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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

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Energy Efficiency Urban Planning Poverty Affordable housing Energy

MDHHS and LIHEAP: We’ll Pay For Fossil Fuels. Weatherization, Not So Much.

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Brad Banks, cardi b, CMS energy, coal, coal power, Consumers Energy, DTE, DTE Energy, EE&C, energy efficiency, energy efficiency & conservation, energy waste reduction, fossil fuels, fossil gas, Gretchen Whitmer, LIHEAP, LMI, low to moderate income, low-income, maddy kamalay, michigan, michigan department of health and human services, michigan public service commission, MPSC, Nat Zorach, natural gas, the war on coal, WAP, weatherization assistance program, why is DTE so bad

At an MPSC workgroup meeting this morning on Energy Waste Reduction specifically for the low to moderate income (LMI) market

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Decarbonizing Transportation With… More Fossil Fuels?

May 13, 2021May 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments biodiesel, canadian oil, car, clean cities, CMAQ, colonial pipeline, community multiscale air quality modeling system, congestion mitigation and air quality, corn ethanol, diesel, diesel fuel, driving, enbridge line 5, environment great lakes and energy, ethanol, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, Gretchen Whitmer, judd herzer, matt galbraith, michigan, Michigan DNR, Michigan EGLE, office of future cars, panicum, panicum at the disco, petroleum, switchgrass, trevor pawl, vmt, vmt reduction

I just want clean air and buses. Is that so much to ask?

Politics Public Safety Movements & Organizing

Candidate Craig: Will The Paradoxes Play In The Provinces?

May 12, 2021May 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments black lives matter, Black Republicans, Black Senate candidates, Black Senators, candidacy, candidates, Congress, defund the police, Democratic Congress, detroit will breathe, governor of michigan, governorship, Gretchen Whitmer, gubernatorial, gubernatorial race, gubernatorial race in michigan, police, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, political, politics, Republican Congress, Republican Senators, Republicans

Detroit Police Chief James Craig’s abrupt announcement that he will be retiring to almost certainly run for governor– as a

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Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

Energy Efficiency Policy Energy Utilities

“Electrification Is Not Enough For Decarbonization” – Consumers Energy

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments building decarbonization, carbon transition, decarbonization, demand response, demand-response, distributed generation, electrical grid, electrification, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy transition, energy waste reduction, EWR, Gretchen Whitmer, just transition, michigan, michigan public service commission, MPSC, photovoltaics, policies, policy, pv, rooftop solar, solar panels, state of michigan, utilities, utility, utility infrastructure, utility policy

A new workgroup seeks to address some questions about the future of infrastructure in a state that continues to lag in regulatory and technical innovation.

Mobility Energy

The “Mobility” Council’s Report: Buy A Car, Peasants

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alisyn malek, big gretch, bob babik, borgwarner, canals, cavnue, CFME, cory connolly, council on future mobility and electrification, electrification, electrified vehicles, emily frascaroli, energy innovation business council, Ford, ford motor company, general motors, google, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, international trade, leland stanford, liberapay, london crossrail, luo yang, mark de la vergne, mdot, MEDC, mobility initiatives, mongol invasion of japan, monumental infrastructure, moon landing, moon landing hoax, NASA, panama canal, patreon, paul ajegba, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, siege of constantinople, siege of tyre, supercruise, trade, transcontinental railroad, tremaine phillips, trevor pawl, tupac shakur, wsp

The Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification said that Google’s Cavnue project is “one of the most ambitious mobility initiatives in history.” We looked through the history books and picked our top four competitors.

Politics Policy

2020 Election: Why I Voted How I Did

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments automotive industry, biden, billionaire class, billionaires, corporate debt, corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, covid, COVID19, covid19 pandemic, democracy, Donald Trump, economy, federal deficit, federal reserve, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, joe biden, millionaires, mobility, obama, obama administration, pandemic, pluralism, policy, politics, taxes, transit, transportation, trump administration, xenophobia

Unsurprisingly, rhetoric usually becomes increasingly political as we approach the 2020 presidential election. To paraphrase a staffer on Aaron Sorkin’s

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Gretchen Whitmer: When We Say “Mobility,” We Really Mean “Cars”

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cars, chrysler, decarbonization, fca, Ford, general motors, GM, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, market transformation, michigan, mobility, policy, transit, transit infrastructure, transportation, whitmer

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Future Mobility is not about mobility, it’s about cars. That’s got to change if we’re serious about decarbonizing transportation– or building an equitable future of any kind.

Live Free Or Die– Why Not Both?

April 16, 2020April 20, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, lansing, michigan militia, trump

Protesters descended upon the Michigan State Capitol today in Lansing to voice their opposition to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s extension of

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