Melissa Bruntlett is an urbanist storyteller. This is her story. 𝙊𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙, “𝙊𝙆, 𝙠𝙞𝙙𝙨, 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤.” 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘. NYTimes 🎁 article @modacitylife.com

Si les usagers des hôpitaux qui y viennent en voiture ne payent pas pour le stationnement, qui va payer ? 💰 Celles et ceux qui y viennent à pied, vélo, transport en commun, covoiturage ou taxi ? Ta voiture, tes dépenses.

🚨Les 10 % les plus nantis des Belges détiennent plus de la moitié du patrimoine net (55 %). Étude de la banque nationale de #Belgique à lire absolument. #taxezucman www.nbb.be/fr/statistic...

For those unfamiliar, this involves: - Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew - Burning them for energy - Capturing the carbon that results from burning - Transporting the carbon - Injecting it underground - Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least

The raw data looks even worse for Tesla in Europe. Scroll down the PDF until you find the breakdown by manufacturer. Market share this October was less than half what is was in October 2024, despite the EV share of vehicles overall growing rapidly. #TeslaTakedown www.acea.auto/files/Press_...

Just hear me out on this. Cars are the problem.

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

Media need to stop selling this false dichotomy too

Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world". Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions. Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!

Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU

A fitting moment to bring back this old transit meme. However they’re powered—gas, hydrogen, electricity, or driverless—leaning on cars instead of investing in quality public transit is still a poor long-term strategy.

🤯 C’est magique 🤩 Partagez ça avec vos responsables de la propreté et de la mobilité/maintenance !!! Si je lance une cagnotte pour en acheter un et faire Bruxelles avec, qui me suis ??? 🤪 @strobbe.bsky.social @choudebrucycle.bsky.social @albertlechat.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=obM4...

Avant / Après la piétonnisation et la végétalisation de la Rue Mouffetard dans le 5ème arrondissement de Paris

« J’en ai marre de ces gens qui ramènent leur science. J’en ai marre de ces gens déguisés en économistes. - Mais je suis économiste. Et vous, où avez-vous appris l’économie? - bé… en droit ». Oui, cet échange a vraiment existé. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

'significant decreases in future energy consumption can only be achieved by reducing the average energy used per hour of human travel' walking, cycling, low-carbon transit. Energy use per hour is key determinant of future transport energy consumption doi.org/10.1088/1748...

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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🤯 C’est magique 🤩 Partagez ça avec vos responsables de la propreté et de la mobilité/maintenance !!! Si je lance une cagnotte pour en acheter un et faire Bruxelles avec, qui me suis ??? 🤪 @strobbe.bsky.social @choudebrucycle.bsky.social @albertlechat.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=obM4...

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action. This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with. 1/

Planned destruction of ecosystems In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

En détricotant le pacte vert, ils se sont privés de protection, ont affaibli politiquement l’UE et fait grossir l’extrême droite au Parlement L’accord est le fruit pourri de décennies d’errance productiviste de la PAC. Pr un gain ridicule: + 0,1 pt de PIB sur 10 ans www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Accord COP30: la planète méritait mieux, dt la sortie des énergies fossiles. Mais leur lobbying est plus fort que celui des gens et de la nature. Belgique et UE qui se sont réveillées trop tard, ne doivent pas attendre la COP31 pr passer de la parole aux actes. www.lesoir.be/712591/artic...

Quelques exemples des insultes et des menaces que j’ai reçu ces dernières 48 heures. Des "braves gens" qui ont des enfants, des amis, un papa et une maman. Ces derniers doivent être super fière... 🙄 Certains relèvent clairement du pénal !

A government panel proposed making offshore wind projects eligible for long-term decarbonization power auctions, which would help cover soaring construction and maintenance costs.

Nothing to add ... newrepublic.com/post/203517/...

Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime. Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I also recommend following @carbonbrief.org's handy "negotiating text tracker" here. They always have such useful tools and explainers!

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...

NEW: NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and City Hall are colluding to kill a long-awaited bill to ban parking near all intersections for better visibility — a dramatic, lame-duck gambit that street safety advocates blasted as an egregious form of political gamesmanship. buff.ly/1wcrEWr

Si vous vivez à Anderlecht ou êtes usager de la Chaussée de Mons, n’hésitez pas à apporter votre soutien aux travaux de rénovation en signant cette lettre ouverte. openletter.earth/nl/open-brie... Vous pouvez également envoyer directement un mail à l’administration communale si vous le souhaitez.

Remember this? The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

Meet the new devil: Plastic Big Oil knows its days are numbered as a source of inefficient, dirty, expensive energy. So now it's betting we'll sell our souls for plastic, which is "cheap" because Big Oil doesn't pay the massive costs to our bodies, health, land, water, air, and (still) climate.

As geopolitical tensions intensify, renewable energy becomes not just a climate imperative but a pathway to true autonomy and resilience.

A new Coast Guard policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive," deletes protections for transgender men and women, and suggests hazing has military utility www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

China's electrification transition is dramatic, and leaving us in the dust. So much for LNG-powered trucks! China and soon India are leapfrogging to the new. And our leaders pushing LNG and retreating on ZEVs look sad & vision-less in comparison. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/n...

When you program your chatbot to glaze you relentlessly but don't have the basic sense to think through how that might turn into a monkey's paw wish 😂 What a fucking loser #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

Day 1: Points (30 Day Map Challenge) #30daymapchallenge #30daymapchallenge2025

#30DayMapChallenge Day 3: Polygons Did you know Brussels actually consists of 19 "cities" (and 19 mayors)?! Check this voronoi diagram based on distance to the nearest city hall. A complicated one to map, if you want to compare with the actual borders...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Air (hookah aka shisha) Data: own collection News: www.bruzz.be/actua/gezond...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water Map of outdoor swimming spots in Brussels

#30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A new tool (Blender!) Fun fact: the highest point of Brussels is not at Altitude 100 (named like that because it's at a 100m elevation) but somewhere in the Sonian Forest.

Je n’arrive pas à trouver une quelconque condamnation par les bourgmestre MR des actes de vandalisme. Juste “une inquiétude légitime”. Je connais mal l’endroit, mais qu’il n’y ait pas eu de concertation entre la Région et la Commune semble peu probable. Urgent de céder à la violence pour le MR

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Important piece on how we got here. Brownstone raised millions to undermine COVID prevention policies. Now at least 8 people with ties to Brownstone hold senior positions at federal health agencies, where they are restricting vaccines and cutting science funding.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.