TopicsPlace & climate
Place & climate
Cities, water, community, and the physical substrate everything else sits on.
Posts
- EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
The Water Wars Are Already Here
Two billion people already lack reliable drinking water, and the conflicts over what's left are well underway. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Your Smart Home Is a Landlord's Dream
Smart apartment tech is marketed as convenience for tenants and works as surveillance for landlords. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Local Food Isn't Elitist
Local food looks expensive because industrial food is artificially cheap, and somebody is paying the hidden costs. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Loneliness Epidemic Is Structural
Loneliness isn't a personal failing. It's what happens when you design cities for cars instead of people. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Sports Are the Last Public Ritual
In a secular, atomized society, stadiums are one of the few places where strangers still cry together without irony. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Where Did Everybody Go?
Third places are disappearing because we priced out the conditions that made community happen for free. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Why We Stopped Repairing Things
Your grandparents repaired everything. You throw everything away. This isn't a generational virtue difference. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Suburbs Are a Ponzi Scheme
Most American suburbs cannot pay for their own infrastructure. The math has never worked. We just kept building anyway. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Climate Change Is a Labor Issue
The workers who extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels are the same ones who'll build what comes next. Climate transition requires labor organizing. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Degrowth Isn't Primitivism
You can have modern medicine and less stuff. Degrowth targets material throughput, not quality of life. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Problem With Green Capitalism
You can't consume your way to sustainability, and the market that built the crisis won't be the thing that ends it. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Why Your City Is Expensive
Housing costs aren't natural market outcomes. They're policy choices defended by people who benefit from artificial scarcity. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Seasonal Living Isn't Nostalgia
Your body knows what season it is. Industrial society pretends it doesn't matter. It does.