Clean Technica

DIY-ing Our Ductless Heat Pump Install Was Hard, But We Saved $7,000

9 min read

Last summer I did something very ambitious. I DIY-installed a ductless heat pump system almost completely solo. And it wasn’t just one simple ductless system, it was five indoor ductless heat pumps (3 of them on a second floor) and two outdoor units. I’d never done anything like it before, … [continued]

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Great Lakes Echo

Swiss researcher studies ‘abandonment tourism’ in Detroit

4 min read

By Camila Bello Castro

A recent case study of a former “abandonment tourism” business in Detroit found a disconnect between the lived experience of many city residents and the lives of the tour participants who were generally white, younger and more international than most Detroiters and generally first-time visitors to the city.

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Clean Technica

Op-Ed: “Wild East” Gamble — Why VinFast is Burning Cash to Reach the Stars

7 min read

CleanTechnica is all for renewables and electrification. We exist to remind humans of the Earth and to rid it of smoke belchers, offensive energy generation, and climate deniers. Idealistic as we are, we are also grounded in the truth that this will never happen quickly enough, and will happen mostly … [continued]

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London Free Press

London opioid-related deaths drop again as officials offer guarded optimism

1 min read

Opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths in London and Middlesex County have declined for a third straight year, just-released public health figures show. Dr. Alex Summers, the top doctor with the Middlesex-London health unit, detailed at a Wednesday press conference the agency’s 2025 opioid crisis report – which indicated those three metrics all declined […]