Tony Dutzik
@frontiertony.bsky.social
Assoc. Director/Sr. Policy Analyst, Frontier Group, part of The Public Interest Network. Transportation, climate and energy policy, mostly.
Deepening our dependence on natural gas isn't a solution to the affordability challenge. And it never has been. isonewswire.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Deepening our dependence on natural gas isn't a solution to the affordability challenge. And it never has been. isonewswire.com/2025/11/18/i...
Autumn at Cedar Grove Cemetery never disappoints.
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Autumn at Cedar Grove Cemetery never disappoints.
This a) is absolutely true and b) has so little to do with "mastering the physical world" as to be a non-sequitur. The atrophying of community institutions that once brought people together isn't *totally* unrelated to permitting, but it's close.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This a) is absolutely true and b) has so little to do with "mastering the physical world" as to be a non-sequitur. The atrophying of community institutions that once brought people together isn't *totally* unrelated to permitting, but it's close.
Gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the solution to the deep crisis of meaning and spirit among young men (and others of us 21st c. moderns) is not permitting reform. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-...
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the solution to the deep crisis of meaning and spirit among young men (and others of us 21st c. moderns) is not permitting reform. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-...
This essay is one of the first I’ve seen to grapple with the intersection of the burgeoning “techlash” with “abundance” but gets the political valence backwards. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/abundance-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This essay is one of the first I’ve seen to grapple with the intersection of the burgeoning “techlash” with “abundance” but gets the political valence backwards. brinklindsey.substack.com/p/abundance-...
Who could have possibly foreseen this, besides everybody?
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Who could have possibly foreseen this, besides everybody?
I’ve spent more than a decade trying to catalog the damage done by America’s century-long and counting highway building spree and lo and behold but this wonderful book taught me about a bunch of impacts to wildlife that I’d barely even stopped to consider.
October 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’ve spent more than a decade trying to catalog the damage done by America’s century-long and counting highway building spree and lo and behold but this wonderful book taught me about a bunch of impacts to wildlife that I’d barely even stopped to consider.
Also, a shout-out to my favorite ruins project … the Ruins Project along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail in SW Pennsylvania - an art installation/memorial to those who worked in the coal mines. www.sagermosaics.com/the-ruins-pr...
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Also, a shout-out to my favorite ruins project … the Ruins Project along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail in SW Pennsylvania - an art installation/memorial to those who worked in the coal mines. www.sagermosaics.com/the-ruins-pr...
I would like this, too. But transportation reformers have been pushing for better transparency/accountability around federal highway funds *for decades* only to be undercut by officials whose fiscal conservatism has a big “except highways” asterisk next to it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I would like this, too. But transportation reformers have been pushing for better transparency/accountability around federal highway funds *for decades* only to be undercut by officials whose fiscal conservatism has a big “except highways” asterisk next to it.
A: Yes. Yes, they would. The evidence being US highway expenditures long ago departed from the realm of the rational. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A: Yes. Yes, they would. The evidence being US highway expenditures long ago departed from the realm of the rational. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
hey @massdcr.bsky.social - the new coatings on the overpasses crosssing Morrissey Blvd are incredibly slick when wet. With more cyclists connecting from Morrissey to the Neponset Trail some warning signs are in order.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
hey @massdcr.bsky.social - the new coatings on the overpasses crosssing Morrissey Blvd are incredibly slick when wet. With more cyclists connecting from Morrissey to the Neponset Trail some warning signs are in order.
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!
September 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!
Definitely time to update the bottle bill, Massachusetts. A nickel deposit ain’t getting the job done anymore.
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Definitely time to update the bottle bill, Massachusetts. A nickel deposit ain’t getting the job done anymore.
Some of us have been asking this question since 2022. It was clear then that “abundance” was ripe for co-optation/hijacking unless its proponents were clear about the desired ends. They’ve refused to be and now here we are.
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Some of us have been asking this question since 2022. It was clear then that “abundance” was ripe for co-optation/hijacking unless its proponents were clear about the desired ends. They’ve refused to be and now here we are.
Great day for Open Streets in Dorchester!
September 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Great day for Open Streets in Dorchester!
This latter point is so true that advocates of abundance are now explicit that it has to “insinuate its way” into more coherent movements first in order to get a foothold. That they put this in writing astounds me. (And don't get this ex-Catholic started about how they butcher what "syncretism" is.)
