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Carbon Externalities: The Invoice Nobody Signed
A tank of gas gets paid for at the pump, but the carbon cost does not. This piece follows the unpaid invoice from fossil fuel combustion to the atmosphere, forests, oceans, and future generations.
John Profitt
Jul 219 min read
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The Power of Error: Forest Carbon Accounting the World Cannot Defend
This paper examines how compounding uncertainty in forest management may be moving through harvest allowances, carbon credits, EPDs, EC3 data, and green building claims with more precision than the underlying field evidence can support. Drawing from published science, field observation, and a 400-kilometre survey corridor in interior British Columbia, it asks whether forest carbon accounting has been measuring from the original standard, or copying from assumptions already in
John Profitt
Jul 241 min read
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The Carbon Accounting Reckoning
Carbon accounting errors are distorting climate policy, green building claims, and material choices across the built environment. This post examines why getting the carbon math right is not a technical footnote, but a moral obligation.
John Profitt
Jun 830 min read
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Sustainable Building Stewardship: Fifty Years of Better Questions
Fifty years of environmental language changed the built environment, from recycling and sustainability to LEED, WELL, ESG, and stewardship. This post examines how each movement was absorbed into the mainstream, how greenwashing followed, and why the deeper demand remains: proof, accountability, and delivery systems capable of meeting the housing, climate, and resource challenges ahead.
John Profitt
May 287 min read
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