Housing, climate advocates push for indoor temperature cap in #Calgary Acorn wants the indoor temperature in at least one room in a rental suite capped at 26 C. It also wants the city to provide (see /2) /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

$0.21 CAD/Litre This is the equivalent cost we face for charging our EV at home. If you are paying more for gasoline, consider making the switch.

Every Bluesky exec should start every interview with a comparison of the engagement of the accounts of the interviewer/their news org on Bluesky, X, and Threads. Because it so quickly demonstrates how successful Bluesky is, despite its age and underdog status. It's also an ad for the platform.

"We don't need to be X. It's where people go to be angry at strangers and fight with bots. We don't need to be Reddit. Because Reddit is Reddit. We're Bluesky." There. There's your soundbite.

It took 4.5 billion years of precise cosmic history to build an Earth that can support human life. Yet, we are risking it all for quarterly earnings. True intelligence means recognizing that a dead planet has a GDP of exactly zero. 🛑💼 #ClimateAction #EarthFirst

"We over-rationalise the past, we dramatise the present and because of this we underestimate the future." This is what Finnish President Alexander Stubb said earlier this week at the Eurelectric Power Summit right before my keynote. My final slide could not have been a better fit.

Update: we have had our Ioniq5 for roughly 5 total hours and I'm never buying a gas vehicle again. This thing is amazing.

Given the growth of renewables displacing coal power worldwide it is silly to argue that LNG is "displacing polluting coal power" Canada continues to argue that their LNG is necessary, while solar and wind are cleaner, cheaper and worldwide they are displacing more coal. #cleanEnergy

Good news article on China's renewable energy giving them resilience against oil shocks and more. youtu.be/tYnyAamblSo?...

Heat pumps permanently displace burning polluting gas and oil. Better health, better heat.

So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on. Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏

Yet more proof that pension funds don’t need to torch the planet to make decent returns.👇 BCI, CPPIB and AIMCo - time to break your addiction to fossil fuels!

As a perfect example of our theme “LNG is Poison for People + the Planet”, behold👇the staggering GHGs from just 1 proposed LNG project in BC - and even those terrible figures fail to account for the much bigger end-point emissions!!! The fiction that LNG is clean is a dangerous delusion. 🔥🌎🔥 10/x

If you aren’t yet familiar with the proposed 🇨🇦 Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA), check out this new op-ed👇from @senrosagalvez.bsky.social Passing this legislation is key to ensuring Canada’s financial system (including pensions!) operates consistently with our climate commitments. IMPORTANT! 9/x

Excited to see "Account Balance" going away for Electrify America. Having to have a balance on each charging network was a barrier to access. Thank you @electrifyamerica.com www.youtube.com/shorts/h-vzo...

Encouraging direction. I wonder if Canada 🇨🇦 is keeping up with this pattern or if we are following outdated thinking and investing more in polluting tech from the past?

Sitting at a restaurant with the windows open in downtown Vancouver, the traffic outside on the street is extremely quiet and I think part of that is because there are more and more EV’s. Of course, one noisy car spoils it all. EVs equal nicer dinners out?

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

I’m very impressed. Today driving from YVR to Abbotsford. I counted 309 battery electric vehicle vehicles. more battery electric vehicles than I saw driving for three weeks in the maritime provinces & Newfoundland. BC is making progress EV’s have a lower total cost of ownership Join us.

Hey Calgary. Loved seeing that field of solar panels at the south of the city. You are in the Sun belt in southern Alberta. Your solar panels work better than almost any other place in Canada 🇨🇦 Go solar and watch prices fall!

