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Sam Butler<p>One of the single most impactful climate emergency changes: Allowing front-yard and driveway businesses.</p><p>This would make neighborhoods walkable over night. New jobs in local places. Cafes, grocery shops, repair clinics, tool libraries, arcades, and beyond - right on your street.</p><p>Destroying oil demand, commutes, and car dependency over night.</p><p>This policy change can happen in as little as 3 sentences, according to Hazel Borys and Strong Towns. pHow can we make this happen everywhere?</p><p>Check out the full video, "Why Did We Make Front Yard Businesses Illegal?", which shows some awesome examples and gets into what we can do today — from About Here, Urbanarium, and Uytae Lee.</p><p>And share and boost to get people talking about this. This is one of the first and most important changes we can make, for climate emergency transitions. From a path dependency standpoint, it needs to happen first too -- making what we can walkable and low energy to start, and then seeing what we need.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WalkableCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalkableCommunities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckCars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zoning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reform</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Policy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Local</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jobs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Suburbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suburbia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Services" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Services</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Producers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Producers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmallBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JustTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustTransition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Urbanism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PostGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostGrowth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transition</span></a></p>
Sam Butler<p>Re: <a href="https://twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/status/1693069644356030547" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">twitter.com/GlobalEcoGuy/statu</span><span class="invisible">s/1693069644356030547</span></a></p><p>When people trade-in their gas cars for EVs, their gas cars are re-sold to other countries and keep on polluting.<br>(<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/africa/west-africa-benin-used-cars-climate-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/afr</span><span class="invisible">ica/west-africa-benin-used-cars-climate-intl/index.html</span></a>)</p><p>Tire pollution (the microplastics and metal pollutants that come off tires as people drive) is 2000x worse than tailpipe emissions, and EVs don't help with this.<br>(<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/climate-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/2023/07/09/tire-brake-tailpipes-emissions-pollution-cars/</span></a>)</p><p>3,000 pound vehicles for personal transportation make these problems inescapable.</p><p>The only thing that makes sense is transitioning beyond cars in general.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckCars</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mobility</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bikes</span></a> <a 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