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Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
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I am never letting it go!
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I highly recommend this video, it’s not just about Passivhaus but also urban design
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I was just going to point this out “In Toronto, open-air burning with solid fuels like wood is generally not permitted, and this includes fire pits.” But hey, this is Doug Ford’s Toronto and he can do anything he wants.
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Nope it doesn’t. But I still think the Vienna model can work in Canada.
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I thought I wrote one www.azuremagazine.com/article/vien...
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I think we are down to 1 season, your last one.
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Glasgow last month. we are 5, so 2 go to the lot the day before to confirm the car, are promised a big SUV. Get there 15 minutes after opening and they have given it away, so they " upgrade" us to a fancy M5 sports car that can hold 2 kids in the back. I spend a week squished in the middle.
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Glasgow 2018. they "upgrade" us to a fancy Mercedes and when we return, try to hit me up for a new wheel, saying we scratched it against curbs. Three hours of arguing, and only got out if it because I photograph every inch of a rental car when I get it and could prove that it was already there.
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anyone who has rented a car from these people has a story to tell.
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The last movie I took my dad to was “The Right Stuff.” But M&C is my favourite.
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72% of Canadians live south of the 49th parallel and 60% live south of Seattle.
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Here is a review of the bike electricbikereview.com/stromer/st1-t/
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I include a graph from OWID in the post showing that climate impact almost doubles when you include land. I should check that against the study.
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i also think it is way underestimating the impact of heat pumps and overestimating the impact of battery electric cars. I am going to look at the numbers.
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cleaner copy iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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coverage at the time
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its from a 2020 study referenced at the bottom of the slide I remember it now eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/15...
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If it is like a Samsung TV it will be telling them about everything in your fridge so that it can deliver you ads. But like every Samsung product I have had (stove, printer, TV) it will break soon enough.
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I once ruined a family holiday and wasted a lot of money by booking it to start march 2 and they reserved it for February 3. Never since used a form where it is not spelled out.
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Chris Magwood likes "material carbon emissions" because he thinks the numbers for A4 and A5 are sketchy. It is even a smaller slice than upfront carbon.
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Agreed, I used to run into that a lot. "No need to worry about saving old buildings, the carbon is a sunk cost, it's long gone" I first wrote about it in 2012 and surprisingly Treehugger still has it www.treehugger.com/embodied-ene...
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Alas, he is a Canadian citizen.
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I wrote about these, they have great plans too, where you can live on top of the shop. lloydalter.substack.com/p/why-living...
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It sure didn't work for Jimmy Carter. But circumstances can change; Canadians are accepting the idea that they might have to give something up to resist American hegemony. They elected a new Prime Minister who ran on that premise.