Tomorrow Tues.: FREE webinar: • Can Abu Dhabi in the middle of the desert be sustainable? • Canadian urbanist Larry Beasley leading this change! Register FREE: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tue. April 21 • 11am EST•5pm CET•7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities

LOVE TORONTO •Wed. Book of Mormon •Thurs. Carlos Vives •Sat. TOR 10K What I love most, daily activities that are FREE, available to everyone as... Running in the park Riding my bike to work Walk & chat along Junction streets Feeling at home, as over 1/2 pop. not born in Canada

FREE webinar: • Can a city in the middle of the desert be sustainable? • Can Canadian renowned urbanist Larry Beasley lead this transformation? • From Vancouver to Abu Dhabi. Register FREE: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tue. April 21. 11am EST/5pm CET/7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities

FREE webinar: • Can a city in the middle of the desert be sustainable? • Can Canadian renowned urbanist Larry Beasley lead this transformation? • From Vancouver to Abu Dhabi. Register FREE: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tue. April 21. 11am EST/5pm CET/7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities

LOVE TORONTO •Wed. Book of Mormon •Thurs. Carlos Vives •Sat. TOR 10K What I love most, daily activities that are FREE, available to everyone as... Running in the park Riding my bike to work Walk & chat along Junction streets Feeling at home, as over 1/2 pop. not born in Canada

AAA Cycling: All Ages & Abilities Cities that honestly want to be good cycling cities must make it SAFE & joyful for everyone, not just for the 20 - 50 in spandex. • Citywide NETWORKS • Protected bikelanes • CONNECTIVITY, CONNECTIVITY, CONNECTIVITY #JustDoIt Now!

Green & Mental Health. Nature improves mental health. Why do wealthy areas have 4 times more tree canopy, than low income do? Also more parks. What if cities decided for 10 yrs to use 100% new tree budget in areas with U-10% tree canopy? Better mental health for everyone. Free. bit.ly/3OytozD

What if… Cities everywhere, banned the SALE (you could bring from outside, NOT buy inside): • Deep-fried foods • Sugared drinks (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) In all PUBLIC PLACES: • Schools • Parks • Libraries • Comm. Centers • Streets Making it easier to LIVE HEALTHIER & HAPPIER Situational change #JustDoIt

What if… Cities everywhere, banned the SALE (you could bring from outside, NOT buy inside): • Deep-fried foods • Sugared drinks (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) In all PUBLIC PLACES: • Schools • Parks • Libraries • Comm. Centers • Streets Making it easier to LIVE HEALTHIER & HAPPIER Situational change #JustDoIt

Chatting TO & CanCities with Hugh Kruzel on his Quality of Life Pod. Canadian cities are good; but far from great. They can be much better and it's NOT a tech or $$$ issue; it's POLITICAL. Not about left or right, or parties. It's DOABLE! Policies + Infra + Programs. bit.ly/48by8C5

Green & Mental Health. Nature improves mental health. Why do wealthy areas have 4 times more tree canopy, than low income do? Also more parks. What if cities decided for 10 yrs to use 100% new tree budget in areas with U-10% tree canopy? Better mental health for everyone. Free. bit.ly/3OytozD

AAA Cycling: All Ages & Abilities Cities that honestly want to be good cycling cities must make it SAFE & joyful for everyone, not just for the 20 - 50 in spandex. • Citywide NETWORKS • Protected bikelanes • CONNECTIVITY, CONNECTIVITY, CONNECTIVITY #JustDoIt Now!

FREE webinar: Larry Beasley superb Chief Planner Vancouver (F) & Michael White present: PLANNING THE FUTURE OF ABU DHABI Canadian - Emirati Collaboration Register FREE: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tue. April 21. 11am EST/5pm CET/7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities #Cities4Everyone

Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus going fully electrify!!! Busses everywhere will be electric and driverless... Doing a master's at UCLA used to bike along lovely beach bikelane. Civic & political leaders have worked on parks, walk & bike, wellbeing... now e-bus!!! Planetizen: bit.ly/4mxTX4N

Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus going fully electrify!!! Busses everywhere will be electric and driverless... Doing a master's at UCLA used to bike along lovely beach bikelane. Civic & political leaders have worked on parks, walk & bike, wellbeing... now e-bus!!! Planetizen: bit.ly/4mxTX4N

FREE webinar: Larry Beasley superb Chief Planner Vancouver (F) & Michael White present: PLANNING THE FUTURE OF ABU DHABI Canadian - Emirati Collaboration Register FREE: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tue. April 21. 11am EST/5pm CET/7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities #Cities4Everyone

It can be a magnificent URBAN PARK!! Extend the Rouge Nat. Park. Over 7 million Canadians live within ONE hour. Tell your MP, everywhere in Canada, to protect 9,300 acres of its best farmland, forests, rivers, and trails. Write: thenewrouge.ca North America's largest National URBAN PARK!

