Forever California
"Housing advocates insist that the solution is to force growth into existing neighborhoods. Yet the state’s supposedly pro-development new housing laws have yet to produce more homes at a scale sufficient to address the affordability crisis. Across every demographic analyzed, respondents preferred suburban, single-family home development." … more »
BART
"The last stop: what happens when a US city’s subway starts to die? Once a national model for sustainability, San Francisco’s Bart is facing a dire future as ridership slumps. What lessons does it hold for the city, and for the promises of public transportation?" … more »
EPA-EFE/SASCHA STEINBACH
"Coal is Still King - Coal still leads the charge when it comes to electricity, representing 35.4% of global power generation in 2022, followed by natural gas at 22.7%, and hydroelectric at 14.9%." … more »
Builders Exchange
"August US housing starts fell to its lowest level in three years in a worrying sign for the economy. The slowdown in homebuilding activity comes as mortgage rates continue to linger above 7%. The sharp drop in housing starts is concerning because housing has been one of the pillars of the economy." … more »
Nature Conservancy
"The majority of offset projects that have sold the most carbon credits are likely junk." … more »
Ocean Well
"The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District recently partnered with California-based OceanWell to study the feasibility of harvesting drinking water from desalination pods placed on the ocean floor to establish the nation’s first-ever “blue water farm.” … more »
NASA
"As another legislative session draws to a close in Sacramento, the problem lawmakers failed to fix is one of the most urgent facing Californians: the slow-moving collapse of the property insurance market as costs from climate disasters mount." … more »
Integris
"Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman all shared a passion for their work, a terrific ambition to succeed, and an almost superhuman capacity to focus. Yet, they spent only a few hours a day doing what we would recognize as their most important work." … more »
Grégoire Bernardi/The Observer
"Explorer Ludovic Slimak has found a missing piece that radically reshapes our understanding – not just of the Neanderthals but of humanity itself. “There’s something innate within the behaviour of Homo Sapiens – within our behaviour – to act and think in a certain way. It’s in our nature.” … more »
NASA
"Scientists analyzed nine so-called planetary boundaries and found humans are currently transgressing six." … more »
