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decorated christmas tree with presents in southwest detroit

Culture & Language Lifestyle

Christmas 2022: Handbuilt City’s Naughty or Nice List

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cars, christmas, christmas 2022, corporate management, DOE GSL lighting standards 2022, elon musk, exelon, led controllers, metro detroit transit, michigan democrats, michigan public service commission, midjourney ai, MPSC, national museum of the great lakes, pepco, right-wing extremism, sam bankman-fried, scotus, supreme court, tech crash, trevor pawl, twitter, volodymyr zelenskyy

It’s time for the annual tradition of pointing out the winners and losers of the year in terms of who’s

Urban Planning Culture & Language Lifestyle

Christmas 2021: Handbuilt’s Naughty Or Nice List

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, authoritarianism, big gretch, climate change, climate denial, climate denialism, daqo solar, decarbonization, decarbonizing the transportation sector, department of transportation, desegregate connecticut, economic dispatch, EmPOWER MD, energy, ever given, evergrande, Gretchen Whitmer, james craig, jewish space laser, jim jordan, jinko solar, joe manchin, lauren boebert, madison cawthorn, marjorie taylor greene, maryland, matt gaetz, mayor pete, MDHHS mask mandate, mdot, MEDC, michigan covid, mike duggan, mike shirkey, mitch mcconnell, pete buttigieg, police departments, public utilities, radical socialist agenda, republican party, sara bronin, socialism, suez canal 2021, trevor pawl, trump, USDoT, uyghur china, vmt reduction, west virginia, xinjiang solar

Every year, we at Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Incorporated, feel the need to wrap up with a Christmas-y list of everyone who

Culture & Language Lifestyle Environment

A Love Burning Brighter Than The Gas Flares Of Zug Island

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 48216, 48217, 48219, air pollution, ambassador bridge, boynton, crossing us canada border, delray, delray detroit, engagement, engagement photos, gordie howe, gordie howe international bridge, marathon oil, marathon petroleum, marathon refinery, matty moroun, moroun, most polluted zip codes in michigan, Nat Zorach, noah balanda, oakwood heights, river rouge, rouge river, southwest detroit, us canada border, us canadian border, US Steel, water pollution, who is gordie howe, windsor, Zug Island, zug island hum, zug island iced tea

As many of you know, or don’t, I got engaged in September! Yes, folks– if someone thinks they can put

Art & Design Culture & Language Lifestyle

Womxn House Envisions Future for Artists, Gender on Detroit’s West Side

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments art galleries, art gallery, art installation, art installations, artist residencies, artist residency, artwork, asia hamilton, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, creative, Detroit, detroit artists, detroit west side, erin gold, erin gold artist, fenkell, gender, gender pay disparity, glass ceiling, grand river, judy chicago, laura earle, miriam schapiro, norwest gallery of art, pandemic, west side, womanhouse, women, womxn house

Erin Gold gives a talk on her stained glass installation work at a new artist residency and gallery space at Womxn House, a home on the west side of Detroit.

Business & Economics Real Estate Lifestyle

Save The Office: Costs And Spatial Well-Being in the Work-From-Home Economy

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments capital markets, Capitol Insurrection, commercial real estate, covid, effects of covid on real estate, effects of covid19 on capital markets, effects of covid19 on real estate, employment, labor force, lifestyle, midatlantic, office, office park, office space, real estate, unemployment, vaccine, vaccines, WFH, work-from-home, work-life balance, workforce, zoom

Working from home has its benefits, but not everyone wants to work from home. What degree of input should employers be soliciting from staff before deciding to permanently make the monumental work-from-home leap? What should we be thinking about as the economy retools to support work-from-home economy?

Business & Economics Lifestyle

Streaming, Torrents, and Market Fragmentation: Will p2p Filesharing, Unlike The South, Rise Again?

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon prime, apple, downloading, DRM, film, itunes, market fragmentation, mp3, music, netflix, streaming, streaming services, torrents

Digital piracy has made a comeback in recent years as the market for content streaming becomes more crowded and more expensive, leading to serious questions about the long-term sustainability of the sector.

Culture & Language Lifestyle

Handbuilt Summer Reading List

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments accounting, banking, black capitalism, books, capitalism, corporations, culture, economic justice, fractional reserve banking, free market, markets, neoliberalism, policy, private equity, racial justice, reading, reading list, reading lists

Okay. You’re locked down, quarantined, or unemployed. Stop scrolling mindlessly through the feed and read! It’s a great opportunity to

Conquering COVIDbrain: Things Blocking Your Productivity and How To Fix Them

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 Evan Eichelberger 0 Comments coronavirus, covid, COVID19, covid19 diaries, diet, improve productivity, lifestyle, nutrition, productivity, WFH, work-from-home

Evan writes about some strategies for tackling hindrances to your own productivity as we all face challenging times.