🧵 NEW POST: Edmonton’s $15M infill property tax dividend Matching permits to assessment data shows that small-scale infill from just 2024-26 will grow the tax base by $1.8B, and revenues by $15M. That's equivalent to a 0.7% property tax rate increase! #yegcc www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/pr...

Edmonton’s $15M infill property tax dividend – Jacob Dawang

Every single-detached home that becomes a rowhome, plex, or backyard home multiplies its assessed value. Matching 2024–2026 building permits to City assessment data, I measure that uplift directly, al...

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Richmond’s Commuter Bike Bus starts tomorrow 7/29

This is the way. Cram enough batteries at the interconnection point to replace the fossil capacity, then add solar and wind beyond that as much as you can. Would be happy with coal to nuclear as well, but the timelines aren't great.

TerraWatts2010@terrawatts2010.bsky.social · 7d ago

Sherco Solar didn't just replace a coal plant — it hijacked its golden ticket, using the retiring facility's grid connection to skip a transmission queue that currently holds more proposed capacity than every operating power plant in America combined. #energysky www.autonocion.com/us/minnesota...

Charlottetown is considering legalizing rolling stops which have been shown to be safer for cyclists than full stops, two-abreast riding, bike signals, and sidewalk cycling for kids under 14, and anyone in signed spots where there are temporary gaps in the bike network and low pedestrian volumes.

Charlottetown looks at rolling stops, traffic lights and sidewalk riding for bicycles

Charlottetown's system of bicycle lanes, active transportation pathways is growing but still faces challenges.

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This would be great way to structure incentives for first time e-bike buyers as well

Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social · last wk.

"By focusing scarce state funds on first-time EV buyers, ​'each rebate buys a customer rather than a transaction,'" EVs for All America's Dan Krassner told @jeffstjohn.bsky.social about California’s new MyFirstEV program: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... 🔌💡

I love the simplicity of this study: 1) Find homes with gas stoves and asthmatic children 2) Replace the gas stoves with induction stoves. 3) Come back in three months. Results? "Missed days of work or school because of asthma dropped by about 80%."

An elegant study shows how bad gas stoves are for your kids' health

Researchers replaced gas stoves with induction in homes with asthmatic children, and they got better fast.

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When we reclaim the 417 after high speed rail and hover cars cause traffic to crater, it’s going to be cool as hell

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Everyone thought it would create gridlock.” It didn’t. “It’s difficult to imagine that just over 20 years ago, this was an elevated highway carrying 168k cars daily through South Korea’s capital.” Now it’s a world famous people-place. They’ve since removed 16 more elevated highways in the city.

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Merivale slip lane when?

Bartek Ciszkowski@justbartek.ca · last wk.

Slip lane to sit lane conversion. Dutch Village Road, Halifax

Flip the script so that what's extreme is requiring people to buy a $50,000, dinosaur-juice-burning, 6000-lb machine to take the kids to school or get a gallon of milk... ...while riding a $5,000, 70-lb bike powered by a combo of a trickle of electricity and your own two legs is just normal.

The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 2w ago

The clownery for clicks. Or maybe starting a new moral panic 😮‍💨 @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social

These homes on Sherwood Drive look normal, sure. But did you know they’re the site of the only residential zoning appeal in Ottawa to reach the Supreme Court of Canada? It’s a wild story of secret council meetings, expropriations, fake highways—and a side of mustard. 🧵Thread…

“Officials who continue to justify expanding natural gas reliance by still claiming it’s clean or safe for the climate are using the same script & manipulated science that gas executives & their PR teams concocted decades ago. It’s time that these profoundly dangerous lies are finally put to rest.”

How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.

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Quit poisoning your family! Get an induction cooktop! (If for whatever reason -- you rent, you're tight on money -- you have a gas cooktop you can't replace, check your ventilation & make sure you're always using your fan.)

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Our signature "try it for 30 days" policy. For the first time: Now available not only US but Canada too! Not the right fit? We'll pick it up, pack it up & refund 100% including shipping. Why? Bc our mission is to lower barriers & increase access! Read more: bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...

the nostalgia diner industry should have aged past the 50s. I should be able to go to an era-accurate 90s diner, served a room temp Fruitopia by staff in babydoll dresses, there should be a Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition machine against the wall. They could sell Desert Storm trading cards.

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Municipal politicians talk a lot about meeting "TransformTO" goals. I have made a tool that actually tracks commute mode share in Toronto and measures how close we are to hitting these goals! See what your ward's transportation mode share is and hold candidates to account.

Electric bills are way too high — particularly PG&E — and plug-in solar is a great way to lower those bills. I’m authoring legislation to allow Californians to easily use these devices; it’s currently quite hard, if not impossible, for people to do so.

California bill backs plug-in solar as PG&E rates soar, and renters could save on power

"Anyone can access it to harvest sunshine and generate immediate energy savings."

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“Your kids will totally understand if you skip school pickup and grab a pint downtown with the people from your day full of Teams calls”

Yeah ... time to start voting like the climate matters! www.cbc.ca/news/science...

'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

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Absolutely wild. Read that again: the *actual* costs of *just wildfire smoke* are higher than the currently projected costs of *all climate impacts combined*.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

Fix the schools - and you'll fix the city. Meanwhile, Paris has now 300 "rue aux écoles". These are school street where walking, playing, relaxing and cycling is allowed, and driving is forbidden. Around 50% of all public nursery and elementary schools in Paris now have a school street in front.

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Jinhwa’s story in Beyond Ecological Grief is brave and grounding: from fear for her daughter’s future to finding community and purpose with For Our Kids. Thanks to @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy for the space to tell one of our stories. Listen, join or support the work: forourkids.ca

"New Jersey is offering data centers an unorthodox way to get the power they need: by bankrolling home energy upgrades," reports @alisontakemura.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... 🔌💡

New Jersey law will let data centers pay for home energy upgrades

In a first, the state could speed up data centers’ grid connection if they bankroll energy-saving residential tech like heat pumps and batteries.

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Current* conditions near Sault Ste. Marie, ON:

Serious Urban Arrow spawn point over here

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Fisher Heights residents: the City's public consultation on the proposed Zena St. / Barlyn Ave. Sidewalk Project kicks off tonight. The proposal includes new sidewalks, upgraded streetlighting, crosswalks & other safety improvements along Zena Street, Barlyn Avenue, and part of Sunnycrest Dr. 1/

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported—if the project is ever even finalized. www.theenergymix.com/master-class...

‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported—if t...

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