Scott Hand

Dashboard view from a residential solar array showing amount of electricity used and produced during a day. The grid independence is 62% because no battery supports this system overnight. But the produced amount of electricity (38.5 kWh) is 146% of the total consumed during the day so far (26.3 kWh). The dashboard shows the array has produced the equivalent of $7.20 of electricity today.

I love low utility bills.

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.

PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

MY VIEW: Stitching the severed city - Cincinnati Business Courier "Cincinnati is an engine of immense power. We punch well above our weight, for we carry a heritage of industry and intellect. But while our economy runs on high-octane fuel, the physical infrastructur...

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"Our current system (in Cincinnati) pits neighborhood against neighborhood in a fight for limited resources...(leaving) us with a disjointed map of good intentions but poor connections."

via @artifactscott.bsky.social

www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/n...

black raspberries, 1891

black raspberries, 1891

​We cannot fix 21st-century growth with 20th-century sprawl.
​My Op-Ed is live in the Business Courier today.
​We have to stop treating urban planning like a political debate and start treating it like a geometry problem. Read the full piece here: www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/n...

Need to elect folks that have the capacity to care.

Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your City — Streetsblog USA "How much does it actually cost to be car dependent?" This Dallas-based analyst set out to answer that question for cities across the U.S.

This looks interesting — "What does [the downtown highway] cost to the local economy? How much tax base did that erase from local municipal coffers? How much does it actually cost to be car dependent?”

The “Atlas of Inner City Highway Impacts,” by @thedotcity.bsky.social in @usa.streetsblog.org.

SHOW THIS TO YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT

Image of car dependency with a line crossed through it. The tagline says “mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.” At the bottom, it says “urban truth collective.”

They really want us to love cars. But why would we love being car dependent?

Dependency is never freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth

Ohio, look at this!

"local control" = "my control"

Screenshot of text from the “About Us” section of our website. “The Urban Truth Collective is a collaboration between leading practitioners with persuasive communication, marketing and branding expertise applied specifically to solving the difficult challenges of better cities. This collective was started by three people but is designed to grow with diverse perspectives and experience experiences that reflect who and what make our cities great.”

Our WEBSITE is LIVE!

“The Truth About Cities In An Age Of Disinformation.”

Read about WHO we are, WHY we started this, our PLANS to grow, and most importantly, WHAT WE’RE GOING TO BE DOING.

We hope you’ll support this work, and help us spread the word! #UrbanTruth

www.urbantruthcollective.com

Wow, wrong.

Poster: "If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work. Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done. So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business. This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done."

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Goes well with a cuppa ;)
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I posit that there's a correlation-causation that actually flows the other direction.

"Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth think that diversity will doom us. In reality, though, their racist paranoia and white nationalist conspiracy theories are the real threat."

I'm measuring a floor plate that's about 1000 sf each. Each unit is only about 416sf.

'the good building book' cover

not me running around the living room screaming 'it's here! it's here!'

can't wait to dive into my buddy @ecominimalnick.bsky.social's book

congrats, nick!

This did not need to be "both-sides"d

I just poked around on the website and couldn't find it, unfortunately. (I wanted to brag, too, ha)

What time period is that? They're not showing me that comparison.

yikes. This was an embarassing thing to type.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Open!

Act now to clean up air New regulations are needed to deal with increasing environmental threats to lung health.

Renewable energy is public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🛟 | #energysky