Every winter, Mother Nature reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets for cars. If we look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets!
(via @the_transit_guy & @Streetfilms)
Canada investing in a promising conservation model: “Almost 90 per cent of protected areas created in Canada in the past two decades have been led by Indigenous Nations, so the federal government has started funding Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, or IPCAs.”
“It’s been proven time and time again that lands that are managed by #Indigenous communities have more biodiversity because we know how important it is to protect large, intact landscapes."
https://t.co/47OX0nhYmX
“. . . Their cuteness makes them an ecotourism draw, and they have an ability that’s rare in mammals to store carotenoids in their skin, which could hold promise for unlocking treatment for conditions like macular degeneration.”
It’s frustrating when pleas to preserve #biodiversity frame the value of life in relation to its utility to humanity - when a utilitarian disposition toward nature is exactly the problem. Case in point: “These bats offer potential benefits to people. . .” https://t.co/QhiuG04j79
Preserving #biodiversity requires addressing growth & development, equity, & accounting for environmental costs in economic models. If it were easy, we wouldn’t be where we are: living through a mass extinction event. But listen to the #dino He’s been here before #COP15
Listen people, do you realize the 🌎 is facing a dual climate & nature crisis?
W/o the protection of nature & #biodiversity, we aren’t gonna make it. Here’s 5 things you need to know on biodiversity & climate change, while world leaders convene at #COP15#DontChooseExtinction
Great context for what’s at stake in Montreal over the next 12 days. We’re facing more than a climate crisis-the interrelated loss of biodiversity is driving mass extinction. 1 goal: Cop15 aims to redirect $500bn in ag subsidies that currently underwrite the destruction of nature
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about the foiled plot by far-right Germans to launch a coup and install an obscure prince as head of state that actually involved well-armed members of the country’s military and police forces https://t.co/hYXkdNbvXY
Will be headed to Montreal for #COP15 hoping we get more substantial commitments than were achieved at #COP27 - at the very least this significant meeting reminds us of the interconnected complexity of the many environmental challenges we face. A briefing on what’s in store:
🚨Global biodiversity is in crisis🚨
One million species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction.
Watch @UNDP explain what is #COP15 is and why it is important💡🌿
To learn more: ⬇️
https://t.co/dOHg86JI4Y
Highways aren’t just subsidized by billions in tax dollars, but by hiding the true environmental cost of sprawl in the atmosphere. We need to talk less about electrifying vehicles and more about decarbonizing infrastructure.