Sitemap - 2023 - Carbon Upfront!
From the archives: Falls may soon be the leading cause of death
From the archives: Older pedestrians are dying on our roads
From the archives: Baby boomers will be among the hardest hit by climate change
Boxing Day Bonus: The Zero Ambitions Podcast
Counter Intelligence: Australia bans engineered stone
To end fossil fuels, "remember, it is the demand that will decide."
More lessons from Canadian small house designs
Canadian government to develop house plans for the 21st century
Saudi Arabia tries to kill COP28 while it pours concrete for ski resort
Why living on top of the shop is making a comeback
There's only one way to make the circular economy work: use less stuff.
One Hundred and six years after the Halifax Explosion, what have we learned?
Did Virgin's transatlantic flight really use 100% sustainable aviation fuel?
Stanley Jevons goes to Las Vegas
Seen at Construct Canada: marvellous modular and wonderful walls
What are the upfront carbon emissions of a cookie?
Has anything really changed because of the climate crisis?
Get out today and support Small Business Saturday
Tax the rich before they kill us all
Does carbon capture and storage with limestone make sense?
In the future, everything will be a drive-through
New studies find SUVs and pickups with high flat fronts are 45% more likely to kill.
Hearables just keep getting better and better
Sidewalks should be designed for people, not cars
BONUS: What happened to WeWork?
Lessons from Livermore's 2022 Energy Consumption Chart
An alternative vision of transportation, from my Dad
Preservation is climate action
Everyone is talking about E-bikes these days
Pedestrian safety is not a two-way street
On Simplicity (and Thomas Heatherwick)
Why our cities are becoming a corporate monoculture
Imagine these houses with acrylic stucco and vinyl windows
Why heritage preservation is climate action
Small CLT is Beautiful: A different model for mass timber
What happens when we get a clean slate? We write the same thing again
Why we need “windows with purpose”
Another cyclist murdered by the construction industry and the government
Lego changes course, will recircle instead of recycle
When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, it changes everything
The Therme Spa at Ontario Place in Toronto is a carbon bomb that must be defused
Nobody is telling you that you have to give up your hamburger or stop buying pants
The three different kinds of obsolescence
Are the new Apple Watches truly "carbon neutral"?
Why everyone should have a bidet toilet seat
Car bloat is getting ridiculous and must be stopped
When I hear the word "abatement," I reach for my delete key
Stop the Presses for Labor Day (or Labour Day, which is how you should spell it)
Ephemerality: Another radical design concept for the climate revolution
The latest design trend: "House hushing"
I keep saying people want walkable communities, but apparently I am wrong
OK, what should a green building look like?
New study looks at the impact of frequent flyer points
Pedestrian bridges are mostly designed for cars, and we will be seeing more of them.
We have to stop "carbon lock-in" now, and that means stopping Doug Ford from paving the Greenbelt
Kitchen bloat is everywhere, from tiny homes to monster homes
A reader asks: What motivates me?
Underground parking garages are not "sustainable"
It's time for limits on truck and SUV size and weight
Climate doomism means I'm gonna need a bigger pickup truck
Air conditioning is a hot topic these days
Upfront Carbon helps kill replacement of Marks & Spencer's Oxford Street store
Let's get creative with our office-to-residential conversions
Listen to Zero Ambitions: PH+ Revisited
The three little pigs got it wrong
It's time to make side guards mandatory on every truck in North America
Quit whining. Even the Dutch don't all cycle like the Dutch.
Buildings can be too tall and too thin.
“Fist pumps for R290 Monoblocs!”
The Canadian connections and parallels to the UK drinking water crisis
Can architects and designers make a difference in the climate emergency?
From the Archives: Le Corbusier on airplanes: " in less than ten years, the whole world could fly."
Why is it so hard to hang up the car keys?
Why we should be designing for intermittency
How much does a tonne of carbon dioxide weigh?
CO2 from forest fires? Don't worry; it's biogenic carbon and doesn't count.
Niagara Falls: Some things never change
Wildfires are another reason that every house should be Passivhaus
The real problem with electric cars
Why we must save our "third spaces"
From the Archives: The issue for boomers won't be "aging in place."
E-bikes are everywhere, and the CBC is on it
I survived riding a bike in Dublin
The wood revolution in building is just getting started
Everyone in the building industry must read "Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen"
What colour is your aluminum? It makes a massive difference.
Up close and personal at the Ontario Science Centre
Happy 10th birthday and happy Earth Day, Bullitt Center
How tall should a building be: How not to build in a climate crisis
How big should a home be? If you're measuring upfront carbon, size matters.
The New Manual: Light, Air and Openness
The problem isn't dockless e-scooters, it's dockless cars
Everything connects, including greenhouse gas emissions
The new Manual of the Dwelling
Universal design comes to the e-bike
What's new in e-bikes? The Gazelle C380 HMB has been Lloyd-proofed
An all-electric multi-modal vision of the future
Investing in infrastructure: Bike parking garage is built under Amsterdam canal
Happy Våffeldagen, or Swedish Waffle Day, my annual celebration of waffle slabs.
IPCC: Always look on the demand-side of life
Does 3D-printing houses make sense?
We need speed governors on cars and watercraft as well as bikes and scooters.
Maybe people who replace their windows are not so deluded.
(With Images!) Bill Gates doesn't think much of a 1.5 degree lifestyle
Bill Gates doesn't think much of a 1.5 degree lifestyle
It's time to dump Railway Time and War Time and go Local Time
UK might ban demolition without planning permission
Forget Repo Man, Ford applies for a patent that would put a repo computer in your car
What's wrong with this picture?
Cows burp a lot of methane. Does it cause climate change?
No, the Canadian oil sands are not making "clear strides to net-zero."
Stop eating fossil fuels and tune in to turnip.
Mind the gap! The chasm on climate change
British judge finds Just Stop Oil protesters "admirable." Drivers are outraged.
A visit to the Auto Show makes it clear: the future is electric
Jargon Watch: The Nirvana Fallacy
The deluded world of window replacement
I have unpublished my previous post about 15-minute cities.
Help! I'm trapped in a 15-minute city with Jordan Peterson!
I'm on a podcast with zero ambitions
Do heat pumps need a new name?
Happy 125th Birthday, Alvar Aalto; We are still learning from you
Stop the attack of the killer bathtubs!
The Goldilocks Density has the lowest carbon footprint
How Dangerous Design in our cities and homes is killing our olders
Why Toronto's Yonge Street bike lane is part of a worldwide transportation revolution