I just want to say I always enjoyed reading your Treehugger editorials and was confused as to why you seemed to have been “disappeared” from their site. Anyway, a search brought me here where I will gladly read your articles. Will also buy your book!
No matter how you slice the pie, there remains a constant. The essential answer is less heating and cooling (none between 13C-30C/55F-85F, https://greenbetween.home.blog), driving, flying, meat-eating, and population-growth (2 children max) while we work on the long-term green technology and infrastructure.
"Basically, half our driving is driving between buildings. Most people have no choice because of our built environment."
People ALWAYS have choices and because of the freedom to drive around, that's where the buildings were built. It's clear that from your Treehugger articles, you want only "15 minute walking cities" in which private vehicles are either outlawed (law (like what the EPA has just done) or by regulation (no parking)). But everyone has to live in your New Urbanism settings.
This is such an important perspective, I think I will write about it soon as well. Everything is tied together and so much of it revolves around the way we build and develop our cities.
I just want to say I always enjoyed reading your Treehugger editorials and was confused as to why you seemed to have been “disappeared” from their site. Anyway, a search brought me here where I will gladly read your articles. Will also buy your book!
No matter how you slice the pie, there remains a constant. The essential answer is less heating and cooling (none between 13C-30C/55F-85F, https://greenbetween.home.blog), driving, flying, meat-eating, and population-growth (2 children max) while we work on the long-term green technology and infrastructure.
"Basically, half our driving is driving between buildings. Most people have no choice because of our built environment."
People ALWAYS have choices and because of the freedom to drive around, that's where the buildings were built. It's clear that from your Treehugger articles, you want only "15 minute walking cities" in which private vehicles are either outlawed (law (like what the EPA has just done) or by regulation (no parking)). But everyone has to live in your New Urbanism settings.
How is that a choice?
This is such an important perspective, I think I will write about it soon as well. Everything is tied together and so much of it revolves around the way we build and develop our cities.
Brilliant! As Sec-Gen Guterres said, we can't just pick one piece, we need to work on "everything, everywhere, all at once"!