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Adapting Existing Stock Most Canadian homes are ticking climate-time bombs—built for a past that no longer exists. We can’t tear them all down. We must retroflect. A layered retrofit—insulation, shutters, reflective coatings, shading—can transform these liabilities into survivable, comfortable shelters. This is pragmatic, not utopian. It’
There is a strange joy in sitting at the eye of a storm. Not the Hollywood joy. Not triumph, or dopamine, or the delusional rush of “everything will be okay.” No, this joy is harder to name. It doesn’t rise with achievement or descend with failure. It waits. Watches.
Water & Food On-Site Your home must feed you. Not just power you. Water doesn’t come out of the tap unless systems hold. Food doesn’t appear in fridges unless trucks arrive. And when the climate breaks those systems—as it already has—what we call “housing” collapses. Climate-secure
Grid-Secure Housing Solar + batteries + intelligent microgrid design = real resilience They built your house to fail when you need it most. Subscribe Power goes down in a storm? So does your heat. So does your fridge. So does your safety. But it doesn’t have to. We already have the technology
Geothermal & Earth‑Air Heat Exchange Harnessing the Earth’s steady temperature to light your fire or cool your calm — without burning fuel or draining the grid. Subscribe 1. The Ground Isn’t Just Dirt — It’s a Climate Regulator Beneath our feet lies a nearly constant thermal reservoir. A
Passive Solar & Climate‑Adaptive Shells Build smart, live cool – without a single watt of power. Subscribe 1. Passive Solar – Nature’s A/C Passive solar design isn’t fancy—it’s physics. You can cool a house without air conditioning by using orientation, mass, and shade. A well-designed passive
The Foundation of Resilience Buildings that continue protecting you when everything else stops. Subscribe 1. What is Passive Survivability? In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, the term passive survivability entered the building lexicon. Alex Wilson defined it as a structure’s ability to maintain vital life-support conditions—air quality, humidity, temperature—
The Economic Logic of Climate-Fragile Housing What we call a housing market is not a system to create shelter. It’s a machine to convert land into margin. Subscribe Look at any new neighbourhood. Rows of vinyl siding, triple garages, paper-thin walls, HVAC systems stretched to their limit, and windows
A Forensic Review of Profit-Driven Policy We’ve systematically engineered fragility into every new home. Cheap, code-minimum, disposable. Subscribe Built to Sell, Not to Shelter Every modern housing subdivision follows the same playbook: * Land speculation over site resilience * Standardised floorplans worth no place-specific value * Code-minimum envelopes—thick enough to pass
In the summer of 2021, a heat dome slammed western Canada. British Columbia alone recorded 619 deaths in a single week—the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. More than 98 percent died indoors, in the homes they believed would keep them safe. (climateinstitute.ca) You read that right. People
Or Keep Watching it Burn This is the line. Twelve posts. Twelve truths. Twelve fractures in Canada’s care infrastructure laid bare. Subscribe And one response: The Table. Not a model. A format. Not a charity. A system. Not a theory. A physical place, with elders already on the waitlist
The wind has stopped now. Finally. For six days it battered the hills. Not weather... people. Problems. Demands that dress themselves in urgency, whispering you’re the only one who can stop the burn. And maybe you are. But after a while, even the strongest hand trembles from holding too