Alex Ghenis 🧑‍🦼

Reductions in particulate pollution will disproportionately benefit people with respiratory conditions and limited lung capacity, and those who are immunocompromised. Congestion pricing is a huge win for public health and an especially huge win for people with disabilities.

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution

Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone.

Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs.

e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...

New Yorkers Are Literally Breathing Easier After Congestion Pricing And other links to start your hump day.

Researchers found a 22 percent reduction in heavy particulate matter from the projected average without congestion pricing.

hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

Ed Roberts & the Rolling Quads established the key concept of independent living for ppl with #disabilities. Among other things, successful independent living creates a foundation for personal climate resilience & gives people with disabilities agency over their own sustainability & planning.
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PowerPoint slide. Accessible Climate Strategies logo. Agenda. Introduction: climate basics, disability basics, and disability-climate connection. Climate impacts: extreme weather & fire, extreme heat, public health, displacement/migration, economic harm, and eco-ableism. Discussion 1: how does your organization fit into the climate-disability puzzle? Do any climate impacts stand out in your work? Mitigation & resilience: disaster readiness & recovery (DRR), public health, urbanism and housing, sustainability, renewables, cleantech, and inclusive advocacy. Discussion 2: what can you/your organization do to support inclusive mitigation & resilience?

The Disability & Climate Trainings will have half-day, full-day and 2-day options. We'll have an individual offering with a certificate of completion, and a training for organizations. All trainees will have access resource library & forum for a year!

Learn more at accessibleclimate.com/trainings/

Trainings - Accessible Climate Strategies Our disability and climate trainings provide key frameworks for the disability-and-climate nexus & inclusive climate action. Get your team trained today.

@accessibleclimate.com helps organizations better understand intersections of climate and disability and shape their own disability-forward climate action. And starting next year, we'll offer Comprehensive Disability & Climate Trainings covering intersections, impacts & action!
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OTOH, #climate action can disproportionately benefit PWDs. Just take #urbanism. PWDs have low car ownership, so urban density & good public transit give us easier access to goods and services, including ones specifically for PWDs. And apartments are more accessible than single-family homes.

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2nd & 3rd level #climate impacts also hit ppl w #disabilities hard. For example, both shrinking economies & climate austerity will harm PWDs, who have disproportionately low employment, education, and income, and who have greater job precarity & use of government benefits vs able-bodied folks.

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When #disasters hit, PWDs are an outsized share of casualties & face unique hurdles re: transportation, shelter, access to services & healthcare, and equitable recovery. Meanwhile, extreme heat harms PWDs, who have lower quality housing & HVAC on avg, & often have thermoregulation issues.

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Presentation slide titled "Intersectionality: Identifying Connections." Company logo for Accessible Climate Strategies. 2 adjacent columns with 9 rows each and diagonal lines between each row. Left-hand column titled "climate factors (impacts & action)," with Rows titled "factor #1" through "factor #9." Right-hand column titled "Disability factors (medical & social)," with Rows titled "factor #1" through "factor #9

ACS tackles impacts & action through consulting partnerships & the soon-to-launch Comprehensive Disability & Climate Trainings (first training 1/29/2026).

Consider impacts. People w #disabilities (PWDs) are especially hard-hit by countless primary & secondary climate change impacts.

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Big news! My consultancy @accessibleclimate.com is finally on Bluesky! Follow us for insights & announcements on the intersections between #disability and #climatechange.

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Rondo Energy deploys Southeast Asia’s ‘first industrial Heat Battery’ Rondo and SCG Cleanergy have commenced operation of Southeast Asia's first industrial thermal BESS at SCG's cement plant in Thailand.

Heavy-industry sectors like cement have long struggled to decarbonise because their processes require very high temperatures.

That’s why the new Rondo Energy heat-battery project in Thailand is such a big deal - powering a cement plant with low-carbon steam.
www.energy-storage.news/rondo-energy...

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.

You made a difference—so much of a difference.

Rest always in peace, and always in power.

This kind of thing is so terrifying, and I feel for @angryblacklady.blacksky.app potentially losing a friend to a robot

IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned - Carbon Brief The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge...

NEW – IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam

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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

The opposition party leader just received one of the most brutal ratios I've ever seen, and it indicates the justified anger of Americans that have been betrayed by him after fighting so hard during the special elections, they virtually granted him a mandate.

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)

light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

All my Republicans gone

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.

Just curious, how many units of housing are going to be in this ballroom?

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a longstanding weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

Reliance on central cloud services has, in may ways, improved cybersecurity and stability around the world. But this standardisation comes with major tradeoffs—the platforms become a single point of failure for large swaths of critical services.

www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...

Good news: carbon intensity has declined

Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP

Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%

Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

Beyond race, I'm glad activists here mentioned the attack on urban representation. This would turn the House into another Senate, heavily biased toward rural voters. A Tennessee with no representatives from Memphis or Nashville, or a Missouri with no representatives from St. Louis or Kansas City.

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody