I made this interactive 3D map of Albany Pine Bush using LiDAR digital surface model, Open Street Map and NYSERDA Buildings of the Albany Pine Bush Blueberry Hill Barrens.
This was created with Qgis2threejs. For building heights I used OpenStreetMap, either the building height in meters or the floors times 4.3 meters. For buildings without a height, I used 8 meters. The landfill and sand dunes are from Digital Terrian Model DEMs from NYGIS.
Plastic production really began in earnest in the 1950s. It’s hard to remember, but we once got along without it. Of course, plastic offered great convenience, and its production skyrocketed. In 1967, when Dustin Hoffman was advised to go into plastics “The Graduate,” there were 25 million tons of plastic produced. These days, we’re making 300 million tons. At this point, the plastics industry is worth $4 trillion and almost half of what it's producing is single-use plastics — things that will be used once and almost instantly become trash.
Public outrage at this problem erupted in 1970, with the first Earth Day, and the industry has been successfully dodging the issue ever since. Through advertising, public outreach campaigns, lobbying, and partnerships with non-profits designed to seem “green,” plastics industry organizations have been blaming “litterbugs” for the growing menace and promoting the idea of recycling as the solution, while at the same time fighting every serious attempt to limit plastic production.
Broad, perfectly crowned, elegantly graded, and topped in crushed stone, the Golden Road is an expressway of a logging road, with nary a 10-degree turn along its 96 miles. After arcing northwest from Millinocket to the southern edge of Baxter State Park, it runs alongside the West Branch of the Penobscot, past Chesuncook Lake, then follows the North Branch to the border with Quebec at Saint-Zacharie. It’s a key artery in what’s likely the nation’s largest private-road system, offering easy access to Maine’s north woods to anyone with even a decent sedan.
But it’s not expected to last come the weekend with cooler weather. Saturday looks like a bummer if I want to get out of town although might be good for fishing if the water levels aren’t super high. Sunday I hear might be rather windy.
Today. Feels like …
May 19th.
Partly sunny.
Light south wind increasing to 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.
and
72 degrees
,52 max dew point,
7:36
sunset.
Tonight. Feels like …
June 11th.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 8pm. Mostly cloudy.
South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
and
56 degrees
,
6:13
sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like …
June 8th.
A slight chance of showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. High near 77. South wind 6 to 9 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
and
77 degrees
,60 max dew point,
7:37
sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like …
May 2nd.
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers between 8pm and 11pm. Mostly cloudy.
Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
and
43 degrees
,
6:12
sunrise.
Friday. Feels like …
April 28th.
Mostly sunny.
Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph.
and
65 degrees
,37 max dew point,
7:38
sunset.
Friday Night. Feels like …
May 7th.
A slight chance of showers after 2am. Partly cloudy.
Sunday I hear might be rather windy.
