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“You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, and extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability.”

EBemilybell.bsky.socialFeb 7, 2024 3:07pm

Rebecca Solnit with unerring brilliance eviscerates the sinister authoritarianism of the tech billionaire class, through the lens of a San Franciscan who tracks the alarming changes to the city wrought by wealth www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...

Great study! Thx for sharing. Hoping this will be presented at the upcoming PHI conference and perhaps at an ASHRAE or ACEEE one?

Check out my Sebastopol #OrchardHaus#Passivhausyoutube.com/@doughahn256...

A reminder ahead of COP28 --> the cheapest for of energy is the energy not used 💡 Buildings with good insulation, airtightness and ventilation radically reduce the operational energy. Passivhaus buildings constructed with biobased materials must be part of our fight against climate breakdown

Shocked me too… Was looking for your paper on the PH heat load target. (Didn’t you present something on it at a PHI conference?) If so, will you email that to me please?

One of @ecominimalnick.bsky.social ‘s greatest hits: “What we put into a building might make it good but it’s what we leave out that has the potential to make it great.”

Wasted an enjoyable hour (or two) rereading your old blog posts. (Ten years goes by quickly…!) Sadly we’re still debating so many ‘variable f*ckables’ around n0t zero although it does look like the LEED folks have finally admitted defeat: www.buildinggreen.com/news-analysi...

Portfolio Program Targets the “Brown” Assets LEED Left Behind

USGBC’s Portfolio Accelerator aims to solve ESG’s biggest problem: net-zero commitments and other promises that lack realistic implementation plans. But the emerging program is nothing like LEED.

There are #PassiveHouse#passivhaus organization for a list.

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