Innovative financial system proposals to help fund the transition to viable sustainable economies in a multi-polar world New website is live https://teapawt.net/t.co/mcRVn37hcp
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Cdn Govt might want to consider comprehensive plans to build a sustainable economy, stop urban sprawl, protect: farmland, natures land & waters habitat, build 100% waste mgmt systems, reduce consumption, modify the financial system to support the move. No real plan, no action
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BREAKING: Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs, per the Guardian.
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The immigration issue is not so much an #Immigration issue, but more a #population issue.
Rapidly growing your population can only ever be a short term band-aid to hide fundamental economic weakness via "GDP growth"
.. a band-aid which comes with heavy social & ecological costs
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This is the story of our entire economy now. Everything is automated and nothing works.
This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Gepsd bold proposal ECO$ Financial System (Natures Capital) to fully fund the costs of cleanup, restoration, and protection of natures habitat by E-Corps. The ECO$ Financial System is a cost accounting valuation of natures contributions (one example nature production of O2 consumed in industry, transportation, and heating. A new parallel complementary financial system.
Example of application ECO$ North America nations. Gepsd bold proposal ECO$ Financial System (Natures Capital) to fully fund the costs of cleanup, restoration, and protection of natures habitat by E-Corps. The ECO$ Financial System is a cost accounting valuation of natures contributions (one example nature production of O2 consumed in industry, transportation, and heating. A new parallel complementary financial system.
Example of application of ECO$ Africa nations. Gepsd bold proposal ECO$ Financial System (Natures Capital) to fully fund the costs of cleanup, restoration, and protection of natures habitat by E-Corps. The ECO$ Financial System is a cost accounting valuation of natures contributions (one example nature production of O2 consumed in industry, transportation, and heating. A new parallel complementary financial system.
Example of application of ECO$ Asia Pacific nations. Gepsd bold proposal ECO$ Financial System (Natures Capital) to fully fund the costs of cleanup, restoration, and protection of natures habitat by E-Corps. The ECO$ Financial System is a cost accounting valuation of natures contributions (one example nature production of O2 consumed in industry, transportation, and heating. A new parallel complementary financial system.
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consolidated corridor courtyard block versus fine-grained courtyard block:
consolidated corridor courtyard
-single building, new entrances, single owner, many renters
-uncanny valley facade tries to make the single building look like many buildings
-massive garage signals total car dependence
-deep floorplate means hotel-like floor plan with many small units strung along looooong hallways
fine-grained courtyard block:
-one block, many different buildings, many entrances, many different owners
-facade changes actually correspond with different entrances and tax IDs
-where's the parking? some street, some garage, but you don't notice it because many households don't have cars BECAUSE THEY DON'T NEED THEM
-thin floorplate means HOUSE-LIKE apartments with 2-3 homes per landing, a stair connecting apartment to street and courtyard, many apartments with a FRONT on the public street and a BACK on the courtyard
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Brazil can add farmland bigger than the entire United Kingdom without cutting a single tree in the Amazon.
The land is already cleared.
It sits under old cattle pasture worn out by heavy grazing and years without fertilizer.
Embrapa, Brazil's farm research agency, mapped 28 million hectares of this tired pasture on land rated good or very good for crops.
The count leaves out Indigenous lands and protected areas.
Conab expects Brazil to plant 85.4 million hectares of grain this season.
Turning that worn-out grass into crop fields would grow the country's planted area by about one third.
Mato Grosso holds 5.1 million hectares of it, more than any other state.
Nearly 9 in 10 of these pasture areas sit within 20 kilometers of a highway.
The federal government has a program to recover and convert up to 40 million hectares of weak pasture over ten years.
Brazil's next great farm frontier has already been cleared, mapped and connected to the road.
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GDP measures the size of the economy,
NOT:
- economic resilience
- economic sustainability
- quality of outcomes & human well being
- ecological impacts
- resource depletion
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Paris Commits €200 Million to Cycling, With 140 km of New Bike Lanes Planned by 2032.
momentummag.com/paris-commit…
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Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously this week to eliminate minimum parking and floor-area ratio (FAR) requirements for all new development citywide, one of several reforms aimed at making it easier to build housing.
📍Pittsburgh, PA
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The reason Italy and France build infrastructure so cheaply is that 80% of the planning, design and project management is done in house. When I was a consultant, my company was charging more than 3x my salary for my work. Can we please get serious about project delivery as a country?
Breaking News: The chief executive of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority has abruptly resigned after a recent state report that found that the agency had misused nearly $600,000 to pay for the travel of consultants. This is a developing story. nyti.ms/4zoacHi
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Kitsilano has a nice mix of character homes and older apartment buildings, but for the last several decades most new infill housing options have been blocked and 'character-gentrification' has taken hold instead.
Single-stair accessible flats could take Kits back to the future.
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This monster spread between high sulfur fuel price between the US and Singapore is telling everyone that Diesel shortages in Asia are going to start rather soon. Not surprisingly China stopped exporting Diesel weeks ago to protect its domestic economy
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Giant cash machines like Meta and Google are now negative cash flow; OpenAI and Anthropic have been from the start.* (*With the arguable exception of one anomalous quarter with a big subsidy.)
There is at least an 80% chance that this will turn out to be the greatest capital misallocation in history.
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Situated directly east of Downtown Toronto, and just north of the Port Lands, is one of the city's largest active construction sites. This parcel of land is actively being transformed into the future East Harbour transit hub. urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread…
📸: Kotsy via UrbanToronto
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I appreciate the anonymous stakeholders who are bringing my work to the attention of city planning departments, leading to promising collaborations.
If you want courtyard urbanism in your city, probably the best thing you can do is write a note to your electeds and planning department explaining why the idea resonates with you and linking them to my website
NEW RFK Courtyard Urbanism Proposal for Washington DC:
-10,000+ homes in a dense, walkable, fine-grained neighborhood
-Family-friendly flats with access to protected courtyards
-1M sf of commercial and office
-a beautiful parking solution
Read all about it in my newest substack, or explore the interactive website (linked below)
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