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Co-founding member of the @calgaryclimatehub.ca, host of the #ClimateLens podcast, Alberta Regional Organizer for Climate Reality Canada. Posts are my own. #yyc #ClimateChange #ClimateSky

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Financial risks of carbon capture and storage in Canada: Concerns about the Pathways Project and Public Energy Policy A plan to capture CO2 from 13 oil sand processing facilities and store it in Alberta is threatened by cost challenges.

feeling a need to reread this in advance of tomorrow, for some reason.
ieefa.org/resources/fi...

27.11.2025 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Say What? Mark Carney Invoking John Horgan Over the Alberta to BC Pipeline?
YouTube video by Energi Media Say What? Mark Carney Invoking John Horgan Over the Alberta to BC Pipeline?

Say What? Mark Carney Invoking John Horgan Over the Alberta to BC Pipeline?

Horgan challenged TMX, invoking "cooperative federalism," the same principle @mark-carney.bsky.social said drives the Canada/Alberta pipeline MOU.

This story is getting weird.
#ableg #bcpoli
youtu.be/T0IqKv_DBO0

27.11.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reason #... why I like riding through winter. #yycbike

27.11.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
poster promoting the โ€œWinter Fayre Exchange,โ€ presented by the Calgary Climate Hub and Building Connected Communities. text explains that people can bring items they no longer need and take what they do need at this free community event, with leftover items donated to a nonprofit. The event details read: โ€œDecember 13th, 3โ€“5 PM, Sunalta Community Association โ€“ 1627 10 Ave SW,โ€ with advance drop-off info for December 2. The bottom section lists donation categories: office and school supplies, mixed media, sports and outdoor gear, kitchenware and home goods, clothing, board games and art supplies, and electronics. Logos for โ€œBuilding Connected Communitiesโ€ and โ€œCalgary Climate Hubโ€ appear on the left, and a QR code labeled โ€œScan Meโ€ is on the right.

poster promoting the โ€œWinter Fayre Exchange,โ€ presented by the Calgary Climate Hub and Building Connected Communities. text explains that people can bring items they no longer need and take what they do need at this free community event, with leftover items donated to a nonprofit. The event details read: โ€œDecember 13th, 3โ€“5 PM, Sunalta Community Association โ€“ 1627 10 Ave SW,โ€ with advance drop-off info for December 2. The bottom section lists donation categories: office and school supplies, mixed media, sports and outdoor gear, kitchenware and home goods, clothing, board games and art supplies, and electronics. Logos for โ€œBuilding Connected Communitiesโ€ and โ€œCalgary Climate Hubโ€ appear on the left, and a QR code labeled โ€œScan Meโ€ is on the right.

Celebrate slow-consumption this season with our Winter Fayre Exchange!

Our #ClimateJusticeCalgary collective is bringing together community members to engage in a circular exchange economy. Come find what you need, and give what you want!

MORE DETAILS www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/winter_fayre... #yyc

26.11.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Pipeline to Nowhere Prime Minister Mark Carneyโ€™s success in his first year has been to successfully convey an image of being the โ€œsmartest guy in the room.โ€

"Some people tell me the Prime Minister is playing 3-D chess, and I should be patient. But the planet is on fire, and patience is at least 10 years out of date. If they are indeed playing 3-D chess, Danielle Smith is owning the board."
Pipeline to Nowhere open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

26.11.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australiaโ€™s solar boom | TechCrunch Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.

Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for 3 hours per day.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/m...

25.11.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Tax Billionaires. Tax Polluters.
Fix Inequality. Fix the Climate!โ 

Ahead of the Autumn Budget, we joined groups from across our movement to send a message to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

24.11.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

#Crowdfunder Update:

From donor and longtime Hub friend @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

"Thanks for all you do, CCH! With appreciation and solidarity!"

Thanks so much for the great work you do with @forourkidscanada.bsky.social!

CROWDFUNDER: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser
#yyc

26.11.2025 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Catherine Cortez Masto on Critical Minerals, Climate Policy, and the Technology of the Future

Catherine Cortez Masto on Critical Minerals, Climate Policy, and the Technology of the Future #Climate

26.11.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wonderful day of #RunLikeAGirl events with UBC Sauder School on Monday - met hundreds of students & Vancouverites who care about climate, politics & making change! Many women asked me what gives me hope. The honest answer: That Iโ€™m not alone but in solidarity with so many amazing women! ๐Ÿ’ช

26.11.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽฅ
#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature

PL RP๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’™
@ret.social @rollingredroads.bsky.social @inuyasha1953.bsky.social @lealuck.bsky.social @charlesbeaudoin.bsky.social @diegojimmyjames.bsky.social @eavellan.bsky.social
@leza1121.bsky.social

original #climate graph by IPCC

26.11.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

#Crowdfunder Update:

WE JUST HIT 9K!!!

