The ADU is everything good about tiny house, without the contextual vacuum. Is it enough to solve the housing crisis? Perhaps not, but it’s a significant enough tool in the toolkit that everyone should think about it.
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Trump continues to tout the value of trade deals, even though we’re now paying billions more in tariffs– that we weren’t paying a year ago. It’s a sign of an increasingly chaotic environment of market information, and one that markets seem to be completely unfazed by. For now.
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The coneflowers, the monarda, and a multitude of pollinator friends have taken over the yard; the wildfire smoke has taken over the air; bizarre news continues to come out of DC every few hours.
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Elon Musk appears to have ordered the reprogramming of the Grok chatbot on the Platform Formerly Known As Twitter to describe itself as MechaHitler, and to go after everyone ranging from Will Stancil to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey.
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Corn and soybeans account for around 87% of US agricultural production. What if we shifted some of that to growing some weird vegetables you’ve never heard of?
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DTE Energy truly offers the worst of both worlds– high prices and little to show for it in terms of reliability, energy efficiency, or clean energy.
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Humans like smells that remind us of nature. Can corporate-led fragrance chemistry convince our primitive brains that we’re actually in nature when we’re in a hotel lobby?
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The chaotic trade declarations coming out of the White House- which resembles less strategic public policy with a defined end goal, and more unstructured bloviating for the purpose of grandstanding, is doing weird things to markets and businesses.
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Tornadoes and severe storms downed trees and ripped off entire roofs in more than a couple of cities last week. It’s a reminder of how we constantly should be thinking about upgrading the built environment to respond to the threats of natural disasters, whether were thinking about roofs or utility infrastructure.
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Trucks have been getting bigger and more expensive. Until a recent startup asked the question, “what if we didn’t?”
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