Matt Grocoff
mattgrocoff.bsky.social
Matt Grocoff
@mattgrocoff.bsky.social
Food,Energy,Water Nexus. Regenerative real estate developer. Speaker. Writer. @veridianliving - called Net Zero Energy Master. Clear eyed optimistic climate solutions for all.
This is what happens when you make streets for people instead of for cars!!

Ann Arbor closed Main Street for trick or treating. Things got CRAZY.

#waroncars

#freethepedestrians
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ChatGPT for the win. Bonus points for leap year!
December 29, 2024 at 3:57 AM
A bookstore for people is where I got my copy of Building for People @holz-bau.bsky.social 🤗

Bookstores and buildings and neighborhoods should give you hugs
December 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM
True. Im told Detroit loves its cars.

Pop quiz: which is a map of Detroit vs Amsterdam bike routes?
December 26, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Bike routes in Detroit vs Amsterdam.

One is dominated by highways - the other has so many tourists locals are pissed off. Keep cars if you hate beautiful places (and tourists).

Investing in cycling infrastructure yields massive returns on both happiness and economic indexes
December 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Wordle is NOT a word game—it’s Bayesian probability in action: refining guesses, reducing uncertainty, optimizing outcomes. Sustainable construction works the same way: iterative choices, smarter designs, better systems. Both are about improving possibilities for the future ☀️#DesignThinking
December 20, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Not to mention safer working environments and training pathways to great paying renewable energy jobs!!

Carpenters are getting a huge pipeline direct to the sun this week in Detroit
@mrccunion.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Go ahead and look ⬆️

Free wireless power plant beams abundant energy!

@mrccunion.bsky.social Carpenter Training Center in Detroit getting 174kw of solar

FEW Energy is the ONLY fully union staffed residential & commercial renewable energy company in US few.nexus

@ibewinternational.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Time kills real estate deals. Regenerative Development takes longer . . . So if you plan to build one, you need to move faster than everyone else

Need to halve global emissions by 2030.
December 11, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Bernie Sanders said this on Twitter. He and Elon Musk are right.

Huge chance to rethink military policy as a global health, safety and resilience institution.

👇
December 2, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Bernie Sanders said this on Twitter. He and Elon Musk are right.

Huge chance to rethink military policy as a global health, safety and resilience institution.

👇
December 2, 2024 at 12:50 AM
In 2006, cost of solar panels was $3 - $5 per watt

At FEW Energy we just installed 174kw solar at the Carpenters Union regional training center in Detroit with solar panels that cost 15 CENTS per watt!!!
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 AM
We need to halve global climate emissions by 2030!

Solar power has become a major job creator. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reported over 12 million jobs in renewable energy in 2023, with solar leading the way.

#proudunion employer
November 25, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Looking for the perfect gift for the design nerd who has everything?

Buy @holz-bau.bsky.social new book Building for People!!

It gives a nice shout out to Veridian.community as one of the few US developments doing some things right!!

islandpress.org/books/buildi...
November 20, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Once upon a time I had a blue check mark, 5,000 amazing followers from the climate solutions community. Let’s rebuild here.

Follow me If you’re interested in clear-eyed optimism

tell friends to join Bluesky and follow me here.
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Look what we’re building on rooftop of The training center for the Michigan regional Carpenters Council of the United brotherhood carpenters!

#FEWEnergy #solar

@mrccunion.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Excited to announce that our net zero Veridian neighborhood in Ann Arbor is featured soon in full episode of season two of 50 States of Sustainability on PBS!!

Check out the website if you don’t know about Veridian yet: www.Veridian.community
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 AM
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Here we go again! FEW Energy is adding 175kw to the MRCC United Brotherhood of Carpenters Training Center in Detroit!

A megawatt here a megawatt there and pretty soon you’re talking real energy!! Solar is breaking the backs of all fossil energy producers
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Here we go again! FEW Energy is adding 175kw to the MRCC United Brotherhood of Carpenters Training Center in Detroit!

A megawatt here a megawatt there and pretty soon you’re talking real energy!! Solar is breaking the backs of all fossil energy producers
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Ann Arbor Friends Support A2Zero!

VOTE YES: Proposal A would authorize the City to create a  Sustainable Energy Utility, which would provide 100% renewable, reliable, low-cost energy to those who sign up.

(And NO-NO on Proposals C and D)
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
I just asked Google Gemini if it was a monopolist. It said ’yes’ 🫢
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
In downtown Ann Arbor there are more EV chargers than gas pumps

At veridian, our fossil fuel free neighborhood in Ann Arbor, more than 75% of homebuyers already own an EV and ebikes

Www.veridian.community
July 20, 2024 at 3:27 AM
How to fix civilization:

1. Energy: make it more local
2. Food: make it more local
3. Water: make it more local

This is obvious to anyone who studies ecology, complex adaptive systems or biomimicry

It’s all about adjacency

#asknature
July 20, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Veridian has ZERO FOSSIL FUELS and powered by 100% solar and batteries

Fun to see all the new residents and their E-bikes and EVs!! This might be the highest per capita neighborhood ownership of ebikes when we’re all done!!
July 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM