#NIMBY

David Roberts

drvolts

1. A giant offshore wind project in NY would substantially increase the region's carbon-free energy, relieve grid congestion, & lower prices. It's being blocked by NIMBYs. Specifically, the wealthy residents

felt words #BLM #MMIW

shawnfleek

Ignoring the reactionary politics of elected / campaigning people of color, and instead pointing to someone of their race being elected as a progressive victory is a form of racism.

Alec Schierenbeck

aschierenbeck

Looking closer at the NIMBY lawsuit to block the Gowanus rezoning this morning, and it is shockingly thin. The lead argument is that the City didn’t give the Community Board

Julian Brave NoiseCat

jnoisecat

As someone whose heart will always be in Oakland, where I grew up, I read this piece with great interest. I think Klein identifies key problems, but misses a few

Smoking Whoa Jack

whoajack1

The pétite-bourgeois (PB)To summarize Kierkegaard: "Spiritless, devoid of imagination, as the petty bourgeois always is, he loves within a certain orbit of trivial experiences as to how things come about,

Robin Garwood

RobinGarwood

My friend @lisabendermpls is not running for a third term as Council Member for Ward 10. I'm having complicated feelings about this. And here I go, sharing them.https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/1325501473380159488 But first,

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eparillon

I'm not sure why there is this increasing centrist hand-wringing over a possible revival of public housing. Even supporters like me feel that that revival is far off. But here

Alex Bozikovic

alexbozikovic

This is an important local Toronto issue: city heritage planning out of control. Staff want to add nearly 900 buildings on heritage register, most of them totally ordinary, on the

Sean Casten

SeanCasten

For today's thread: the Grid Energy Storage Act that I introduced and the BEST Act introduced by @RepBillFoster which were combined to provide over $1 billion for energy storage in

Latitude Law - Activist Lawyers Since 2007

LatitudeLaw

As you may have seen, on 10 Dec the Home Office quietly published a new Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules. This isn't big news (the rules are amended

Marla in blue GA! 😷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈☮️🌊

MarlaCaldwell

What is white supremacy?Many white Americans hear that and think white hoods, cross burnings, lynchings, bombings, white nationalism, KKK, explicit & extremist racism.Black Americans & academics have a different understanding.

Neil Murphy

NeilMurphy1978

This diagram nails the problem with many ‘garden towns’. Poor location compounded by bad design. A thread by way of amplification. (1/)https://twitter.com/davewalker/status/1272830883205132289 To get good places, we have to

Second Ave. Sagas

2AvSagas

I've been waiting months for articles like this one, and it does not disappoint. You just gotta tip your hat at Melanie Wesslock's sad and pathetic life right now. https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/nyc-street-parking-hell-worse-than-eve

Arash Kolahi

ArashKolahi

The Achilles Heel of a capitalism’s market system is in what economists call externalities: the human, societal & environmental costs of economic activity completely externalized from both buyers & sellers.Externalities

Uri Niv

uri_niv1

SHELTER AT LOT 704:A True Story About LA's Failure to Protect the Unhoused (Thread)@LADOTofficial @BobBlumenfield @nithyavraman @MayorOfLA @MikeBoninLA @KtownforAll @LAHomeless On January 14, the Board of Transportation Commissioners wa

Sophie Strauss

sophielstrauss

Wanted to take a sec to break down a few bits of info about how public comment works and also to say that it's okay not to know this stuff,

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