Cars and cows converge in the cornfields, consuming 75% of the entire crop. They dominate almost every planetary boundary. lloydalter.substack.com/p/our-planet...

Summerhill! Beautiful station, lots of tracks, better than a liquor store and Rosedale will go insane. It’s perfect. apple.news/A6m7XUHEESVy...

If you think Doug Ford using taxpayer funds to buy his private jet is unrelated to his trying to have jets fly from Toronto's Island Airport, I've got a failed private waterfront spa at Ontario Place, a shuttered Science Centre, and a tunnel under the 401 to sell you. #ONpoli #TOpolo

Paging (and paraphrasing) Stanley Jevons: “It is wholly a confusion to suppose that more efficient chips lead to diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.”

why is it almost always an Audi?

At what point do people in Ontario rise up and say, we have no hospitals or schools, and you are buying jets so you can fly from the Toronto islands to Muskoka, and this is too fucking much? You can only buy so many ads and buy off so many drivers, before it is too fucking much

After a retired journalist wrote about how he and his wife had become addicted to their phones, I wondered what will happen when vast numbers of baby boomers get addicted to AI. I think it is going to be a very big problem.

Hey Canadians, this is a huge issue. This mine will pump out millions of gallons of sulphuric acid that will flow into Quetico Park, Rainy River, right up to Lake Winnipeg. It's 40km from the border. It could be Sudbury all over again for Canadian lakes. And our governments are doing nothing. read:

I love the juxtaposition: “renewables no longer the expensive option” on the left, Doug Enbridge promising new pipelines on the right. Thousands spent on ads every day.

We don’t have to schlep 20,000 tonnes of rock every day to extract the half a percent of copper in it while acidifying the Quetico-Superior watershed. This is just stupid.

A Chilean company wants to build a giant copper mine next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness and 40km from Quetico Provincial Park. "There has never been a mine of this kind that did not leach toxic pollution." Protests from Canadian provincial and federal governments? Crickets.

Do @thestar.com headline writers really not know the difference between rein and reign?

Pedestrian hit by three cars, road workers hit, fire hydrant taken out, Toronto drivers are hopeless, but let’s ban speed cameras!

I don't know why Canada or Ontario isn't saying anything about this; it is essentially Quetico Provincial Park south of the border. What happens here affects us too.

This is why I now call him Doug Enbridge. From the rolling back of green standards to the expansion of pipelines, there is more going on here than meets the eye.

A recent survey confirms that most older drivers are not prepared for the inevitable day when they have to hang up the car keys. And with the demographic time bomb that's coming, there are going to be millions of them. lloydalter.substack.com/p/many-older...

Meanwhile, in Doug Enbridge's Ontario....

Earlier, I missed the juxtaposition of the front page interview of @hannahritchie.bsky.social and the third page, where Doug Enbridge stomps on cities and rolls back green building standards.

Even in these times when the world is seeing the benefits of renewables, Premier Enbridge is doing his best to make us burn more gas.

I love how when you look up Marcus Gee’s complaint about Ontario government advertising- “In a province with a debt closing on half a trillion dollars, spending tens of millions on politically motivated advertising is inexcusable.” The ads in are for- the Ontario government.

I try to explain in greater detail why I have ended my teaching career at Toronto Metropolitan University with thanks to everyone who gave me the stuff to teach with. Teaching sustainable design isn’t like teaching Latin; the world changes every week. lloydalter.substack.com/p/after-18-y...

My last class at @torontomet.bsky.social After 18 years I have retired and my teaching days are over. Unfortunately my marking days are just beginning, but it was a great year and I am going out on a high Note.

I thought the EU tariff deal that would let in giant American pickup trucks was dead, but evidently not. I wrote earlier why it is such a terrible idea lloydalter.substack.com/p/deal-on-mu...

Planetarium shows with the classic optical-mechanical projectors were serene, like lying on a dock in summer. I’m not sure people have the attention span for that anymore. open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

People used to really care about graphic design, I love this thread about weird studies with fabulous covers, look at this watermelon!

