Cheese nation: Dairy consumption is at all-time high even though Americans keep drinking less milk.

“Each AP-1000, meanwhile, packs 1,114MW of power, enough to supply steady electricity to nearly 1 million homes. That scale may make them make more financial sense now that the U.S. has at least a few functional AP-1000s.” huffpost.com/entry/tva-nucl…

Iconic 14-story Park Slope residential building.

If you were actually going to build a floating city, how would you do it? Excited to partner with Possibilia Magazine for this one.

“There were 223,000 people on the NYCHA waitlist as of March, according to agency data.” great data dive by Karen Yi on a baffling facet of the city’s housing and homelessness crisis

Projected effects of blocking housing include:
📉A collective loss of $400-$900 billion in cumulative GDP growth
📉Loss of 330K-730K jobs
📉Loss of >$3.7 billion in annual state and local taxes
⬆️Rents rise another 25% ABOVE inflation

'If we think of any major technological change, they always have costs and unintended consequences. The sooner we realize and address them, the more sustainable and equitable the energy transition will be.'

— Stefano Galelli, The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

'Carbon To Stone, an emerging leader in the carbon capture and utilization industry, has received an influx of funding that will help the company advance its mission to transform CO2 and residual materials into valuable resources.' Carbon To Stone

in-icorps.org/carbon-to-ston…

Around the world, crop yields are ⬇️, largely due to #climatechange .

A new framework allows scientists to predict crop yield w/o the need for large amts of high-quality data - often scarce in developing countries facing ⬆️climate risk. IOP Publishing news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

Reminder: decarbonization is fundamentally a challenge of investment.

We need to utilize every policy lever to ensure the environment is ripe for investment.

Guess what's happening tonight on Vanderbilt Avenue.

“Most of us don’t drive double the speed limit or run red lights, but a small minority do, and there is reason to believe this fraction causes a disproportionate share of traffic fatalities. Their conduct should be a bigger target of regulation.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Good write up from Felipe De La Hoz ⬇️

Notre gouvernement a négocié et conclu un contrat de plus de 25 milliards $ pour exporter de l’électricité propre à New-York.
Ça va permettre de garder des tarifs d’électricité bas au Québec.
Quelle fierté! lesoleil.com/actualites/pol…

Yesterday, Council Member Lincoln Restler held a decarbonization workshop with technical experts to teach New Yorkers how to make their buildings more energy efficient with new technologies that are critical in the fight against climate change.

2024 has seen a big leap in the scale of battery operations in California

Battery storage charges during hours with plentiful solar and appears to be displacing natural gas during the morning and evening peaks

This is a clear step towards the grid that CAISO has been pursuing

Brooklyn's newest park, Abolitionist Place (formerly Willoughby Sq), opens this month

'Doubling agricultural R&D between 2020 and 2030, compared to a business-as-usual scenario, would reduce global agricultural land use by about 63 thousand square miles, about the size of Iowa.'

thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…