Ksi Lisims project would increase B.C.’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions 6-8% [of course, the downstream emissions when that LNG gets burned overseas is MUCH higher]. Thanks to CBC and @cbctara.bsky.social for this story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just left a geology science museum where they really don’t mention climate change but they have a whole gallery dedicated to promoting oil and gas. ⛽️ hmm

To all my friends here in the sky that have been stressed out, overwhelmed, etc...of late b/c of happenings both close to home and out of our reach... Remembering we are all fighting the same fight... Doing it together is why we're all here supporting, boosting & amplifying each other ❤️ #SheShed

"Meteorologists are warning of increased health risks, wildfire danger, and severe heat stress as this powerful heat dome continues to tighten its grip across the continent. ☀️ Roads are shimmering, rivers are drying, and millions are searching for relief as Europe faces one of its ... " via Glynce

“My kingdom for an edit button on Bluesky” Richard III via shakespeare

Provincial Parks by Prov: BC: 776 ON: 340 NS: 130 MB: 92 AB: 76 SK: 35 NL: 32 QC: 24 PE: 23 NB: 21 #Canada #Parks #Nature #genai

This week has delivered an exceptional spell of warmth across the UK – with spring and May temperature records not just nudged, but exceeded by as much as 2°C in places. A clear signal of just how historic this event has been.

The climate emergency is manifesting and we have very few politicians and even fewer journalists championing any kind of action. We are heading for an eco collapse and we’re pretending like all is fine. It’s why I decided not to have children 30 years ago. I suspected it would play out like this.

Someone asked me the other day. “But why do you care?” A bit climate change. As I reflected later on the question and my answer I thought of a clearer way to respond. LOVE. I love people and this planet and I care what happens to them. That’s why.

NEW: “We’re all paying heavily for sprawl, whether we live there or not, and we’re all financially benefitting from infill housing, whether we live there or not.” Happy to be part of this outstanding, devastating, evidence-based article on the BIG COSTS of bad planning. Via @nationalobserver.com.

Use metric units. It’s a smarter system. Almost the whole world uses it. Stop providing translation back to inferior units like miles feet inches or furlongs. Let’s all just use metric and be done with inferior units. Are you with me?

Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.

Ten years ago, our General Data Protection Regulation put control back where it belongs - in your hands. Today, it stands as the global standard for data protection, helping ensure transparency, accountability and trust in the digital economy. 🔗 Know your rights: link.europa.eu/gKNcKj

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

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In a month I have a chance to talk to folks who manage facilities projects for local hospitals. 🏥 I’m going to talk to them about active transportation and how their projects can make a real difference for healthcare and the community. Please suggest ideas you think I should include. 💡

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I've had an EV for 3 years now. They're FANTASTIC. I would NEVER go back to a fossil fuel car. Charge up at home, no problems. I save ££££££ on feeding greedy fossil fuel companies. And more importantly, I don't spew out cancer causing fumes out of my rear end!! octopusev.com/ev-hub/commo...

Today I was reading a study by Health Canada on the health effects of wind turbine noise. www.canada.ca/en/health-ca... TLDR: It doesn’t hurt people’s health: stress, sleep disturbance, tinnitus, headaches, but it leads to more annoyance. Interesting to read an unbiased report.

If it were me and my country was already behind in this vehicle category, and a mad king happened to chaos agent his way into creating demand, I would use that to try to incentivize different ways to catch up to other countries, not soak people trying to find any kind of relief

Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏

@jptasker.bsky.social The "directly affected residents", SAR, salmon of BC must not be collateral damage in Carney's push to protect Danielle Smith's job‼️😡

More good news!

We don’t condone violence. And see an opportunity for Russia Asia and Europe to substitute cleaner low carbon electricity which is lower cost, offers increased resilience and has improved health impacts.

HISTORY IS COMING: 40c IN EUROPE This will arguably be the harshest spring heat wave in European history We can see up to 40C in Spain,35C in Central Europe for days. Thousands of records will be pulverized in Spain,Portugal,France,Benelux,UK;SCandinavia,Germany,Alps,Czechia,..

Solar plus storage in India is cheaper than building fossil fuel power plants. So they build the solar.

Today I got so close to a wind turbine in PEI. It was so cool. And very huge.

#parkPromise. PEI

Today I had a chance to talk with the relative who said he had never in his life heard anybody expressed concern about climate change. It is so far outside of my experience I find it hard to believe, but caring about climate change is so far outside his experience he finds it hard to believe.