Canada’s long road ahead to a cleaner energy mix Unprecedented parliamentary summons for bank executives reflects growing political heat around fossil fuels

Financial Times checks in on Canadian bank CEOs attempting to defend their climate record before a Parliamentary committee last week www.ft.com/content/6370... via @ft #cdnpoli #abpoli

Fuck it. I am putting Being Awkward Around My Work Crush(es) under skills on LinkedIn.

A Mysterious Monolith Appears Near Las Vegas. Why? It’s Anyone’s Guess. A volunteer search-and-rescue organization reported finding the monolith over the weekend near the Gass Peak trail, which is north of Las Vegas.

A large, mysterious monolith was found near a trail in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas over the weekend. It was not immediately clear where the object had come from.

“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military Riley Livermore joins a burgeoning wave of dissent within the Biden administration and the military over U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

A US soldier quoted in this story, not the headliner airman, says they're "experiencing tangible mental health consequences as a result of watching a genocide in real time while simultaneously wearing a uniform that represents it." That's extremely real.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says empathy motivated his medical career but an old phrase from high school kept him going | CNN “Don’t let the bastards wear you down.” That phrase, instilled in Dr. Anthony Fauci as a student at a Jesuit-run school might as well be the motto of his professional life.

“The Jesuit priests, when you thought that all of a sudden the whole world was pounding on you, they would say ‘Illegitimi non carborundum,’ which means ‘don’t let the bastards wear you down,’ which … lately, that is a very relevant and appropriate saying,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Advice | What ‘boommates’ are and why you might want to join them Thousands of baby boomers are living with intergenerational housemates — a setup that could help ease the housing crunch and cut global warming emissions.

“Several generations living under one roof would help ease the housing crunch and the loneliness epidemic affecting half of U.S. adults. It would also cut global warming emissions. Denser living is almost always greener.”

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It would seem to me to have a hope at profitability you either need to: 1) own your own servers (Amazon) or 2) own your content to minimize licensing costs (Disney). Everything else makes you a very unwieldy cable channel.

Climate change kills. How do we fight back? As we approach the third anniversary of the deadly 2021 Heat Dome, join the 350 Canada team and special guests for an important online action call.

As we approach the third anniversary of the deadly 2021 BC Heat Dome, join the 350 Canada team and special guests for an important online action call on Wednesday, June 26. RSVP now: act.350.org/s/2630024.xV...

Uber and Lyft are fighting minimum wage laws. But in this state, the drivers won Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails A historic heat wave has struck the Philippines, home to some of the world’s most congested detention facilities.

“As temperatures rose past 122 degrees… jails reported thousands of cases of boils, rashes and skin disease among inmates. Authorities raced to reduce the crowding, which was caused by a draconian six-year campaign against drugs started by Rodrigo Duterte…”

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Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.

👇🇬🇷 "Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say" #MigrantDeaths #GreekCoastguard

It already is. The heat dome over Africa this week is going to kill 1000s in the Sudan this week and nobody other than UNICEF seems to be even talking about it.🥺

We had it coming We drove into the city the other night – only an hour and twenty minutes with the traffic! – to go see my close personal friends who live inside of my phone turned into flesh for a Comedy Bang Bang li...

The suburbs do not nourish me in the way the city does. I need to be around people. Strangers. I long for the camaraderie of our shared indifference to one another. The community in that. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-had-it-co...

North Vancouver ICBC site to be transformed into homes The B.C. government has purchased the soon-to-be-former ICBC site in North Vancouver and will be turning it into hundreds of homes, it says.

awesome

How to Live in an Endangered World Kate Schapira, author of "Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth," on making space for collective grief and choosing what to let go of.

I like this interview I did with Twilight Greenaway at The Window windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

Cloudy With A Chance Of Disaster As climate change increases the likelihood of deadly landslides, cities like Juneau are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

🚨INVESTIGATION: Amid the climate crisis, U.S. cities now face a potential epidemic of deadly landslides, but governments aren't planning for them & don't want to admit the problem.

The Lever reports from a major oil state's capital city - which is now basically falling into the ocean.

Construction equipment is going electric. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel. I tested a 55,000-pound electric excavator. New ways to power off-road machines, which mostly run on diesel, could cut about 3 percent of U.S. carbon emissions.

“Excavators, bulldozers, cranes and tractors, create about 3% of U.S. carbon emissions — roughly the same as the airline industry. Making these machines carbon-free would be almost as big a step… as taking all commercial planes out of the sky.”

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The hollowness of the 2030 targets debate What good is a 2030 target if you meet it using accounting tricks instead of real action?

The Paris agreement is about putting real blood, sweat and tears into changes that begin the full-scale elimination of fossil fuels from human society, as fast as possible, writes @ketanjoshi.co ketanjoshi.co/2024/06/16/t...

If a person keeps breaking driving rules they should no longer be able to drive. “But how will they—?” Not my fucking problem. I’m a pedestrian; they can figure it out.

Driving is a privilege that’s treated like a right because we’ve made it impossible to live without a car in many places and where we haven’t we still give leeway to drivers over everyone else

Turns out that encasing yourself in hundreds of pounds of metal and glass makes you pretty significantly antisocial!

Geese poo every 12 minutes when they’re eating.

Don’t feed the geese.

Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California's nights California's record 10 gigawatts of grid batteries are finally pushing solar generation into post-sunset hours at a meaningful scale, new data shows.

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AI boom powers rivals to Tesla’s battery storage business Investors have been eyeing under-appreciated storage companies to bet on the AI revolution

Batteries have replaced 50% of California's gas power compared to a year ago.

"Last year, battery deployment in the energy sector increased by more than 130 per cent year over year"

Storage replaced fossil fuels. And it is coming on fast and getting cheaper.