As part of Archinect’s 2025 Year in Review, we’re looking back at highlights from our coverage of architecture’s top green projects and sustainability innovations — from materials science and building technology to digital tools: archinect.com/news/a... #ArchinectYearInReview

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Early New Year's prediction. "Trump Class" will be the meme of all memes in '26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Proud to build and lead a bipartisan coalition with Rep. Jeff Hurd and @bennet.senate.gov & @hickenlooper.senate.gov — joined by more than 80 of our colleagues in the House and Senate — to protect NCAR in the FY26 NSF appropriations bill. We will not stop until NCAR is protected — period.

'The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.'

Largest wildlife overpass in North America opens across six-lane interstate share.google/TYsIwmAP1STg...

After seeing a marvellous manhole cover in Tokyo's Ueno Park, I spent some time looking down- this is quite an art form.

We are building a coalition to save NCAR and stop the OMB’s retaliatory scheme — and we won’t back down! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

This is the first "Particularly Dangerous Situation" Fire Weather Warning ever issued anywhere in the state of Colorado. #COwx

Grateful to Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper for taking this critical action. We’ll continue to support their efforts every step of the way!

IMPORTANT: NWS Boulder just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Fire Weather Warning for Boulder, Hwy 93, and the Boulder + northern JeffCo foothills for tomorrow. Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry. This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point. #COwx

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EV charger funding. Tax incentives to buy EVs. Permits for wind energy projects. All gone. But tax incentives to extract more oil and gas were expanded by Trump and GOP-controlled Congress. There has been victory after victory for Hamm and his group, Domestic Energy Producers, in Trump's second term

Just to note ULINE is one of the most active far far right B2B suppliers out there. If you own a business don't use them.

Working on two fire rebuilds in LA I can not see a clear path how becoming a developer can pay off with the land and construction costs. youtu.be/66lxMKQ3hMU?...

Big news. Just got the official certification for our Passive House Plus Colorado Springs duplex. First attempt with the easyPH format.

Well, living or working near an airport is bad for you. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our Model Y got rear ended yesterday. If the car detects an accident then it makes a very detailed Vehicle Data Report and video clips and gives no daylight for them to try and counter claim us.

After approval to be bought by Blackstone, our utility PNM is terminating their voluntary solar power program www.pnm.com/regulatory

This new grand jury drinking game could get me in trouble.

Burning the wood from The Grand Ring is "the worst thing to do", Fujimoto said. www.dezeen.com/2025/12/11/g...

This is cool. In about 4 years since Mike produced a report for Vancouver on single stair, it is allowed. I think I met Mike via @lanefab.com on twitter and I was exposed to his archipelago of good ideas. Credit also goes to my manager Sean who gave me budget and open ended direction to learn.

"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...

Cigars — Drugs — Drinks Opp, AL

The heat pump industry as an awkward side growth of HVACs somewhat single minded approach to comfort and costs cannot use the same framework of plug and pray. W/o home performance in step it seems doomed for failer in old cold climate retrofits share.google/v0haVVGqSi1U...

Denver scaled back a street safety project after pushback from the family of Colorado's wealthiest man. While the city told the public that construction was the hold up, @spencersoicher.bsky.social obtained internal city emails showing the issue was "high level" community concerns.

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

New Mexico: you need to sell us renewable energy. Xcel Energy: great, no problem, how about that natural gas? sourcenm.com/2025/12/03/u...

the government exists to protect people, full stop. this is anti-democratic anarcho-quackery from soup to nuts and our government said "come on in, destroy whatever you want" to an avowed eugenicist. hard not to lose whatever faith you had left in our institutions after this.

Lead gas

Question is did the house have any windows? search.app/jubr2

Always a sweaty moment but the windows fit. Loving this timber on timber action.

“Critics say” Trump’s remarks on Somalis were bigoted? JFC what are you doing?

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Everything. Is a war. Except war. Which is a special military operation.

Dept of Retribution

For me the best summery of current politics with an amendment is the classic "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by sociopaths."

A pic from tonight of the HA_passive house project in upstate New York.

Clean Coal www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

I notice this trend when big firms want to appear hyperlocal they take some obscure local craft or object and use it to justify a volume or facade scheme.

It feels like humanitarian architecture has lost a few notches in the media space in our era of late capitalism. Any good feeds out there?

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:

wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy

Serious question. If he does have a serious brain disease, whose responsibility is it to disclose this?

Interesting first analysis of how the bamboo was not an accelerant but most likely the green safety fabric was the primary culprit. youtu.be/PXcFFreGwYg?...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

I actually really enjoyed the Google news feed but the AI summaries are bulky and low quality. So Google has made them mandatory.

turns out best way to beautify your city is also best way to adapt to climate change: deprioritize cars & on-street parking prioritize sustainable mobility and sponge city principles (de-paving streets for trees) bonus points: cleaner air, reduced urban heat islands, better public health outcomes

Jakarta is now the world's largest city, beating out Tokyo in new U.N. report share.google/BuWQXXeUcBvT...