Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Should be a word like 'virtue signalling' but the opposite when you pursue a project or decision that doesnt make any economic sense, solely BECAUSE it is environmentally or social damaging. Just apropos of nothing in particular

"In 2024 the High Court confirmed that the land, in parts of Nelson, Tasman and Golden Bay, had been held on trust by the Crown and that it had always belonged to descendants of its original owners." #nzpol

Almost last chance to give feedback on Plan Change 120 - due by 19 Dec. Have they got it right for your rohe? You can just say that you want more apartments and affordable housing and less building in flood plains. Whatever your views are. akhaveyoursay.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/aucklands-fu...

This is certainly a thing that has been done. Won't say more than that. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

One of the biggest reasons why better cities are hard to achieve is the powerful proven psychology of “status quo bias.” No matter how bad an idea was in the first place, once it’s in place, our “loss aversion” means we will fight irrationally hard to protect it from any change to something better.

Get amongst it people, this is wonderful #kikorangi

This entire weekend

163,016.  That’s how many Australian households have put in a battery since 1 July.  Our Cheaper Homes Batteries policy has been, on any measure, an outstanding success.

Holy god I want to eat so much cheese right now

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Fun job to get: can design for a new Garage Project beer celebrating the incredible work of old mates Capital Kiwi Project bringing brown kiwi back into the hills of Wellington. Legends

Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

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Sculpture on Shore had so many beautiful pieces. Blown away by how talented the local schools were.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!! Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....

Despite negative press reporting the energy transition is well underway. In the UK, we see strong demand for electric vehicles and solar panels. And the more people learn that these technologies can offer them tangible benefits the more others will adopt them too.

I have now planted 3 passionfruit vines different places and had 3 passionfruit vines die suddenly. I have accepted i will never have a passionfruit harvest like this - at least not in my current garden.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

I'm glad renewables are growing faster than fossil fuels, really glad. But I wish the world was making similar progress on reducing energy consumption through efficiency etc

Drop something blue

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This person took this when they called the race

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

More than 170 American citizens detained by immigration agents for no lawful reason. Great journalism by Pro Publica. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

The biodiversity crisis is actually scary, but, collectively, we can fix this. You can regenerate biodiversity simply by shrinking your lawn & planting native. Have a great Halloween weekend! Resource Directory for DIY or hiring a professional. homegrownnationalpark.org/find-your-resources

Farage, He's not the people's friend. The people are his mark. www.youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...

Strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say. 💔🕊️ 🔗 apnews.com/article/isra...

This post helps me to understand why Tauranga had such low EV charger density for so long..I often puzzled over it when planning a trip to Bay of Plenty

This whole bus vs EV situation has reminded me that when we lived in Tauranga if we parked our electric car outside the local pub people would corner us and start yelling about lithium or veganism or the climate hoax or whatever to the point we started taking our petrol car

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

A full year of electioneering about slurpluses and deffyzits ahead. Worth asking why all the media time is given to that little pink stub on the left.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Further update; awkward looking feathers just starting to poke through. Incipient tween ducklings! (and still 9 left; what good parents!)

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

🤓 When there is a large pressure difference between places then you can expect strong winds between them. Tuesday peaked at 32.5hPa difference between Auckland & Invercargill. Thursday could see that pressure difference exceed 40hPa! Latest warning info: www.metservice.com/warnings/home

I use to spend several hours after school on Tuesdays & Thursdays with training, & Saturdays with game day in winter & week nights during summer for practice & games & driving the team to & from the games. No extra pay & you’re expected to be available. More commitment than my own kids got from me 😕