Rob Harrison

Passive House/green architect | urbanist | bicyclist | dad | renter (he/him/his)

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

This is the best interview I’ve ever done. https://t.co/gsuyfQIghM

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

Yes please, in Seattle! HB 1110 along with HB 1183 will make it possible.

[Bryn Davidson @Lanefab @Lanefab]

Imagine a city full of 12 unit passive house co-ops with cargo bike garages.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

I first wrote about the idea of a gap between the value we claim for places and assets and what they're actually worth if we price in the risks of climate chaos and ecological collapse — the "brittleness bubble," though I wasn't calling it that then — back in 2002, when I was working on Wild Green Yonder.

If you told me that 22 years later experts would be widely acknowledging the crisis, but the public remained clueless and/or in denial, I wouldn't have believed you.

I really thought we were smarter than this. I really thought that when the rising waters were lapping at our front doors, at least then we'd see emergency-scale efforts to save what we can.

The crisis is here now, though, we're still barely responding — and nowhere are we doing enough.

(I was also optimistic that we'd hold warming to two degrees, but that's another story.)

[Bryn Davidson @Lanefab @Lanefab]

Love this
@lloydalter

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

@HutchinsMatt So fiber cement (at 3/8” thick) is out. The Director is going to be busy.

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

Look for me over on https://t.co/OSOgYtnLTw, robharrisonCPHC. 😊

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

As Western North Carolina, Valencia, and Catalonia remind us, the President-elect is not in control, collapse is. Halting climate mitigation will just accelerate his loss of power.

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

@AlexSteffen We’ll all have to stick together to make it through what’s coming.

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

Our country turned out to be so much worse than I thought it was.

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

My sister is developmentally disabled. I’ve dealt with assholes like this Tony guy my entire life, and I am right there with Emily May.

[emily may @emilykmay]

i cannot explain to you in words how deeply fucked up and cruel this joke is.

like, i cry every christmas. every birthday. does my daughter know its a holiday? did i get her what she wanted? will i ever know if she knows it's christmas?

go to hell.

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

@Qagggy “Sample Board Modernism”!

Thanks Design Review Board!

[No on 2117 @No_on_2117]

"This initiative—which was funded by a millionaire hedge fund owner from CA with ties to the fossil fuel industry—is deceptively framed... I-2117 would ultimately cost the people of our state far more than its backers claim it will save." - @RickSteves

🔗https://t.co/UqaWW7S10P

[Rob Harrison @robharrisonCPHC]

Pushing back on the firehose of regressive, anti-renter, climate-unaware City of Seattle planning proposals is f’ing exhausting.

[Rezone Seattle @rezoneseattle]

Dear #waleg,

If the One Seattle Comp Plan update goes through as it stands, please introduce legislation to nuke it from orbit on day 1 of the upcoming session.

Signed,
Seattleites who want to increase affordability, protect the environment, & end residential segregation

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, CNN just fact checked Donald Trump’s claims that FEMA is skimming funds off the top for migrants. It’s no shocker that Trump is lying for his own benefit. Retweet so all Americans see the media hold Trump accountable.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

Leadership. https://t.co/iuR1CQ0PqD

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

If you're understandably upset about climate change this week, a reminder of why it's happening, where oil company profits come from, and that changing the design of our cities is a huge part of the solution

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

For everyone in our mentions saying "iT's WeAtHeR!! caLm DoWn!!"

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Climate chaos is coming for us.

Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.

I'm a climate futurist.

Let me level with you about what this means.
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[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Dave McConville grew up in and around Asheville North Carolina and built a 3-D virtual replica of the flood-prone network of river basins and steep slopes in WNC (western North Carolina) to help drive flood-safer planning. The immense destruction from #HurricaneHelene - which was preceded by hurricane-triggered floods in 2004 and 1916 - has revealed the scope of the challenge remains enormous. Here's our #sustainwhat pop-up chat. Some flood-history context: https://t.co/V97eezWBag 1/2

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Some disasters render most reasonable preparations useless. Deluges like these are not really something you can defend against.

Yes, people can move to relatively safer places. But we offer no real support for doing that, and folks have homes, lives and communities they love.