NREL Prizes for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming up to produce a series of competitive prize programs to facilitate innovation in energy and decarbonization.
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Burgerbanism: Ghost Kitchens, The Latest Wild Idea In Restaurant Innovation
The delivery app industrial complex has some interesting new models for how to brand, sell, and prepare fast food.
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YIMBY Meetup in April!
On April 4th, The Handbuilt City and ADL Ventures will host an event at Batch Brewing Company in Detroit to talk about how we can unlock housing opportunity using industrialized construction and regulatory innovation.
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Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including The YIMBY Movement
Keep Austin weird? Or, “keep Austin’s built environment thoroughly eclectic and its infrastructure slightly dysfunctional”? Lessons from the first YIMBYTown conference in the Lone Star State.
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Burgerbanism No. 12: The Strip Malls Of Austin Barbecue
Nat explores the delicacies of the strip malls of north Austin, Texas, as the city densifies steadily and continues to produce award-winning barbecue.
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Billionaire Owner of Losing Sports Team Wants More Handouts
Yesterday, the Detroit City Council deferred a vote to lavish public subsidies on a new project of the healthcare industrial
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You Can’t Zone For Love. But Regulatory Reform Could Increase The Supply Of Love In Your Heart.
Nat returns with some bad Valentine’s Day jokes about sustainable urbanism.
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Cities, Unsurprisingly, Have Far Lower Per Capita Energy Footprints.
Energy data show that cities, as we already know, allow for far more energy-efficient uses of land and space than their suburban and rural counterparts.
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No, Electric Scooters Aren’t More Dangerous Than Other Modes of Transportation.
A new Rutgers paper looks at the question of whether ebikes and scooters deserve all of the hate.
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