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On-Reserve Housing in Canada: Waiting for the Fifth Audit
Four federal audits in twenty years have pointed to the same on-reserve housing failures. This piece asks why the fifth audit should be expected to say anything different unless the design, energy, and accountability model changes.
John Profitt
Sep 113 min read


THE CARBON ACCOUNTING RECKONING - UPDATED
Can a carbon sink become a carbon source? The Carbon Accounting Reckoning looks at the carbon ledger behind forests, oceans, building materials, and climate policy, asking whether the systems we rely on to measure progress are making the situation look more comfortable than it is.
John Profitt
Sep 92 min read


BC Forest Carbon Debt: The Empty Cupboard
Sixty-five years of BC harvest data tell one story: the province’s forest carbon debt is still open, second-growth recovery has not caught up, and old growth is being targeted because there is very little else left to cut.
John Profitt
Jul 2710 min read


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


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


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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