Message from donor & Hub friend Alyssa:

"The people at the Climate Hub are the best"

Well we think YOU'RE THE BEST, ALYSSA so good thing it's not a competition!

Ever forward!!!

CROWDFUNDER: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser
#yyc #ClimateChange

26.11.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Advanced donation drop-off is available December 2nd from 5-7PM at 237 8th Ave SE or you can bring your items directly to the event!

โœ๏ธOffice and school supplies
๐ŸƒMixed media
๐ŸฅSports and outdoor gear
๐Ÿฅ„Kitchenware and home goods
๐ŸงฆClothing
๐ŸŽฒBoard games, arts and crafts
๐Ÿ”ŒElectronics

#yyc

26.11.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This could be Canada.

25.11.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 138    ๐Ÿ” 56    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Northwestern Ontario Groups Applaud Shuniahโ€™s Decision to Reject Toxic Gas Plant - Environmental Defence ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, CITIZENS UNITED FOR A SUSTAINABLE PLANET (CUSP), NORTHWESTERN CLIMATE GATHERING, AND CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE

๐ŸŽ‰Ontario's Shuniah community becomes the latest to reject fossil gas expansion

environmentaldefence.ca/2025/11/26/n...

26.11.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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join.greenparty.org.uk ๐Ÿ’š

26.11.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Prime Minister: Itโ€™s time to Make Them Pay Billionaires and polluting corporations are increasingly destroying lives and being rewarded with more vast wealth, while working people worldwide are left to pick up the pieces.   If we donโ€™t f...

Add your name to call for the government to make those responsible for the climate and cost of living crises pay up!

Take action now ๐Ÿ‘‡ actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

24.11.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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26.11.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A couple more donations rolling in tonight puts us at just $90 away from 9K raised!

Every bit helps, friends!

CROWDFUNDER: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser

26.11.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." 

It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.

A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..

19.11.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 826    ๐Ÿ” 290    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover

Fires are still burning in the Arctic in the winter. The climate catastrophe is here.
Spending political energy to massively increase pipeline production in Canada is not nation-building. It is planet burning.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

25.11.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 378    ๐Ÿ” 139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Albertans Say Oil Companies Should Cover Well Cleanup Costs, Outstanding Debts Albertans are nearly unanimous in wanting oil and gas companies to cover the cost ofย  cleaning up their wells and paying their overdue taxes and land rent, a new poll shows, even as the province prepa...

As the Alberta govt prepares new legislation to shift more costs onto taxpayers, a new poll shows that Albertans overwhelmingly support O&G companies covering cleanup costs, overdue taxes, and unpaid rent to landowners. www.theenergymix.com/albertans-sa... #ABLeg #ABPoli @jemphatically.bsky.social

25.11.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are Albertanโ€™s even aware that the federal government,Trudeauโ€™s Liberals,sent their government $200 million dollars in 2024 to clean up orphan wells and Dani returned $137 million of it after she ran out the clock on spending it? That it was part of a $1.7 billion deal the feds made with provinces?

25.11.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TBH that federal money was still Canadian taxpayer money, and it should NEVER have been used to let companies get out of paying for cleanup themselves.

25.11.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#Calltoaction

26.11.2025 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost $5 Trillion Annually and Worsen Pollution The International Monetary Fund notes that subsides for burning fossil fuels enrich the wealthy and make air pollution worse

This 2015 articles shows the world shelled out 5 TRILLION dollars annually to #BigOil companies. We could have FIXED ALL OF #ClimateChange 5x over by now if we just stopped with the handouts. PM #MarkCarney doesn't think we've paid out enough yet #Cdnpoli
www.scientificamerican.com/article/foss...

25.11.2025 04:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Photo featuring a bunch of cyclists lined up on a street on their bikes. Everyone's looking at the cyclist in the middle, who is a woman astride a bike adjusting her helmet.

Photo featuring a bunch of cyclists lined up on a street on their bikes. Everyone's looking at the cyclist in the middle, who is a woman astride a bike adjusting her helmet.

Actress Rosanna Schiaffino garners attention on the streets of Rome, 1956

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Rosanna!
November 25 (1939-2009)

25.11.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The coast needs YOU - sign the declaration to stand with First Nations and defend the incredible bio region of the Great Bear Rainforest and Sea.

Add your name here: https://coastalfirstnations.ca/north-coast-protection/

25.11.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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FLT protects nearly 1,700 acres of ecologically significant land across Foothills County. Through the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation Springboard Grant, they are developing a long-term fundraising strategy to enhance their ability to conserve land in perpetuity.

albertaecotrust.com/news/grant-a...

25.11.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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