Anna Chittum

President, NW Natural Renewables @nwnatural RNG, hydrogen, synthetic fuels. Also into: district energy, protected bike lanes, lemonade, regulating vehicle sizes

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

@MaryMorseMarti When I worked in manufacturing-focused economic development in NYC in mid-2000s, I worked with an aerospace company that made plane parts in an older skyscraper in Manhattan. They’d sometimes use cranes to get big pieces in and out of higher floors.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

And I drive a car! I hate driving it in the city, but I do. I bike often and walk a lot and use my car when I need to. Cars are necessary! They carry our crap and all my kids. But they should be smaller and slower, and our streets should be designed to protect our most vulnerable

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

It’s not asking people to sacrifice anything. It’s giving people good options and ensuring cars themselves aren’t designed to kill. That’s it! Can you see a small child standing in front of your car? No? Then your car’s design shouldn’t be legal.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

We regulate all sorts of things for safety. One door falls off a plane, killing no one, and we ground all similar planes. Why aren’t more people angry about this? It’s baffling to me. Why do we accept this?

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

People love walkable places. They love Disneyland! They love and flock to main streets of tourist towns. Designing cities and streets to encourage people to get out of their cars and get to places via their feet or small wheels is not a misery-inducing intervention!

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Cars getting bigger = cars killing more people. Whether it’s people in other cars, pedestrians, or people on bikes. Our cars and our infrastructure are outliers in the world. https://t.co/ySgrMkNmzC.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

The solutions are sometimes so simple it’s stupid. So many cities and towns have made their streets safer for everyone. And these are cheap interventions! And they have the added effects of increasing foot traffic for nearby businesses, improving health, and reducing GHGs.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

And that’s what it is: violence. That’s not some tortured misuse of a word. These are brutal, gory, awful deaths and injuries. We willingly let people drive vehicles of deadly sizes at deadly speeds in infrastructure that is designed to maximize speed (and thus deaths).

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

This story is so tragic. As the violence perpetuated by cars increases, I truly believe we can make big strides to curb this trend. We don’t have to live with this level of violence.

https://t.co/A6N4t0iEna

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

I’ve only listened to 2 episodes of @robinsonmeyer’s and @JesseJenkins’s Shift Key podcast and I’ve already recommended it to about 10 people. Really looking forward to making this one of my go-to sources of info. Also found myself thinking, @JaneAFlegal should run everything.

[nvo @nickvanosdol]

People often forget the size of the market for diesel / back-up gen market. Don't!

"In 2021 the two districts were collectively home to 23,507 BUGs, with a capacity of 12.2 gigawatts (GW) or 87,223 MWh a year. California’s electricity grid has a capacity of roughly 80 GW; BUGs in the Bay Area and South Coast alone can generate about 15 percent of the entire grid."

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

THE US LNG MIRACLE 🇺🇸🚢

This is the story of how the US became the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas in less than a decade, drastically rewriting global energy trade

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[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Wow, this is really striking- OR is an outlier in both math *and* reading. Thank you @jrlsilverman for covering the ed beat for us locally, I know you didn’t ask for a pat on the back but man, haters gonna hate, huh? I appreciate all your coverage, it’s been very informative.

[Julia Silverman @jrlsilverman]

The @nytimes today spelling out in stark national framing what our education coverage @Oregonian has shown for months: OR is an outlier in not seeing academic rebound post pandemic. Maybe getting called out the paper of record will light some fires around here?

[Tim Wagner @wagner_tim]

One of the most impactful things we can do for climate change is also one of the easiest to build.

No fancy tech or massive infra projects. Just give more protected space to bikes.

*Progressive* California has failed miserably at this. We have 3x more bikeable days than Paris.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Agree it’s lovely, but it ends abruptly with no clear linkage/signage to the path to continue into downtown. Lots of great infrastructure to connect to under the tram, but no clear way to get there from the end of this new section. Do you know if they’ll be adding signage?

[BikePortland @BikePortland]

New piece of South Waterfront Greenway path now open... and it's really really nice!

https://t.co/QHm9o8m7qR

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Oh my gosh. So sad, and what a loss. I always thought Rebecca set the absolute standard for energy reporting.

[Andrew Restuccia @AndrewRestuccia]

Rebecca Smith's remarkable coverage of Enron made me and so many others want to work at The Wall Street Journal. Rest in peace:

https://t.co/hUSVO280b7

[Nathan Bird @NathanBirdCHA]

Build cities with children in mind and nearly every good urban design principle will fall into place automatically.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Have there been studies exploring whether more frequent air changes/outside time is why schools were generally lower areas of COVID transmission?

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

"the only way we can achieve clean indoor air for all is by codifying strong ventilation standards and making healthy building strategies the norm."
https://t.co/q23YHksgUz

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

Halloween in Portland is about to be lit

[Julia Silverman @jrlsilverman]

The news we all knew was coming: @pdxteachers says that with 93% of members participating, 98.9% voted to authorize a strike to begin November 1 in Portland.

[Anna Chittum @annachittum]

100%. Installing a hitch on our Subaru has let us do ALL sorts of things without needing a second car. The $20 U-Haul trailer is a pretty good life hack.

[cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile]

I wish I was smart enough to finance a pickup truck for $700 per month so I didn't have to pay $20 to rent a trailer two or three times per year.