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Fish Use Doorbells in Utrecht
Fish like to go anywhere the water is good for them, and sometimes that means urban areas. In the Netherlands the city of Utrecht has installed a doorbell for the…
Real Time Street Level Vehicle Exhaust Emission Monitoring
A team of researchers have used the NYC traffic congestion charge as a place to test out some of their hypothesis. Spoiler: the city got better and air quality improved.…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Zohra Ahmed warns that the Trump regime is now looking to impose guilt by solidarity on anybody with the slightest connection to social justice…
Cleaning Urban Air is Simple and These Cities Have Already Done it
Since 2010 19 major cities have “remarkably” reduced their pollution so much that it some people are shocked by it. The tracked pollutants have dropped by 20% or more in…
Sustainability: how two “problems” equal one solution
Two economic “problems” confound our policy-making. They appear distinct, yet offer a very promising relationship.... The post Sustainability: how two “problems” equal one solution first appeared on Views from the…
Clearing The Air In Saskatchewan Schools
It’s likely all of the existing schools, and even the new ones are operating illegally* anyway with the presence of a BSL3 pathogen. And the relatively new Douglas Park School…
Local Man Allowed to Keep Garden
Biodiversity loss is a large issue around the globe and there’s a small action that everyone can take to help biodiversity survive: grow native plants. Even a small plot of…
Air Quality Reports Remain Wrong in Saskatchewan
Last year I asked what I thought was a rhetorical question, but it turns out that MP Kram’s office has responded to my concern. The problem remains a year later,…
New Nuclear Costs Too Much
The Sask Government wants SaskPower to build nuclear reactors for 2035.Currently Saskatchewan has about 5GW of electricity generation.Take a look at what Bladeofthesun says about British nuclear power ambitions, in…
Wetlands Monomania
#ldnont #onpoli #environment #wetlands #development
Ireland Ditches Coal
Ireland joins the ranks of other countries that have officially ditched coal, yes coal. Coal that 20th century power source that gave us global warming which too many places, like…
Leadership 2026 Candidate Profile – Tony McQuail
What We KnewMcQuail entered the campaign with the lowest profile in the field, but his bona fides as a voice for rural environmentalism were clear from the jump. What We’ve…
African Solarpunk is Real
The future will be powered by renewable energy and the continent of Africa is an example of what’s to come to other continents: solarpunk. Solarpunk is the vision of a…
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City Hall might as well move to the suburbs
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Samantha Hancox-Li writes about the need for the U.S.' citizenry to retake power from a militarized surveillance state through nonviolent organized resistance. And Philip…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Don Moynihan examines how the U.S. is experiencing a more rapid fall from democracy to autocracy than any other country in recent history.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adam Serwer offers a hopeful take on how Minnesota is proving MAGA social theory wrong, showing that the vast majority of people are…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Inae Oh weighs in on the neo-royalism fueling Trump's sense of divine right. Seva Grunitsky points out that a hubristic belief that might makes…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich discusses how Donald Trump is a threat to civilization (in the form of any social order other than one based on…