|
Mike Eliason@holz-bau.bsky.social |
517 followers 105 following 98 posts
cities need: car-light climate adaptive ecodistricts w/ mass timber passivhaus mid-rise buildings
architect & founder: Larch Lab (larchlab.com)
|
Yonah Freemark
@yfreemark.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Paris & its suburbs have undergone massive reductions in car use in last years, as I explore here: www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...
But what I didn't get into are the politics behind these changes: How has Paris reduced car-centric street space & increased noncar transport investment? đ§”
1 replies 5 reposts 20 likes
|
The War on Cars
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
[ View ] |
As @jameslonghurst.bsky.social told us, "one of the most important reasons [Forester's] philosophy won out so many times is that it asked cities for almost no funding. The cheapest option." And, yes, it meant avoiding political decisions that might piss off the powerful, such as taking parking.
2 replies 5 reposts 36 likes
|
Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Great piece about elevator codes as a microcosm for why the United States has such high construction costs when it comes to multifamily housing www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
1 replies 21 reposts 45 likes
|
Alfred Twu
@alfredtwu.bsky.social
[ View ] |
You may have heard of the bad stuff in the right-wing Project 2025 plan such as banning abortion, ending LGBTQ rights, privatizing Medicare. There's also bad city planning in it, such as defunding mass transit, "oppose any efforts to weaken single-family zoning", and being against bike lanes.
10 replies 108 reposts 300 likes
|
Randall Gross
@randallgross.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
4 replies 108 reposts 208 likes
|
Sam Burgess
@oceanterra.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Data released by Copernicus Climate shows:
đ June 2024 was the warmest June on record
đ The global average temperature for the last 12 months is the highest on record, 1.64ÂșC above pre-industrial
đĄïž 15th months that SST has been the warmest on record
More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...
đ§Șâïž
1 replies 47 reposts 49 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
NIMBYism. exclusionary zoning. urban building codes written by a private corporation and suburbanists. disjointed code adoption even in same state. high labor costs. poor industrialized construction ecosystem. oh and high interest rates.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Phillip Anderson
@phillipanderson.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too
28 replies 953 reposts 3145 likes
|
George Pearkes
@peark.es
[ View ] |
How every new federal rule making will go from now on. *FTC BAN ON WORKER NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS DELAYED BY JUDGE
7 replies 45 reposts 255 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
'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'
0 replies 1 reposts 5 likes
|
Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
New from me: The Supreme Court â in addition to granting Trump broad immunity â 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...
0 replies 48 reposts 62 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
exactly. this 1950s church in germany underwent a passivhaus renovation, w/ HRV and am air-water heat pump and added 15kW PV on roof.
their energy usage dropped by over 95%.
a decade ago!
www.bauhandwerk.de/artikel/bhw_...
0 replies 1 reposts 5 likes
|
Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
[ View ] |
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-...
2 replies 30 reposts 124 likes
|
Johannes Eckert
@jeckert.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Man hört davon leider wenig, zumindest hat die dena es im letzten Jahr als Titel fĂŒr 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
1 replies 3 reposts 3 likes
|
Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
[ View ] |
hey speaking of inflation
0 replies 31 reposts 109 likes
|
|
Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
[ View ] |
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 arenât the summers we used to knowâstay safe!
0 replies 30 reposts 75 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
ah good. it's only housing costs. luckily we've not run out of greenbelts to build on and there's no shortage of multifamily zoned land in cities and interest rates are still incredibly low and construction labor costs are not increasing and we have funds for abundant social housing and
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
David Kissling
@xtdave.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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"
2 replies 3 reposts 14 likes
|
Greg Greene
@greene.haus
[ View ] |
"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.
0 replies 2 reposts 6 likes
|
|
Greg Greene
@greene.haus
[ View ] |
The modern Supreme Court â and the modern right-wing project at whose vanguard it stands â is devoted to worsening overall health and health inequalities for the sake of delivering a free rein to capital and increasing returns to shareholders.
2 replies 11 reposts 50 likes
|
|
David Kissling
@xtdave.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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
0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes
|
Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Weâve 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...
1 replies 18 reposts 50 likes
|
Katharina Dröge, MdB
@katharinadroege.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Die Klimakrise macht Hochwasser in Bayern und Baden-WĂŒrttemberg deutlich wahrscheinlicher.
