Mike Eliason

@holz-bau.bsky.social

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cities need: car-light climate adaptive ecodistricts w/ mass timber passivhaus mid-rise buildings

architect & founder: Larch Lab (larchlab.com)

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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How every new federal rule making will go from now on. *FTC BAN ON WORKER NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS DELAYED BY JUDGE

'While there are plenty of shoppers interested in an electric vehicle, the options on sale are often too big, too expensive, or not practical enough to replace a gas-powered car.' sounds like the problem is much larger than just 'charging infrastructure'

Holy shit: McKinsey study finds that 46% of US EV drivers are likely to switch back to internal combustion, and cite lack of charging infrastructure as top reason. Globally some 29% are considering going back to gas. If this is remotely accurate, buckle up! www.businessinsider.com/ev-charging-...

EV charging is so bleak in the US that 46% of owners are considering going back to gas-powered carswww.businessinsider.com Nearly half of EV owners in the US are considering switching back to a gas-powered car, with a majority citing charging as the reason.

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New from me: The Supreme Court — in addition to granting Trump broad immunity — is slowly breaking the EPA, eroding its ability to write new climate rules, respond to public comments, and punish companies that pollute the air and drinking water. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

The Supreme Court Is Slowly Breaking the EPAheatmap.news Four rulings from the past week will weigh heavily on future climate regulation.

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If a **thousand-year-old stone church** can electrify its heating system with a heat pump, who else can? www.isoenergy.co.uk/projects/st-...

St Stephen's Churchwww.isoenergy.co.uk St Stephens is a traditional Grade I listed stone church dating from the Norman and Early English periods. After recognising the increasing importance of switching to renewable heating, the clients be...

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Konstantinos Tsilimekis

Man hört davon leider wenig, zumindest hat die dena es im letzten Jahr als Titel für ihren Bauabschnitt aufgegeriffen www.dena.de/newsroom/pub... Bei Interesse reiche ich meine Link-Sammlung gerne weiter, ganz nah dran am Thema ist @michaelburchert.bsky.social vom NZNB nznb.de/de

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hey speaking of inflation

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It's not even July yet -- and this week a neighbor was taken away in an ambulance with severe dehydration. As climate change intensifies summer heat, look out for yourself and for each other. These aren’t the summers we used to know—stay safe!

Heat can kill - here's how to help!www.talkingclimate.ca Protecting mobile home communities, extreme heat, and how to keep safe this summer

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The good news is that all of the non-housing inflation is gone. The bad news is that we didn't do anything about Millennial families needing places to live and there isn't a city in America that has a plan to do anything about it besides "hope we still have land we can build subdivisions on"

In other news, inflation looks beaten. The blip a few months ago looks like start-of-year price resets, and what’s left is lagged housing costs

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Greg Greene

"The modern right-wing project is devoted to worsening overall health" ranks as a statement that reads as hyperbole, but isn't. I wrote what I wrote.

My team at the @washingtonpost.com spent the past year examining why life expectancy is falling in the U.S. One takeaway: Red-state politics are shaving years off Americans’ lives. Read our story: wapo.st/48RCvRe And join us at 4 pm ET on Reddit for an AMA! www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...

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The modern Supreme Court — and the modern right-wing project at whose vanguard it stands — is devoted to worsening overall health and health inequalities for the sake of delivering a free rein to capital and increasing returns to shareholders.

Catastrophic. The fact that most watchers and of course most of us who work on regulation knew this was coming doesn’t soften the blow a bit. The modern administrative state is critical for health & social policy. Undermining it promises to worsen overall health and expand health inequalities.

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I for one think it's bad that we put a loophole in the tax code to incentivize LLC Bros to buy 6,000 lb luxury vehicles they don't need

Got cut off by a brand new Audi with vanity tags that said TAXCREDIT outside Larchmont and it got me thinking about how much I love congestion pricing

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We’ve long talked about the carbon budget, but given that the world is on track to pass the 1.5C target in the coming decade its time to start talking about the "carbon debt". My latest piece over at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-growin...

The growing carbon debtwww.theclimatebrink.com Why the climate change is different from other environmental challenges

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Die Klimakrise macht Hochwasser in Bayern und Baden-Württemberg deutlich wahrscheinlicher. Wer die Menschen im Süden schützen will, muss #Klimaschutz zur Priorität machen! Unverantwortlich, dass ausgerechnet der MP von Bayern, Markus Söder hier ständig auf der Bremse steht.