September 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This latter point is so true that advocates of abundance are now explicit that it has to “insinuate its way” into more coherent movements first in order to get a foothold. That they put this in writing astounds me. (And don't get this ex-Catholic started about how they butcher what "syncretism" is.)
“Abundance” is anti-incumbent. Unless the incumbents are the fossil fuel industry. Or Big Tech. Or vertically integrated electric utilities. Or …
September 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Abundance” is anti-incumbent. Unless the incumbents are the fossil fuel industry. Or Big Tech. Or vertically integrated electric utilities. Or …
Biking to Fenway Park on the Mass. Ave bike lane. One less car to fight with ya in game day traffic.
August 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Biking to Fenway Park on the Mass. Ave bike lane. One less car to fight with ya in game day traffic.
Good read, esp. for anyone thinking about climate change and adaptation.
McPhee is a story-teller not a conclusion-drawer, but short take seems to be “yeah, you can sometimes ‘control’ nature, but it’ll cost you plenty and can lead to downstream consequences and risks you can’t foresee.”
McPhee is a story-teller not a conclusion-drawer, but short take seems to be “yeah, you can sometimes ‘control’ nature, but it’ll cost you plenty and can lead to downstream consequences and risks you can’t foresee.”
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Good read, esp. for anyone thinking about climate change and adaptation.
McPhee is a story-teller not a conclusion-drawer, but short take seems to be “yeah, you can sometimes ‘control’ nature, but it’ll cost you plenty and can lead to downstream consequences and risks you can’t foresee.”
McPhee is a story-teller not a conclusion-drawer, but short take seems to be “yeah, you can sometimes ‘control’ nature, but it’ll cost you plenty and can lead to downstream consequences and risks you can’t foresee.”
Mid-2020s in a nutshell: When your view of the combo gas tank/solar farm from the increasingly-coastally-flooded bike path is occluded by smoke from a distant wildfire.
August 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mid-2020s in a nutshell: When your view of the combo gas tank/solar farm from the increasingly-coastally-flooded bike path is occluded by smoke from a distant wildfire.
Fun example of biking as a last-mile solution for events — the “park and bike” service at Newport jazz and folk festivals. Well-signed routes, valet parking, free lights and lots and lots of bikes! Thanks, @bikenewportri.bsky.social!
August 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Fun example of biking as a last-mile solution for events — the “park and bike” service at Newport jazz and folk festivals. Well-signed routes, valet parking, free lights and lots and lots of bikes! Thanks, @bikenewportri.bsky.social!
Local environmental/public health impacts of data centers don't get as much attention as energy impacts, but they are real and happening across the country.
www.wired.com/story/big-te...
www.wired.com/story/big-te...
July 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Local environmental/public health impacts of data centers don't get as much attention as energy impacts, but they are real and happening across the country.
www.wired.com/story/big-te...
www.wired.com/story/big-te...
Not sure if this is a lack of clarity or ahistoricism here, but the environmental and climate movements have pushed mass deployment of clean energy (a.k.a. "building stuff") for decades & the modern clean energy industry wouldn't exist without their efforts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
July 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Not sure if this is a lack of clarity or ahistoricism here, but the environmental and climate movements have pushed mass deployment of clean energy (a.k.a. "building stuff") for decades & the modern clean energy industry wouldn't exist without their efforts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
New yard sign. Thanks, @bikeboston.bsky.social!
Now we just need a companion sign that says, “… and mean one fewer car fighting you for on-street parking.”
Now we just need a companion sign that says, “… and mean one fewer car fighting you for on-street parking.”
July 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New yard sign. Thanks, @bikeboston.bsky.social!
Now we just need a companion sign that says, “… and mean one fewer car fighting you for on-street parking.”
Now we just need a companion sign that says, “… and mean one fewer car fighting you for on-street parking.”
The problem with "abundance" thought in a nutshell: seeing the problem with the response to one of the largest mass displacement events in U.S. history as making it marginally more expensive to pursue further pointless displacement and ecological destruction. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
July 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The problem with "abundance" thought in a nutshell: seeing the problem with the response to one of the largest mass displacement events in U.S. history as making it marginally more expensive to pursue further pointless displacement and ecological destruction. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...