On Youtube, some "urbanists" looked at oily Calgary and Edmonton and were shocked by the transit and density they actually have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpBVEfO5IwI
David, I've been de-Americanizing my purchasing, including dropping all my substacks...except this one. If any American is worth supporting right now, it's Volts.
While this development didn't get the benefit, Alberta is very prominent right now in geothermal R&D, and may, ironically, be key to Saving the World (tm).
Such an exciting development! It's time to Build Baby Build (instead of Drill Baby Drill). I was pumped to see Tom mention some of the military base redevelopments happening across North America. Reminded me of the recent discussion between Ezra Klein and Jake Auchincloss (but also very cool to see Blatchford going FURTHER than those others). Let's do this everywhere we can!
So I'll try to get my heard around this ambient loop system, geothermal, and ground source heat pumps.
Further to equity. What does "supportive" mean relative to "market"? Winnipeg lost nearly 300 "social housing" units for seniors when Lions Clubs sold a building to an investment firm (from Alberta), so people realized that this organization was necessary https://righttohousing.ca (to advocate for keeping not-for-profit housing out of the speculative market and then to increase its availability)
On Youtube, some "urbanists" looked at oily Calgary and Edmonton and were shocked by the transit and density they actually have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpBVEfO5IwI
David, I've been de-Americanizing my purchasing, including dropping all my substacks...except this one. If any American is worth supporting right now, it's Volts.
While this development didn't get the benefit, Alberta is very prominent right now in geothermal R&D, and may, ironically, be key to Saving the World (tm).
Such an exciting development! It's time to Build Baby Build (instead of Drill Baby Drill). I was pumped to see Tom mention some of the military base redevelopments happening across North America. Reminded me of the recent discussion between Ezra Klein and Jake Auchincloss (but also very cool to see Blatchford going FURTHER than those others). Let's do this everywhere we can!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-auchincloss.html
So I'll try to get my heard around this ambient loop system, geothermal, and ground source heat pumps.
Further to equity. What does "supportive" mean relative to "market"? Winnipeg lost nearly 300 "social housing" units for seniors when Lions Clubs sold a building to an investment firm (from Alberta), so people realized that this organization was necessary https://righttohousing.ca (to advocate for keeping not-for-profit housing out of the speculative market and then to increase its availability)
In a city, there’s also individual homeowners/landlords who want to reap profits when they sell.