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Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
🚨 NEW RECORD | Solar OVERTOOK nuclear for the first time globally ☀️
Solar power has TRIPLED in the last five years, from 79 TWh in April 2020 ➡️ to 233 TWh in April 2025 📈⚡️
For more electricity records, check Ember’s new data every month 🔎👇
ember-energy.org/data/electr…
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Report: 39% of the reductions in fuel consumption Canada would have seen from increased zero-emission vehicle sales & fuel economy improvements between 2010 & 2022 have been wiped out by upsizing to SUVs & light trucks.
Release: ow.ly/5xmg50U6xgF
@envirodefence @equiterre
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
“We learned that only 7% of our customers were using cars to shop along Bloor Street.”
We keep designing streets for cars whose goal is to drive away from the neighbourhood as quickly as possible.
Small businesses are starting to realize that that’s bad business.
Inbox: Group rep'ing merchants in the Bloor-Annex corridor tell @fordnation that bike lanes help businesses: “Are we building highways or are we building main streets? Because highways don’t encourage main street economic activity.”
Designing Frameworks with Clarity by @franziskabeeler franziskabeeler.com/post/des… #frameworks #figuringstuffout #decisionmaking
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
There are over 50,000 car accidents in Toronto every year.
That means that just today, there’ve been well over 100 car accidents inside the city’s borders.
How many before we stop calling them ‘accidents’ and recognize this deep, built-in error in how we get around?
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Happy Canada Day! Bonne Fête du Canada!🍁🇨🇦
Enjoy this great rendition of ‘O Canada’ by Ambassador Yamanouchi on the guitar!🎸
Profitez de cette superbe interprétation de l’Ô Canada avec l’ambassadeur Yamanouchi à la guitare !🎸
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
On this day in 1983, Stan Rogers died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797.
One of Canada's most iconic folk singers, his music was inspired by Canadian history and the daily lives of working people.
Click to learn more 👇
canadaehx.com/2023/05/23/sta…
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Hundreds of billions $ are flowing to #FossilFuels, causing #ClimateChange, violating Indigenous and human rights
We asked @ExportDevCanada @scotiabank @BMO what projects they’ve rejected. (1/2) 👇👇
#sustainablefinancesummit
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
An essay I dropped today about sex in Alice Munro’s short stories. She’s dirtier than you think 😘🖤 thestar.com/entertainment/bo…
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
"La politique climatique est une politique économique" déclare @s_guilbeault au #SommetFinanceDurable auj
@cafreeland il est temps de réglementer les banques canadiennes qui, depuis 2016, ont investi 1200+ milliard$ dans les énergies fossiles/aggravent la #criseclimatique #CAFA
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
The world's first large-scale grid battery installation went online only 7 years ago. Sometime next year, global grid-connected battery strorage capacity will exceed that of pumped hydro storage. 📈
NEWS: Battery storage is about to overtake global capacity of pumped hydro. reneweconomy.com.au/battery-…
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose short stories have been beloved for the past six decades, has died at 92. '
Her earthy humour and ability to extend sympathy to every character made her a household name, and made her birthplace of Wingham, Ontario, a place of literary pilgrimage.
She won the Nobel Prize in 2013, the only Canadian to ever win for literature, and the Giller Prize twice, then disqualified herself from the running in 2009 to make way for younger writers.
Ms. Munro leaves her daughters Sheila, Jenny and Andrea.
More here: tgam.ca/4aeMyiU
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Can some media outlet please ask @JohnVaillant to write a piece on this?
Alberta plans to change fixed election date, citing disaster risks in spring theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Attn #abpoli
Today, utility-scale batteries paired with solar PV are already competitive with new coal plants in some countries like India
In just the next few years, batteries + solar will be cheaper than new natural gas plants in the US & new coal in China 👉 iea.li/4aUnW06
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
The #PlasticsTreaty #INC4 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tackle plastic pollution. @GreenpeaceCA brought a plastic factory to remind delegates that we need to cut plastic production.
Send a message to @JustinTrudeau & @s_guilbeault >> act.gp/3xRYz0h
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Greenpeace reaction to @s_guilbeault introducing a Federal Plastics Registry at #INC4 : "All countries must put Big Plastic and Big Oil under a microscope" said Sarah King, Head of Plastics & Oceans at Greenpeace Canada.
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty #cdnpoli act.gp/3WakJVB
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
The entire plastics life cycle comes at the expense of human life and our fundamental rights to health and the environment, and our climate — especially for Black, Brown, Indigenous, frontline, and under-resourced communities. #PlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticProduction
Shawn-Patrick Stensil retweeted
Je me demande ce que diront les conservateurs de @PierrePoilievre à propos des pétrolières qui viennent d’augmenter de 20 cents le litre d’essence cette nuit. Sachant que c’est 7 fois plus que la dernière hausse engendrée par la taxe carbone qu’ils critiquent depuis des semaines.