climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Mike Eliason
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The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]
It is so striking how all this resembles Covid so much. The primacy of the power of positive thinking, arbitrary deadlines where they announce something out of their control to be over, large portions of media/business believing them, because "wouldn't it be great?"
I think this is right. China is all-in on solar, batteries, etc., while the U.S. is absolutely refusing to leave the 20th century. Once you dig up and burn a barrel of oil or a ton of coal, it's gone—you've gotta dig up more. Solar panels will produce power for decades.
We're going to get wrecked.
Buy the heaviest, most expensive cargo bike and add every accessory that exists and you still = 1% as much energy or pollution or road hazard as a car.
Also, this sunset
In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman, climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back.
One of the grand interna
kottke.org
The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]
“.. Trump had a message on Tuesday for U.S. allies whose access to oil has been imperiled by the White House’s war against Iran: You’re on your own.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Brant Futures
kottke.org
climate arson
“It’s not about saying no to homes, it’s about limiting the homes to the kinds of homes and people we prefer”
In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman, climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back.
One of the grand interna
kottke.org
kottke.org
Carl Quintanilla
Mike Eliason
Jackson Teal
Far from having fallen off the political agenda, climate change is at the center of Trumpism.
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1. stacked flats don't pencil.
2. if you maximize the number of units in stacked flats you don't get family sized homes.
3. we're just going to see mcmansions and large ADUs in these zones.
they know that neighborhood residential won't produce many homes because home values are so high that redev doesn't pencil.
NR is the new single family.
same tactics different name. wallingford's exclusionary zoning just has a new threshold.
are they gonna block an 8 story building with family sized homes in tangletown?
