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Bedtime CO2 during wildfires & air pollution

Bedtime CO2 during wildfires & air pollution

Late summer in California increasingly implies preparing for wildfire smoke. By “preparing” I mean focusing on indoor air quality, and in particular: Particulate Matter 2.5 [https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics]. We’re instructed to seal off our windows and doors from the outside and– if able– convert our

Why focus on concrete & cement

This post is cross-posted on the Build Incentive newsletter [https://newsletter.buildincentive.com/p/why-focus-on-concrete-and-cement], a new project of mine. Why focus on embodied emissions? When I surveyed [https://www.buildincentive.com/p/welcome-to-build-incentive] the landscape of Embodied, Operational, and End-of-Life emissions in the built environment last fall, it was

Climate change: a problem of organized complexity

Climate change: a problem of organized complexity

Problems of organized complexity The case for a simple pattern Concluding her famous ode [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cit.html?id=P_bPTgOoBYkC] to cities in 1961, Jane Jacobs writes, “Cities happen to be problems of organized complexity.” From sidewalks of