The reason I'm very pessimistic about aggressive TSP in North America is that we have an engineering profession that is stuck in outdated practices and very entrenched. It's not just the car lobby. It's the very isolated professional world that fear innovation like it's cholera.

High Park Toronto public library branch free. Government tree division, Carnegie library category. So cozy it doesn’t need lights, just books & a step stool. Paper ornaments appropriate for library. No pulping here save for the fiction. 12/10

Prime Minister Mark Carney is spinning this MOU as a win for his pet climate tactic, carbon pricing, while Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is spinning it as a win for her pet fossil fuel, bitumen. Both are all-in on the still-unproven technology of carbon capture.