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Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social.

Download this. Use this. It is so good.

I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress.

This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Most of Vienna's renters live in affordable, climate resilient social housing, and people love it. This is green economic populism in action, and a model to replicate.

This great @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org piece ft. our @cplusc.bsky.social work has the deets! www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