Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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It’s really too bad we didn’t do anything fun with the Stage 2 LRT like we did with Moment Factory’s Kontinuum and the interactive installation at Lyon station.

That was such a great way to get people that wouldn’t otherwise take transit to experience the station.

Add this to the next 3 year study of how else Ottawa can totally fumble its reputation as a leading North American cycling city.

Free all-electric bike share.

A City Grieving Peter Clark – An Avoidable Tragedy and The lessons We Refuse to Learn Our leaders will lament this tragedy but will stop short of any meaningful action to prevent it.

Our communities are grieving a month after Peter Clark’s death. Our political leaders lament this tragedy — no action to prevent another:

❌ Feds won’t regulate oversized vehicles
❌ Ontario killed speed cameras
❌ Council defunds road safety

This is a great idea.

a man is talking to a woman and saying `` so you 're telling me there 's a chance . Alt: a man is talking to a woman and saying `` so you 're telling me there 's a chance .

these give me hope, thanks!

I’m sure the community would be happy to roll out to test some loops with various modern bikes and provide feedback if asked

That front could really do with some nice shady trees.

Planters in front of Carling Icon building with shrubs

The Icon ones just feel so out of scale with the building itself. It should have some tall things there; not low growing flowers.

We should connect them together in a longer continuous planting bed Montreal does.

Have any of the street streets planted in the last 20 years actually matured into anything producing reasonable shade?

I love how Ottawa demands these huge building setbacks, way out of character with the rest of the neighborhood, and then lets the newly created public realm rot.

This plan pretty much guarantees metrolinx will cut service and raise fares with no local accountability mechanisms

a bus stop buried in snow City Unclear Why Transit Ridership Isn't Up - Cuts Service In Last Ditch Effort To Turn Things Around

"City Unclear Why Transit Ridership Isn't Up - Cuts Service In Last Ditch Effort To Turn Things Around"

And if you’re stuck paying expensive baseboard heating bills, a heatpump instead of just an AC can pay for itself in pretty short order too.

Did the dots trigger the light, or is 3 minutes the minimum light cycle this light is configured for? is my least favourite game.

You don’t need data when you’ve got populist vibes

But Ottawa had bike share before... 🧐

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

Ford’s latest bill collides with cities’ efforts to phase out gas in buildings New legislation — Bill 98, or the Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act — is snaking its way through the Legislature, and aims to kill green building standards for good, and i...

Green building standards don't slow down building housing. They reduce the operating costs of those homes and make for more comfortable + healthier homes.

Bill 98 is yet another power grab by the guy who wants to be the mayor of ontario
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I just wish there was some push back:

“Do Canadians even need/want this?”
Yes, there is broad support.

“$1000 is an insult”
To be clear it’s just some people want to walk around and check out the viability of this route on the ground. $1000 and they might exclude your property as a result

Maybe interviewing the train nimby guy was a bad idea.

The end result will be much safer, and going we can land a tiny forest pilot there eventually. I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t land the pilot we planned 3 yrs ago in that exact spot.

I don’t believe it was well communicated that those scraps of space that are pretty well used for soccer and frisbee and the like were going to be ripped up for the duration. The only thing I saw was that the green parts were going to be extended, not made into moon surface. Its bleak.

If this is the best “New Deal” we can get, we need a “New Mayor”

I don’t fully understand why in order to expand the greenspace here we need to fully destroy it? Taking bets on how long until it becomes contractor personal vehicle parking.

Screenshot from community presentation board to extend community green space

Greenspace turned into gravel pit and I maybe temporary parking for construction vehicles

How it started, how it’s going

Industrial carbon price eroding Canada's competitiveness: oil and gas leaders Leaders in Canada’s oil and gas sector say the industrial carbon levy would erode the country’s competitive edge at a time when the world is clamouring for a reliable energy supply. “We’re still talki...

More self-serving bullshit from Canada's oil and gas industry. Let's dig in and check some facts.

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cc @trevorbattle.bsky.social maybe?

Niche #heatpump #energysky question -- does anyone have any favourite cold climate single package vertical heat pumps they can recommend for large buildings?