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Do you have filters installed at the registers in the kitchen, bathrooms and other extract locations?
One question: did you get the TFT controller installed originally? It’s a small digital control, wall mounted, brushed stainless surrounding a touch screen.
Just spent a week in Paris. The most enjoyable big city experience I've EVER had. Cars are given as little room as possible. Parks EVERYWHERE and bikes are treated as equal users of the road. Never felt threatened by a car ONCE. The tree canopy is so impressive. I was blown away in every way.
I highly recommend all U.S. citizens with the resources to travel give themselves culture shock for U.S. culture on a routine basis.
NEW: “Canadian urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social teamed up with the city of Paris and, in particular, its mayor, @annehidalgo.bsky.social on a new exhibition that shines a light on cities and global climate action.” Thanks very much @momentummag.bsky.social for the great questions! #Paris
So yes, my perspectives and approaches have changed a lot, with new experience, and the reality that the challenges and urgencies we now face make our 2012 complexities seem almost easy by comparison. I’d question any urbanist whose perspectives HAVEN’T meaningfully changed over those years. end/
My perspectives have definitely changed, and I’m still learning lots from all who I’m lucky to interact with. It’s very rewarding, stimulating, downright fun. I would never want to be known as the person who didn’t change, just became more militant, demanding to not to have to learn anything new.
Here are all the 'Workers Over Billionaires' protest locations in L.A. on Monday
We need this in Canada - every home should have solar panels for at home use with any excess going into the grid. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social #cdnpoli @liberalca.bsky.social
Florida is getting hit on all sides. They are at the find out stage.
This new #Windsor café was founded by women who share a passion for girls' education around the world WINGS Cafe serves Guatemalan coffee, Afghan breakfasts #Ontario www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Exactly #CdnPoli 👇
“If there’s anything that we seem to have learned from this is that there’s a lot of stuff that happens under the ground that we don’t have good knowledge of, in terms of how gas moves about below the surface, & where it’s going to come up & what causes it to come up,” Mr. Gabert said..." #OnPoli
“Criminal law experts say Canadian law already favours homeowners in home invasion cases, so Poilievre's idea does nothing to enhance their protection from criminal charges.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How is Doug Ford different from Trump with his non-stop grift, total disregard for the environment, stealing public assets for private profit? Scandalous!! #StopFord! thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
@margaretatwood.bsky.social The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools Alberta is about 1 degree from Fahrenheit 451 the temp paper burns at. We were warned long ago. #BookBurning Danielle Smith cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Ontario government is giving a portion of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park to the town to boost the local economy. @fatimabsyed.bsky.social visited on a late August weekend to understand the precedent this sets and how the piping plover and its summer home might fare. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
Energy’s changing fast—way faster than Alberta admits. Forget just wind and solar. The real shakeup is electric cars, heat pumps, steel-making, and hydrogen replacing fossil fuels. Demand’s shifting, pipelines won’t save us, and oil’s future is shrinking. The game’s already changing. #cdnpoli
“Native bees work alongside honeybees to pollinate roughly one-third of our crops. They also play a critical role in the broader ecosystem. In North America, 75 per cent of plant species rely on insects for pollination, a responsibility that falls primarily on native bees.” #SaveTheBees #CanadaSky
This shit's criminal It’s about how much of a price increase YOURE going to take?!?! They’re getting rich off our struggles. #inflation #corporategreed #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #IsHeDeadYet
To all the conservatives freaking out about self-defense laws: Stephen Harper/ Pierre Poilievre conservative government made the current laws! So now Stephen Harper wasn't right wing enough for them? There is no place for right wing fanatical extremism in Canada. None. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
DisinfoWatch founder Marcus @kolga comments on the alleged US influence operations targeting Greenland and how Canada could also become a target. @globalnews.ca disinfowatch.org/kolga-warns-...
The Ford government is touting nearly $1B for new schools opening this fall, but the repair backlog for existing ones has swelled to $16B. “This isn’t record spending, it’s record neglect." #cdnpoli
Cost to clean up orphan wells ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In this country. In Canada FFS. Raise hell people. Raise hell. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Once again House of El YT is telling us how Canada 🇨🇦 is quietly punching above its weight in a partnership with Norway 🇳🇴 and redrawing the trade route maps of the world. #Norway #Canada #Arctictrade #arctic #CanadaSky #NorwaySky #protestusa #protestTrump youtu.be/HyrcAQhOmdQ?...
