‘Nowhere is safe now’: wildfire smoke brings #ClimateCrisis home "#ClimateChange isn’t a future problem or a distant one any more. We’re breathing its impacts directly into our lungs today," said Professor Prof. Katharine Hayhoe #ClimateEmergency theguardian.com/environment/20…

Want to hear and meet the award-winning climate scientist, communicator and The Nature Conservancy chief scientist Prof. Katharine Hayhoe live? Now you can! Katharine joins us for the "SPEED2ZERO Perspective“ lecture. Let‘s fill the ETH Zurich Audimax on June 26! Free, registration required.

Wore my now-vintage Metro Los Angeles map leggings to the Regional Connector opening 🚇🎉

A Dutch city banned investment properties ('buy-to-let') — here's what happened: - Home prices stayed the same - Rents went up - Wealthy families replaced working class people in neighbourhoods Why? Banning investment properties doesn't add new housing supply — but it does

This is just astounding. Everyone deserves to age gracefully, & that includes in housing.

2008 v. 2023: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Is the City of Ottawa ever going to start taking the housing crisis seriously? The city just released "low-rise design guidelines," claiming that "it is as important for new development to fit well with the pattern of the surrounding context as it is to fulfil intensification

Alright folks, Stan Oklobdzija (🦋stano.bksy.social) and I are organizing another Los Angeles urbanist mega-meetup. If you were at the last one, you know this is the real deal. Next Thursday at 7pm, Highland Park Brewing in Chinatown. Take the brand-spanking new regional connector there. See you there?

Spinning some great music from Elisapie, @SisterRay780, Crown Lands and an awesome convo with @_aysanabee_ . Apple Music HITS!

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit in a rainbow of colours for the Toronto Pride Parade Pride Toronto / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en arc-en-ciel pour le Défilé de la Fierté de Toronto

Barbie x Oppenheimer opening weekend

How does 380 zettajoules of heat affect the climate system? The hottest June on record, worst wildfire season in Canada, unbearable heat from Asia to Texas, record ocean temps: and now an El Niño on top. @StottPeter, Zeke Hausfather, Prof Michael E. Mann and I discuss: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Adrienne Martin finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community trying to get books banned and to inject religion into her child’s school. Listen to her kick-ass speech before the Granbury Texas school board. It’s going viral for a reason. Adrienne Quinn Martin

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Heat-trapping #pollution from #FossilFuels hit new high in 2022 despite record growth in #wind & #solarenergy. We must begin the #FossilFuel phase-out now, starting with no new fossil fuel expansion. Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative The Guardian #ClimateActionNow theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Removing on street parking in Toronto in favor of dining parklets led to a nearly 50x increase in revenue as compared to parking fees. The math is common sense - we should build cities for people, not cars!

This project is great: 621 apartments replacing some single family homes right next to transit. la.urbanize.city/post/metro-adj…

Jodie Foster said in 1991 that Hollywood "is not a business that is kind to women” directors. 32 years later, she "couldn’t be prouder" of Greta Gerwig and "Barbie." “When I was young, there were really no American women directors, maybe a few. I didn’t think I was allowed to be

Thank you to the entire team! Every single person who brought their magic. We did it @thedailyshow! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Principal Patrick Deane has issued a statement addressing the community on the university’s financial situation. Read the full statement: queensu.ca/gazette/storie…