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Data centers, ramped-up immigration enforcement and longstanding gaps have created a huge gulf in the construction labor force. This year, the U.S. needs to hire 349,000 new workers. Last year, we only added 14,000. For Bisnow, I look at the gap and its economic impact www.bisnow.com/national/new...

Priorities: Per new Transportation for America report, U.S. would need to spend $4.6 trillion over 20 years to build, operate, and maintain a world-class transit network. Sounds like a lot? We’re spending $6.3 trillion on highways over the same period. t4america.org/resource/wor...

Renewable energy is saving Texans. “If not for the growth in solar and (battery) storage, we would have seen numerous conservation alerts or probably even blackouts,” Rice’s Daniel Cohan said. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

Satellite images of methane plumes above VZ are a climate horror show (gift link)

As wildfires risks increse, communities are faced with a challenge: figuring out how to inspire collective action to protect neighborhoods from the next blaze. For @nytimes.com I looked at a few efforts to protect homes and minimize skyrocketing insurance costs www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/r...

For Bisnow, I teamed up with my colleagues to look at the long-lasting impacts of the LA Fires, and how after the smoke cleared, the torturous rebuilding process can feel like ”walking through landmines” www.bisnow.com/los-angeles/...

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

For Bisnow I looked at the tricky issue of maternity leave for contract employees in commercial real estate. Thanks to everyone who shares personal stories with me www.bisnow.com/national/new...

For @nytimes.com I looked at new schemes to tackle one of the toughest challenges of fire resilience — the collective action problem www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/r...

For @bloomberg.com I looked at different ways builders are using technology and design to build faster and more resilient as part of the recovery from LA’s destructive wildfires www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Truly invaluable chronicle of architecture, design and development in major US cities; what say you @nymag.com

read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

#climaterisk between this and @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 's post about CEQA approving huge new solar, BESS, and transmission in the central valley, things are looking good for the golden state. Now if we could just build some transit...

"No one way of ICEWatching is the trademarked ‘perfect’ or ‘mandated’ way to do so. ... There is no ICEWatch INC., no president, no director, none of that. It’s a verb, not a membership in a group." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/secr...

Even I, an avowed Calvin and Hobbes super fan, can’t fully express how happy I was to see my son not just read but laugh out loud while reading his first collection of the comic.

I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

We are joining other newsrooms in the Climate News Task Force to provide a single hub for signing up for all our newsletters. It’s a simple way to access climate coverage — and to support reporting that keeps powerful industries accountable. trustfnd.com/collaboratio...

A Train Grows in Brooklyn: Everything you could possibly want to know about the IBX, its challenges, and how it could reach its full potential. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Pacific Northwest is where most U.S. hops are grown. It's also a region that's been battered by wildfires in recent years - and it's affecting our beer. New from @aimeerawlins.bsky.social, how researchers are scrambling to help hops growers adapt: ambrook.com/offrange/cro...

"Previous global building maps captured roughly 1.7 billion structures. This new dataset pushes that count to 2.75 billion, offering a resolution thirty times finer than earlier efforts." www.zmescience.com/tech/map-eve...

Great, timely story www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

The war on renewables is being driven in part by nuclear operators and fossil fuel interests. 🎁🔗 to an absolutely comprehensive look at the backroom alliance shaping opposition

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

For a couple of years now, I've been fascinated with what's happening at small liberal arts colleges, which are running out of money for reasons unrelated to Trump funding cuts. Businessweek let me go deep on the problems, and one college that's trying to blaze a new trail.

Growing backlash — It turns out a lot of people are not happy with their local school district and city spending millions with Amazon under sham contracts that specify dynamic pricing and shutout competing local suppliers.

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

RIP Frank Gehry, who leaves behind an incredible legacy. His first project was part of a Curbed series I did years ago called First Drafts, looking at the first gig of famous architects. archive.curbed.com/2015/8/21/99...

The vibes, as they say, are off: for @bisnow a look at the long-delayed recovery in commercial real estate, and the weight of larger economic angst www.bisnow.com/national/new...

HUGE: In a letter to Congress, more than 140 solar companies detail how the Trump permitting freeze on renewables is worse than imagined and hitting copious projects on private lands They’re asking Congress to intervene and say “bipartisan permitting reform” won’t help without forcing Trump’s hand

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

Striking data from study of mayoral harrassment.“More than 70% of women mayors in this study considered leaving office because of harassment & violence. That isn’t a reflection of their capacity. It’s a reflection of the structures that punish women for leading.” mayorsinnovation.org/wp-content/u...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: New home prices are now lower than resale prices, a historical rarity, and a function of the new home market adjusting faster to market conditions than the resale market, and suggesting more downside risk to resale home prices in 2026: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

As AI giants like OpenAI, Meta, Amazon and Google race to build billion-dollar data centers, many are being constructed in states with growing tornado risks, straining insurers: “You don’t typically see $20B of anything sitting in the way of a tornado in the Midwest.” www.bisnow.com/national/new...

It’s not just homes; as the geography of data center expansion aggressively moves into the middle of the U.S., many insurance analysts worry about storms striking multibillion-dollar campuses. “It’s a matter of when it’s going to happen.” My latest for Bisnow: www.bisnow.com/national/new...

A really interesting climate resiliency model from NC: a catastrophe bond that funds the installation of "super roofs" on homes in storm-prone places. Gift link:

Here’s our story from last year about just how much two models purporting to measure the same risk can disagree. TL;DR, quite a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

From @theathletic.com: You probably know a lot about Mick Jagger; the Rolling Stones singer is a cultural icon. What you might not know about Jagger is that he was a pioneer of streaming sports over the internet. Specifically, cricket.

"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone." "80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."

“Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves.” Stories at four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, were removed after an investigation by The Local. thelocal.to/investigatin...

"The guidance would sharply cap funding provided to states for stable housing for people who were previously homeless."

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

I will ring this bell everytime I read about Culdesac — what’s the status of their handful of other projects? Have they finished another project? Has this revolution proved sustainable/is it spreading to other parts of Arizona/other states? yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/this...

Call me crazy, but isn’t the point of a law being passed that it is now the law and enforced? Feels like selective enforcement has been a bit of a theme this year, no? www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

I wrote about how Culver City became the first municipality in California (and likely the last for now) to ditch the ubiquitous two staircase requirement for mid-rises. As YIMBYs turn to impediments to construction beyond zoning, Culver City is an early test case. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

“Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about sexual kinks, where to find the knives, and how to light matches. This is not a hypothetical scenario.“ www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/a...

For @fastcompany.com I looked at a movement to turn suburban backyards and planned communities into biodiversity hubs, and how a megadevelopers sees protected lakes and oak trees as a sales pitch for a more sustainable suburbia www.fastcompany.com/91442530/sun...