Stephen
@stephenrouse.bsky.social
Economist (one of the good ones)
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I agree that energy performance has an important role to play in Build Canada. But Vancouver provides a stark example where overly focusing on operational emissions at the expense of impacts of policy on land use and economics has dramatically reduced impacts and even had counter-productive effects.
“How we build matters,” says Efficiency Canada. The organization calculates the most effective way to minimize additional carbon pollution comes from adopting the most ambitious tier of Canada’s building codes (the net-zero energy ready standard). www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/09/o...
‘Build, baby, build.’ Some conditions apply
Canadians are demanding new homes but buildings are already the third-largest source of fossil fuel pollution in Canada and cutting those emissions has proven miserably difficult. New buildings last f...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I agree that energy performance has an important role to play in Build Canada. But Vancouver provides a stark example where overly focusing on operational emissions at the expense of impacts of policy on land use and economics has dramatically reduced impacts and even had counter-productive effects.
Reposted by Stephen
This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
Tariffs may be destroying the US economy, but at least former US Rep. Matt Gaetz has an opportunity to cash in on the uncertainty with some grifting
March 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tariffs may be destroying the US economy, but at least former US Rep. Matt Gaetz has an opportunity to cash in on the uncertainty with some grifting