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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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What are we in grade school? “I’m bulletproof!” >But the act includes a provision that could stymie California’s lawsuit, because it prohibits judicial review of actions passed under the act.< Anything can be challenged on grounds with merit right? You can’t just put magic words in the act‽

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

In fact, everything bagel solar might just be the secret to energy abundance. Co-design with community from the start. Engage authentically. Listen. Bring co-benefits to projects. Train and hire locally. Avoid costly delays and lawsuits. You can’t legislate your way out of local resistance.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the legal argument Trump’s EPA is making to repeal GHG standards for power plants, how it fits into his longer term strategy to undermine the Clean Air Act, and how things could play out once it hits the courts. heatmap.news/climate/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Could this invention usher in the next green revolution by providing cost-effective zero-emissions fertilizer? The "technology uses only oxygen, water, and renewable energy to fix nitrogen directly from the air, eliminating the need for hydrogen."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I find it hard to reconcile the victory lap in clean energy circles for SCOTUS’s gutting of NEPA with the actual survey data from energy developers that points to local community opposition and interconnection queues as the leading causes of project delay. eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’m quite sure there is a significant Venn diagram overlap between those who favored the 2010 Supreme Court’s ruling and those who consider themselves “pro-life.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

No but seriously, should climate activism have been laser focused on the United Nations Statistical Commission this entire time? They change how GDP is calculated, deciding what to internalize and externalize, which drives basically all economic (and therefore climate) policy. #Climate 🔧🌏 🔌💡 💚 ⚡

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Wait. We can just do this? “The System of National Accounts determines international standards for the calculation of GDP and inflation. The 2025 revision is the first one since 2008.” What about subtracting the environmental and public health externalities of industrial pollutants?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

While this project was conceived after the transmission lines already existed as a way to beautify the park entrance, it is an example of the kind of infrastructure that can result when developers co-design with communities from the start.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's a real shame that the market has not yet arrived at a solution to this challenge—basically an opportunity to use free energy at low capacity factor.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

The simple message from clean energy developers to congress: "America needs electricity, we’re the only ones who can provide it quickly, this bill will make that harder — and it’s electricity consumers who will have to pay the price." Now it's on MSM to accurately report WHY prices are going up.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Installing solar panels over reservoirs, canals, and agriculture is a great way to mitigate climate change, meet rising demand, and adapt to the new conditions of atmospheric thirst outlined here. There should be greater public subsidies to help make agrivoltaic and floatovoltaic projects possible.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If our energy systems were all publicly owned then we could actually benefit from the fact that renewable energy feedstocks come free from mother nature. But when profits must be made for shareholders, negative prices more likely just lead to slowdowns in deployments of wind, solar, and storage.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

NEW A little-noticed provision in the Senate budget bill would gut the government’s long-running CAFE fuel economy program for cars & light trucks. The provision sets all penalties for automakers who run afoul of the rules to zero — essentially repealing the law. heatmap.news/politics/cor...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 6 days ago • 123 comments

Since he’s openly admitting he bought the election, maybe this is an opportunity to talk about how, in a profoundly unequal society, we’ve all just decided to let money “as speech” entirely corrupt our democracy. Or not.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

TIL there is a “dark roof lobby” fighting to keep high albedo roofing incentives from becoming law and repealing those that exist because it would apparently be too onerous for them to just start selling lighter roofing materials. This news has slightly set back my hope and optimism index.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is cool I guess, but how scalable is it? Perhaps an electric Harley would be even cooler…

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Investor owned utilities are winning legislative battles against distributed solar in California. Adding incentives for storage rather than taking them away from solar would be a better way to reduce rates. Schools and ag installs are exempt so watch for focus to shift there if this passes Senate.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Gay solar! Happy Pride y'all.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

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 9 days ago • 1 comment