Analyse: Klimawandel machte Hochwasser im Süden wahrscheinlicherwww.tagesschau.de Immer wieder warnen Forscher: Durch die Klimakrise werden Extremwetterereignisse häufiger. Das verdeutlicht nun eine DWD-Analyse des Hochwassers in Süddeutschland - derart starke Niederschläge seien d...

This future is still bleak. The embodied carbon - that is the total emissions of manufacturing - of an electric SUV can be on par w/ a small ICE vehicle driven just a few thousand miles per year. These vehicles are also incredibly heavy, fast, and dangerous - and frankly have no place in cities

a very Vicki feature: on the bleak future, the uncertain present, and trying to build a world we all want to live in, as seen through the windows of a Kia EV9 www.motor1.com/features/724...

The Future Is Bleak. The Kia EV9 Proves It Doesn't Have to Bewww.motor1.com I loaded up a Kia EV9 with friends, drove to the coast, and there, I found hope.

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Yonah Freemark

This bill has no chance of becoming law since Democrats control the Senate & White House. But it should give you a pretty good idea of where the GOP is at on urban issues were it to get a trifecta in 2025.

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The "city of the future" looks a lot like Utrecht, with frequent trains, the world's greatest bicycle parking garage and smart signals that give cyclists extra time to keep going when it's raining. Utrecht, remarkably, is 600 years old and a lot more advanced than any city in the US.

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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NEW EPISODE: "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" In his new book, Wes Marshall argues that his fellow traffic engineers need to do some deep soul searching so that they no longer design a system that kills tens of thousands of people per year. Available now! thewaroncars.org/2024/06/25/1...

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Wilmer Vasquez died at just 29 years old after suffering heat illness during the hottest year on record. His brother, Yonatan, says climate change played a big role.

Extreme heat contributed to his brother’s death. He worries he could be nextwww.npr.org Wilmer Vasquez died at just 29 years old after suffering heat illness during the hottest year on record. His brother, Yonatan, says climate change played a big role.

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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that the frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfires appear to have doubled over the past 20 years, and the six most extreme years for these events have occurred since 2017. go.nature.com/3RFYBPW 🧪

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Small business owner claims about the effects of bike lanes tell you more about the reactionary and outdated values the petit bourgeoisie class that owns most small businesses in America hold than it does about the impact of bike lanes.

But that would mean sfstandard.com/2024/06/21/v...

Valencia Street bike lane didn't hurt businesses, report findssfstandard.com Valencia Street's controversial center-running bike lane did not harm businesses, as merchants claimed, a new report finds.

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Well holy shit. The Shasta Nation just got a major Land Back victory. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California historywww.latimes.com Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged.

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Next month, Oxford will publish my big climate book, THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS. The book dismantles the core propaganda of the fossil-fuel era, and it offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the #ClimateCrisis that will help create transformative change. 🧵

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In Tokyo you can build single stair apartment buildings on small lots. The result is that rent is far more affordable there.

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Remember Tr*mp has promised to eliminate NOAA as a federal agency because of its contributions to evidence of climate change, including providing the public with invaluable tools like this one: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/

Being prepared is a key step to staying safe on scorching days. To help people understand how they could be affected by heat, the National Weather Service recently launched an experimental online tool that provides seven-day heat risk forecasts for wherever you are in the contiguous United States.

Here’s how to know when it might be dangerously hot outsidewww.washingtonpost.com With temperatures climbing across the United States, it’s critical to know when you might be at risk of experiencing dangerous levels of heat.

NWS HeatRiskwww.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

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Trump’s proposal to get rid of the income tax and replace it with tariffs would be the most regressive tax policy in US history www.americanprogressaction.org/article/comp...

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Doug Gordon

Congestion pricing *would not have been an issue* by August. Hochul's fuckup is so massive that she's guaranteed it will be an issue through November. Flipping the switch on June 30th might be the only way to lessen the damage, but even that might not be enough.

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Let housing market "slowly acclimate" to climate risk, Fannie Mae exec says. “If we go 20 or 30 years without taking real climate action, then I think you have built up a real challenge.” Sorry, this won’t work. The housing market is vulnerable THIS YEAR to a rude shock; at most, we have 15 years.

Let housing market "slowly acclimate" to climate risk, Fannie Mae exec says - Marketplacewww.marketplace.org Consumer awareness about living in vulnerable areas is key to "letting that air out of the balloon," says Tim Judge, chief climate officer.