Smell the PAHs coming off the crumb. Trillium field in Vancouver...

UBC study finds artificial turf fields in Metro Vancouver releasing chemicals harmful to salmon | CBC News A new study from the University of British Columbia is raising concerns about the environmental impact of artificial turf fields across Metro Vancouver, which, it says, is leaching a chemical into mun...

Making an economic cost comparison of turf vs natural grass fields, given the health and environmental risks, is highly misleading. "An average turf field contains about 125 tonnes of crumb rubber, roughly 20,000..." #vanpoli #bcpoli

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To the End of SkyTrain’s Expo Line and Beyond…! - Alstead.com I try to avoid driving to Surrey, having been caught in traffic jams and gridlock on the bridges too many times. Transit can get me most places south of the river, but the issue is time. If my destina...

A companion piece to my carshare posts, breaking down a recent multi-modal trip to the end of the Skytrain line and beyond. #translinkbc #modo alstead.com/posts/to-the...

Was wondering what all the commotion was when just biking past the pond at Charleson Park...

AI's exhaust pipe.

$2.4 billion worth of tax revenue. On top of cancelling the carbon tax. What else do you have in the, ahem, pipeline? #cdnpoli

Humming bird on the Wholefoods live wall, Cambie Village. #Vancouver

What pain at the pump? On cost and time, looks like transit wins again...

Charting Our Monthly Car Share Costs With Modo - Alstead.com This June, will mark the 19th year since we joined Modo. Back in 2007, when the member owned co-op was known as the The Co-operative Auto Network, it was much smaller and low-tech. Modo's gone from st...

20 years ago we gave up our car and switched to #Modo car share. I charted our average monthly costs from June 2007 to March 2026. #vanpoli alstead.com/posts/charti...

Black on grey rectangular bike Odometer with digital numbers and 3 bars. The main number shows the speed of 14.6 km per hour. Beside it is the number 1 (pedal assist setting), and under it is the all-time distance covered of 1,500km. Three bars on the right indicate battery power is at 60%.

I'm a reluctant convert to ebikes. Thought it would mean I get less exercise. Probably has been the opposite. Bought it in February last year. Today, the odo turned 1,500km.

Sign the petition, to get @translink.ca to restore after-school #99 buses. #bcpoli #vanpoli

Kick "off", maybe?

If you're going to interview Jason Kenney and bring up the lessons of Brexit, don't you have to remind him that he *supported* it? #abpoli #cdnpoli

Not sure what scuppered this boat in False Creek, west of Cambie Bridge. Noticed it yesterday morning after a night of heavy rain. Pictured this morning. #yvr

South False Creek right now with the high tide. #yvr

The price of EU Carbon Allowances for December closed at €85. A tad stronger than I predicted.

And in 2025 the federal Liberal govt under Mark Carney dropped its consumer carbon price.

#cdnpoli #predictions

Hand bailing after #bcstorm

Washed up boat in South False Creek

Looks like this boat's owner had a rough night. #southfalsecreek #yvr

COMMON Briefing Belém: The COP Of Post-Truth On the dangerous seduction of empty multilateralism: on why we need to stop performing hope while the planet burns We're sharing an open letter to our colleagues and friends in the climate community as the COP in Belém ends. We think it's important to speak truth in the so-called "COP of Truth". Belém, November 22, 2025 A letter to our friends in the climate community There's a particular strain of climate advocacy that has become not just ineffective, but actively harmful. It's the kind that mistakes theater for action, confuses participation with progress, and celebrates the mere existence of dialogue while the planet burns. We saw it again in Belém, and it demands a reckoning. We're told to feel moved by presidential speeches. To find something "powerful" in a country simultaneously expanding fossil fuel extraction while claiming climate leadership. To see "complexity" and "journey" where there is simply hypocrisy and moral failure. This is not complexity. This is cowardice dressed up as pragmatism. When a leader stands before the world and speaks eloquently about transitioning away from fossil fuels while their government approves new oil drilling, that's not a contradiction we should romanticize. That's not a tension we should find generative. It's a betrayal, plain and simple. And when climate advocates respond with gratitude instead of fury, they become accomplices to that betrayal. We're asked to understand that leaders "don't have the power" to stop extraction. This framing is insidious because it transforms political choices into inevitable constraints. History has shown that presidents don't lack power: they lack will. They lack courage. They've made a calculation that short-term economic and political interests outweigh the survival of future generations. Accepting this excuse means accepting that climate action is optional, something to pursue only when convenient, only when it doesn't threaten powerful inter…

"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"

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Canada not on track to meet 2030 climate targets, report finds MONTREAL — A new analysis says Canada is not on track to meet its 2030 or 2035 emissions targets.

No surprise. Canada's is still expanding its oil & gas complex when it needs to be shrinking. Instead of GHG reductions of 40-45% by 2030, we're now looking at half that. #strandedassets #cdnpoli ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-...

Or white trucks....

I get the heebie-jeebees parking my bike on Broadway. No room for error when the B-line bus is flying by as you wrestle with your lock. #Vancouver #vanbikes

The kids outgrew it yonks ago, but this little trailer obviates the need for so many car trips for a city dweller like myself. Like picking up 102 litre totes. #vanbikes

Where does Carney stand on Canada's 2030 climate targets? It's not clear | CBC News CBC Radio’s The House takes a look at whether Canada is on track to meet its climate targets under Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Given Canada's not likely to make its 2030 climate targets, let alone Netzero 2050, this is a welcome, wide-ranging look at where #climate policy in Canada might be heading. Realpolitik, not Science, appears to be in the driving seat. #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Washed up on Kits Beach while skimboarding just now. #yvr

Happened upon this biking home last night. Almost makes one want to take up latin dancing. #kits

It was a last resort, but the superglue trick to remove a broken headphone jack stuck in an ipad socket worked. Audio now coming out of the speaker and headphones. share.google/KQm6v9VqKqas...

Bicycles locked to public beach with full bike parking and bikes lined along railings in background

Mayor of London to move ahead with Oxford Street traffic ban Plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street will move forward "as quickly as possible", Sir Sadiq Khan says.

Visiting in 2022, I was impressed by how much central London has made streets more people-friendly. This'd take it up a notch. www.bbc.com/news/article...

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

As a fire scientist, my first reaction to these maps is that these places are gonna burn.

Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically.

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