Unfortunately, FEMA’s appeals process compounds the impacts of outdated modeling. A simple site elevation study is an insufficient exemption if the model doesn’t account for flash floods or climate projections, and is only updated once a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/u...

This essence was something we tried to depict in the Living Infrastructure Field Kit for LA. Many believe LA is a desert. But it can sustain itself by collecting its own rain, rather than funneling it out to the ocean and draining distant watersheds.

Gotta submit The Water Knife. Feeling as prescient as Parable of the Sower, particularly in Arizona.

And if we’re ripping on Ministry for the Future (despite my love for Mars), it’s worth mentioning that an entire chapter is lifted from Spherical’s regen.earth map verbatim without credit.