https://www.europesays.com/1911977/ Local Governments Can Go on Offense to Protect the Environment #BuildingCodes #ClimateChangeMitigation #ContractLaw #Environment #EnvironmentalRemediation #FishAndWildlife #FossilEnergy #GovernmentEmployees #landfills #MilitaryAndDefense #NaturalDisasters #preemption #PublicHealth #RenewableEnergy #SustainableDevelopment #VehicleEmissions #WaterPollution #Wetlands #zoning

"Capitalism" didn't do it. The political class did, and then they called it capitalism.

Somebody I know was midway through a call today including #FEMA and having to do with resilience against flooding, involving various other agencies to coordinate advice to the public.

During the call, #NPR announced that FEMA will no longer have anything to do with #BuildingCodes. FEMA participation and experience is retracted.

This of course is insane.

Our well being is falling apart.

"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."

Archived NYTimes article on GOP malfeasance in re: building codes in North Carolina

The whole "home building industry" is a trash fire tbh.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BuildingCodes

https://archive.is/q63Tb#selection-869.0-869.472

The Difference Between Alarming And Catastrophic - Cascadia Megafault Has One Especially Deadly Section, New Map Reveals
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-difference-between-alarming-and-catastrophic-cascadia-megafault-has-1-especially-deadly-section-new-map-reveals <-- shared technical article
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https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/06/08/cascadia-subduction-zone-one-of-earths-top-hazards-comes-into-sharper-focus/ <-- shared technical statement
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #megathrust #fault #faulting #earthquake #PNW #PacificNorthwest #CascadiaSubductionZone #remotesensing #naturalhazard #mitigation #model #modeling #geophysics #seismology #tsunami #displacement #buildingcodes #engineering #construction #warningsystems #plates #platetectonics #spatialanalysis #geometry

"Single-stair apartments, like this one in Seattle, allow for 20 housing units on a lot that used to contain one single-family home. We need to legalize apartments on small lots so that we can build more missing middle housing with beautiful floor plans!" - Hayden Clarkin, thetransitguy

Design: B9 Architects

The building design that could crack the code on climate adaptation!
#architect #architecture #building #buildingcodes
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/24/news/building-design-could-crack-code-climate-adaptation

Cascadia Subduction Zone, One Of Earth's Top Hazards, Comes Into Sharper Focus
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https://phys.org/news/2024-06-cascadia-subduction-zone-earth-hazards.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #PNW #USA #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Washington #Oregon #NoCal #Seattle #BC #CascadiaSubductionZone #CSZ #megathrust #earthquake #earthquakes #fault #faulting #risk #hazard #geology #structuralgeology #engineeringgeology #remotesensing #survey #geophysics #tsunami #buildingcodes #warningsystems #coast #coastal #tectonics #plates #model #modeling

Congress: Don't Let Anyone Own The Law
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law #copyright #BuildingCodes #SafetyCodes #ProCodesAct #SecretLaws