We need environmental review of what happens when we DON'T build the urban housing because here's what it is: sprawl, deforestation, driving.

We need environmental review of what happens when we DON'T build the urban housing because here's what it is: sprawl, deforestation, driving.

Three years of "environmental review" to build housing in a major city, fucking kill me www.theurbanist.org/court-of-app...

A bike lane and hundreds of affordable homes in Magnolia have both been delayed since 2008 thanks in significant part to SEPA. Getting people out of cars and building new affordable housing in the City are both good for the environment!

'Every second counts': Congestion pricing speeds up ambulances in Manhattan, study finds gothamist.com/news/every-s...

Oh this does....not seem good. Catastrophic dam failures from drought: yet another climate risk.

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Nothing to see here, just a single company run by a twerpy white billionaire wanting pretty much all the resources while offering nearly zero jobs, for a demonstrably racist tech, in the second-Blackest state, which ranks near the bottom economically.

Nothing to see here, just a single company run by a twerpy white billionaire wanting pretty much all the resources while offering nearly zero jobs, for a demonstrably racist tech, in the second-Blackest state, which ranks near the bottom economically.

Also: rewild golf courses, and use them for housing!

Sure, our NDA's are just because we don't want the competition knowing our secrets. We promise.

In a heat wave they want massively MORE power. What could go wrong?

In a heat wave they want massively MORE power. What could go wrong?

This is interesting, but we still don't want the damn things.

Also: rewild golf courses, and use them for housing!

Sure, our NDA's are just because we don't want the competition knowing our secrets. We promise.

This is the way. And in places with good solar exposure and policies, they could be charged during the school day directly from rooftop or parking lot solar, thus easing pressure on the grid—and making it possible for power to be local & nonprofit. VTH & VTG charging are an absolute game-changer.

This is the way. And in places with good solar exposure and policies, they could be charged during the school day directly from rooftop or parking lot solar, thus easing pressure on the grid—and making it possible for power to be local & nonprofit. VTH & VTG charging are an absolute game-changer.

20,000 people killed by heat in Europe in less than a week. That's the finding by @ccallahan45.bsky.social, a first-rate scientist who has co-authored several important climate attribution studies. Near real-time analysis like this is so important -- it makes the invisible visible.

Ho hum, only 89 of the last 90 days and 155 of 180 in 2026 with WindWaterSolar > 100% of demand on the CAISO grid, now averaging 5.3 h/d among all days. 58.6% of all demand met by WWS in '26. Gas down 61.3% in '26 v '23 and has supplied less than 4% of all demand for the last three days.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Powerful deep dive into #redlining history, present, and impact on future in Seattle: "Understanding the history and legacy of redlining is essential to understanding uneven growth pressure on Seattle’s neighborhoods today." www.theurbanist.org/seattle-redl... @theurbanist.org

I don't really mind people criticizing USAID so long as they are clear about what the practical upshot of that criticism is supposed to be bsky.app/profile/oluf...

Every city needs more marshland! Wetlands do soooo much important work.

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

Courts have recently held that police don’t need a warrant to obtain your search history, an expert on surveillance explains: “Police can essentially rummage through your most revealing Google search queries and find incriminating evidence against you.”

Now do transformers, wire, other electrical equipment.

A magic 8 ball, except it burns up the entire planet.

LOVE this. "Earth-killing app from some paedo island billionaire" is...a very fine way to describe genAI.

But I was told it was inevitable.

And here's the video of the unfurling! #WorldCup

Anyone else old enough to remember the WTO? Welp, as the old sign goes, we STILL have to protest this shit....and some hardworking folks did just that an hour ago, right by the stadium. The wind was unhelpful, but thousands of folks milling around before the game saw it.

Hello, el nino. 🥵

Remember these brave folks? After stating that they respect their coworkers’ right to express their opinions, Amazon made them report to meetings at which they were told they were being "investigated". Imagine if GM were to harass employees who suggested that seat belts would be a good idea.

Note that just the abandoned cropland is about 2x the wind and solar needed to decarbonize the US.

I wrote about Musk Corp killing minorities in Memphis, and how the extraction class is setting the stage to make legit AI data center opposition an unAmerican criminal conspiracy

In Montreal, new Bus Rapid Transit lines have apparently enhanced nearby residents' quality of life and mitigated their concerns about affordability. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

“I had this rising sense of anger that Amazon is attempting to infringe on my rights to speak out politically in my city,” he said. “If we allow corporations to decide which speech is or is not allowed, that absolutely hurts democracy.” 💪 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

And....a nice video from Monday! #SignsOfFascism

Tech companies? Artificially inflating their stocks by lying about AI? Nooooooooo......

'"The status quo of apts in Seattle... it's kind of a global anomaly. It doesn't really exist outside of the U.S. and 🇨🇦, especially w/ family housing." Broadly, Eliason compared many Seattle apt buildings to hotels, citing long interior corridors, limited cross-ventilation, & a lack of green space.'

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Gets to many of my concerns with this proposal. We don’t need a public stake in a multi-trillion dollar toxic asset. Public investment/ownership has to come with serious conditions — and that’s not the version of this paradigm that Trump and the tech companies are warming up to.

Once a data center is built, you bake in that infrastructure. We sure af should oppose them both for climate and the broader issue of tech dominance. Jfc what are we even doing here.0

uhhhhh.....

Looks like we've got some signs of fascism down at 2nd & Jackson (as well as in far too many other places).

Also, affordable housing at Ft. Lawton in Magnolia has been delayed since 2008 due to ongoing “environmental” appeals.

"Meeting the extreme heat challenge requires a multi-level approach: passive cooling strategies must be scaled up and active cooling expanded only where necessary and only when powered by clean energy" Good WRI post - save the AC for those who need it most and never let it enable fossil fuel use: