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robertferry.bsky.social
Climate policy, society, and the built environment. Architect, LEED AP BD+C, and Co-founder of @landartgenerator.bsky.social. https://landartgenerator.org Let's build an equitable world in harmony with nature.
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It’s about time we had a head of the Forest Service who will stand up for billionaires’ god-given right to build private airports on protected lands and sue their neighbors for defamation if they complain about it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Stay tuned later this month when the winners of LAGI 2025 Fiji will be announced. The solutions are innovative and inspiring—combining solar energy, sustainable water harvesting, and other co-benefits into regenerative works of art that reflect the aspirations of community in harmony with nature.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

China Unveils Worlds Largest Offshore Wind Turbine With Hub Height Of 185 Meters www.iflscience.com/china-unveil...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Each of us is here for a short time. It’s depressing that some choose to use their time grifting and generally making life worse for everyone else, instead of trying to improve the world for those who don’t have a voice, whether people, animals, or other life forms.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Looking at what it would cost to make the entire nation of Fiji zero emissions and the entire price tag is less than $10 billion USD. That is $10k per person (population 1 million), and equal to the cost of Lockheed Martin's latest DOD contract to build missiles.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

How should shipping and delivery companies get packages the last mile? New paper by @costasamaras.com and friends shows that anything electric significantly beats all fossil-fueled vehicle options. Drones improve somewhat upon electric vans, and electric cargo bikes are much better yet.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

OK, OK, now you’re just going way too far. I don’t need to drive across the entire continent on a single charge. Let’s just get all production models to 500 miles asap.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Elected representatives everywhere take note. The public is asking you to get to work, not dismantling good government programs, but rather building them up to support housing, food, clean energy, public transit, education, and research. And yes that means properly taxing the rich.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I enjoyed hearing the nuanced take on the abundance agenda that @costasamaras.com brought to the Energy Gang this past week. There is a smart policy pathway that gets us building things faster w/o undoing decades of labor & environmental achievements and abandoning meaningful community engagement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The sun eventually swallowing the earth is also the dumb argument for why we should invest more in rockets than in climate mitigation. I have news for the long-termists. If we don’t draw down carbon emissions to zero by 2050 there are definitely not going to be one trillion future humans.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure what to make of this game of mutually assured bankruptcy. On one hand low prices will halt fracking, slow upstream development, and maybe even bring some peace to Ukraine. On the other hand they will drive up consumption this summer and make electric transportation less attractive.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In Fiji working this week and see that all four Voice of America channels are off-air, replaced with an endlessly looping bumper with Stars and Stripes montage and animated text about how VOA will be an accurate source of news and information.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome to the golden age of scams, fueled by deregulation, crypto, DeFi, agentic AI, medical credit cards, online gambling, and payday loans for everything. The economic libertarians have seen their wildest dreams come true. Be safe out there!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Aircela is planning a product launch this fall. I’m not sure what to think, but call me skeptical. Of course swapping extracted gas for DAC gas still perpetuates all the local pollution impacts of ICEs. No comment on the device’s precise cost they say “affordability is essential.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You’re going the wrong way!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The Woodside North West Shelf gas project extension to 2070 is the latest reminder that no matter how much popular support there is for environment and climate action, it is the interests of shareholders that will decide what direction we will go in. We must therefore make fossil fuels unprofitable.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Judges everywhere hold the collective fate of the world in their hands. With just a few decisions that rightly place the financial burden of environmental pollution and public health impacts onto the responsible parties, valuations of major oil and gas companies could nose dive over the next decade.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Origins of the word “trump” according to www.etymonline.com/word/trump

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Connie Hedegaard is the former EU Commissioner for Climate Action and was a juror for the LAGI 2014 design competition for Copenhagen. She is a wise voice and we were very fortunate to have her participate in that project. landartgenerator.org/competition2...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Another interesting milestone: solar generation exceeded hydropower generation in Q1 2025. Achievement Unlocked! "Utility-scale solar expanded by 43.9% while estimated small-scale/rooftop solar PV increased by 11.1% during the first quarter of 2025 compared to same period in 2024."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The original sin isn’t “Biden’s delusional belief that he could serve a 2nd term. Rather it was the party elite’s 2020 decision that they’d rather prop up a deteriorating Biden than support the most popular politician in America because Bernie’s agenda posed an economic threat to their donor class.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A glimpse into the future where solar powered facilities take old solar panels and make new solar panels. Once we build our a clean energy system it requires no new materials. Compare that with our present system where we mine millions of tons of coal and billions of barrels of oil just to operate.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This is the best summary I’ve read of the impacts of AI data centers on energy consumption. It’s based on research starting from the joules consumed by individual queries. It adds up to a monster. Also, “the carbon intensity of electricity used by data centers was 48% higher than the US average.”

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Check out this architecture inspired by nature. The darker sun flaps are custom solar modules that power the facade as it automatically responds to light and temperature. More solar PV shutters could help to power the rest of the building.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I think we can put to rest the notion that offshore wind turbines spoil views and economies. The fact is that they can make coastal sites far more interesting and boost tourism as people travel to experience them, sometimes even up close. Boat tours to see the turbines are "surprisingly popular."

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments