Grant Ennis

The Urbanist Agenda — How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian) Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for advocates who want to do the sa...

Hey Podcast listeners, are you a Nebula subscriber? If yes, you can listen to my NEW INTERVIEW with #NotJustBikes @theurbanistagenda.com TODAY. We cover LOTS of interesting ground. Don’t worry, if you’re not on Nebula, watch for the FULL release on many platforms on FRIDAY! nebula.tv/agenda/how-t...

AR2025: We have added videos and transcripts of yesterday's live sessons with Grant Ennis and Alice Wiseman, both in full and as a sample. These come in addition to a dozen insightful Spotlight sessions on the same page. @grantennis.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social
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"Gavin Menzies [claimed] that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory." @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social

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Here's the journal article written with past Pod guest and friend of the Channel @grantennis.bsky.social that prompted the recording of this episode: bit.ly/4iHFql6

And a big mahalo to @grantennis.bsky.social for making the introduction 🙏

YouTube video by Active Towns EPISODE 319 DR. TEPI MCLAUGHLIN: It's No Accident Why We're Inactive

PREMIERE ALERT Pls tune in tmw, Wed, Dec 3rd, at 2 pm EST for my conversation w/ Dr. Matthew "Tepi" Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, for a conversation about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity
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It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.

“I've recommended this book so many times! You'll learn about the PR strategies and government subsidies that promote and prop up cars and car infrastructure, fossil fuels, and unhealthy food. You can't change the world by buying virtuously. Organize! To change systems!” - @lizzzs.bsky.social

I've recommended this book so many times! You'll learn about the PR strategies and government subsidies that promote and prop up cars and car infrastructure, fossil fuels, and unhealthy food. You can't change the world by buying virtuously. Organize! To change systems!

““Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.” - @brenttoderian.bsky.social

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Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.

Pubblicità sociale: le campagne di educazione stradale non riducono gli scontri stradali, secondo numerosi studi [Grant Ennis, Dark PR]

benzinazero.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/p... #comunicazione #sicurezza #violenzastradale #comunicazionesociale

Not quite 5 bucks like before, but 7 ain't bad...

A stamp of approval is not a seal of ethics: an editorial on justice and respect in trial design - Trials

A stamp of approval is not a seal of ethics: an editorial on justice and respect in trial design

Cory Goldstein, @streweek.bsky.social & Hossein Fatemian

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What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export

We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform. Low density suburban places are a new drag, costing more than they generate, and are thus subsidized by the urban places.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform. Low density suburban places are a new drag, costing more than they generate, and are thus subsidized by the urban places.

Graphics showing tax generation geographically in cities, showing the urban places significantly outperform.

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

Dark Pr: come le grandi aziende ingannano e disinformano su alimentazione, riscaldamento globale e sicurezza stradale

benzinazero.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/d... #pr #comunicazione #disinformazione #industria #alimentazione #automobile #riscaldamentoglobale

Sapiens Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

Graphic showing the relationship with cities shown as dots on a triangle.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
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As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

Science can create more accurate and effective tools, but if it costs too much to make them, you'll either have to settle for less effective ones, sacrifice other things you care about, or find ways to raise more money than you currently have.

YouTube video by Shawn Grows The Crop That Destroyed Entire Countries

Fantastic video from Shawn Grows:
This film traces how humanity’s craving for sweetness reshaped the world. From ancient India’s first crystallized sugar to the rise of Caribbean plantations & the birth of global empires, sugar transformed from a rare luxury into an addiction that fueled revolution.

The book Dark PR includes reporting on the modern sugar economy (among other corporate crimes). Highly recommended.

CALIFORNIA! This is BIG if true @buffywicks.bsky.social! As @scottford.bsky.social & I championed in our “Downtown Sacramento Livability Strategy,” the way Cali (and OTHER states) does liability/construction deficiencies is a HUGE barrier to building apartments! Read: indd.adobe.com/view/54b2070...

At a minimum, please wear a mask in airports/on airplanes and in healthcare settings. That virtually no one does is depressing & distressing. #COVID

Cars as commercial determinants of health Transport is important for health.

@brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @reenamahajan.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social @parismarx.com @norton.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social

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A new book examines how the rich (legally) avoid taxes Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff says the wealthiest Americans are able to effectively opt out of paying taxes altogether.

This is some of the best 4 minutes of radio I've listened to in a while. A perfectly concise explanation of how our tax system benefits the rich and drives inequality.

@wbur.org @tizianadearing.bsky.social