Again, he’s an idiot, he has no idea what he is talking about #Fail Poilievre's idea to amend Criminal Code wouldn't help Canadians acting in self-defence, law experts say Proposed changes to the law are a 'slippery slope' that could put people at more risk, lawyer says www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Having been at NATO meetings in Europe I have little faith that the main countries would step up for Article 5 if we asked for their help. However, we have significant lessons to be learned from Finland and Sweden. We must also build our relations with the Baltics. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I don’t think Americans understand that if and when they throw off the Trump govt, other countries will not go back to normal relations. The USA will continue to be treated by the world like a dog that bit you, no matter which party is in power. Once trust is gone, it’s gone. #USpoli #cdnpoli
thewalrus.ca/pierre-poili... ‘Poilievre sounds too much like Trump’ Umm, not sounds, is Trump. His slogans AND policies are stolen from Trump. He has taken the worst, most extreme, American gun culture, bigoted, misogynistic, regressive, election denying MAGA trash & called it his own #NeverPP
No more Crown Royal for me. They would rather sell to Americans than keep jobs in Canada. I put them on the same list as Wayne Gretzky wines. Thanks but no thanks. Btw... there are so many great Canadian whiskies to choose.
Let's not forget to add Saltwire to this list. #cdnpoli
In a press release Jack Daniels was whining that their profits and Canadian consumers are being hurt by our own boycott. They still don't get. They say sales dropped 62%. C'mon people we can do better than that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This long weekend, consider the future of Wasaga Beach: a provincially protected environment, home to the endangered plovers, that the Doug Ford gov't wants to transfer to the town's ownership to boost tourism. It's a complicated and possibly precedent-setting tale. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
“CBC, stop giving Pierre Poilievre unchecked airtime. Fact-check, demand answers—don’t be a microphone for propaganda. Journalism exists to hold leaders accountable and report facts.” Do your job— 🇨🇦Canadians’ democracy depends on it #CDNpoli
That’s great! Soon infrastructure ministers from across Canada will understand the benefits of building #PassiveHouse schools: - far lower heating and cooling energy required (90%!) so sharp cut in energy expenses, - lower maintenance costs, - healthier and more comfortable interiors, leading to../2
A tight budget meant some ambitious eco features planned for this simple and graceful new farmhouse were dropped, yet it still managed to meet Irish nZEB standards thanks to a combination of superb detailing and fabric-first design. mailchi.mp/passivehouse... #passivehouse
Really wonderful visualisation by my old colleague @laorso.bsky.social, showing that we usually get either sun or wind in Britain. Days where there's little sun or wind do happen and are difficult, but they're not that common... ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
🏡✨ This #WorldGreenBuildingWeek (8–12 Sept), join KORE Retrofit & IGBC on Fri 5 Sept at a 1920s F-rated home being upgraded to EnerPhit standard. See how deep retrofits cut carbon & boost comfort. Register FREE 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5a46tb9n
If you can find someone that would be great. But I’ve 2 of those same units installed for clients, and they are designed to be easily serviced. So far as I recall, there’s good maintenance instructions in the installation instructions. Any competent installer should be able to help; doable as DIY.
Fun 🚌 fact: Buses go faster when you get cars out of their way All day bus lanes are your friend 👇
Is Newsom going to launch a statewide task force on building more housing or just sit there anf let solution bills like sb79 get weakened?
After years of construction and millions of dollars the 98 only lasted about 5 years before Canada Line construction began. With the North Shore/Burnaby BRT consultation, can we just skip the time & money on the BRT and get right to the rail rapid transit we know is eventually coming?
The tactic of saying phrases or words as if they are distasteful, evil things is particularly effective. “Woke.” “Hippy” “15 minute cities” Pronounced as spitting invectives. Turning a phrase with zero context and zero discussion, killing politics; the art of conversation, forcefully kneecapped.
One thing that really scares me is how easily you can get people riled up against even objectively and wholly good things that benefit everyone, them included. “15 minute cities” being a dirty phrase in US politics. People voting entirely based on keeping cities car centric.
