If you’ve got a young’n:

• Go cloth diapers over disposable most the time. We went woth a diaper servce to start, then bought our own once we had it figured out.
• For the ebike: we waited until kiddo was old enough for a bike seat (10 mo in our case, but ~12 mo) for the ebike. This let us get a longtail that is cheaper, mechanically simpler, and we can store inside instead of a bucket style bike

If wr apply the Golden Mean (Delphatic ir Socratic), to much of anything can be bad.

Is there a point where too much solar punk is a bad thing? Yes. What is thst limit, and what are the consequences of it? That’s for the author to explore with their readers.

Air conditioning pumps exchanges heat with the air. Fluid heat pumps exchange it with the water.

The same amount of heat is being displaced regardless; the question is how much new heat is being created by the mechanisms involved (and their related power generation).

Toronto has a similar system(s) exchanging heat with Lake Ontario (BIG thermal mass holder)

Love those Arkel bags!

What’s the tube thing on the right side of the fork?

If you’re worried about it, start at 50 and work up 5 PSI at a time until you find what you like best.

Neat.

Doesn’t solve the massive infrastructure bill, land use requirements, and safety issues of cars though.

Just cron a restart

Thanks! Sounds similar to most mindfulness, but with targeting things you want to enjoy/remeber more.

Thanks for writing this!

I would love to have better control over my perception of time.

Can you suggest any resources?

Removing the 57% of transportation emissions from individualized transit is more important than the <2% from public transit.

Not that we can’t do both, just where priorities and performance measures should lie.

I would personally argue changing modes of transit are very much a local leader problem. Since they decide land use policies, transportation priorities, and many other things that can improve or degrade the transportation options available to people.

I’m obviously biased with my own political reality, but a city council can do more for modal share than a federal decree. And it’s obviously not a zero sum game. We can replace fleets woth electric busses AND build bike lanes.

I’m not saying electrifying busses isn’t good. It definitely is. Especially for local air quality. But as a priority, it’s pretty low down.

Yes. But even better for the kids would be to not breath the fumes from the 20% emissions coming from passenger vehicles and the 37% from non-passenger work vehicle family passenger vehicles (credit to Rollie Williams for that term)

I think we’re saying the same thing with a different strategy.

Such to say, I’d prioritize eliminating all the non-passenger work vehicle passenger family vehicles than reduce bus fuel emissions. That might mean pumping out more “dirty” busses for an overall net positive in the short term.

With transportation accounting for roughly 28 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, transit agencies…

28% of emissions are in the transportation sector, but busses are part of the 2% of the transportation sector that doesn’t get it’s own category. Or <0.5% overall.

emissions in 2022 were light-duty trucks, which include sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans (37%); medium- and heavy-duty trucks (23%); passenger cars (20%); commercial aircraft (7%); other aircraft (2%); pipelines (4%); ships and boats (3%); and rail (2%).

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/transportation-sector-emissions

I’m not saying electrifying busses isn’t good. It definitely is. Especially for local air quality. But as a priority, it’s pretty low down.

I’ve never seen a power shrug done without a hold before. What does this target?

I think that’s a regional dependant one in terms of which should be prioritized. There a lot of factors that could lean on way or another.

For example, while Taxis drive around empty, car shares sit around empty. That’s a geometry problem that will be different city to city.

Also, car shares only allow people who can drive (and their passengers) to travel. Taxis can take anyone.

It’s a process, not a problem. Based on analogous estimates, that process takes about 20 years.

Infrastructure isn’t a quick fix either, so the physical and mental domains can progress at the same time.

Land value tax wouldn’t totally fix this, but it would help a lot.

One of my hard drives started randomly disconnecting.

I tried all the cables, but got nothing. I don’t have time to fix it before leaving for work, so I’ve set up a rightly reset and I’ll hope for the best. Angry family texts incoming!