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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This @cplusc.bsky.social research shows a huge discrepancy between ballot results and actual voter preferences for public power, indicating that there is lots of opportunity for public power campaigns to build and win across the country.

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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New CCI report proposes a roadmap to get us the offshore wind capacity we really need under the next admin: a new federal authority to get us from the current 50 GW in the pipeline to at least 270 GW (and up to 485) by 2050.

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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

@cplusc.bsky.social released this major report on building community power via CBAs. 99% of design was done by the amazing @data4change.bsky.social, but I'm happy with this small contribution I made: this chart that required I do actual math to find the radius of a circle & draw it in Illustrator

$These projects have leveraged similar federal subsidies. However, when we compare the financial benefits to communities as a percentage of those subsidies, we find significant disparities. For example, the Sunrise Wind Project in New York provides community benefits equivalent to 11 percent of the federal subsidy, while the Perkins Renewable Energy Project in California offers just a tiny fraction: benefits equivalent to 0.15 percent of the subsidy.$

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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I feel for the designer whose job it was to help NYers understand when they can vote. It would be cool to standardize voting hours 🤔 @nyccec.bsky.social

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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'm speaking today at @datajconf.com to data journalists, and trying to convince them it's a good idea to collaborate with civic sector and advocacy organizations on data-driven news stories! Very excited, a little nervous!

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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field. Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute

Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

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Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

My data viz & The Guardian's adaptation for their story on CCI's analysis of the emissions implications of Trump's increase in Pentagon spending (ie 178 megatons of GHGs, more than all of Ethiopia's). Cool to see their design choices.

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation? Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending. climateandcommunity.org/research/let...

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Letting People Move - Climate and Community Institute

Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 24/07/2025

Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social. Download this. Use this. It is so good. I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress. This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Most of Vienna's renters live in affordable, climate resilient social housing, and people love it. This is green economic populism in action, and a model to replicate. This great @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org piece ft. our @cplusc.bsky.social work has the deets! www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

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Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute

The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …

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