“The military invasion of Washington DC—with masked troops from red states occupying the city, grabbing residents off streets while hiding their identities in unmarked cars—underscores a brutal reality in America: We’re no longer inching toward autocracy; we’re sprinting.”— @normornstein.bsky.social
I don't often get to work on designing civil constructed Bikeways, unless they involve upgrading something that's been there for 15y. HarbordHoskin includes parking projected cycletracks, green infra, raised TTC platforms, radii mods & our new flat curb. + #BikeTO Signals at Ossington & St George
Living in a walkable neighborhood is SO nice. 10/10, never living more than a 10 minute walk from a grocery store again.
Good things happen when there are fewer cars. I don't make the rules. 🤷🏻♀️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
In Oslo, with great public transport, electric cars, bike lanes, no traffic, and wondering why can’t we have this in the US?
Walkable neighborhoods make America healthy again
Ahem, Canada.
I'd like left NIMBYs to see what's possible for the environment with a walkable urbanism. In most American cities this means dramatically more housing and development in historic cores
usa.streetsblog.org/2025/08/27/t... Things going great both near and far in the US these days
How I wish Germany would also adopt this. Alas Berlin is governed by the conservatives so instead they are defunding bike lanes and already announced that they will not comply with making car free zones against the will of the populace.
❤️🔥 china 🇨🇳 is all in on less toxic energy production! 🌞 & their mega-cities are built to be walkable with excellent public transportation & electric ⚡️ bikes 🚲 & autos keeping air 🌬️ pollution at a minimum &… we get “citizens united” & legalized bribery. 🤮
I live along probably the worst light rail infrastructure in america (NJ riverline) and it is still better than the bus
Car Centricism Kills Part 2 - Gentle Parenting Doesn’t Solve Bad Behavior. “Drive With Aloha” Everyone has seen or heard that phrase on the news, signs, public officials and community members. First started by HPD in December of 2016, this campaign was aimed at increasing road safety. 1/🧵
Charlie Bollard (1889 – 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.
I dunno why Sound Transit is $30 billion over budget (I have theories). But I giggled when the conservative Washington Policy Center said a shift from supertrain to bus rapid transit “doesn’t involve bulldozing any house, cutting down trees, messing up neighborhoods.” komonews.com/news/local/s...
@wutrain.bsky.social I'm hopeful if you get elected another term you will be the progressive person we need. Eliminate height restrictions, ban parking garages, start putting bike lanes in and slowly removing at least 1 side street parking. Expanding public transit & yes new train lines everywhere
A new white bicycle has been installed for #SultanZadran near #Brussels North Station (boulevard Albert II / Place Solvay). It is in remembrance of Sultan, who died in February 2023 when a #Flixbus driver hit him because it was illegally stopped on the bicycle lane. #GhostBike
History of Mass Transportation: The SNCF X 4500 Autorail, etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/08/hist... #technology #photography #trains #Transportation
Pedal through any Dutch city, and it feels like it’s always been filled with red cycle paths. But the fact is urban cycling infrastructure didn’t exist anywhere until 1975, when a trial project in Tilburg laid the basis of a national standard for legibility, comfort, and status for people on bikes.🧵
Walking and cycling: the best urban traffic!
One of the eternal mysteries of San Diego politics for me is how successful traffic calming & pedestrianization projects like Bird Rock and Grape st have been, and how little interest there seems to be to replicate these www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2008/12/18/n...
Slowing down drivers with flex posts & bike lanes results in fewer traffic deaths. Who knew? 🤔 www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
20% of all new cars sold globally are EVs. 80% of all new cars produced are IC cars. Context: We should be reducing all cars from 1.5 bn to 0.5 bn asap. We should ban private car ownership. We have 2C committed within 10 years and should be net zero today. New cars of any kind is pure suicide.
because montréal has opted to follow in paris's footsteps, with massive investments in train and bike infrastructure, it's becoming one of the most attractive places to live and work in north america
Letter to the Editor I call on Governor DeWine to recall Ohio National Guard troops from the District of Columbia. There is nothing for them to do, much less tasks for which they have been trained - Mary Ramey, Lebanon www.daytondailynews.com/ideas-voices...
Amateur planners in Edinburgh are trying to find an alternative to a bleedin' obvious new tram route because they want to save a bike path. Trams are great, but everyone in Edinburgh seems to hate them!
In 15 years, the City of San Francisco has added only about *one home* for every *six jobs*, forcing people to live further away — sometimes much further — and commute in.
when I go to Montreal, I park at a park and ride and take the subway. It goes everywhere I need. It's incredible.
