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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1911977/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1911977/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Local Governments Can Go on Offense to Protect the Environment <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BuildingCodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCodes</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ClimateChangeMitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChangeMitigation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ContractLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContractLaw</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnvironmentalRemediation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRemediation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FishAndWildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FishAndWildlife</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FossilEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GovernmentEmployees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentEmployees</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landfills</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MilitaryAndDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryAndDefense</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/preemption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preemption</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SustainableDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VehicleEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VehicleEmissions</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wetlands</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoning</span></a></p>
Doug Bostrom<p>Somebody I know was midway through a call today including <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> and having to do with resilience against flooding, involving various other agencies to coordinate advice to the public. </p><p>During the call, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> announced that FEMA will no longer have anything to do with <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BuildingCodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCodes</span></a>. FEMA participation and experience is retracted. </p><p>This of course is insane.</p><p>Our well being is falling apart.</p>
Sally Strange<blockquote><p>"Over the past 15 years, North Carolina lawmakers have rejected limits on construction on steep slopes, which might have reduced the number of homes lost to landslides; blocked a rule requiring homes to be elevated above the height of an expected flood; weakened protections for wetlands, increasing the risk of dangerous storm water runoff; and slowed the adoption of updated building codes, making it harder for the state to qualify for federal climate-resilience grants."</p></blockquote><p>Archived NYTimes article on GOP malfeasance in re: building codes in North Carolina </p><p>The whole "home building industry" is a trash fire tbh. </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BuildingCodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCodes</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://archive.is/q63Tb#selection-869.0-869.472" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/q63Tb#selection-869</span><span class="invisible">.0-869.472</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>The Difference Between Alarming And Catastrophic - Cascadia Megafault Has One Especially Deadly Section, New Map Reveals<br>--<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-difference-between-alarming-and-catastrophic-cascadia-megafault-has-1-especially-deadly-section-new-map-reveals" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/g</span><span class="invisible">eology/the-difference-between-alarming-and-catastrophic-cascadia-megafault-has-1-especially-deadly-section-new-map-reveals</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/06/08/cascadia-subduction-zone-one-of-earths-top-hazards-comes-into-sharper-focus/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.climate.columbia.edu/2024</span><span class="invisible">/06/08/cascadia-subduction-zone-one-of-earths-top-hazards-comes-into-sharper-focus/</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical statement<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;-- shared paper<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineeringgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineeringgeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hazard</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/megathrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megathrust</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fault</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>faulting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earthquake</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CascadiaSubductionZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CascadiaSubductionZone</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/remotesensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>remotesensing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/naturalhazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturalhazard</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mitigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geophysics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/seismology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seismology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tsunami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tsunami</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/displacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>displacement</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/buildingcodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buildingcodes</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>construction</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/warningsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warningsystems</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/plates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plates</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatialanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geometry</span></a></p>
GeriAQuin<p>The building design that could crack the code on climate adaptation!<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/architect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architect</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/building" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>building</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/buildingcodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>buildingcodes</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/24/news/building-design-could-crack-code-climate-adaptation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalobserver.com/2024/06/2</span><span class="invisible">4/news/building-design-could-crack-code-climate-adaptation</span></a></p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> administration issued new minimum <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnergyStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyStandards</span></a> for homes built with federal dollars.</p><p>A bundle of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuildingCodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCodes</span></a> that set efficiency targets for insulation,windows, HVAC and other systems, the updated energy standards apply only to new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AffordableHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AffordableHousing</span></a> construction built with federal financing or funding.</p><p>All told, the average annual savings work out to $963 per household."</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/biden-boosts-energy-efficiency-standards-for-affordable-housing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">24-04-25/biden-boosts-energy-efficiency-standards-for-affordable-housing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatBidenDid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatBidenDid</span></a></p>