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• Structural Aspects of Success in Social Goals

  Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:54:27 GMT

  Alongside the essays here, we keep a smaller side project: a set of self-contained slide decks that walk through three arguments in more depth than a blog post…

• Mountain View Adopts a Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan — Here's a Model Other Cities Can Use

  Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:51:20 +0000

  Mountain View adopted its Biodiversity and Urban Forest Plan on June 23, 2026. We've distilled it into a canonical ordinance template other Bay Area cities can adapt.

• One City's Dark-Sky Ordinance Shouldn't Stop at the City Line

  Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:15:07 GMT

  Palo Alto just adopted one of the most complete outdoor lighting ordinances in the Bay Area. Here's why every city in the region should adopt something like it — and how a shared model ordinance gets us there faster.

• Why Urban Tree Canopy Matters for Mountain View

  Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:59:35 +0000

  Why Urban Tree Canopy Matters for Mountain View — an update from the GreenSpacesMV team.

• rules for a culture of life, from chatgpt

  Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:47:40 GMT

  Building a Culture of Life — ChatGPT 2025 Government 1. Enact laws protecting life and rights 2. Provide safety nets (disability, housing, food aid) 3. Ensure…

• That Which Is Seen — And That Which Is Not Seen

  Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:40:12 GMT

  Frederick Bastiat In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these…

• ethnobotany of south sf bay costanoans

  Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:42:35 GMT

  Derived from work by Barbara R Bocek (work in progress) APPENDIX This summarizes the ethnographic uses of 157 plants known to Harrington’s Costanoan informants. Organization is generally consistent with Munz (1974), with some reference to Munz (1968) and to Munz and Keck (1959), and with genera and species listed alphabetically. Nonnative species are marked with […]

• Fred Foldvary’s policy reform proposals

  Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:16:35 GMT

  Implement the universal ethic into the constitution, so that there be no restriction or imposed cost on acts which do not coercively harm others. Replace…