What if cities allowed housing to be built at the scale demand requires? The Sen̓áḵw development, led by the Squamish Nation and constructed outside of Vancouver and its zoning rules, offers one vision of what’s possible. Writer Alex Mayyasi explores: https://ow.ly/cpxZ50YFfep

The latest member of Team Carney. Poilievre should keep an eye on Leslyn lewis. As long as he can prove that George Soros doesn't sit in on caucus meetings, she might be willing to cross the floor as well.

You’re checking labels to buy Canadian—but you’re still paying through a system Canada doesn’t control. In 2025, American-owned Visa and Mastercard controlled 96 percent of Canada’s credit card market. If the US flips a switch, Canada has no Plan B. https://ow.ly/cr1k50YFf7e

So, the Strait is open right? Right?

WTF? Pakistan's prime minister urged Trump to extend his deadline to destroy Iranian civilization. Ethical human beings would be condemning Trump and demanding he retract the threats and apologize, not suggesting he do it later! Or just send him to CECOT. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

I love that this started as a butcher and now stands as an homage to beans. And that BEANS have arrived on MAIN STREET, literally. It's such a wild dream fulfilled.

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

⭐NEW PAPER ⭐ We collaborated with AWorld, the largest app for personal climate action, to examine behavioral patterns, data quality, and the links between users' actions, carbon footprints and psychological factors. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @fdabl.bsky.social @cameronbrick.bsky.social

The biggest problem with the food system is that it is no longer a *food* system. More than half the calories we grow on croplands aren't food; they're lost in inefficient feedlots or to biofuels. Project Drawdown scientists highlight this disturbing trend: sentientmedia.org/more-crops-g...

Half of all agricultural land is used not for human food but for animal feed, ethanol and other uses. Grossly environmentally destructive and inefficient. New paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

On one hand, the way the Iran war is playing out is a heavy-handed, almost theatrical illustration of the point Adam makes here. On the other hand, the same strategy—tougher, harder, more violence, more cruelty—has failed over and over again throughout human history, and we still haven't learned.

And yet Pakistan is now at 25% solar share, just four years after people were telling me it would never get beyond 5%. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Electrotech can serve the billion people left behind by the fossil system and open up a faster path to prosperity @ember-energy.org ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

there's *always* an @xkcd.com

Just read the underlying study. It 1) does not say “modern agriculture is collapsing,” 2) acknowledges need for 35-56% more food by 2050 without further land clearance, 3) says labor needs in traditional systems are 10x higher, 4) says crop yields in highly agrobiodiverse systems are 20-40% lower.

"We find that all planetary boundaries can be respected for 8.0 and 10.4 billion people with a probability of 81% and 73%. However, this requires a fossil-free energy system, and an essentially vegan diet as well as no additional cropland conversion." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No it's not. Quite the opposite. It's a betrayal of our children. It teaches them a false lesson: burning fossil fuels that heat the planet is desirable behaviour. Why be responsible for your actions if it is others who will pay the cost? Hubris is a terrible vice. #MbPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

Maybe Bluesky will get mad at me for saying this, but this is a bizarre headline because if you actually read the article it says the exact opposite. Please consider reading the whole article before doom-sharing the irresponsible headline.

this (onion) article is nearly 12 years old "At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on."

One of the best bass lines in music history Joy Division - She's Lost Control She's Lost Control, first performed live by the band in June 1978 and draws primary lyrical inspiration from a young woman experiencing a violent epileptic seizure 😢 #joydivision #peterhook #sheslostcontrol #iancurtis

"methane cuts have a stronger near-term temperature effect than the equivalent CO2 cuts" www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

That's why we need look at *all* greenhouse gases, and all sources, not just CO2, and not just fossil fuel combustion. All gases, and all sources, are part of the puzzle.

And we can fix it, using existing solutions. We know the solutions. We only need one thing - political will.

Maybe we should do whatever it takes to cut methane emissions? "The world needs to begin by rethinking our approaches to livestock production, shifting towards plant-rich diets." www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

We count the cost of climate disasters in Europe. But not always the animals. A new investigation looks at what happens to livestock during floods — and what it reveals about policy blind spots. 🧵 news.thin-ink.net/p/the-animal...

We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...

"Politically, the “lab leak” narrative is not a legitimate scientific controversy; it is a manufactured, state-aligned propaganda campaign." The monumental injustice against virologists and Peter Daszak meticulously recounted here

Today would be a great day for #Canada to finally quit fossil fuels for good. 'The energy crisis has only just begun', and 'is set to wreak havoc on global economies' #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #EnergyCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #IranWar #Iran #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #ABPoli

Airport security lineups in US vastly reduced after ICE agents kidnap most travellers

CBC #the-climate-restorers s01e01 - 1. Methane gem.cbc.ca/the-climate-...

#TheNatureOfThings s65e05 - Decisions, Decisions: The Science of Choice This episode touches on food choices, but limits itself to the choice between two selfish options: pleasure vs health. What about the environmental impact? What about the impact on all sentient "participants" in the choice?

"The question is no longer whether animals are sentient - it is why we continue to behave as if they are not." #animals #ethics #wellbeing #compassion #conservation #sentience

Can’t believe we’re having this discourse again, but of course, I also can 😔

I just got an email from @350.org saying that the oil companies are gouging us, forcing us to pay more to fill our gas tanks and heat our homes. Not a word of encouragement to move away from fossil fuel dependency.

My open source digital sovereignty tip of the day: we should not be using US based, Meta owned, communications channels for public information purposes.

Quelle belle victoire !  Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie. Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens. Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.

My mother, who died in 1990, was a physiotherapist who had a lot (LOT) of patients made worse by chiros. I wish she had imparted some greater wisdoms on me, but the one thing that really stuck with me to this day was “never EVER see a chiropractor” I have not!

Oh that’s just Iowa you say. Nope: sentientmedia.org/ten-million-...

Not that those of us outside the U.S. needed any further invitation to not travel there, but just in case…

I’ll stop here but could go on. There really isn’t, in the global north, any way of producing red meat at scale in a way that doesn’t harm the planet, nor our health. End

I'll see your 2 billion and raise it to 14.7 billion. Per year. ourworldindata.org/carbon-oppor...

"The war and the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz are pushing more people to recognize that fossil fuel is politically as well as environmentally devastating."

This was said in March 2020 and March 2022. It's worth saying now and will be worth saying again when there's a fossil-fuel crisis in the future.

My favorite wellness hack is vaccination.

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.