The dome on this thing is like the ones the build to enclose nuclear reactors, it can withstand anything. It is a shame Will Alsopp is dead, the U of T could do an OCAD and build something on stilts on top of it, it is a tragic waste of an amazing space.

This is going to be a challenge, the building is a tank, so much concrete so that it would be totally silent and shake from the subway, it is bombproof. It is also very sad a wonderful building that I spent so much time in. And dont get me started about embodied carbon…

My kind of milestone.

Allbirds, the sustainable shoe company, is no more. I held it up as a model of sustainable design for my students and wrote about it in one of my books. But it seems only a small segment of shoppers care. lloydalter.substack.com/p/environmen...

I often complain about "killer bathtubs" that you can't get in and out of safely and "deathtrap stairs" where you are likely to break your neck, but I have never seen them together in one place until now. lloydalter.substack.com/p/this-may-b...

30% of nitrogen fertilizer in the USA is fed to cars instead of people. This is being done to maintain the American right to drive big trucks with cheap gas during a war in an election year. lloydalter.substack.com/p/food-price...

The @theglobeandmail.com ROB magazine does a feature on an "e-bike" that looks like a motorcycle and has the exact specs of an e-motorcycle that has been speed-limited to 32 km/hr. I wonder how hard it is to switch to "off-road" mode. We need new regulations! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...

I was just showing this tweet from the Department of Energy to my students this week for my class on energy, but I really like this update from @germanusa.bsky.social

Windowless classrooms with cool white light are messing with our circadian clocks- I teach from 3 to 6 and outside, the light is warm. lloydalter.substack.com/p/why-are-my...

Doug Ford has blood on his hands here. I suspect there will be a lot more.

We have two colliding trends: Older adults with increased sensitivity to glare from bright blue LED headlights are a growing share of all drivers, while headlights keep getting brighter, bluer, and higher. lloydalter.substack.com/p/driving-wh...

This sounds like an April Fools joke: Total energy is taking its $billion from Trump and investing it in a Texas terminal which “will contribute to supplying Europe with much-needed LNG from the U.S.” and also provide gas for America’s growing crop of data centers."

Likely thousands of people are injured or killed every year around toilets, and the problem is going to get worse as the baby boomers age. We can’t continue to ignore it. lloydalter.substack.com/p/toilets-ar...

"The Minister of Public Safety could order Samsung to turn your smart fridge into a listening device. The same with your Smart TV or Smart speakers. I find that worrisome." YIKES

The Daily Doug ( @thestar.com ) Saturday edition: 6 ads, 3-1/2 full pages paid for by us, money that could be used to fix schools and healthcare.

The Daily Doug (@thestar.com) has 1 full-page and 3 half-page ads today, paid for by taxpayers, including building a multibillion-dollar tunnel for red pepper delivery. This should not be legal.

For years, many have called for conservation, sufficiency, reducing fossil fuel consumption, and other measures to slow climate change. It's too bakd that it takes a crisis for the International Energy Agency to call for these measures now . lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-that-7...

"He's lost his shit." John calls it. We have had a week of insane announcements of the craziness, with no limits or controls.

It's Global Recycling Day, where we pretend waste is a resource, just like coal and gas. Burn it with glee! lloydalter.substack.com/p/happy-glob...

@thestar.com should just rename itself the Doug Daily. Half the ads are “Protect Ontario“ and front page: Ford on Freedom of information. Then consumption site cuts. Convention centre in lake. Billy Bishop Airport. make pepper spray legal. & more: 8 articles in 1 section, all about Ford Ford Ford.

Plans to bring jets to Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport will mean more Ultrafine Particle pollution, and "increased rates of premature death, pre-term births, decreased lung function, oxidative DNA damage and childhood leukemia." lloydalter.substack.com/p/how-doug-f...

And he's buried in Brompton cemetery should you wish to say hi to the father of epidemiology

On John Snow’s birthday, a look back at how we got such terrible toilets and why we flush them with drinking water. lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-should-...

Dug Ford runs the same ad for a highway serving his developer buddies FIVE Times in the Saturday Star. And that’s only the half of it.

Ok, snow is beautiful. But enough already.