Lloyd Alter

We have an LG OLED 55“ and it is glorious. We sit 5’ away, and every Blue Jays game or movie I think I want it bigger. 65s now cost what I paid for 55, go for it.

It's time to dump Railway Time and War Time and go Local Time Time zones are anachronistic, unhealthy and unnecessary in this modern world.

It’s time for my bi-annual plea to give up on standard or daylight saving time and go back to local solar time, to once again put our circadian rhythms in sync with the sun. lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

great point about his hate on modern toilets.

The toilet is better quality too than the Home Depot special they put in.

I agree, I worry about this overconfidence, which is why my wife calls me such a Debbie Downer.

The TD ads with Springer were boring when they ran years ago. They couldn’t even make new ones?

I was happy to see "Abundance" properly categorized as "airport exclusive fiction" in Edinburgh Airport

Bonus: Happy International Day of Danger and Death for Pedestrians That's an alternate name for Halloween, but let's not forget the rest of the year.

Hallowe'en bonus, deleted from Treehugger but reconstructed from the Wayback Machine, lloydalter.substack.com/p/bonus-happ...

On Stanley Jevons and refrigerator size Refrigerators keep getting bigger. Is it Jevons' Paradox, or is it the way we live?

Why are fridges getting so huge? I argue that it is an example of Jevons' Paradox; others thinks people just want big fridges lloydalter.substack.com/p/on-stanley...

Thank you Sarah for your comment here, Toronto can be so stupid sometimes.

I was not clear they are tearing down rental apartment buildings to build bigger condos

They are tearing down concrete apartment buildings not houses

Brilliant representation by Giaimo of the embodied carbon wasted in the demolition of perfectly good buildings in Toronto to build bigger buildings. A thousand houses worth of carbon. @azuremagazine.bsky.social #human/nature

The carbon footprint of construction will double by 2050 and blow the carbon budget. A new study advocates for a material revolution, but we are held back by structural inertia.

A new study concludes that the construction industry alone will blow through the carbon budget ceilings even if every other source of emissions were reduced to zero. " If current trends continue, the sector can exceed the 2°C per annum carbon budget earliest by 2040.”

it is insidious and everywhere. type "regenerative design" into google images and all you get are concrete buildings covered in trees, 3/4 of which are Bosco Verticale.

NOW Emissions matter more than LATER Emissions, which is why I like wood and straw To quote John Maynard Keynes: “The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead.”

John Maynard Keynes was talking about money when he said "In the long run, we are all dead.” but I think the same thing applies to carbon emissions. lloydalter.substack.com/p/now-emissi...

YouTube video by DgdMovies Goofy - Motor Mania

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In praise of e-bikes, which could save our cities Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.

Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
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Yes, the entire idea was that they would be a "bike with a boost" and would play nice in the bike lanes; they should not be faster!

10 years ago the team hero flipped the bat then rode home on a scooter. That’s Toronto

Enbridge is still so peddling hydrogen its embarrassing

Hydrogen will power Ontario peaker plants someday... in the meantime, we'll burn natural gas The audacity and greenwashing here are astonishing. A company called Current H2 should really be called Never H2.

A liquid hydrogen-powered peaker plant is proposed near Thunder Bay, Ontario, by a company named Current H2. Except it is going to burn natural gas for a while, while they figure out the hydrogen stuff. Smells like what @alexsteffen.bsky.social calls predatory delay.

I am reading a history of home heating, and I learn that Americans have had their eyes on Canadian resources, even since before there were a USA or Canada.

We have this problem in Ontario too, where I think half the e-bikes on the road are illegal. We need a Canadian standard based on Euro pedelecs. Nobody needs more power or more speed than that.

Doug Ford is banning speed cameras. He should read @douggordon.bsky.social "Life After Cars"

Another reason the death rate for pedestrians is increasing: Demographics I like the "Big SUV hypothesis," but Brian Potter of Construction Physics is not convinced.

Brian Potter of the wonderful blog Construction Physics looks at the question of why more pedestrians are dying on our roads. He is not convinced by the "Big SUV Hypothesis" and looks at everything everywhere for other causes. I think he misses a big one: demographics. My take:

Are we going to have to redesign our cities around these ridiculous trucks ( at a climate conference Thunder Bay)

thank you!

HRVs aren’t cheap

I have never seen this before: the shadow of the Dash-8 to Thunder Bay on the clouds below with a rainbow ring around it.