Elliot

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The Air District Board voted today to strengthen building appliance rules to reduce harmful NOx and PM2.5 emissions, protecting public health and air quality. New regulations will phase out NOx-emitting natural gas furnaces and water heaters. Learn more: baaqmd.gov/news-and-event…

At BAAQMD, we just adopted historic clean air rules, sending a clear market signal to accelerate the development and expansion of zero NOx furnaces and water heaters.

Headline is clickbait because it's just about the Builder's Remedy taking effect in the absence of an approved Housing Element, but otherwise this is good and kind of crazy news/happenings in housing policy. darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to…

@California_HCD don't play. Despite our best efforts to strengthen Berkeley's Housing Element, HCD says we have more work to do 👇🏽 Specifically, HCD tells Berkeley to fix our sites inventory & do more to affirmatively further fair housing. Gotta keep pushing!

ongoing thread of my favorite 3rd spaces or "community living rooms" in the East Bay aka Berkeley/Oakland 🛋️ Berkeley's my hometown so esp excited to share these gems 😄 📍Hidden Cafe, Berkeley - overlooking a small park, the cafe supports local artists & culinary artisans.

"the price of housing should increase faster than inflation over time" is catastrophically bad public policy. in fact, an interesting framework for setting public policy would be "make everything get less expensive over time".

the meta here is about: - governance of social institutions - mediating social fabric through a website - ownership/control incentives of the corporation that owns this website - volatile (re)construction of our social reality via the above

This is what state climate leadership 🌎 on buildings 🏙 looks like!! Well done, @GovInslee & WA Building Code Council. Who's next @GavinNewsom @KathyHochul @USClimate ? #ActOnClimate

the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.

... folk in SF are prob. infected. (FYI, this % @UCSF was 0.4% [1-in-250] 1 mth ago. Remember, this means that if you go into an indoor space w/ 15 people, it’s almost certain that someone is breathing out live virus. Can’t think of better argument for N95 or equivalent.(9/20)

The Berkeley city council voted to spend $53 million to develop hundreds of new affordable homes at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations.​ ktvu.com/news/berkeley-…

The inputs into peoples' consumption decisions/behaviors wsj.com/articles/how-a…

Your irregular reminder to live every week like it's shark week.

Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it. #CountdownToMars

You can see in this chart the result, a plunge in generation just as demand begins to soar. My crudely drawn red lawns represent the delta between generation and demand. At 7 a.m. Monday morning the difference was about 20GW.

You have probably heard many observers mention that this is a systemic failure rather than a breakdown of an individual technology like wind or gas. That's easier to see visually. Note how all power generation falls of a cliff around midnight on Monday morning.

Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars

Today’s the day. Trip to Mars, 99.9% complete. The most dangerous part comes last: the final seven minutes. Watch my landing live starting at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST / 19:15 UTC. #CountdownToMars twitter.com/i/events/13602…