Profile avatar
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.
3,860 posts 1,982 followers 1,357 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 27 Comments 23

US solar and wind tax credits are at risk. Not at risk are billions in fossil fuel tax credits and subsidies. Last I checked those were also mature and market proven. “Wind and solar are no longer emerging technologies — they’re mature, market-proven, and widely deployed,” Julie Fedorchak (R-ND).

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

We should be offering at least as much public support to liquid air energy storage and other long duration options as we are shoveling at DAC and CCS projects. A large demonstration project would provide measurable results at scale and identify opportunities for improvements.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Seeing some of the early entries to LAGI 2025 Fiji is giving me hope for the future. There are still three weeks remaining to add your ideas to the mix and perhaps win a $100,000 award to prototype your concept in Fiji. Please repost and help spread the word!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

When populist economics is be *the* tent pole of the Democratic Party, we will actually be in a position to make progress on social and cultural issues.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A couple of things. The poor sanitation has caused outbreaks of the parasite hookworm...and parasites are why we have the stereotype of the "slow" southerner

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This intentional community idea like the Living Energy Farm is looking pretty good right now, I have to say… “This system teaches people to conserve” whereas our existing system teaches people to consume.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The scary concept of acid rain helped drive a successful campaign to regulate emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Will plastic rain finally convince us enough is enough? 120 million water bottles are falling from the sky over our national parks and wilderness areas.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is apparently more practical than electrifying industry. >>A pair of 7,500 m³ liquefied CO₂ ships with pressurized, cryogenic tanks, LNG-fueled propulsion systems, and wind-assisted rotor sails each carry roughly 7,000 tons of CO₂ per voyage to deposit it into cavities below the sea bed.<<

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So true. Unfortunately, the dominionist dudes who designed our economic system in the 18th century were not aware of this. The lack of some ecological standard of value undergirding the marginal creation of money is leading us to ruin. We’re still going on as if there were no planetary boundaries.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So I googled "what does 216 kg of plastic waste look like" and found this video. Multiply this pile 2.16 times and that is what every average American blows through in one year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Sf...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

LAGI 2025 FIJI is featured in Dezeen as a top design competition! There is still time to put together your proposal and help establish a new paradigm for the co-design of an equitable, climate resilient, and authentically sustainable future.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“The agreement, reached with the United States notably absent…”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This worth the read but I continue to think such forecasts fail to recognize the importance of energy infrastructure to these pathways. In the end, humans have control over the physical flow of electrons, the life blood of artificial intelligence.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Increased photovoltaic panel height, improving ventilation and leading to more uniform irradiance, results in more homogeneous soil and crop temperatures underneath. 🧪 🔌💡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Smart looking solar installation in Turks and Caicos Islands. I could see something just like this providing a great shaded community space if engineered to be just a little higher off the ground.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There ARE good ways to build out—hub and spoke transit oriented walkable suburbs invented by Ebenezer Howard 130 yrs ago. No mention. Also no mention of the climate impacts of sprawl or how it leaves people more vulnerable to climate impacts. This piece is uninformed and flat out socially dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A key reason solar geoengineering so badly needs debating is that we're still struggling to understand real life effects in our unintentional geoenginnering experiments with shipping aerosols! Fascinating article about one aspect 👇 theconversation.com/the-world-re...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Would this news have changed the North Dakota jury’s verdict in the case against Greenpeace?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If we must impose retaliatory tariffs on one another, at least we can do so with the intention to reduce the impact of our global economy on planetary systems. Ideally CBAMs would fully replace traditional tariffs and revenue would go towards further equitable decarbonization.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent and important thread. To rephrase the criticism of "tech will save us" vs. "anti-tech will save us" fallacies, what we need the best of both degrowth and green growth ideas. It's not either/or. What defines "best" is that which has a political pathway to rapid implementation.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Problems of democracy in our bifurcated media ecosystem: Those inclined to have rigid ideologies can live almost entirely within an information environment that serves to reinforce their ideology, which may over time even change their brain structure. "Why is the amygdala larger in conservatives?"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Lately there have been a lot of comparisons to the 1890s. This would be like William McKinley signing an executive order in 1897 to bring back horse drawn carriages threatened by the early auto industry.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The next Democratic president should feel absolutely no qualms about using the DPA for domestic solar and wind production. “In an interview, [Chris Weight] also floated the possibility of invoking the Defense Production Act…”

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most important metrics for our future is the price of oil. It should be low enough to avoid what happened at BP but not so low as to hurt EV sales. “the shift was undermined by a rise in global oil and gas prices – which handed bumper profits to companies growing fossil fuel production.”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

True “climate realism” would be the realization that we must first tackle neoliberal capitalism before we will ever make progress on drawing down carbon emissions. As long as there is profit to be made from polluting our environment, our environment will continue to be polluted.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I suppose this makes sense since A.I. only exists as bits of lifeless information inside a dark computer processor and is therefore naturally unconcerned with aesthetics, proportion, energy, sustainable materials, the environment, or good design.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments