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Announcement: starting November 1st, we will remain permanently on Delayed Sailing Time (DST).

Daylight saving time and fatal crashes: The impact of changing light conditions Introduction: Time changes in the fall and spring result in different light conditions in the morning and afternoon, which may impact U.S. roadway saf…

feels like there's a tradeoff either way, though, because later sunsets improve road safety in the late afternoon; light conditions have a big effect at all times of day. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

B.C. is finally adopting permanent Daylight Saving Time | The Narwhal On Mar. 8, British Columbians will spring forward one hour for the last time — seven years after B.C. introduced legislation for permanent adoption of Daylight Saving Time

BREAKING: B.C. is finally ending twice-yearly time changes, announcing that as of this Sunday, the province will be on permanent Daylight Saving Time. Originally created to save energy, changing the clocks doesn't benefit the environment, writes @michellecyca.com: thenarwhal.ca/daylight-tim...

March 12: Back by popular demand, a repeat screening of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. “Holly” Whyte’s 1980 film about his seminal Street Life Project study of New York City’s plazas and the ways residents interact with urban environments. https://ow.ly/HqWn50Ym4yr

The fact that Lockheed Martin’s stock rose since Feb 27th shows us that private companies trading weapons, mercenaries, airplanes etc are all increasing their profit margins as people from Sudan to Iran to Congo to Palestine are being murdered. Lockheed Martin is implicated in all four places.

Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts. City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”

@nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

Libraries are the best. Hard to believe their funding has been unchanged since 2010 and the BC NDP refuses to increase it.

By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity

Episodes | Booked on Planning Listen to a new episode every two weeks where we talk with the authors of planning and urban design books about transportation, design, sustainability, energy, and more.

Great conversation about our book "Messy Urbanism" with our co-editor @zahraeb.bsky.social . I love her description of our book as "a tool for noticing". www.bookedonplanning.com/podcast/epis...

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us.

Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

War profiteering through speculative risk.

Parking lots do not belong in the center of our cities.

The 90s movie preoccupation with quicksand was preparing us for something, I suppose!

It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Ah yes, the "we're preventing them from obtaining weapons of mass destruction" justification.

Where have we heard that before? Oh, right.

Next time someone hypes the potential climate benefits of LLMs, maybe think about how they enabled mass fabrication of "public" comments that killed an important climate policy. Just one harmful application of software that can quickly generate lots of truthy-sounding bullshit.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

US and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to ‘take over your government’ Strikes were reported nationwide, including near Khamenei's offices. At least 57 people have been reported killed at a girls' school in southern Iran.

The Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran have killed at least 57 people at a girls’ school, according to the country's state-run IRNA news agency.

illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international

Sorry! 😬

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal

A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”

Wise words

The Overhead: Rent Control and Rent Hikes - Spacing National THIS EPISODE: Rent Control and Rent Hikes In Ontario, we have rent control on buildings occupied before November 15, 2018. That means the landlords for these buildings can only raise rents for current...

New episode of our special housing series The Overhead. We look at how Ontario landlords are using loopholes in legislation to raise rents, pressure existing tenants out, or even evicting them: spacing.ca/national/202...

Fantastic episode on power, policy, and risk assessments. This analysis really echoes one of Paul Slovic's papers in 1999 where he stated that, "Whoever controls the definition of risk controls the rational solution to the problem at hand... Defining risk is thus an exercise in power."

Screenshot of news article on ECI Oxford website

And a nice news article from @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk about our new hairdressers & climate research, which was part of the wider GoZero project which @samhampton.bsky.social led in the ECI.

Hairdressers: the unexpected everyday influencers on climate change

www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/hairdre...

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

Canadian towns and cities are on the hook for billions in infrastructure spending they can't afford Despite owning the majority of Canada's public infrastructure, towns and cities lack the funds to maintain and improve roads and bridges used to take our kids to school, build our businesses and trans...

There is simply no room, in budgets or human bandwidth, for municipalities to adequately contribute to the rapid upscaling of productivity when they increasingly lurch from crisis to crisis, writes Climate Caucus' Executive Director Zoe Grams. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/26/o...

Peatland lakes in the Congo Basin release carbon that is thousands of years old Over thousands of years, the swamps and peatlands in the Congo Basin have accumulated and stored huge amounts of carbon. A research team led by ETH Zurich has now shown that large lakes in this ecosys...

The Congo Basin is emitting large volumes of CO2 via peatland lakes. Over thousands of years, the swamps and peatlands have accumulated and stored huge amounts of carbon, which they are now releasing with long-term impacts on the global climate. 
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#emissions #wetlands #Congo