The headline number is startling. The top 10% of American households now account for roughly half of all consumer spending, according to data reported by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg in 2025. That has never been true in the modern era. It creates a situation where the economic pulse … [continued]
With New York Climate Week approaching, clean tech stakeholders are pumping out all the good news about renewable energy — despite the abrupt shift in federal energy policy this year.
Austria has quietly joined the list of countries that have stepped away from hydrogen as a transportation fuel. In April 2025 OMV, the Austrian oil and gas major that had operated all of the country’s public hydrogen refueling stations, announced that it would be shutting them down by September. There … [continued]
Canada’s forests are immense, covering nearly 350 million hectares and holding almost 9% of the world’s forested land. They are central to the country’s identity, economy, and climate profile. For decades, forestry has provided jobs and exports while maintaining relatively stable forest cover, but the climate and biodiversity math has … [continued]
Canada has been facing a housing affordability crisis for years, and it has only become more acute. Population growth, immigration, and urban concentration have run headlong into a construction industry that has not kept pace. Annual completions of 240,000 to 270,000 units fall well short of the 500,000 required to … [continued]
Flood buyouts are an active climate mitigation strategy used in the US to mitigate flood risk and remove people and property away from active flooding zones. Buyouts lessen human risk, decrease legal burdens, and restore land. Certainly, reducing loss due to flooding while also increasing green spaces after-the-fact is beneficial. … [continued]
In a recent article, California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline, I wrote that diesel consumption in California had not declined even as gasoline demand slipped. Jeremy Martin from the Union of Concerned Scientists reached out to me to point to some data I’d missed. I reviewed … [continued]
Many years ago in a PBS special, Dr. Nicolas Perricone, MD mentioned that drinking coffee can elevate the stress hormone cortisol. He said cortisol is necessary, but it is not meant to stay in a person’s body for hours at an elevated level. If it is kept at a high … [continued]
According to the latest Nature Index results, Harvard University is now the only American institution left in the top ten list of research organizations by contributions to leading scientific journals. It sits in second place, but far behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which has pulled ahead by a … [continued]
California’s refinery sector is contracting, and the reasons are not as complicated as operators often suggest. When refinery owners announce closures, they usually point to the burden of environmental regulations, the costs of compliance, or fines from state agencies. Those factors are real, but they are not decisive. The more … [continued]
