Passive House/green architect | urbanist | bicyclist | dad | renter (he/him/his)

Joined May 2009
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Yes please, in Seattle! HB 1110 along with HB 1183 will make it possible.
Imagine a city full of 12 unit passive house co-ops with cargo bike garages.
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RT @AlexSteffen: I first wrote about the idea of a gap between the value we claim for places and assets and what they're actually worth if…
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Love this @lloydalter
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Look for me over on bsky.social, robharrisonCPHC. 😊

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As Western North Carolina, Valencia, and Catalonia remind us, the President-elect is not in control, collapse is. Halting climate mitigation will just accelerate his loss of power.
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Our country turned out to be so much worse than I thought it was.
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My sister is developmentally disabled. I’ve dealt with assholes like this Tony guy my entire life, and I am right there with Emily May.
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i cannot explain to you in words how deeply fucked up and cruel this joke is. like, i cry every christmas. every birthday. does my daughter know its a holiday? did i get her what she wanted? will i ever know if she knows it's christmas? go to hell.
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29 Oct 2024
"This initiative—which was funded by a millionaire hedge fund owner from CA with ties to the fossil fuel industry—is deceptively framed... I-2117 would ultimately cost the people of our state far more than its backers claim it will save." - @RickSteves 🔗seattletimes.com/opinion/cli…
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Pushing back on the firehose of regressive, anti-renter, climate-unaware City of Seattle planning proposals is f’ing exhausting.
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Dear #waleg, If the One Seattle Comp Plan update goes through as it stands, please introduce legislation to nuke it from orbit on day 1 of the upcoming session. Signed, Seattleites who want to increase affordability, protect the environment, & end residential segregation
Kamala Harris: "In many places, it is too difficult to build, and it’s driving prices up." Barack Obama: "Clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations that make it harder to build homes." Bruce Harrell: "Nah, let's keep the NIMBYs happy instead."
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNN just fact checked Donald Trump’s claims that FEMA is skimming funds off the top for migrants. It’s no shocker that Trump is lying for his own benefit. Retweet so all Americans see the media hold Trump accountable.

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“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.” Leadership. theguardian.com/cities/2023/…
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If you're understandably upset about climate change this week, a reminder of why it's happening, where oil company profits come from, and that changing the design of our cities is a huge part of the solution
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For everyone in our mentions saying "iT's WeAtHeR!! caLm DoWn!!"
New: 2 rapid attribution studies on the impact of climate change on Hurricane #Helene have just been released. The results are very significant, yet unsurprising. Warmer air, warmer water = much heavier rainfall rates. First study: ~50% increase in rain in parts of NC/ GA!! 🧵
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RT @AlexSteffen: Climate chaos is coming for us. Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna strug…
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Dave McConville grew up in and around Asheville North Carolina and built a 3-D virtual replica of the flood-prone network of river basins and steep slopes in WNC (western North Carolina) to help drive flood-safer planning. The immense destruction from #HurricaneHelene - which was preceded by hurricane-triggered floods in 2004 and 1916 - has revealed the scope of the challenge remains enormous. Here's our #sustainwhat pop-up chat. Some flood-history context: x.com/Revkin/status/18405071… 1/2
I’ve seen some assertions that it’s unprecedented to have hurricane impacts as far inland as those of #helene. Case study- The massive losses in the great Vermont flood of November 1927 @NWS background: weather.gov/nerfc/hf_novembe… A late season hurricane moved up the Atlantic coast in early November 1927 and proceeded to move up through the Connecticut River valley. The storm dumped generally 3-4 inches of rain through much of southern New England. However, as the system reached the higher altitudes in Vermont, the tropical system stalled due to the presence of two cold, high pressures areas just to the east and west. The result was widespread areas of 6 inches or more of rainfall during the period of November 2-5, with reports received of up to 15 inches of rainfall. In addition, October had been a very wet month, with rainfall generally about 150% of normal for the month.
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RT @AlexSteffen: Some disasters render most reasonable preparations useless. Deluges like these are not really something you can defend aga…
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What a COWARDLY decision by @CBS not to fact check the upcoming debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance. Journalists have to realize that this is not just any regular election, and that trump and Vance are prolific LIARS; they will lie without shame, and without consequence. Many football games will be played today. Imagine if the players were left to determine whether they'd moved the ball 3 yards or 4 yards, whether it was pass interference or not? Debate moderators are supposed to be impartial referees, to ensure fairness to both sides. If debaters can just make up any lie they want in front of millions of viewers, what is even the point? trump is STILL bitching about being fact checked, even though out of 33 lies, he was only checked 5 times. Why on Earth would any presidential or vice presidential candidate complain about their facts being checked, unless their plan is to tell blatant lies? If CBS is hosting a debate featuring Tim Walz and JD Vance -- who admitted that he "creates stories" and refuses to denounce his own lies about Springfield, OH -- then they are complicit in spreading his lies to millions of viewers without repudiating them. It's YOUR channel. It's YOUR platform. If someone came into MY house, and told my family things that I knew were egregious lies, I would fact check the shit out of them. If you're hosting the debate, it IS your job to hold your participants to a fucking standard of truth. Shame on you, @CBS.
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Here’s the real reason Trump wants us to spend the week chasing rumors about people eating cats.
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21 Aug 2024
I’m dead serious Obama needs to start popping up at local city council meetings and roast any NIMBY democratic politicians opposing housing
From Obama speechwriter @jonfavs: "...[Obama] wanted this whole thing about how there's a lot of Democratic cities that have zoning laws and I was like we're not writing 'zoning laws' in the speech."
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