A Substack-style newsletter by a New Zealand infrastructure researcher applying futures and foresight thinking to infrastructure planning and its environmental costs. Issues mix condensed academic argument with historical accounts of public and private infrastructure finance and policy.
Website: https://www.macgeorge.co.nz/
Local investigative reporting on Southwest Louisiana development, energy infrastructure and public records, grounded in filings and official documents. Readers get fact-checked context on projects like solar farms, refinery supply actions and data center power policy.
Green Tape covers US permitting reform, including NEPA, the Clean Water Act, transmission and pipeline siting, and the Senate's Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act. It publishes policy analysis plus transcripts of the Right of Way podcast, with interviews of senators and representatives.
A personal tech blog by a practitioner covering hands-on infrastructure experience, such as a candid postmortem of running ClickHouse for firewall telemetry at 2 billion rows a day. It also includes essays on desktop UX and the author's fatigue with always-online smartphone life.
Short essays on how engineering decisions, vendor agreements, and automation hold up under pressure and over time. Readers get a reasoning framework for settling recurring questions, pricing exit costs, and judging when automation is truly finished.
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