra Madre, CA 91024 c/o Altadena Seed Library."

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#AltadenaFires #CaliforniaFires #Reseeding #SolarPunkSunday #NativePlants #NativeSeeds #SeedLibrary #SeedSharing #Gardening

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Paria sans portefeuille

"By criminalizing fire, Spanish authorities effectively criminalized forms of #IndigenousKnowledge—like the cultivation of certain plants and management of #ecosystems—that relied on #controlledBurning. This put #Indigenous people in an impossible situation. Those who persisted with burning risked arrest and forced labor."

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#IndigenousFireStewardship #TraditionalKnowledge #NativeAmericans #CaliforniaFires #CaliforniaWildfires #FireEcology #ecocide

The New York Review of BooksSmoke, Heat, Flame | Jordan ThomasOn January 7, as eighty-to-ninety-mile-per-hour winds approached Los Angeles, Emilio Sweet-Coll was visiting his family in Mexico City. His phone pinged
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"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."

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#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities

The New York Review of BooksEden on Fire | Martin FillerThe terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.
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MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

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#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

Marxist Education ProjectLA is Burning with Dennis Broe - Marxist Education ProjectDennis Broe examines the history of LA wildfires to shed light on the ingrained power, the structural class and racial imbalances, and the wanton devastation of a city organized not for its people but for its elites.
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The price mechanism 🥰 #CaliforniaFires #economics

”High insurance prices are how the market both signals that an area is a risky place to live […] When governments mess with insurance prices—either through subsidies, cheap public insurance, or price controls—the result is always the same. More people move to dangerous areas that are highly susceptible to natural disasters. (1/2)

BoardGameBloke

As many in the gaming hobby know, #boardgame artist Rodger MacGowan and family lost their home in the Palisades Fire this month. Two other fiends of mine (and fellow gamers) lost their homes in the Mountain Fire in Camarillo late last year. To raise money for those affected by the fires I am auctioning some board game related mugs on eBay. If you want to support Rodger directly there is a Gofundme campaign.

Kindly read on…

#californiafires#boardgames
DoomsdaysCW

Risk rises for #mudslides around #LACounty fire zones; prepare for worst-case scenario, officials warn

Alene Tchekmedyian, Rong-Gong Lin II, Melody Gutierrez, LA Times
January 26, 2025

"With more rain on the way, officials warned Sunday of an increasing risk of mudslides in #LosAngelesCounty's burn areas, with a 10% to 20% chance of significant #FlashFlooding and #DebrisFlows capable of damaging roads and homes in and around areas devastated by #wildfires.

"'This is the worst-case scenario to prepare for,' said Kristan Lund, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

"'We do have increasing concern for the #BurnScars,' Lund said. The charred footprint of the Eaton fire, which blackened more than 14,000 acres, is the most worrisome. 'These #FlashFloods and these debris flows could happen in and near or below these burn scars.'

"A #FloodWatch took effect at 10 a.m. Sunday and was set to continue through 4 p.m. Monday for the burned areas of the #EatonFire in the #Altadena and #Pasadena areas; the #PalisadesFire and #FranklinFires in the Pacific Palisades and Malibu areas; the Hughes fire around Lake Castaic; and the Bridge fire in the San Gabriel Mountains west and southwest of Wrightwood. The flood watch started six hours earlier than originally anticipated as rain began falling steadily around Los Angeles."

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#ClimateCrisis #CaliforniaFires #BurnScar #FlashFloodWarning #FloodDanger #Mudslides #CaliforniaWx

AOL · Risk rises for mudslides around L.A. County fire zones; prepare for worst-case scenario, officials warnBy Alene Tchekmedyian, Rong-Gong Lin II, Melody Gutierrez
DoomsdaysCW

How wildfires leave communities vulnerable to flooding, mudslides for years

#Wildfires of every size leave behind something known as a #BurnScar, or the area of land charred by flames and left devoid of vegetation.

By Brian Lada

"#Flooding and #DebrisFlows can happen with little warning in burn scars and most commonly occur during a heavy thunderstorm or major #rainstorm.

"'Rainfall that would normally be absorbed will run off extremely quickly after a #wildfire, as burned soil can be as water repellent as pavement. As a result, much less rainfall [than normal] is required to produce a #FlashFlood,' The National Weather Service (#NWS) said."

Read more:
accuweather.com/en/weather-new
#CaliforniaFires #BurnScars #FloodDanger

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