Scores of new small solar farms that sell clean, local electricity directly to customers are popping up. The setup, dubbed “community solar,” is designed to bring solar power to people who don’t own their own homes or can’t install panels — often at prices below retail electricity rates.
For thousands of years humans have lived in "15 min villages" where almost everything has been nearby.
And most 15 min city definitions I've seen includes some sort of bike option.
I encourage everyone who lives in a city (or suburb) to look up routes from their home to groceries/pharmacies/schools/etc on google maps. I just did for myself and I'm already in a 15 minute city.
What's lacking is the infrastructure for people to safely get to these places without a car.
Not just incompetent, but also just plain mean.
After making an incompetent decision (super high api costs) he didn’t reassess the situation, he just started lashing out.
First at the app devs, then at the mods, now at the users.
Half of Americans can’t install solar panels. Community solar is how they can plug into the sun. (wapo.st)
Scores of new small solar farms that sell clean, local electricity directly to customers are popping up. The setup, dubbed “community solar,” is designed to bring solar power to people who don’t own their own homes or can’t install panels — often at prices below retail electricity rates.
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
How do you know when to pick green peppers? Whenever you want? At a certain size? These are jalapeños. (media.kbin.social)
the anti-15-minute-city backlash is ridiculous (www.youtube.com)
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)