In terms of legal structures, look to see if your local jurisdiction has a social benefit or public benefit corporation that you can legally register as. They’re like an LLC, but place a social mandate of some kind above profit making. This is legally built into the charter of the business, meaning it can be enforced in the courts if later on the business attempts to violate that mission. It also allows such businesses to qualify for certain grants.

Poplars and willows are fairly fast growing. Plus there are perennial grass feedstocks

Student Visas is my favorite

Municipal scale infrastructure to capture waste, treat it, and extract nutrients to be redistributed or sold as fertilizer. This is usually an activity undertaken by and fit into existing municipal waste infrastructure.

The atomization of decision-making allows entrenched interests to disrupt progress. If you’ve ever been to a city planning meeting, you can see how NIMBY homeowners block transit upgrades or affordable housing. Sometimes consensus is impossible

Also, lots of state and local governments in the US have strong renter protections.

You’d probably site them on higher ground outside of the flood plane. Add in flood walls, etc. if storm surge is a concern

For sure. I think trying to preserve these tools is a bit of a waste of time. But extending their lifespan is always a win in my book

When the damage is presented in spreadsheets and charts its easy to ignore the cost, especially for those pushing the piles of money around.

Ooooh interesting, good to know! I suppose inoculation is a process that is not particularly complex that a localized society could also achieve.