Jason Hammond

Like the oceans, I am warmer, more acidic, and less productive than ever before.

[Grand River Transit @GRT_ROW]

It’s easy to stay safe around ION trains: treat them like geese!

#wrlrt #waterlooregion

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This is the whole problem stripped down to its essence. Thank you @GeorgeMonbiot

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

This is how you win the commute.

[Grand River Transit @GRT_ROW]

We had our busiest month ever in September: 3.8 million boardings, and 2.9 million trips!

Ridership in September was 43% higher than the average month in 2023, and 33% higher than September 2019.

1/3

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Stanford University.

'World transitioning to efficient #renewables would cost $62 trillion.'

'But save trillions in #energy costs every year afterwards – meaning the whole transition to pay for itself in less than six years.'

#climate #climatefinance
https://t.co/dfjg1T0TM2

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

One of the coolest stories you will see this week:

Prescriptive housing from the University Health Network.

The Hospital network is building 51 modular housing units that can be prescribed to homeless individuals who are highly dependent on emergency rooms.

(Thread)

#ONpoli

[Dutch Cycling Embassy @Cycling_Embassy]

The Netherlands women’s football team bought 30 orange bikes for commuting during their stay for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Tauranga.

The football team gifted their bikes back to local charities before departing! 🚲

https://t.co/ATWzZqeFdE

[Iain Leitch @IainWf]

This is the best kind of ad for building more bike lanes #ottbike

[Jason Hammond @JasonHammond]

Planet Earth: *is on fire*
Governments: "thanks for your comment, we'll pass it along to our team."

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike.

Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Madrid is getting serious about the impact of heat by creating a huge Greenbelt of millions of trees with new parks and leisure areas, to cool the city. Cleaning the air while beating the heat.

[ali @alitaylor]

i want so bad to be part of an old person crew that spends its mornings gabbing away outside a cafe

[Dr. Aaron Thierry @ThierryAaron]

1/ The penny is finally starting to drop that economists have catastrophicly underestimated the risk from #ClimateBreakdown.

Here's a🧵 of the latest reports that those working in finance urgently need to catch up on...

Starting with @ChathamHouse:

https://t.co/YFBbxzSerL

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Never forget, the truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision. It’s found in its budget.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Half of business owners on this #Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % for those who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid
https://t.co/KCc1cD7pzB

[Mayor Cam Guthrie @CamGuthrie]

Holy the moly.
Unanimous vote of Council!

[Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8 @Jumpsteady]

»We are actually entering a stage of 'pre-traumatic syndrome'. Millions of young people who understand the science are terrified and already today beginning to live in trauma and grief. It’s not a question of #climate denial today, it’s a question of climate paralysis.«

🧵1/6

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:

July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Paris now has 180 gorgeous ‘school streets.’ They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. No brainer, really.