Episodes

Imagine you’re trying to understand why Donald Trump keeps circling back to offshore wind. It shows up in his rallies, in truth social posts, and now it’s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offshore wind doesn’t appear in speeches as an ordinary energy policy detail. Instead, […]

I want to start with something small because that’s where the whole AI energy story gets weird. Picture this. you type a prompt into an AI tool. Write a five line poem about winter in New York. And then you hit enter.Okay. So let’s see what we get here.…Steam rises from the grates to meet […]

So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It’s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it’s existed forever. Then your brain does the annoying thing brains do now, You start to notice the snow looks a little too uniform.Too bright, too manufactured. And you […]

Welcome back to the resilience report. Buildings, cities, risk. I’m Aaron. And this is a quick update on the offshore wind fight.Because the courts have just handed Donald Trump and his administration a fifth straight loss over that late December freeze on the major East Coast projects. That we talked about a few weeks ago. […]

January 15, 2025I want you to picture a home listing you’ve stared at long enough that you can already see your furniture in it. You’ve clicked through the photos twice. You’ve zoomed in on the furniture. You’ve zoomed in on the windows. You’ve checked the street view.You’ve driven by both during the day as well […]

Dec 31, 2025 We’ve all done it. You finish a yogurt, you rinse out the container, and you look for that little chasing arrow triangle thingy at the bottom. You toss that into the blue bin. Here, that satisfying clink, and walk away feeling like you’ve done something for the planet. But what if I […]

Dec 22, 2025 Imagine a Tuesday afternoon in May. You’re in a city of eighty thousand people. It’s a boom town. in the deep boreal forest of Northern Canada. Yeah.Life is good. The economy’s humming. But the air feels wrong. It’s eighty eight degrees in a place where it should be closer to fifty. Humidity […]

Dec 14, 2025 January first twenty twenty six, a new Hawaii tax was supposed to kick in. Not on residents, not on local businesses. This tax was on visitors, specifically cruise passengers. And then basically at the buzzer, a federal appeals court blocked it from starting. So today, I wanna talk about a simple question […]

Dec 1 2025 …Hi. I’m Aaron. And this is the resilience report, buildings, cities, risk. Every week, I’m gonna brief you on what’s new in the built world, that actually matters, climate risk, infrastructure, codes, retrofit economics, materials, and the stuff cities are doing that either The works or falls apart on contact with reality.…The […]