Lisa Pfeiffer
@lpfff.bsky.social
Seattle E-bike evangelist, economist, working on offshore wind, climate change, fisheries, and other ocean issues for the feds
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Sara "I'm pro housing" Nelson is voting against the elimination of parking minimums in Seattle. Good to get her on the record I guess.
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sara "I'm pro housing" Nelson is voting against the elimination of parking minimums in Seattle. Good to get her on the record I guess.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell removed speed humps and other safety improvements from an already scaled-back plan to make a dangerous lakeside street safer for people who don't drive. The parkway is in the wealthy neighborhood where Harrell lives.
www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/07/10/f...
www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/07/10/f...
Following 5 years of process and some scary collisions, Mayor Harrell removes safety improvements from already-watered-down Lake Washington Blvd project
Great news for people who like to speed on Lake Washington Boulevard! Seattle Parks will not be installing more speed humps or stop signs, so you’re free to continue scaring the crap out of a…
www.seattlebikeblog.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell removed speed humps and other safety improvements from an already scaled-back plan to make a dangerous lakeside street safer for people who don't drive. The parkway is in the wealthy neighborhood where Harrell lives.
www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/07/10/f...
www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/07/10/f...
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LET ME SAY IT IN A WAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND: Hundreds of people jammed onto a four-foot-wide sidewalk moving in the slowest possible ways—like walking three-legged, stuck behind a toy car propelled by pulling on a chain link fence—were still faster than the L8.
July 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
LET ME SAY IT IN A WAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND: Hundreds of people jammed onto a four-foot-wide sidewalk moving in the slowest possible ways—like walking three-legged, stuck behind a toy car propelled by pulling on a chain link fence—were still faster than the L8.
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On a Stanford @siepr.bsky.social abundance panel today, I offered this analogy for how US generator interconnection works outside ERCOT, which I was told was helpful: 🔌💡
May 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
On a Stanford @siepr.bsky.social abundance panel today, I offered this analogy for how US generator interconnection works outside ERCOT, which I was told was helpful: 🔌💡
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Infuriating. What blue states lack in actually doing anything they make up in studies and paperwork. We need Abundance now
NEW: How the Pacific Northwest’s Dream of Green Energy Fell Apart @opb.org
Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.
The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...
www.propublica.org
May 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Infuriating. What blue states lack in actually doing anything they make up in studies and paperwork. We need Abundance now
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This is a really thorough article about the obstacles to this needed form of housing & how to remove the obstacles. Please take a look and contact your reps. Also if you have experience in this area, there are opportunities to serve & help directly (end of article).
NEW STORY // The Deck is Stacked Against Stacked Flats in Seattle
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/09/t...
www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/09/t...
The Deck is Stacked Against Stacked Flats in Seattle - The Urbanist
# Once plentiful across the city, small apartment buildings with flats stacked on top of one another are incredibly rare in new construction. The reasons behind that are multifaceted, and stemming the...
www.theurbanist.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is a really thorough article about the obstacles to this needed form of housing & how to remove the obstacles. Please take a look and contact your reps. Also if you have experience in this area, there are opportunities to serve & help directly (end of article).
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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Notice of Changes
Notices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products.
www.nesdis.noaa.gov
April 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]
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The president’s economically ruinous trade war will also be a disaster for America’s role in the fight against climate change. I wrote about it for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | Poof! There Goes America’s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World
The Trump administration’s governance — and the president’s unhinged trade war on the entire world — has hurt America’s ability to meet climate goals.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The president’s economically ruinous trade war will also be a disaster for America’s role in the fight against climate change. I wrote about it for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Chuck Schumer right now:
March 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Chuck Schumer right now:
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This is a hugely important economic study. It says quite clearly the costs of acting to slow climate change are far, far less than the costs of failing to act.
“Billions of people will lose their livelihoods and economic output reduced by up to 34% if the Earth is allowed to warm by 3 degrees Celsius this century, but investing less than 2% of GDP now could eliminate most of those losses, a groundbreaking new report found”
www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is a hugely important economic study. It says quite clearly the costs of acting to slow climate change are far, far less than the costs of failing to act.
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Are you a researcher who's comfortable with statistics and GIS, and coming up with quick answers for complex policy questions? You probably have a lot of options, but if you would like to do work at the heart of the YIMBY movement, California YIMBY could use you. DMs open.
