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False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings

May 9, 2020

False Solutions to Climate Change: Buildings Editorial Note: This is Part 4 of Mary Wildfire’s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, and Part 3 on Agriculture here. Part 4: Buildings Estimations for the percentage of greenhouse gases emitted by the buildings sector vary wildly. But […]

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Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth

May 12, 2019

Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth Preface. Some of the points I found most alarming or interesting: After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth.  Concrete is a thirsty behemoth, sucking up almost a 10th of the world’s industrial water use. This often strains supplies for drinking and irrigation If the […]

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Murdered for Sand

October 22, 2018

Murdered for Sand The world is running out of sand, and people are dying as a result “It is to cities what flour is to bread, what cells are to our bodies: the invisible but fundamental ingredient that makes up the bulk of the built environment in which most of us live.“ — Vince Beiser, author […]

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America Can’t Afford to Rebuild

September 9, 2017

America Can’t Afford to Rebuild Adolphe Yvon Genius of America c1870A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will NOT boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required. Hurricane Irma will not provide any such boost either. News about the ‘resurrection’ of […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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