Taking Climate Solutions To New Heights With ADL Ventures
Nat starts a new job with ADL Ventures, a venture developer focusing on solutions for energy, climate, and construction.
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Sustainability
Does Big Oil Deserve A Seat At COP28?
The world’s favorite international stopover for consumer largesse and one of the biggest oil producers in the world is hosting the UN’s climate conference. Should we be outraged? Or ever more invested?
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TED Countdown Detroit: Sustainability’s Problem With Elitism and Respectability Politics
Al Gore, McKinsey alums, and half of the Ivy League descends on Detroit this week to tell the peasants about sustainability and decarbonization. Just kidding, it’s a for-profit, invite-only event that costs $4,000– no peasants will be invited.
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Republicans Hate ESG. What That Is, And Why It Matters.
Republicans have a new target: the woke agenda of “creating better market information.” It’s not a good look for a party that is really grasping at straws, but it also strains credulity to imagine that companies shouldn’t do things that they think are in their best interest.
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New Ideas For Utility Policy (Idea No. 2)
In my last article, I looked at this question of “dig once” and how it might influence utility affordability and
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Move Over, Trucks: It’s Time For Smaller Delivery Solutions
Delivery drones, we are told, will change everything. There are some hurdles, but according to recent research, drones might just be the best bet for most– but not all- local delivery.
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Detroit Rallies The 2030 Districts
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend a happy hour event sponsored by Detroit’s 2030 District, one of 26
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Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw
Nat looks at a new book by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw about women in the mobility and transportation space, and asks whether a politics of benevolent incrementalism is going to help us solve the climate crisis.
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MDOT: “Making VMT Reduction A Mobility Goal Is Punitive, Combative, And Might Hurt People’s Feelings”
Representatives of Michigan’s Department of Transportation have, at two recent public meetings, firmly pushed back on the proposal that the agency must tie a reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) to funding considerations for new projects– using a dubious rationale.
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Pervious Paving Patio, One Year On
We did a somewhat experimental project last year at the old homestead around a pervious patio installation. It was a
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