depaving. not just planting a bazillion trees, but actually depaving. not so novel, but not exactly mainstream. building roofs -- maybe even solar panel-powere

depaving. not just planting a bazillion trees, but actually depaving. not so novel, but not exactly mainstream. building roofs -- maybe even solar panel-powered -- over large swaths of downtowns/cities. i think it's be wild and dystopian and fun. maybe we could start with relatively small installations -- like a few football fields' worth over downtown Phoenix. any building over 6 or so stories gets demolished b/c it's in the way and an abomination anyways. or allowing people to bike / roll to places under their own power, and/or possibly with electric power, in small-format (i.e. non-car/truck/bus) ways -- probably by prioritizing bike and roll traffic above all other modes, including walking. think Dutch/Danish/German-style biking infrastructure. lots of 4-to-5 lanes street reconfigurations (two car lanes in either direction --> one protected bike lane and one car lane in either direction, with a suicide/turn/middle lane). or just build DC-wide sidewalks on every street/highway/freeway in the country/world -- add shade and make the interesting and add water and shelters if necessary. and / or make them all multi-use paths (MUPs), and if you knock someone down or scare them, then you go to jail for life. and i generally like the idea of 'renewable' geo energy like that described -- def worth continuing to check out.