"PC Leader Tony Wakeham said he doesn’t believe there’s a connection between the oil industry and the wildfires that ravaged towns."

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away" Philip J Dick

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NEW: “Toderian says it’s easy to be distracted by futuristic innovations like electric cars, drone delivery networks & hyperloops. ‘The real solutions are a lot less sexy and a lot more common sense… Tech won’t save us if we get the fundamentals wrong.”

I was 1 of 3 urban experts asked to weigh in.

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

Just one more lane.

So we take all of the land out of biofuels use, reserve 10% of it for solar to cover the ENTIRE global car fleet, take some for truck transport & some for dense housing where it's near to cities/transit, & REWILD most of the rest to forest/grassland/other, as locally appropriate.

Beautiful world.

Ouch!

"The government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis."

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

#nzpol #climatechange

We need Nobel Prizes for Climate

- Nobel Prize for Climate Tech
- Nobel Prize for Climate Journalism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Activism
- Nobel Prize for Climate Infrastructure
- Nobel Prize for Climate Success

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Stroad

A pejorative portmanteau of street and road: an expensive, dangerous, and ugly design that tries to be both a high-speed commuter road and destination street with businesses, failing at both while being equally frustrating for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

Why This “Anti-Car Labyrinth” Is Actually Brilliant youtu.be/WAhlfWt25sA

#BVGEC provides a vehicle for tangible climate action, an outlet for local environmental and social benefits all the while supporting local prosperity… what’s not to love?! #Calgary #YYC #BowValley #GreenEnergy #EnergyTransition #ClimateAction #Sponsorship

“When you're on a bike, you actually notice things around you as you go! One of the many side benefits of being on a bike is you just keep discovering new things about the city, specifically businesses.” #yyc #yycbike #BikeLanes #yyccc

V good @business-humanrights.org summary of the current state of benefit sharing in the renewable energy sector

It is really wild how underdeveloped this model is, but there is also a massive amount of opportunity.

www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/bene...

sigh.
someone in the fed gov't needs to do the math.
It's not hard. Addition/subtraction stuff.
There is no way we can meet our international obligations or our own national goal of net-zero by 2050 if we keep growing the oil industry, apparently indefinitely
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Hey y'all. Some of you may remember I really wanted to put together an urbanism dictionary, and well, this is what I finally decided is the best way to do that!

If you have any great photos you want featured, @me!

Also, there's a daily quote too!

Ann Arbor’s weather comes up constantly in discussions about bike lanes, pedestrian infrastructure, open streets, etc. As Not Just Bikes points out, cities with worse weather than us still have good infrastructure.

After all, you’re not made of sugar.

#A2Council

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Love this video on protected bike-friendly intersections! Intersections are where most crashes happen and zebras or traffic lights alone won’t fix that. Dutch-style intersections put safety of pedestrians and cyclists first. Can’t wait to see them being built in Vienna! @martinblum.bsky.social

“Play Streets” in Oak Park! The Village recently teamed up with a neighborhood group to host a pilot Play Streets event. Play Streets creates safe, car-free spaces where kids can get outside and enjoy unstructured, kid-led play. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILO...

The Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative is a grassroots, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to advancing community-owned #CleanEnergy solutions in the #BowValley & beyond, empowering Albertans to save money, actively reduce emissions & transition to a more #sustainable energy future. #yyc

#yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #yycbike #ClimatePolicy #Urbanism #15MinuteCities #cdnpoli #abpoli #BikeLanes #ClimateSolutions #ClimateSky

“Hidalgo spearheaded legislation that constrains her eventual successor from reversing her policies & long-term goals, such as the creation of 55 acres of new green areas by 2040, and requiring at least 65% of any site bigger than 150sq.m remains soil or plants, with no building or paving allowed.”

ICYMI: “Some still insist ‘downtowns will never attract kids & shouldn’t try.’ Then they design downtown to virtually repel kids, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Vancouver proves the opposite can be true...”

I’m quoted in this article by @johnlorinc.bsky.social for @calcities.bsky.social

@arthurdowning.bsky.social: Many cite S curves to highlight the inevitability of the clean energy transition. But ignoring their limits leads to the overly optimistic assumption that "if only ‘the state’ would get out of the way and let the ‘free market’ rip then the best tech will win."

Pretty amazing birthday today, cavorting in the high alpine of the Canadian mountains. Amazing fall colours!

It's become birthday tradition to beg (I mean draw attention to) for some of the important organizations I care about, striving to make change in the Canadian policy landscape.

1/5

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.

“The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.”

Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

Your #ThanksgivingSunday morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT #Thanksgiving!

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