Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed.
“As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
San Francisco's Ocean Beach provides another example of premature geoengineering. We're building a massive seawall even though we don't really understand the big picture.
We do know that the ocean always wins. sfstandard.com/2026/06/21/m...
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Interesting how widespread subsidies and support for carbon capture and synthetic direct air capture are when not one peer-reviewed paper in the world shows, when the whole system and opportunity costs are considered, either reduces any CO2 from the air. Multiple papers show CC+DAC increase CO2.
When in Bucharest this weekend, we made a pilgrimage to see a tree growing in the middle of a bike lane.
For bike nerds, this is our Mona Lisa. Our Stonehenge. Our Colosseum.
A sacred site. A cautionary tale. A monument to the eternal struggle between infrastructure design and existing conditions.
The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round.
Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.
No one wants to see sewage flowing onto Ocean Beach. But as San Francisco plans to protect a wastewater treatment plant with one of the largest seawalls ever built in California, stakeholders warn tha...