an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both

Almost sold out! 🎟️ Join us March 9 at @utoronto.ca for an International Women’s Day conversation on your career in climate with me and @katharinehayhoe.com! Register while you still can: lci.utoronto.ca/event/intern...

“When life makes no sense I find that at least books do” First page into my Dublin Review and they’ve already got me (Liz Macbride, ‘Universal topics’)

Netherlands and China are on the way to being the next Norway, where internal combustion engine auto sales are nearly dead. BEVs were 65% of Dutch auto sales in December and 41% for 2025. In China, internal combustion autos market share falls to ~40%. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/ #energysky

The sacred patterns

Good morning from your local urban owl, surveying their frigid marshmallow kingdom at -20C

It me. Excited to rip some great Quebec hills in March! ⛷️https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump?srnd=homepage-canada

Montreal bagel fresh from oven, feat. cream cheese, lox. If six ingredients are required can add red onion, capers, salt, pepper. 🥯

Of all the things in the world to be a crusty performative joyless scold about, perhaps George could at least pick on a grownup's toy and not something that encourages kids to be outside and playing together in winter (including kids who might have trouble making snowballs on their own).

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁 Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy New Karl Ove Knausgaard Day to my North American comrades 🫡📚

Confirmed that US is withdrawing from: -UNFCCC -IPCC -Int’l Renewable Energy Agency -Int’l Union for Conservation of Nature -UN Oceans and many more

Trump appears to have withdrawn the US from the UNFCCC, the foundational treaty for global cooperation on climate change (free to read) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My birthday wish for you all is that you find coworkers so lovely and so alive to what a frickin nerd you are that *11 years later* they bring you custom graphs for your birthday 😍🎉

Incentives matter! Québec saw a surge in EV sales as its incentive program was running out of budget, reaching an incredible 44% of new car and truck registrations in December 2024. After the incentives were paused, sales share cratered to 8% by Feb, recovering when they were reintroduced in April.

Mon ravin, c’est l’hiver

🚨It's time for another East End Energy Evening🚨 TONIGHT!!! We'll be in the back room of The Dylan from 8pm onwards. Hope to see you there!

A great example of Canada’s climate innovation ecosystem in action! Homegrown tech, early support from SDTC (may it rest in peace), federal and provincial support to demonstrate, growth capital from Canada Growth Fund to scale 🍁💪🍁

Wishing a festively enigmatic Poemcember to all who celebrate 🤔📚❄️

Extremely niche tea-drinker/Monty Python crossover post, but does Lapsang Souchong make everyone else think instantly of The Knights Who Say Ni? (one of their sacred words being nou-wong)

For those in need of a good elegaic dirge: open.spotify.com/track/79t143...

A lot of Blackadder quotes coming to mind today for some reason 🤷

In case anyone is in need of a quick soupçon of joy, here is the graphic our department's cyber-security team shares as congratulations for reporting a phishing attempt. (for the uninitiated, that is our treasured mascot, NRCat)

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Birb people, is this a baby woodpecker?

🚨Call for Speakers🚨 ⚡5th Electricity Camp in the Rockies 🗓️May 20-22, 2026 ⛰️Banff, Alberta 👪Academics, policymakers, and practitioners talking about all things electricity (and hiking!) ✉️Email abstracts to: [email protected] by Dec 15 Past programs here: nzeri.ca/electricity-camp

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Me, shovelling November snow mixed with leaves that were not done falling: is this… the mid-transition? 💁‍♂️🦋

Upon taking office, the Doug Ford gov't introduced a law to cut the "carbon tax" which also obliged the government to create a climate plan & emissions targets. Now, they’ve repealed that duty—Ontario’s government no longer has to consider climate action. thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

Absolutely gobsmacked. Canada's largest province announces they plan to scrub a legislative requirement to have a climate change target, a climate plan, and progress reports. Ontario pals... huh???

Alright, got my pot of tea and cartoonishly oversized stress hummus. Let’s go Budget 2025!

Dispatch from the Small Victories department: I finally re-found a poem I’d been searching for for a couple years, grasping at clues in a haze of vibes and misremembered keywords. And it’s still great! www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7616/...

Really great profile of Deep Sky’s DAC demo hub in Alberta heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Big week in Toronto! In addition to the Jays, we've got the World Series of Energy Nerds!

Welcome @natural-resources.canada.ca! Glad I won't be the only one posting NRCat-based contend on here anymore 😸

So much to love here! Great to see Deep Sky launching their first commercial project and awesome to see it will be in Manitoba with close Indigenous involvement www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...

A documentary about target setting? YES PLEASE 🎬📉👀👀👀

I feel like @shastingssimon.bsky.social would enjoy this piece on reviving a vintage neighbourhood atom smasher. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/we...

I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's happening again, Toronto friends. Come one, come all! Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards

SERENITY NOW! (Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)

Toronto pals, I *highly* recommend this event that NRCan is hosting for T.O. Climate Week. If hearing from your favourite federal electricity innovation nerds isn’t enough to lock your Friday morning down, we’ve got Microsoft, Toronto Hydro, Alectra, Goldfinch, AND a net-zero venue luma.com/npilhiuw

Come for the great journalism, stay for the endless hit parade of Shania Twain references

Purely in the name of fun, here's a chart of all countries that were at 3-4% EV share in 2019 in IEA's database: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

Not to brag, but my morning run took me past a famous landmark 🏃🌟

⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought. New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

Was wondering why our outdoor rug is often askew and this morning I got a clue as to why (or at least *how*)

Bike parking at the Danish Parliament ❤️

Friends, if you too missed this unspeakably beautiful @joriegraham.bsky.social gem during the blur of the pandemic, please give yourselves a moment to savour the complete and utter emotional devastation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...