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The Codex and its companions

What changed, by release

DRL Thesis Codex

v4.3.3 — 27 May 2026. Corpus framing-lock realignment pass (fifteen in-text edits). References to the author's own modular construction system were reviewed against the framework's standing posture that worked examples are illustrative, not promotional. Promotional and supply-chain-specific passages were removed or rewritten to evidentiary register; the system is retained only where it is the disclosed source of pilot data, with its limitations acknowledged. No change to any emission factor, calculation, or finding.

v4.3.0 — 1 May 2026 (IRONCLAD). Section 7.4 NECO₂ worked example added; Section 7.2 aluminium entry; Section 6.4A terminology and federal-funding architecture; Section 14 third-review addendum; Searchinger/Peng Nature 2023 integration; Reagan Legacy companion reference; pilot-count correction; Sections 15/16/16A renumbered to Appendices S/T/U; LCA-layer cross-references threaded.

v4.2.0 — 20 April 2026. Section 14 rewrite; business-as-usual visualisation; Appendix R (AI test responses).

v4.1.x — April 2026. Author sections integrated; peer-review response; citation hardening and evidentiary audit.

v4.1 — 9 April 2026. First v4 release. Original draft dated 23 November 2025.

The Curtain — modern chronology

v1.1 — May 2026. Added the "Note on prior knowledge" framing section establishing that the relationship between forest cover and climatic function has been on the written record for approximately four millennia, with the modern chronology (1969 forward) documenting the assembly of the formal measurement apparatus rather than the discovery of the underlying relationship. Codex cross-references updated to v4.3.3. Companion cross-reference to Appendix Z added.

v1.0 — May 2026. First release. Ten-part chronology 1969–May 2026 across three strands (science; disclosure standards; money and treaty instruments). Twelve-institution acknowledgements table.

Appendix Z — The Deep Chronology of Forestry Knowledge

v1.0 — May 2026. First release. Four-millennium chronology from the Standard Babylonian recension of the Gilgamesh epic (c. 2100 BCE) through 2026, including the pre-colonial Indigenous land-management layer and the institutional lineage from Carlowitz (1713) through Brandis to Pinchot. Companion to The Curtain.

The Tree of Many Sales

v0.3 — May 2026 (working draft). Published as a working draft. Documents the over-counting half of the configuration: the same physical tonne of sequestered carbon counted as a benefit three to six times across the offset registry, national inventory, biogenic-neutral EPD, building certification, corporate Scope 3, and procurement systems, against an end-of-life methane debit allocated to none of them. Part I follows the carbon; Part II follows the asset (sixteen monetisation events in the US, twelve in NZ); Part III synthesises. Structural mechanisms anchored to statutory, regulatory, and program-record sources; typical-magnitude figures are working estimates pending a primary-source verification pass. Offered openly for review and disputation.

The ESG Carbon-Cost Gap — media release

v1.0 — May 2026. First release. Long-form audit of the gap between the carbon-accounting standards used to classify sustainable investment and the science those same governments report to the UNFCCC. Covers both the excluded liabilities and the over-counting of the same physical carbon, the latter cross-referenced to The Tree of Many Sales. Published to the site as a public document.

The Reagan Forestry Legacy and the American Housing Crisis

v3.2 — April 2026. Legal-redline pass applied at the source-document level: configuration-descriptive register throughout, intent not characterised, public-record sources only. Tracked changes accepted; legacy language in headings and body corrected to the same posture.

Configuration as Authority

v1.1 — May 2026. Legal-review pass applied. The organising rhetorical frame was recast into the academic vocabulary the brief itself names — "epistemic community" and "private regulatory regime." Every fact, table, source, and section preserved; only the frame changed.

v1.0 — earlier 2026. First release.

Section 7.4 — NECO₂ Worked Example

May 2026. Published as a standalone extract from Codex Section 7.4.

Companion graphics

Reagan-era vertical timeline, 1981–2030 and Softwood lumber PPI with policy and tariff events, 1981–2026 — published as companion graphics, 2026.

The published site, by build

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What is held back, deliberately

Two documents and one page are complete or near-complete but are held back pending counsel review. They are listed here for transparency; their absence from the site is a deliberate editorial decision, not an omission.

• Appendix W — culpability finding. Counsel-gated.
• Political Connections — a page documenting lobbying, campaign-finance, and committee-assignment records from primary sources. Counsel-gated; highest review priority of any page.