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Free solo climber Alex Honnold discusses how improving energy access can prevent illegal extractive industries from taking hold in undeveloped regions like the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Alex spoke with Grist's Editor-in-Chief Kat Bagley about climate change, energy access, and more at SF Climate Week in April 2026.
Free solo climber Alex Honnold discusses how improving energy access can prevent illegal extractive industries from taking hold in undeveloped regions like the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Alex spoke with Grist's Editor-in-Chief Kat Bagley about climate change, energy access, and more at SF Climate Week in April 2026.








![What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?
The compelling case for removing urban freeways.
Further Reading:
CityLab University: Induced Demand:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-university-induced-demand/569455/
Norman Garrick in Citylab:
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/11/reimagining-the-urban-freeway-holding-back-providence/508373/
Vox: How Highways Wrecked Urban American Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odF4GSX1y3c
Congress for New Urbanism – Highways to Boulevards
https://www.cnu.org/resources/project-database?tags[182]=182
Harbor Drive
https://www.cnu.org/highways-boulevards/model-cities/portland
Embarcadero Freeway
https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/embarcadero-freeway
Governor Tom McCall – Oregon Historical Society:
https://www.ohs.org/education/tom-mccall-better-oregon/resources.cfm
Law of Peak Hour Expressway Congestion
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b3477;view=1up;seq=467
“From elevated freeways to surface boulevards: neighborhood and housing price impacts in San Francisco” by Robert Cervero , et al.
https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549170902833899?scroll=top&needAccess=true What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O6WtYTThkdU/mqdefault.jpg)

