What $7,000,000,000,000 a year in fossil fuel subsidies buys you.

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.…

2 deep renovations with rapidly renewable materials in Paris.
L: straw bales
Trait Vivant Architectes
R: hemp
Legrand Dumont Architectes
Dear rest of the World, please catch up. #gopositivewithplants dumont-legrand.fr/projet-Rue_de_…

Stepbacks cost money, carbon and living space. And they look stupid. Let’s have slabs please.

Today, several of my neighbours are trying to kill a missing-middle apartment building where we live near the centre of Toronto. Such a disappointing showing.

New planting beds and bench, directly in the shadow of a 20-storey building. Prediction: the trees will thrive and the bench will be full all the time. Cc CityPlanTO

Spring is the new summer.

That on street parking is essential to a walkable neighborhood bc people need to be able to park when they come to the ‘hood bc how else will we attract ppl to a 15min community, and the local BIA won’t let you remove parking. #Autowa

~6m ROW on a north-south in Bordeaux. 30’C mid-April. Shade is our friend.

if you live by the sea or by a river or a floodplain, even if you don’t, or you live in a basement flat you may well lose your home soon. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Left: boring
Right: interesting

dezeen.com/2024/04/12/bor…

“Six million tonnes of tyre wear particles are released globally each year”

Large particles are carried from the road by rain into rivers… whilst smaller particles become airborne and breathed in. They are small enough to reach into the deep lung.  

imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pr…

Annex this idea. Gabriel Fain, OAA

watch this and then steal this idea for public comments

Bordeaux Brutes

The public don’t understand that the olive oil price is skyrocketing because crops in Europe have been devastated by extreme drought because of climate change, and that it’s going to get much worse - or that David Attenborough warns the collapse of the food system is on the…

Consolidated above ground parking with a gym, barber and butcher at grade in Bordeaux. Not killing street life. Also alleviating all surrounding buildings and streets from having to provide. This is the way. City of Toronto Brandon Donnelly Alex Bozikovic Waterfront Toronto

Midrise housing. Zero setbacks. Balconies and shading combined. Attn: North American urban design guidelines.

Bordeaux for a week. Any tips?

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

theguardian.com/environment/20…