Wer die Menschen im SĂŒden schĂŒtzen will, muss #Klimaschutz zur PrioritĂ€t machen!
Unverantwortlich, dass ausgerechnet der MP von Bayern, Markus Söder hier stÀndig auf der Bremse steht.
4 replies 27 reposts 71 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i did in fact i read the article and didn't see a single reference to the massive embodied carbon from electric SUVs, or the increased danger to pedestrians. i did see a lot of greenwashing, however. 'there's still work to do' doesn't mean anything in this context.
2 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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
5 replies 1 reposts 15 likes
|
|
Yonah Freemark
@yfreemark.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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.
1 replies 7 reposts 34 likes
|
Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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.
3 replies 7 reposts 47 likes
|
Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
[ View ] |
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.
147 replies 1364 reposts 5279 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
yes!
in fact, the thesis of my forthcoming book for island press đ
bsky.app/profile/holz...
1 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
|
The War on Cars
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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...
9 replies 72 reposts 215 likes
|
NPR
@npr.org
[ View ] |
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.
3 replies 38 reposts 97 likes
|
Nature Portfolio
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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 đ§Ș
0 replies 38 reposts 51 likes
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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.
7 replies 44 reposts 211 likes
|
|
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Cool
1 replies 13 reposts 75 likes
|
Dr. Genevieve Guenther
@doctorvive.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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.
đ§”
5 replies 40 reposts 107 likes
|
jay
@gatherer.bsky.social
[ View ] |
In Tokyo you can build single stair apartment buildings on small lots. The result is that rent is far more affordable there.
1 replies 1 reposts 4 likes
|
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan
@elizabethbitmeehan.com
[ View ] |
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/
4 replies 40 reposts 73 likes
|
ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
[ View ] |
Trumpâs 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...
14 replies 136 reposts 409 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
sustained some heavy losses tho
1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
|
Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
[ View ] |
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.
1 replies 6 reposts 68 likes
|
Dr. Jeff Masters
@drjeffmasters.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Let housing market "slowly acclimate" to climate risk, Fannie Mae exec says. âIf we go 20 or 30 years without taking real climate action, then I think you have built up a real challenge.â Sorry, this wonât work. The housing market is vulnerable THIS YEAR to a rude shock; at most, we have 15 years.
9 replies 21 reposts 57 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
mfw doug says i don't exist đ±
2 replies 0 reposts 11 likes
|
|
Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
[ View ] |
imo this is one of the less malignant but more pervasive signs of a fraying social contract. On the more malignant side, see also the marked uptick in reckless driving. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/s...
3 replies 5 reposts 34 likes
|
Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
[ View ] |
One of the many reasons this is funny / terrifying is that Bitcoin people have spent years now honing their greenwashing / pro-climate pitch, and Trump is now just storming in and yelling BITCOIN MEANS MORE COAL
1 replies 14 reposts 47 likes
|
Dr. SkySkull
@drskyskull.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I didnât have âsatellite bombardmentâ on my list of âenshittification 2024â expectations
9 replies 39 reposts 103 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Incredible. A 1983 report funded by the CMHC recommending single stair apartment buildings - based on experience and safety of Finnish and German building codes. Recommends single-stair apartment buildings should be allowed up to 22 m (72 feet)
I'm beaming RN
assets.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/sf/project/a...
1 replies 3 reposts 14 likes
|
Stephen Judkins
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They caught the guy shooting the speed cameras. I did a public records search and, like many guessed, he's got five speeding tickets in the past four months, the most recent one about a week ago. So probably pretty easy to narrow down suspects!
4 replies 6 reposts 48 likes
|
|
Mike Eliason
@holz-bau.bsky.social
[ View ] |
i assumed it's because they don't want to change their unsustainable lifestyles and think greengizmos are the only way to reduce their massive carbon footprints
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Daniel Swain
@weatherwest.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Why? The past two years have been relatively wet (and not record warm) across most of West, with good mountain snowpack in many areas. That has resulted in low fire activity and lots of extra grass/brush growth. That adds "fuel to the fire" (more in some ecosystems than others).
1 replies 4 reposts 16 likes