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Ben Cowie
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Born: 345 ppm CO2 | PhD: 393 ppm | 2022: 423 ppm CO2 | We're in a climate emergency. He/him. A Vaclav Smil Stan Acct
Victoria, BCJoined February 2009
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Bike friends, please help the town of Canmore continue to built the best bike infrastructure in Canada. Take the survey, tell them you’ll love to use this when you visit.
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Once again, @TownofCanmore is demonstrating that it’s Alberta’s leader in progressive mobility planning. This is a really impressive complete street project and a feedback survey is open now. #yycbike #yycwalk mycanmore.ca/railway-avenue
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“Was the middle really missing, Frog?”
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“Maybe it was, and maybe it wasn’t”
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A million seconds is 11 days
A billion seconds is 32 years
Helps to illustrated the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire
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You know #CarCulture has a stranglehold on a city when its transportation committee votes *unanimously* to turn over what a delegate calls “the most important street in the country” over to cars for no good reason. And this in a #ClimateCrisis.
Lacking vision, to put it gently.
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BREAKING: Victoria, BC’s new Council has just passed its “#MissingMiddle Housing Initiative” by 6-3 vote. It permits houseplexes, corner townhouses & heritage infill in low density zones. A good move for more flexible ground-oriented #GentleDensity and more nimble neighbourhoods.
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Here we go! Victoria council discussing the Missing Middle Housing Initiative
There's no recap or staff presentation on the item but Mayor Marianne Alto is introducing it before council members get to speak to it
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The City of Victoria, BC has passed the “Missing Middle Housing Initiative” eliminating single family only zoning, legalizing up to 6-units of housing, by- right, city-wide.
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MMHI update @CityOfVictoria council has passed the Missing Middle Housing Initiative 6-3. Thompson, Loughton, Dell, Alto, Caradonna, and Kim in Favour. Coleman, Hammond, and Gardiner against.Show this thread
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Bravo, all of you. Easy decision. Let’s get on with the next project.
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It’s official!! 
The City of Victoria has passed the “Missing Middle Housing Initiative.” This change permits 6-units on every single-family lot in the city. This innovative policy will build more housing, address climate change, and create vibrant neighborhoods. #yyj #bcpoli
The City of Victoria has passed the “Missing Middle Housing Initiative.” This change permits 6-units on every single-family lot in the city. This innovative policy will build more housing, address climate change, and create vibrant neighborhoods. #yyj #bcpoli6
What do you know... the places that the RoCA Benchmark identifies as having housing shortages have high rents, and the places without shortages have lower rents.
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Daffodil season is upon us
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Why does biking thoroughly radicalize some people, (typically urban transportation riders like myself), while other 5000 mile/year "avid cyclists" remain unphased and wholly uninterested in any political movement for better infrastructure?
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Less than 30 wins. So delicious.
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Lisa Helps appointed as an advisor to the Premier on housing on the same day the new council votes on missing middle...Adam Stirling is going to have an aneurysm!
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How long will I wait to slice my freshly baked bread?
When you make a selection it cannot be changed
Less than 15 minutes
Less than 30 minutes
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Completely cool
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How long will my bread cool today before slicing?
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E-bike purchase rebates are very effective at reducing automobile trips. #yyccc #yycbike
Anecdotally, we here this a lot from our ebike clients.
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Comment: We paved paradise, now it's time to get rid of parking minimums
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“If we are to reach a point of equity in housing, climate justice and mobility, we need to prioritize other modes of travel as well as allowing people to live closer to where they work and play.”
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Comment: We paved paradise, now it's time to get rid of parking minimums timescolonist.com/opinion/commen
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The top 9 most expensive communities to rent in are all in Ontario and British Columbia. Which are the two provinces with the lowest housing supply per capita.
Probably just a coincidence.
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The yearly rental report by CMHC is out.
It once again shows Vancouver with the highest rent for purpose-built units in the country, and by a wide margin.
Three of the four most expensive Metro areas in Canada are in B.C.
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We have to accept that our current approaches to mitigating the climate crisis are failing and many people will die as a consequence. Are you doing everything you can (including political organizing) to preserve a livable planet for future generations? 1.5 °C is here, now.
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Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023 theguardian.com/environment/20
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I've long suspected that the extractive costs of electrification, so often dismissed by sweeping electric vehicle agendas, are more serious than officials would let us believe.
A new report helped me understand — it's even worse than I thought
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Classic H&S hierarchy of controls. Guess which ones our transport agencies prefer to repeat over and over
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YES!
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Replying to @somesarah and @TalktoARYZE
Victoria has made the case. I’m looking into travel options.
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“The Connor McDavid of Bicycle Wokeism” - worth a read. Not what you expect.
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"'What we’re really talking about is decreasing the resource intensity of the transportation system,' says. The vision is a less car-dependent — and less lithium-battery-dependent — country."
Yes! A more just & efficient strategy. No-brainer.
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"By the end of next year, the average British family will be less well off than the average Slovenian one; by the end of this decade, the average British family will have a lower standard of living than the average Polish one."
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Put the following in order, from least to most likely: How likely are you to purchase a new bike from…?
Amazon
Best Buy
Costco
eBay
Local bike store
Manufacturer's website
Online bicycle discount site
Saks Fifth Avenue/Macy's
Walmart
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LBS.
Not so LBS.
Wait.
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Put the following in order, from least to most likely: How likely are you to purchase a new bike from…?
Amazon
Best Buy
Costco
eBay
Local bike store
Manufacturer's website
Online bicycle discount site
Saks Fifth Avenue/Macy's
Walmart
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Comparing zero-emission vehicle subsidies to electric bike subsidies, finds that e-bike subsidies are 2.9 times more effective per dollar at displacing gasoline-fueled travel miles:
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Your average sprawly suburban area simply does not produce enough tax revenue to pay for the vast maintenance costs imposed by roads & parking lots. They are all dependent for survival on the cities they constantly denigrate.
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Have been saying this for years. Walkable places are cheaper to build, and in high demand, but we don’t build enough of them so they’re more expensive than car places, because economics.
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Smart Growth America ranks US metros by walkability. Finds that walkable areas are more economically productive but radically under-supplied relative to demand, which drives their cost up. smartgrowthamerica.org/wp-content/upl
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Smart Growth America ranks US metros by walkability. Finds that walkable areas are more economically productive but radically under-supplied relative to demand, which drives their cost up. smartgrowthamerica.org/wp-content/upl
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This is a bigger problem than most people realize.
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A single company owns about two-thirds of Canada’s major daily newspapers, including the only titles in several provinces, and has been systematically gutting them for a decade while paying out bonuses to its executives and receiving government handouts theglobeandmail.com/business/artic
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