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	<description><![CDATA[…Your phone dies on, uh, Tuesday. Not dramatically. There&#8217;s no sparks. There&#8217;s no drop. Uh, there&#8217;s no heroic last moment here.The battery, say, just gives up. You take it in. The answer comes back pretty quickly. This is not worth fixing. Too sealed, too integrated, too expensive, so you replace it.Now, multiply that moment by [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[…Your phone dies on, uh, Tuesday. Not dramatically. There&#8217;s no sparks. There&#8217;s no drop. Uh, there&#8217;s no heroic last moment here.The battery, say, just gives up. You take it in. The answer comes back pretty quickly. This is not worth fixi]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Episode 10: The Northeast Blinks</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain sentence politicians use when they&#8217;re backing away from something without quite admitting it. usually sounds something like this: &#8220;We remain committed to our long term goals, but we have to be realistic about affordability. About reliability. We have to be realistic about market conditions.&#8221;That is retreat language. Just dressed up nicely. And [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain sentence politicians use when they&#8217;re backing away from something without quite admitting it. usually sounds something like this: &#8220;We remain committed to our long term goals, but we have to be realistic about affordabi]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Donald Trump&#8217;s Obession with Offshore Wind</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;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&#8217;s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offshore wind doesn&#8217;t appear in speeches as an ordinary energy policy detail. Instead, [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;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&#8217;s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offsho]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<itunes:title><![CDATA[Trump's Obsession with Offshore Wind]]></itunes:title>
	<itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;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&#8217;s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offshore wind doesn&#8217;t appear in speeches as an ordinary energy policy detail. Instead, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;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&#8217;s showing up in federal actions. the first thing to observe here is that to Trump, offshore wind doesn&#8217;t appear in speeches as an ordinary energy policy detail. Instead, [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<title>Energy Consumption and AI</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[I want to start with something small because that&#8217;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&#8217;s see what we get here.…Steam rises from the grates to meet [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[I want to start with something small because that&#8217;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&#8217;s see what w]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<itunes:title><![CDATA[AI and Energy Use]]></itunes:title>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[I want to start with something small because that&#8217;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&#8217;s see what we get here.…Steam rises from the grates to meet [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Episode 07 The Winter Olympics Are on Thin Ice</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it&#8217;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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it&#8217;s existed forever. Then your brain does the annoying thing brains do now, You start to notic]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<itunes:title><![CDATA[The Winter Olympics Are on Thin Ice]]></itunes:title>
	<itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it&#8217;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 [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[So picture this. You are watching the Winter Olympics. It&#8217;s prime time. The slope looks perfect, and the camera pans to a mountain that feels like it&#8217;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 [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<title>Episode 06: Wind Farms win 5 of 5 in Court</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to the resilience report. Buildings, cities, risk. I&#8217;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. [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Welcome back to the resilience report. Buildings, cities, risk. I&#8217;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 f]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Welcome back to the resilience report. Buildings, cities, risk. I&#8217;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. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Welcome back to the resilience report. Buildings, cities, risk. I&#8217;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. [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<title>Episode 5: The Score That Can Sink a Home Sale</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Episode 4: Plastics</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Dec 31, 2025 We&#8217;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&#8217;ve done something for the planet. But what if I [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Dec 31, 2025 We&#8217;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]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Episode 3: John Vaillant&#8217;s &#8220;Fire Weather&#8221;</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Dec 22, 2025 Imagine a Tuesday afternoon in May. You&#8217;re in a city of eighty thousand people. It&#8217;s a boom town. in the deep boreal forest of Northern Canada. Yeah.Life is good. The economy&#8217;s humming. But the air feels wrong. It&#8217;s eighty eight degrees in a place where it should be closer to fifty. Humidity [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Episode 2: Hawaii vs the Cruise Ships</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<content:encoded><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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