texas - The Handbuilt City

Idle Thoughts And Prayers: Why I’m Not Attending The CHARGE Energy Branding Conference in Texas

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments charge energy conference, conferences, defund the police, firearms, greg abbott, gun control, gun safety, houston, ken paxton, ken paxton investigation, lone star, lone star state, mass shootings, police, police abolition, police budgets, police reform, police spending, public safety, texas, texas state police, uvalde, uvalde police, uvalde police response, uvalde school shooting, uvalde texas

Nat has, for better or worse, cancelled his trip to an energy conference in the Lone Star State.

Policy

California Added Five States To Its Travel Ban. Does This Make Sense? Or Is It All Just Posturing?

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AB 1887, anti-trans legislation, anti-voting legislation, biden, blue state, california state employee travel ban, california travel ban, capitalism, carb compliant, corporate economy, corporate growth, corporate investment, corporations, don't mess with texas, fortune 500, let me be clear obama, prop 65, purple, purple state, state travel ban, ted cruz, texas, trans, trans rights, travel ban, voting rights, voting rights restrictions

We revisited our previous analysis trying to correlate red state regressivism with corporate investment, but this time looking at California’s newly-amended ban on state-funded travel to a number of deep red states.

Business & Economics Finance Politics Finance Energy

You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2ndvote, candace owens, christianity, conservative christianity, doge, doge to the moon, dogecoin to the moon, ETF, evangelicalism, exchange-traded fund, jacki daily, jason isaac, jeanine pirro, judge jeanine, markets, stock market, stocks, stonk, stonks, texas, texas public policy foundation, tppf

A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.

Energy Efficiency Sustainability Energy Housing

In Search Of Cheap, Scalable Solutions For Grid Resiliency

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments AGM battery, air conditioning, air source heat pump, battery storage, carnot cycle, electric reliability council of texas, elon musk, energy efficiency, ERCOT, ERCOT texas, heat pump, home battery storage, li-ion battery, lithium-ion battery, lone star, market transformation, mini-split, mitsubishi, mr. slim, off-grid, power grid, powerwall, reduce energy bills, save money on energy, sorcery, split system heat pump, Tesla, tesla powerwall, texas, texas interconnection, texas power grid, texas storm, texas winter storm, thermodynamics

The extreme weather event affecting about two thirds of the United States right now suggests the need for small-scale interventions that can be scaled over an entire market.

Environmental Justice Urban Planning Environment

What’s More Expensive Than Spending On Climate Change? Not Spending On It.

September 12, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments alabama, bahamas, cap and trade, carbon tax, climate adaptation, climate change, flood management, florida, GSI, gulf coast, houston, hurricane dorian, hurricane harvey, hurricane maria, louisiana, miami, mississippi, new orleans, puerto rico, resilience, resilient infrastructure, Sprawl, stormwater infrastructure, texas, urban growth

One morning last fall, I found myself standing in the basement of my 1895 home, watching a waterfall cascade off