Haha, Bloombergs offices have snacks, melon water, cookies, ramen, all kinds of goodies.

No edits - but to clarify - I’m critical of the greenwashing taking place by many firms, of which I suspect hedge funds and other non-bank market participants of facilitating. Mentally, I put firms like Blackrock in this bucket as they tend to skirt regulation by their nature as a non-bank. Moreover, they are American and not European, and I know how little US regulators are pushing the climate agenda in comparison to the EU.

Have you never heard of the phrase chink in the armor in reference to mail chain links?

Or literally describing an Asian in medieval cosplay.

I work for a European institution and don’t see institutions like Blackrock being as mature. The non-banks financial services firms / hedge fund like entities generally care more about money than sustainable investing.

They also give out free food.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-10-02/esg-whistleblower-calls-out-wall-street-greenwashing-new-economy-saturday

A fiction. Greenwashed. We do a lot of work to fight greenwashing.

That’s not the part they want to rebuild unfortunately. It’s mostly north of that towards boerum hill. The sheer fucking wasted parking in gowanus proper from car shops and warehouse entrances and parking is stupid. Move that stuff to red hook and let’s put houses by the train line.

This is solid visionary art museum stuff.

Who is stupid enough to fight near trains?

Omg. Don’t be racist.

People just want their views and associated property value.

We just can’t give credit to every immigrant that comes over. That’s basically free money for terrorist financing. Have to have some rules. It’s complicated.

I'll add some more backstory based on what I know. After Hurricane Sandy, the city "cracked down" on trees. Meaning, the quality / grade of trees and the requirements for how they are planted increased in standards to provide for a safer situation. To buy a cost of a proper grade tree costs $1200-1800 based on variety, and then planting location, proximity to utilities or other landmarks, etc. all became much more important in context of extreme weather.

This is why I have a "nature" based approach to simply letting trees grow if the city won't plant. Problem sort of solves itself.

Nope, perfectly fine pit that used to have a tree before a storm broke it.

My tree request, made during Covid lockdown, was declined multiple times and is now -6 days for review. I’ve planted natural saplings from other trees on the street. If the city puts a proper grade tree in timely, then they won’t have a rogue oak tree. If not….then oak tree.

Math and science class is where jobs are made.