“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.”
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...
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...
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
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.”
Time to start getting ready for the social media event of the year. Yes folks, coming up on the 8th November it’s……World Ventilation Day #WorldVentil8#BreathBetterLiveBetterwww.worldventil8day.com
The PHN Climate Design Awards winner's posters and narratives are now published passivehousenetwork.org/featured/the...
With all the crazy going on in the world, I’m so looking forward to watching oversized men pummeling the shizz out of each other. For sport. #RugbyWorldCup#GoBokke#SuperWellOrganizedViolence.
“You can build a Net Zero building and go nowhere, or you can build a Passive House and have enough electricity to operate two electric vehicles — for the same annual energy use.” ~ Enrico Bonilauri #Emu #PHNconference @lloydalter.bsky.social@passivehousebb.bsky.social@andrewmichler.bsky.social
The patron saint of building codes everywhere…