Next Tues. FREE webinar: PLANNING THE FUTURE OF ABU DHABI: A Canadian - Emirati Collaboration Guests: Larry Beasley (f) Chief Planner Vancouver & Michael White Free register & share: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tues. April 21 11am EST / 5pm CET / 7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities

Excellent document from Copenhagen’s Metro. Strategic principles for new urban development areas served by Metro. A must‑read for decision makers, media, and community leaders in fast‑growing cities such as Greater Toronto and Melbourne. DENSIFY • CONNECT • ACTIVATE Metroselskabet: bit.ly/3OIt15E

Excellent document from Copenhagen’s Metro. Strategic principles for new urban development areas served by Metro. A must‑read for decision makers, media, and community leaders in fast‑growing cities such as Greater Toronto and Melbourne. DENSIFY • CONNECT • ACTIVATE Metroselskabet: bit.ly/3OIt15E

Over ONE BILLION (1000 millions) live with OBESITY. Physical Activity + Nutrition are big part of the solution and cities should make it the easy choice. How? EVERYWHERE: • SAFE to walk & bike • Farmer's markets • Urban gardening • Ban sale of sugared drinks & fried foods in schools, parks, etc.

Next Tues. FREE webinar: PLANNING THE FUTURE OF ABU DHABI: A Canadian - Emirati Collaboration Guests: Larry Beasley (f) Chief Planner Vancouver & Michael White Free register & share: bit.ly/4b3drIZ Tues. April 21 11am EST / 5pm CET / 7pm UAE Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities

This happens when cities IMPLEMENT #VisionZero. Most talk... and end with #ZeroVision. Not just Oslo... It's Hoboken, New Jersey!! 5 years with ZERO traffic deaths, walk, bike, bus, cars, none. 20Mph / 30Kph MAX speed, narrow intersections... Planetizen: bit.ly/3QCx6ZF

Children & Olders in public spaces is a great symptom of a good city. Where you don't see them it's not because there are none; it's because they do not feel SAFE. Sounds simple, it's NOT. WHAT IF... your city leaders decided to make LIVING healthier & happier, the easy choice

The best seat in town! Watch video. Over 400 in Paris! At ZERO cost to city! Self-cleaning public bathroom. Ea has 200 uses daily. Gorgeous & useful garbage bins, benches, bus stop shelters, PUBLIC TOILETS in exchange for advertising. Good contract + management. Thanks Alissa Walker: bit.ly/4tEKL0v

City, Province, Federal gov. must see facts. Prioritize what is best for health, air, mobility, equity, sustainability. NO more highways, worst, elevated! Integrity. Prioritize on streets, w dedicated lanes: Walk & Bike & Busses. Everywhere. Let's make living Healthier & Happier the Easy Choice.

Children & Olders in public spaces is a great symptom of a good city. Where you don't see them it's not because there are none; it's because they do not feel SAFE. Sounds simple, it's NOT. WHAT IF... your city leaders decided to make LIVING healthier & happier, the easy choice

Take a deep breath. Half of the oxygen that just filled your lungs came from the ocean. No matter where you live, the fate of the ocean is entwined with ours. Protecting oceans is critical for our survival. UN agreed over 10% protected. Positive.News bit.ly/4vjA0md

The best seat in town! Watch video. Over 400 in Paris! At ZERO cost to city! Self-cleaning public bathroom. Ea has 200 uses daily. Gorgeous & useful garbage bins, benches, bus stop shelters, PUBLIC TOILETS in exchange for advertising. Good contract + management. Thanks Alissa Walker: bit.ly/4tEKL0v

Parks are sources of infinite joy. Each season, week, day, hour... is different. Running kept thinking of how PARKS are EQUALIZERS. People doing multiple activities, or just chilling. Enjoying presence of each other. Everyone deserves quality parks within walking distance. Everywhere. #NoExcuses!

Do you live in a good city / neighborhood? A symptom test: Can the 8-year-old & the 80-year-old SAFELY and joyfully go anywhere? Parks, schools, shopping, citywide. Walking, riding bicycles, using public transit. MOBILITY is a way cities can make living older, healthier, happier, the easy choice.

