Serena Larkin

🎨Frans Groenewald

this will work

hot tip, via @usa.streetsblog.org

DO i love the center for land economics' new site, esp this quick graphic explainer pointing to land value tax solutions? yes. yes i do

Always satisfying to see yet another rigorous academic study confirming what we YIMBYs have been saying for a long time now: "permitting duration is positively associated with housing prices and negatively associated with production" evansoltas.com/papers/Durat...

Recommend anyone who cares about multifamily housing to attend this parking permit ✨SUCCESS STORY ✨ luma.com/parking-f27r

"It's like having car exhaust in a home." 😷

really great convo here (and not just for oregon!) about legalizing the homes our future selves will need <3

The lights come on when we flip the switch, but most of us rarely think about the electric grid or its role in cutting climate emissions. @trufahey.bsky.social sightline.org/MessagingNWEnergy

Last month, Elon Musk donated $1.5M in support of Alaska's Ballot Measure 2. And we only know about it because of the law he is seeking to repeal.

MDUs are the new ADUs. "I'm a big fan of ADUs," Kol Peterson told @opb.org. "The reality is people in Portland can't really afford or justify spending $300,000 - 400,000 anymore. It doesn't really pencil from a ROI perspective. Whereas, MDUs do."

When ocean temperatures increase, so does child malnutrition on land

New Sightline strategic messaging guidance: How to talk about upgrading the electric grid! ⬇️💡

chronically obsessed w this housing solution 💘

More than half of U.S. apartment buildings built last year included heat pumps — and new homes are catching up.

With #wildfires burning so hot that water evaporates before even reaching the flames, firefighting operations are devolving, increasingly, into lifesaving operations. Whether you’re in the suburbs of Athens, Bordeaux, or Spokane, evacuation is often the only viable option." time.com/article/2026...

the only thing making me ever want to be a homeowner is the possibility of installing these sexy appliances @kbrigham.bsky.social @heatmap.news:

If you care about climate, you care about transmission permitting 🤓

What people search for, eat, and wear maps the rural-urban split almost as cleanly as the ballot does.

i obvs love this. cheese + energy savings + cute cow photos 🧀⚡🌕, courtesy of @canarymedia.com

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ayfkm

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transit = literal life-saver <3 for spokane

“There are many differences in construction costs between the U.S. and other countries, but I’m not sure there’s anywhere else where the difference is as large as the elevator.” @stephenjacobsmith.com

Re-legalize Zak’s place

never been a better time to buy from your local farmers

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Cool bill from CA: take the $ gas utilities would spend on replacing pipes and give it to customers to electrify. PNW gas utilities are also spending big on new gas pipes. Let's spend that $ instead on heat pumps to give people cooling - Sweating in Seattle earthjustice.org/experts/matt...

Wasting all that space in our neighborhoods for pavement is a health hazard (and makes housing more expensive).

this was such a great convo. saw stephanie pollack at a conference in june, where she ran hands-down the most interesting and dynamic panel of the event. give this a listen, and dream bigger for our transit future! <3

"The most engaged adults are the most likely to have negative feelings about the state of the country — but more engaged groups are also more likely to report positive feelings about the state of their *local* community." @niemanlab.org

spoiler: yes it can. but: please god nooo. book rec: @bethgardiner.bsky.social's *excellent* Plastic Inc.

timely reading for chicagoans, courtesy of @jeva.bsky.social @heatmap.news

do you advocate for a cause, in any form? do yourself a favor and take 10 minutes to watch this excellent @frameworks.bsky.social series:

"A bike is magic, and an e-bike is a bike without hills and showers." @billmckibben.bsky.social #cycling #climateaction #bcpoli

Reminder that there will be a memorial for CDOT Complete Street Planner Riley O'Neil this evening in Bridgeport. bsky.app/profile/bike... There will be a group ride to Bridgeport leaving from Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St. at 6 PM. bsky.app/profile/acan...

guys, i found the place. it's chicago. not sure why it doesn't just widen its sidewalks and bike lanes and steamroll every city in the US. if it weren't for the batshit drivers this place would be paradise (and yes, i have been here in winter, get a parka you wimps)

with a "super el niño" summer ahead, yikes:

BUILD fact of the day: Chicagoland apartment vacancy is 4.7% — well below the national average of 8.4% — and new construction is at its lowest level since 2012 the BUILD plan is designed to break that cycle by removing the zoning rules and financing barriers that keep new housing from getting built

jfc this traffic violence. all for next-day shipping of athleisure or poptarts or whatever. hellscape

Ahoy housing wonks in Alaska and BC! Sightline is hiring part-time contributors to help advance housing abundance in these two corners of Cascadia. Please spread the word! www.sightline.org/about/careers/

By the way, if somebody tries to tell you climate change is only a concern of "educated and affluent" liberals, you can show them this map. At least half the people in *every* US state, even the deep red ones, worry about it

Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am.

A no brainier 🌳🏘️🧠 A no car-brainer…🚗🧠