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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 5d

More cultural influencers who happily « brand » themselves as car-less #bike riders for local transportation in their #cities *and* journalists like @emilynussbaum.bsky.social @newyorker.com who include that point = #ClimateInfluence | See yourself riding more for short trips!

Screenshot of a few sentences from the « Third Act » feature story on actress Keri Russell that mentions how she bikes everywhere in Brooklyn /NYC and doesn’t have a car.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social · 3h

tonight on @pbs.org @pbswisconsin.bsky.social "From Rails to Trails," based on Peter Harnik's book of the same name. This history of the movement includes some coverage of the Elroy-Sparta's claim to fame as the first rail-trail conversion! #bike #bikesky 🗃️

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Watch From Rails to Trails on PBS Wisconsin

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 3h

Gorgeous #ebike ride back home from @jackstraw.org studios where I recorded a great conversation with @jack-hanson.bsky.social @runonclimate.bsky.social (for my new podcast) #ClimatePolicy #NameAndFame | Stay tuned…

White woman in sunglasses and bike helmet in foreground with tree and Seattle ship canal looking west on a sunny blue sky day.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 7h

I recommend both considering doing your own journey (life changing) AND listening to this episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

What Psychedelics Taught Glennon

Podcast Episode · We Can Do Hard Things · 10/14/2025 · 1h 13m

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 8h

#Seattle #bike friends - a friend is leading a super fun Skeleton Peloton on Halloween (free). Meet at Cal Anderson Park, meandering ride to brewpub in Ravenna. #joy everydayrides.com/events/68eee...

Everyday Rides

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The Street Trust @thestreettrust.org · 10h

🚌🚲🛴🚇 Multimodal Champion: Thank you to Thomas, Coon, Newton & Frost (TCNF), one of Multimodal Sponsors for the Alice Awards, for their unwavering support of safe streets and active transportation! 🙌

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 11h

A mayor for the people!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! Be seen walking and « transiting » the city leadership talk. This is #ClimateInfluence

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland.
I am

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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 1d

In today's episode we look at the role the coal, transportation (rail & automotive), and utilities industries play in climate obstruction.
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Reminder that you can now download the book this season is based on FOR FREE! cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Also!!! - the power of the local and knowing your neighbors.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

and!!! - he talks about finding ways to unify around « belonging » in an inclusive way (not the EXclusive way this administration has emphasized)

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

« …and it means that the Democratic Party needs to get more interested in what we can do next than in preserving the status quo that is being smashed to pieces » @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Yes. It’s past time to COUNTER our culture. #democracy #ClimateInfluence

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America’s Next Story: Pete Buttigieg

Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 10/14/2025 · 38m

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TrainsBikesBus 🚂 🚲 🚌 @trainsbikesbus.bsky.social · 1d

Think about this - Average size of a golf course is 200 acres. Can't be used late fall, winter, or early spring. TRUTH.

Ppl complain that bikes can't be used every season so why have bike lanes. FALSE. Bike lanes can be used EVERY season.

Why do we waste so much space on golf courses?

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

I occasionally golf on a nearby public golf course and I would happily see it go the way of affordable housing. It's our ridiculous culture that we need to COUNTER more loudly. We get used to the landspace for golf and the road space for cars - but we can change. Show the joy in the alternatives

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic piece that so resonates with me/my music tastes. I see massive potential for #ClimateInfluence in the idea of #JoyAsAnActOfResistance (an Idles Band album title that I took to heart and got a tattoo of). Collectively countering our consumerist culture is a super power x infinity

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic @therevelator.org piece by Grace Dougan about #punk and IMPACT. #MusicMatters #JoyAsAnActOfResistance

"It’s about showing up, using what you have, and trusting that a better world begins at the street level. ...

Punk doesn’t promise perfection. But it offers something else: persistence."

The Revelator @therevelator.org · 1d

Punk Builds a Greener Future

A worldwide but borderless DIY culture rejects consumerism and embraces reuse — and focuses on mutual aid. https://therevelator.org/punk-builds-greener-future/

Punk Builds a Greener Future • The Revelator

A worldwide but borderless DIY culture rejects consumerism and embraces reuse — and focuses on mutual aid.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 2d

Playing with this: the term "leaders" is fraught (can we say we are one? how is it defined? etc).

What if we instead see ourselves as being "initiators" ?... I feel like it would be more compelling to be one, and that you could say it out loud without cringing.

I *initiate* #ClimateInfluence

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 2d

Bike sharing — specifically the particular system of bike sharing infrastructure found in Toronto, Montreal, New York, London, and dozens of others, is a real Canadian success story.

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How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel

How self-cleaning toilets, the pandemic and bike lanes made Toronto Bike Share a staple of the city, and how Doug Ford’s battle against bike lanes will shape its future.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 2d

Mine is choc chip cookies :-) | Just re-read it. Really great writing. Kudos.

Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 2d

THIS!

« Maron is so spectacularly good at commanding an audience on a mic, and so completely fearless in baring his every insecurity, and it is especially because that openness makes whoever is opposite of him so comfortable baring their own in turn. »

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t listened to the final WTF yet but I’m gonna reshare this today! With a gift link for all you WTFers, WTFnicks, WTFedelics…

There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector

I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopp...

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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t listened to the final WTF yet but I’m gonna reshare this today! With a gift link for all you WTFers, WTFnicks, WTFedelics…

There Will Never Be Another 'WTF With Marc Maron' | Defector

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 2d

thank you! I am in a bit of mourning over this ending. Your piece nailed my feelings too.

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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 2d

Something about the #Portland approach is really triggering joy for me. This is #democracy #HopePunk

I look forward to more frog and critter costumes in cities across the country on the 18th. #JoyAsAnActOfResistance

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