Director of Impact @GroundworkUSA | affiliate @urichmond | board pres @scottsaddition | alum @OSUCEOAS @Augustana_IL | opinions mine; facts peer-reviewed
Richmond, VA
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Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
The biggest barrier to emissions reductions is increasingly our inability to quickly build clean energy: solar, geothermal, wind, nuclear, transmission, battery storage, etc. Projects are held back by a thicket of regulations and reviews.
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
"Coming to Scott’s Addition: Bike-ped paths and a little more green"
So much detail in this article regarding bike/ped infrastructure and greening efforts in @ScottsAddition (nice work @jer_science!).
richmonder.org/coming-to-sco… [@SarahVogelsong @RichmonderNews]
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
A millennium-long record from Galápagos corals suggests that El Niño is intensifying as the planet warms, with ENSO variability in the eastern Pacific roughly 37% higher than during the preindustrial era.
The findings in Science suggest that climate change is already amplifying one of the world’s most important sources of extreme weather, with potentially growing risks to ecosystems, infrastructure, and human societies.
Learn more: scim.ag/46q1YBn
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
A recent viral graph found fewer days in the contiguous US above 95F/100F/105F today than in the 1930s.
But the graph is misleading – it fails to correct for changing measurement times and techniques, and overstates regional warmth. I take a deep dive at The Climate Brink.
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
On this hot fourth of July it is worth reminding folks that its not the sun that's causing global warming. Solar output (as measured by satellites) has been flat over the past 50 years when global temperatures have shot up.
Its our emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
birders and yimbys are the same movement and haven't been introduced. the thing wrecking bird habitat isn't the six-story apartment, it's the cul-de-sac that bulldozed forty acres of forest so eleven families could each keep a lawn that feeds no insects and therefore no birds
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
This Bellevue-Seattle listings comparison is an unbelievably vivid YIMBY map
In Seattle, people ask how legalizing all these $700k condos makes housing far more affordable
In Bellevue, those condos are illegal & instead they mandate $3M single family homes. There's the answer
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
washingtonpost.com/climate-s…
Building shade is as good if not better than tree shade for protecting people from extreme heat stress, especially in areas where big canopy trees are hard to maintain, so taller buildings and shade structures should be a bigger part of our strategy for urban heat resilience
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
Excellent stuff by NYT Ed Board:“To bring down housing costs, cities and towns need to make two principal changes. First, they should loosen zoning laws to allow more multifamily homes. …Second, cities and towns should make it easier to build where it is already legal.”
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
IZ (inclusionary zoning) is “vibes based planning”.
IZ is intended to benefit the politician proposing it at the expense of the lower income person needing it.
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
If it happens ones, it can be a coincidence.
If it happens twice, it starts to be a pattern.
If it happens 40 times, we have truth!
A @EUROCITIES survey across 38 European cities found: lower urban speed limits aren’t slowing cities down. They're just making them work better!
Jeremy Hoffman retweeted
A city that treated the housing crisis like a five-alarm fire made it legal to build so much housing that it actually reduced rent by a lot. Who would’ve guessed?
Austin, Texas, where rents dropped by a full 6 percent over the past year, more than in any other large metro area in the US. The Austin area’s median rent, at $1,274, is back to roughly where it was right before the pandemic — which means that, in 2026 dollars, it’s significantly cheaper than it was in 2019.
