Infrastructure

Infrastructure #

Power #

Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins with winches, weights, and mine shafts

Light Pollution #

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Air Quality #

A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection

Networking (Mesh) #

Housing and Land #

Car-Free Neighborhoods in the US

The People the Suburbs Were Built for Are Gone (Vice)

Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

Land Value Tax? #

Birth Lottery #

Where you’re born determines if you have access to even basic needs

Human-Centric design #

Patina and Intimacy (The Map is Mostly Water)

College Campuses Are Designed at Human-Scale. Our Cities Can Be Too. (StrongTowns.org)

Turns Out, Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Safe (bicycling.com)

There Stupid Trucks Are Literally Killing Us (Not Just Bikes)

Racial Discrimination #

The Absolute State of the Union (by Narcissist Cookbook)

Payment Systems #

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