Tag: cities
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain and yanked out a handful of critical bolts. The bolts are made of dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium and yttrium—the elements that don’t make headlines but without … [continued]
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British Columbia Pays HTEC Millions For Another Hydrogen Station Nobody Needs
HTEC just opened another hydrogen fueling station in British Columbia. It sits gleaming and underused in the Lower Mainland, one more high-cost monument to a transportation future that never arrived. It’s an infrastructure project aimed at a market that doesn’t exist, serving vehicles that aren’t being driven, with fuel no … [continued]
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Cornies: After 50 years, Canada still hasn’t fully embraced the metric system
When their flip-clock radios woke them on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago, many Canadians might have thought they’d entered an alternate universe.
Frankly, It’s Time To Talk About The Built Environment And Climate Change
While the current political rhetoric dismisses substantive climate dialogue, cities are in crisis because of climate change. Extreme weather is leading to calamitous consequences. Now more than ever, in the absence of federal funding support, cities must focus on reconciling the norm of civic pride as symbolized in the built … [continued]
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Pakistan’s 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy
Pakistan isn’t the first country you’d expect to crash the global solar party. But by the end of 2024, it quietly rocketed into the top tier of solar adopters, importing a jaw-dropping 22 gigawatts worth of solar panels in a single year. That’s not a typo or a spreadsheet rounding … [continued]
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