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🚨 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/electrici…

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

“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.

Designing Frameworks with Clarity by @franziskabeeler franziskabeeler.com/post/designing… #frameworks #figuringstuffout #decisionmaking

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?

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 !🎸

@AaronCLerner Did anyone get a screenshot of that?

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…

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

An essay I dropped today about sex in Alice Munro’s short stories. She’s dirtier than you think 😘🖤 thestar.com/entertainment/…

"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

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. 📈

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

Another year in global low-carbon electricity generation

Can some media outlet please ask @JohnVaillant to write a piece on this?

Attn #abpoli

@JustinTrudeau @s_guilbeault 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

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

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