Emily Hamilton

Oct 4, 2024 | discoursemagazine.com | Emily Hamilton

By Emily HamiltonRecent U.S. economic growth has been the envy of the developed world. America has long had one of the world’s most productive economies, and median income in the U.S. rose relative to other high-income countries in the 2010s. This recent surge, however, has been driven by sectors such as tech, retail and healthcare—industries that have a small footprint in meatspace. By contrast, growth has been lackluster in the physical world.

Feb 14, 2024 | governing.com | Emily Hamilton |Jared Brey |Jabari Simama |Alan Greenblatt

This approach can deliver beautiful new homes in highly desirable locations. But it hasn’t proven to be a way to deliver a significant amount of new housing. Charleston, S.C., provides perhaps the country’s best example of historic development patterns that are successfully accommodating compatible infill projects. In fact, prominent architects from the compatibility school were involved in shaping the land-use restrictions that are in place in Charleston today.

May 23, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Samuel Watling |Eric Gilliam |Emily Hamilton |Hannah Ritchie

23rd May 202322 Mins Ending acid rain was one of humanity’s greatest environmental successes. Here’s how it happened. The Statue of Liberty has not always been its iconic green. When it was first unveiled in 1886, it was a classic copper. But when copper reacts with oxygen and the right mix of pollutants, it takes on a green-blue hue. The key pollutant in this mix was sulfur.

May 23, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Emily Hamilton |Eric Gilliam |John Myers |Niko McCarty

22nd May 202316 Mins As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering. Mexico, in the 1950s, was the birthplace of the first Green Revolution. An American agronomist named Norman Borlaug was its unlikely hero. In his early twenties, Borlaug studied forestry and plant pathology at the University of Minnesota and then, for his PhD, studied a pest that infects maple trees.

May 23, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Samuel Watling |Eric Gilliam |Emily Hamilton |John Myers

23rd May 202332 Mins Cheap, safe nuclear power is possible, but is all but prohibited in most Western countries. A regulatory sandbox for fission could shake us out of our regulatory sclerosis. We, and the world around us, are mainly the dust of long dead stars; our food, the same stardust transformed by the power of another star, our Sun. The Earth is warmed by the radiation from decaying stardust within. Stars furnish the power on which life depends. As well as life, stars bring death.