The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

In the end, Bratislava shows cycling culture isn't something exclusive to Northern European cities, but built through political leadership, persistent advocacy and institutional collaboration. Not cycling for its own sake, but as a practical tool to create a healthier, safer and more liveable city.🔚

In the shadow of world's largest per-capita car manufacturing industry, Bratislava has been steadily shaping itself into a cycling city. With a holistic approach to infrastructural, behavioural and institutional change, it has emerged as one of Central Europe's more compelling urban cycling models.🧵

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

A big majority in Parliament - a 25% gas export tax is a no-brainer for $10B a year. Albo and Jim Chalmers, don't let a good crisis go to waste. Fix Budget, reshape Australia #auspol youtu.be/YxxuWVYrUog?...

🦋💙🦋 We just don’t learn

For all the Shoupistas

1986-1987 Sydney A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia Minutes of the NSW cabinet show police warned the government against approving a bid by Trump consortium to run a casino in Darling Harbour

Always flying in my dreams

In the course of an interesting critique of “merit,” Jay Nordlinger observes: “People call for “merit” in the immigration process… Those immigrants wanted a better life for themselves and their family, and they sacrificed to get it. That was their ‘merit.’” open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...

US brain drain underway. Why not? I know a weather mathematician who worked for NASA coming home.

Berlin’s top court just said: 🚗 ≠ fundamental right. A car-free city is legally possible — and politically necessary. This is a HUGE moment for mobility justice! #CarFreeBerlin #ClimateJustice #Volksentscheid #bsky Wrote about my thoughts here 👉 medium.com/@backoffice_... @vberlinautofrei.de

Next part of my trip is cycling from Harderwijk to Zwolle youtu.be/fpqpmR_25Pk

There goes the winter sun at lunchtime in Meagher Street, Chippendale

Winter sunlight

Zürich (Switzerland) opened a bike tunnel/parking garage under the railway station. This tunnel was built for a road that was never finished. After decades, the unused tunnel was finally repurposed. A video report: youtu.be/HPwRAEOwQI0?...

Some wit on Facebook has sourced Harry Fong’s mobile and landline number. The reasoning behind this is the fact that Fong is saturating mobile phones with Trumpet of Patriots shytefokery’ leaving recipients no avenue of reply. As an aside, it’s an opportunity to debunk & possibly annoy -not abuse.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

Exclusive: Melbourne’s first attempt at a fast-tracked “off-the-shelf” three-storey apartment building has failed after Banyule City Council rejected a proposal that already had state government approval: www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Donald Trump says he loves Canada. That's why he wants to destroy our nation. In Canada our kids don't worry about being shot at school. Our families don't go bankrupt if they get sick. And Canada sure as shit doesn't let convicted perverts take over our government. What do you think? #strongasfuck

The Sulphur Crested Cockatoos(Biloela) love our Gymea (Kai’Mia) Lily seeds. The plants need the ethylene (hydrocarbon gas as a plant hormone) in smoke to get them to flower profusely

The Disney version of Australian history is back with a vengeance

All the neighbours on the bay have their Australian flags up so I had to respond with a sort of flag balyunmirr ‘ haka’ #garigal #InvasionDay

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Let's join Canada & solve this!

Esther Road in Waltham Forest was subject to bad flooding in 2021. Parking out, rain gardens in. Beautiful, urban cooling, mental health boosting, biodiverse, flood mitigating awesomeness. @labourstone.bsky.social @meristemdesign.bsky.social #healthystreets #healthystreets4hhlp

Did you see? The new stamp from Ukrposhta "The Budapest Memorandum is bull...it"

Ray Kappe Keeler House lost

More reports of a 'gas shortage' with no mention of the massive amounts of exports. 🙄 Australia has an abundance of gas. We give most of it to gas export companies who then tell us there's a 'shortage' for domestic use. #auspol

No thanks

New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-excavati... Full text of the article by @carolinedigs.bsky.social and colleagues published in @austarchj.bsky.social available at: doi.org/10.1080/0312...

A centuries-old partnership between fishermen and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar is threatened by environmental destruction and political upheaval.

This reminds me of the Thaua on Twofold Bay NSW who worked with killer whales to herd whales into shallower waters where hunters could spear them. Humans would get the meat, and the killer whales got the tongue.

The major parties don’t want a duty of care on climate because it would mean they’d have to put Australians & our futures ahead of the fossil fuel industry - an industry that is putting short term profits ahead of people & our future. Let’s change that this election👇 adutyofcare.davidpocock.com.au

Strata owners are increasingly banning electric vehicles from charging in basement carparks as fire safety authorities disagree over the risk of battery fires.

images.divisare.com//images/c_li... More work needs down to allow open stairs in mid rise.

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Our co-founder and chief scientist Saul Griffith recently spoke at the international climate tech conference #VERGE24, where the Electrify 2515 Community Pilot gets a shout out on the global stage! 🌎Check it out➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgPK...

People are willing to walk a lot farther when you make it a pleasant walk.

Did you know that there’s a second Paul Rudolph bldg at Yale, aside from the famous A&A? It’s a single-story design—ringed by 28 precast, treelike concrete columns—hidden away along Prospect St. and called Greeley Memorial Laboratory. It predates A&A: It was completed in 1959, when Rudolph was 41

Urban math (geometry) Bogotá, TransMilenio BRT

If we designed our homes like we design our cities—there wouldn't be a lot of room for living left.

For those of you interested in my academic work, I focus on modern and contemporary religious architecture in Germany and the U.S.; my dissertation looks at 20th-century Catholic architecture in the Rhineland, like these churches.