March 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Are you a researcher who's comfortable with statistics and GIS, and coming up with quick answers for complex policy questions? You probably have a lot of options, but if you would like to do work at the heart of the YIMBY movement, California YIMBY could use you. DMs open.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
NEW:
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”
newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
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Look at all that investment in America
Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
grist.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look at all that investment in America
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Compared to Alternative 5, the Bruce Harrell growth plan would result in:
-19,000+ fewer apartments & condos
-3,400+ fewer affordable housing units
-18% more land used for redevelopment
-More tree removal
-More GHG emissions
-More residents near a major roadway
www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/04/h...
-19,000+ fewer apartments & condos
-3,400+ fewer affordable housing units
-18% more land used for redevelopment
-More tree removal
-More GHG emissions
-More residents near a major roadway
www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/04/h...
Harrell Growth Plan Would Produce Fewer Affordable Homes Than Alternative 5 - The Urbanist
# The 1,300-page environmental review of the One Seattle plan shows that the Mayor's preferred plan would increase hardscape, tree removal, and greenhouse gas emissions, while decreasing affordable ho...
www.theurbanist.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Compared to Alternative 5, the Bruce Harrell growth plan would result in:
-19,000+ fewer apartments & condos
-3,400+ fewer affordable housing units
-18% more land used for redevelopment
-More tree removal
-More GHG emissions
-More residents near a major roadway
www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/04/h...
-19,000+ fewer apartments & condos
-3,400+ fewer affordable housing units
-18% more land used for redevelopment
-More tree removal
-More GHG emissions
-More residents near a major roadway
www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/04/h...
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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Largest city in the state kneecapping a housing law after negotiating on the bill before passage. Unbelievable.
This is how cities are going to opt out of @jessdbateman.bsky.social’s transformative housing bill HB1110.
Cathy Moore is currently stating that she thinks that the city should apply the Mandatory Housing Affordability program to missing middle housing, mandating that anyone building a fourplex has to set aside 50% of their building as subsidized housing.
January 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Largest city in the state kneecapping a housing law after negotiating on the bill before passage. Unbelievable.
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Yet another example of why we need to take further state level action to increase housing options including passing the Housing Accountability Act. @futurewise.bsky.social @sightline.org @nwurbanist.bsky.social @seattleyimby.bsky.social @cityofseattle.bsky.social
This is the Director of Planning in Seattle telling an angry mob to file a flimsy historic landmark district so his department doesn’t have to upzone the wealthiest neighborhood in the city 1 mile north of downtown.
Time to alert @jessdbateman.bsky.social
Time to alert @jessdbateman.bsky.social
Rico: I would consider an overlay covering the structures along the Historic Queen Anne Boulevard. I would also consider a historic district designation there.
January 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Yet another example of why we need to take further state level action to increase housing options including passing the Housing Accountability Act. @futurewise.bsky.social @sightline.org @nwurbanist.bsky.social @seattleyimby.bsky.social @cityofseattle.bsky.social
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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
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The answer is yes! Learn how to become a community bike mechanic or use your skills at some of the organizations @seattlebikeblog.com highlighted in their recent blog post 🚲🔧
Seattle Bike Blog Post: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/03/is-2025-the-year-you-become-a-community-bike-mechanic/
Seattle Bike Blog Post: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/03/is-2025-the-year-you-become-a-community-bike-mechanic/
January 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The answer is yes! Learn how to become a community bike mechanic or use your skills at some of the organizations @seattlebikeblog.com highlighted in their recent blog post 🚲🔧
Seattle Bike Blog Post: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/03/is-2025-the-year-you-become-a-community-bike-mechanic/
Seattle Bike Blog Post: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/01/03/is-2025-the-year-you-become-a-community-bike-mechanic/
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Re-upping this excellent discussion of advocacy to build local support for clean energy projects.
Today on Volts: opponents of renewable energy have been organizing to block it at the local level, with disturbing success. Now an org called Greenlight America is organizing supporters, tipping them off to important siting/permitting fights & arming them with good information.
Organizing local support for clean energy projects
Meet the organization helping communities say "yes" to clean energy
www.volts.wtf
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Re-upping this excellent discussion of advocacy to build local support for clean energy projects.