Video: watch & share: CYCLING WITHOUT AGE! Presents Ole Kassow & Pernille Vedersø. Started with a ride two 80+ women, Ole pedaling. 13 yrs later in 41 countries 6000 trishaws over 5m rides!!! Olders 60 to 100y/o pedal, and mostly olders with disabilities ride; also, many in their 20's pedal & chat

Video: watch & share: CYCLING WITHOUT AGE! Presents Ole Kassow & Pernille Vedersø. Started with a ride two 80+ women, Ole pedaling. 13 yrs later in 41 countries 6000 trishaws over 5m rides!!! Olders 60 to 100y/o pedal, and mostly olders with disabilities ride; also, many in their 20's pedal & chat

Do you live in a good city / neighborhood? A symptom test: Can the 8-year-old & the 80-year-old SAFELY and joyfully go anywhere? Parks, schools, shopping, citywide. Walking, riding bicycles, using public transit. MOBILITY is a way cities can make living older, healthier, happier, the easy choice.

Allotment Gardens are great. Health. Joy. TO Star reports it's almost impossible to get a plot. Why? Please fix: • Change indefinite assignment to 3 years; 1/3 to lottery annually. • Multiply lots. - Hydro corridor, from 1 to 10 areas, 50 each, 500 new, now! - High Park: over 140 ha, triple lots.

Everyone talks of cycling transformation Paris, and some London and NYC... Berlin? Berlin is spectacular: One of five trips are done riding bicycle!! 19% NYC: 3% • London: 4.5% • Paris 11% NYC's density has gigantic potential but has failed to do citywide NETWORK protected bikelanes. bit.ly/4dQpwEH

CYCLING WITHOUT AGE The right to wind in your hair. FREE webinar! Joy sitting or pedaling. Community building. Social & Physical & Mental Health. Presents Ole Kassow & Pernille Vedersø Bussone This Tues. April 7, 11am EST / 5pm CEST Register FREE & share: bit.ly/40IQm9E

Video is available, FREE: LONELINESS in CITIES Unlonely Cities: How Urban Systems Can Both Produce and Prevent LONELINESS Presents: Ann-Britt Elvin Andersen Invite: Cities for Better Health, and 8 80 Cities. From my webinar #Cities4Everyone. View & share: bit.ly/4syfBI2

Register now • FREE • Few spots available: THE RIGHT TO WIND IN YOUR HAIR. Social • Physical • Mental • HEALTH & joy Presents Ole Kassow, founder & Pernille Vedersø Bussone, director, of Cycling Without Age, Copenhagen. Tues. April 7, 11am EST / 5pm CEST Register FREE & share: bit.ly/40IQm9E

Traditions... for years, hundreds, thousands of years. Give us a sense of belonging, strengthens communities. Most in outdoor places, free, for all ages and backgrounds, political, religious. Humans, enjoying the presence of each other. Love Barcelona's castells.

End the endless scroll: 7 actions to take back control of your digital life: Decide your limit Go greyscale Control your space Create phone-free rituals Set controls Do a spring clean Curate your feed Positive.News: bit.ly/3OhfGRE Bored people = endless scroll

Lovely Day at Toronto's High Park. People of all ages and backgrounds enjoying nature and each other. #Grateful #Joyful #Equity #Sustainability #Fun

Most important questions by superb Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan, AARP's CEO: “What do people need to live well, and who is making sure they have it? “What does it mean to age well?” Cities must make LIVING Older, Healthier, Happier, the easy choice. I'd be happy to collaborate with her.

Lovely Day at Toronto's High Park. People of all ages and backgrounds enjoying nature and each other. #Grateful #Joyful #Equity #Sustainability #Fun

Why Toronto? Do you need more children and old-olders injured? Eventually killed? Or not going to the PARK as they do not feel safe? Motorcycles w no plates at over 50 Kph terrorize children and all in High Park! Road cyclists 30-45 Kph at 4pm What if road bikes before 9am & after 6pm?

CYCLING WITHOUT AGE The right to wind in your hair. FREE webinar! Joyful! Great sitting & pedaling. Community building. Social & Physical & Mental Health. Presents Ole Kassow & Pernille Vedersø Bussone Tues. April 7, 11am EST / 5pm CEST Register FREE & share: bit.ly/40IQm9E

83 year old woman enjoying highest bungee jump in India, 83 meters!! OLDERS ALIVE!! NOT 'on a rocking chair waiting to die'. Givers… NOT takers. Assets to their communities, NOT liabilities. Let's change the conversation. #EndAgismNow!

Register now • FREE • Few spots available: THE RIGHT TO WIND IN YOUR HAIR. Social • Physical • Mental • HEALTH & joy Presents Ole Kassow, founder & Pernille Vedersø Bussone, director, of Cycling Without Age, Copenhagen. Tues. April 7, 11am EST / 5pm CEST Register FREE & share: bit.ly/40IQm9E

We need to stop building communities as if everyone was 30 years old and athletic. We must create AAA cities: for All Ages & Abilities. E-tricycles are a great mobility option for many who don't feel safe on a bicycle. Enjoyed seeing these when working in PEI. Olders having fun.