Get your city a mayor who talks about road safety for all like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social does.
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
And political will will follow. All you have to do is say, “AI! Oooh! Sexy!” Best if said to planners in unemployment lines.
Canadians fought for walkable streets. On Thursday morning, November 10, 1960, Gordon Malone, age 6, was walking to school in north-end Montreal’s Nouveau-Bordeaux neighborhood. ...
One of the signs that your economy is trending towards collapse, due to wealth inequality, is when you see a need for goods & services but no one can afford them. #housing #theweekend #msnbc
yeah man the introduction of accessible transit has never had any impact on the number of Places Worth Going that spring up. I'm so stupid for thinking that if people could get a bus/train to a place that it would make it more likely that people would Put Stuff There
The idea that bike lanes cause gentrification is funny because it suggests that they’re a desirable amenity that people will pay a lot of money to live near. Maybe build bike lanes in more places so they’re not as rare? (Also build more housing!)
This article is such 💩. Amplifying unfounded fears by shop owners and quoting one guy saying "There's nothing wrong with riding and dancing in traffic a little bit". No, that's not ok. And let's take a look at the plans for this section of Broadway in Somerville.. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Well, we should consider new laws, or maybe enforce the ones we have, accounting for the safety of ALL road users. A off duty NYPD officer was killed in a crash this week on the BQE. Maybe the problem is bigger than buses 🤷♀️
I’m in the Blue Mountain Village, which is a pedestrian-only neighbourhood with plenty of places to live, eat, and shop, and plenty of parking too—just outside of where people actually do stuff. This is a tourist novelty here, but shouldn’t it just be the default for all cities? It’s way better.
Lived in several concrete apart and concrete doesn't fix this on it's own. I think the sensible way to handle this is to have fairly strict requirements on sound transmission between apartments, and then let the developer select the best construction technique.
yes. "(dooming) ignores your own agency. No one's stopping you from criticizing; no one's stopping you from registering to vote; in the Jim Crow South, you couldn't. You shouldn't act as if you're completely helpless, because you are not."
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
1. Redirect police budgets to social services, stop criminalizing the unhoused and provide care, compassion and treatment 2a) Massively invest in housing and stimulate local economy by reforming procurement so more firms can participate in fair processes w/fair contracts; design competitions 1/
Anyone with even the slightest interest in China’s energy infrastructure might have noticed that EV sales are booming along with solar PV installations and battery storage. You’d have to be a complete idiot to think LNG imports are going to keep on increasing.
They suck at reporting, all of them are planted. News is bullshit with a side of opinion. BBC, AL Jezeera, anything but American news.
Listen closely you can hear a pin drop in the Atlantic. But on average 75% of Atlantic tropical activity is ahead. Being this quiet is rare as we approach peak season (last Aug was dead). Right now background climate state is unfavorable for development, but that will likely change by mid Sept
Every time I see photos like this, I wonder how a society can look at children running for their lives and still argue guns deserve more protection than they do.
Great piece: “Is it time we stopped being so polite about it & officially cut the cord?” DJT says #Canadian lumber is a “national security threat” (excuse for #tariffs). No longer asking for a seat at the table, we’re building our own, w/ our softwood lumber, & meeting w/ reliable allies. #cdnpoli
Yes! This is exactly what we needed to see. Thank you @murray.senate.gov for stepping up.
"Doug Ford’s so-called Toronto school board “takeover” isn’t about fixing schools. It’s about cutting, silencing, and SELLING — full stop. The TDSB owns some of the most valuable public land in the country, with 612 properties worth up to $20B" #onpoli educationactiontoronto.com/articles/for...
Poll suggests 85% of Canadians want governments to regulate AI #Canada halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/28/p...
This needs to be law everywhere
Distraction. Nothing more. He’s taken to heart Bannon’s advice to simply flood the airwaves with shit.
As I argue in my new book, decarbonization is about asset revaluation: fossil asset owners have waaaay more $$ and power than green asset owners. So climate policy should focus on how to re-orient the flow of capital in the economy, not mitigate tons of emissions. press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
What people don't yet understand — what I am just coming to understand — is that Trump is not acting irrationally on climate & energy to "own the libs." Trump (and the GOP) are protecting the trillions of assets held by their fossil-fuel cronies, which would be utterly devalued if we decarbonized.