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Handbuilt Votes 2022: Urbanism At The Ballot Box

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 Guest 0 Comments ballot measure, ballotpedia, boulder county, california, charlie leduff, detroit news, fresno county, funding buses, Gretchen Whitmer, gulf coast, hillsborough county, infrastructure funding, karen jaroch, kristina karamo, new hanover county, orange county florida, orlando, qanon, san francisco, smart cities dive, southeast michigan, suburbs, tampa, transit, transit funding, transit millage, transit vote, transportation, vote on transit funding

Three counties in Southeast Michigan will vote on transit funding next week. There are also a number of other transit and infrastructure-related votes around the country.

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Our Top Ten Scariest Things In Urbanism This Halloween

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, amy coney barrett, angie schmitt, brett kavanaugh, clarence thomas, climate change, dave staudt, department of transportation, dot, emergency management, epa, epa ruling on carbon dioxide, fossil fuel crunch, fossil fuels, Gretchen Whitmer, halloween, halloween party, itaetwon, itaetwon tragedy, jeff bezos, matt maddock, media platforms, meshawn maddock, michigan proposal 3, neil gorsuch, noah balanda, oakland county gop, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, safe streets, safety, seoul, shane trejo, smart millage, supreme court, twitter, white supremacists

Halloween is a spooky time of year. Know what else is spooky? Well, we have a list of ten things– which we meticulously compiled while wearing our costumes in the war room of Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Ltd.

The Oakland County GOP Is Courting Literal Nazis To Fight Infrastructure Funding

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments brooks patterson, dave coulter, dave staudt, fix the damn roads, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, l brooks patterson, lyft, novi, road maintenance, roads, shane trejo, southeast michigan, TNC, transit, transportation, transportation infrastructure, Uber

For reasons that don’t seem to make any sense but were probably completely predictable, a nonprofit advocacy group in the northern suburbs of Detroit has enlisted a prominent Nazi sympathizer to fight against the real scourge of America: modern transportation infrastructure!

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Book Review: Women Driven Mobility by Katelyn Davis and Kristin Shaw

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, decarbonization, Detroit, Electric cars, electric vehicles, electrification, emily wasley, fisker, Gretchen Whitmer, jessica robinson, karma, katelyn davis, kristin shaw, lordstown, michigan, mobility, nikola, Tesla, transportation decarbonization, transportation electrification, TSLA, women-driven mobility, wsp

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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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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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?

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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,

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“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.

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