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Author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle, Teaching sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan university, Substacking at https://t.co/b9tBwk1CiZ

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I keep teaching sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University Interior Design at The Creative School because I think I learn more from the students than they do from me. This year's final exam question asked them 'how to fix the world,' and their answers could fill a book. lloydalter.substack.com/p/my-tmu-susta…

I keep teaching sustainable design at @TorontoMet @sid_tmu because I think I learn more from the students than they do from me. This year's final exam question asked them 'how to fix the world,' and their answers could fill a book. lloydalter.substack.com/p/my-tmu-susta…
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I was a guest on Cross Country Checkup talking climate and consumption and expected cranks and deniers. I was surprised at the consensus that personal consumption matters. Here's stuff I prepared for the show and never got to use lloydalter.substack.com/p/has-anything…

I was a guest on @checkupcbc talking climate and consumption and expected cranks and deniers. I was surprised at the consensus that personal consumption matters. Here's stuff I prepared for the show and never got to use lloydalter.substack.com/p/has-anything…
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It's Small Business Saturday, which is more than an Amex promotion. It's about rethinking how we build and maintain healthier, low-carbon, 15-minute cities. It's about creating jobs for our kids in our communities. It is about a much bigger picture. lloydalter.substack.com/p/get-out-toda…

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Yesterday, I saw two versions of the energy transition: A Canadian vision of abatement, carbon capture, hydrogen and small nuclear reactors, and OXFAM vision of taxing the rich out of their planes and yachts. Quotes from Piketty and Kevin Anderson lloydalter.substack.com/p/tax-the-rich…

Yesterday, I saw two versions of the energy transition: A Canadian vision of abatement, carbon capture, hydrogen and small nuclear reactors, and OXFAM vision of taxing the rich out of their planes and yachts. Quotes from Piketty and @KevinClimate lloydalter.substack.com/p/tax-the-rich…
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New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) looks specifically at how dangerous pickup trucks and SUVs with high flat fronts are for pedestrians. The numbers are shocking: they are 45% more likely to kill. lloydalter.substack.com/p/new-studies-…

New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) looks specifically at how dangerous pickup trucks and SUVs with high flat fronts are for pedestrians. The numbers are shocking: they are 45% more likely to kill. lloydalter.substack.com/p/new-studies-…
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It's America Recycles Day, a fake holiday sponsored this year by beer, bottling and cigarette companies to thank us for picking up their bottles and butts.   lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-america-…

It's America Recycles Day, a fake holiday sponsored this year by beer, bottling and cigarette companies to thank us for picking up their bottles and butts.   lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-america-…
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I don't get this Marcus Gee article, Toronto mayors have built terrific housing, some of the best in the city, that is well-maintained and managed as co-ops. It needs financing, just like private development. Then people pay this thing called rent.

I don't get this @marcusbgee article, Toronto mayors have built terrific housing, some of the best in the city, that is well-maintained and managed as co-ops. It needs financing, just like private development. Then people pay this thing called rent.
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The recent reconstruction of a street in Toronto opened my eyes to how even the sidewalks are designed for the benefit of cars. lloydalter.substack.com/p/sidewalks-ar…

The recent reconstruction of a street in Toronto opened my eyes to how even the sidewalks are designed for the benefit of cars. lloydalter.substack.com/p/sidewalks-ar…
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Why do electric pickup trucks look like they do? They are skeuomorphs, “a piece of design that’s based on an old-fashioned object. You’ve invented a newfangled technology, but you design it to look and act much like the old tech it’s replacing.” lloydalter.substack.com/p/death-to-ske…

Why do electric pickup trucks look like they do? They are skeuomorphs, “a piece of design that’s based on an old-fashioned object. You’ve invented a newfangled technology, but you design it to look and act much like the old tech it’s replacing.” lloydalter.substack.com/p/death-to-ske…
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'implementing airborne precautions in workplaces, schools, and other public spaces would have resulted in a cost to employers and governments; a cost they could avoid if they simply denied they needed to take such precautions.' Wowsa.

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Stalled on the train coming home from Ottawa, waiting for a freight train to pass, I could see dozens of transport tractor-trailers on Highway 401 and remembered how my late father, a pioneer in shipping containers, said it shouldn't be this way. lloydalter.substack.com/p/an-alternati…

Stalled on the train coming home from Ottawa, waiting for a freight train to pass, I could see dozens of transport tractor-trailers on Highway 401 and remembered how my late father, a pioneer in shipping containers, said it shouldn't be this way. lloydalter.substack.com/p/an-alternati…
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I made a little speech at the National Trust for Canada convention: 'We are no longer just trying to save the past; we’re trying to save the future. We are part of a larger movement because preservation is climate action.' lloydalter.substack.com/p/preservation…

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E-bikes are in the news these days, and RMI has a useful new tool to let cities calculate how much carbon and money they can save. But I have thought that their real impact will be in the suburbs. lloydalter.substack.com/p/everyone-is-…

E-bikes are in the news these days, and RMI has a useful new tool to let cities calculate how much carbon and money they can save. But I have thought that their real impact will be in the suburbs. lloydalter.substack.com/p/everyone-is-…
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Complaining about people walking while wearing a hoodie or AirPods is like complaining about people walking while old. Why the car-brained Mounties got it wrong. lloydalter.substack.com/p/pedestrian-s…

Complaining about people walking while wearing a hoodie or AirPods is like complaining about people walking while old. Why the car-brained Mounties got it wrong. lloydalter.substack.com/p/pedestrian-s…
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Thomas Heatherwick has published a book where he complains that buildings are too flat, too plain, too straight, all attributes that I promote in my writing and teaching, in my calls for modesty and simplicity. lloydalter.substack.com/p/on-simplicit…

Thomas Heatherwick has published a book where he complains that buildings are too flat, too plain, too straight, all attributes that I promote in my writing and teaching, in my calls for modesty and simplicity. lloydalter.substack.com/p/on-simplicit…
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After the last murder by the construction industry just three weeks ago I wrote about how this doesn't have to be this way. Trucks like this should not be allowed in cities. lloydalter.substack.com/p/another-cycl…

After the last murder by the construction industry just three weeks ago I wrote about how this doesn't have to be this way. Trucks like this should not be allowed in cities. lloydalter.substack.com/p/another-cycl…
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Look at the damn truck. These should not be allowed on urban roads, there are safer alternatives all over Europe.

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