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Subina Shrestha

@iamsubina.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate @UniofManchester|Previously @UofT|PhD from @uibCET|Researching cities and urban sustainability - climate, energy, mobility, justice.

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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At the #ESG2026 keynote. 'The planet will be fine ladies and gentlemen. But will we?'
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026
It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal www.theenergymix.com/master-class...
theenergymix.com
‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal
Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported and ...
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In our latest for @theconversation.com, Claire Hoolahan and I discuss what the UK can learn from other nations to mitigate heat stress. More collective, equitable solutions that treat intense heat as the public health risk it is. @justcentre.bsky.social Link: theconversation.com/heatwaves-ho...
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Heatwaves: how to close the UK’s cooling divide
Reducing the risks of increased heat in the UK without compromising climate targets requires policy interventions, investment and a strong political will.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 01/06/2026
A national postal service is "a logistics and communications network that reaches nearly every household in the country." That network carries the burden of legal notices, federal communications (e.g. tax information, Social Security checks), and deliveries by every company that isn't the 'Zon.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Color me shocked
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Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study
Meat and dairy production are significant drivers of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Many companies claim to be tackling this, but nearly all these claims, 98%, could be considered greenwa...
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...
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Renewable energy is more cost effective than direct air capture at reducing carbon, study finds
The case for investing in direct air capture weakens substantially once it is directly compared against solar and wind, according to an analysis published in Communications Sustainability. The paper i...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/04/2026
From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
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From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett
Female mayors have had notable successes in making transport in urban areas benefit everyone, write Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, co-authors of Women Changing Cities
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Honoured to have engaged w over 200 ebiking gig workers over the past 3 days. Our safe cycling sessions are a model for what the City of Toronto, Uber etc. could do to ensure everyone on our roads is a little more safe. Education>enforcement. @cycletoronto.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
100 ebike riders site in auditorium for presentation
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#IdeasAtWork The Collaborative is a hub for urban studies and teaching within the Department of Geography & Planning and is an affiliated initiative of the School of Cities, both at the University of Toronto. via @kingofva.bsky.social h/t @uoftcities.bsky.social www.citycollaborative.ca
David Roberts

Director of the Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project | Human 
Big news! I am thrilled to announce the official launch of the City Community Research and Learning Collaborative (CCRLC) alongside my colleague, Aditi Mehta.

🌐 Explore our new digital home here: https://lnkd.in/e2G6kNyF

The City Collaborative is designed to serve as a hub for community-engaged scholarship and work, bringing together students, faculty, and community partners to tackle "wicked" urban challenges. Our mission is to move beyond traditional academic boundaries by learning with and from communities to advance social justice and more equitable urban futures.

What we do:

• Community-Engaged Research: Utilizing methodologies that centre community perspectives and needs to address critical issues like housing equity, climate resiliency, and neighbourhood stigma.

• Innovative Pedagogy: Designing educational experiences that bring the classroom into the city, including "inside-out" courses and placements led by community practitioners.

• Collaborative Action: Hosting workshops and events to share best practices and collectively imagine better urban possibilities.

Our current projects range from assessing the human rights implications of mega-events like FIFA 2026, to rethinking community safety and policing, to supporting urban change initiatives in Moss Park and Regent Park.

A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey so far—especially our website designers, Tony Chang and Felicity Heyworth, and our institutional partners, the Department of Geography and Planning and the School of Cities, University of Toronto.

We are excited to continue this work of centering hope and actionable interventions in our cities.

I invite you to explore the site, learn more about our projects, and reach out if you see opportunities for collaboration.


Learning with communities to advance equitable urban futures. 

The City Community Research and Learning Collaborative exists to learn with, by, and from communities to produce scholarship, design innovative educational experiences, and advance social justice in urban settings. The Collaborative supports and elevates city-building through community partnerships, community-engaged scholarship, activist research, community organizing, and grassroots innovations.  

The Collaborative is a hub for urban studies and teaching within the Department of Geography & Planning and is an affiliated initiative of the School of Cities, both at the University of Toronto.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"While ordinary people are suffering amid the war and resulting fuel price shocks, fossil fuel companies – such as those who furnished Trump with record donations on the campaign trail – are seeing handsome windfall profits, said Bigger." Me in @dharna.bsky.social 's latest in @theguardian.com
theguardian.com
‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep
Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"Just because it is available does not mean it is accessible" - a student opined about Toronto's transit system. And, accessibility is multi-faceted.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hit and killed a crossing guard (who wear high visibility gear and carry a stop sign) and took off. Months after the provincial government forced municipalities to remove their speed enforcement cameras in school zones.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Governments sit and watch while oligarchs purchase our politics, as if it were just another asset to be monopolised. For the sake of democracy and our own survival, we need to get the money out. Our political systems must belong to us and us alone. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds
Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A pro-play policy supports so many key local authority agendas - social justice, anti-poverty, supporting families, climate mitigation, active travel, physical activity and health, connecting communities, Pride in Place - and, of course, children and young people’s wellbeing - and fun!
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"City Hall is proposing to require third party app delivery companies, like GrubHub, UberEats, DoorDash and Instacart, to provide trip level data to the city, instead of just the aggregate data required by the 2021 minimum pay standard law." Apps have, for far too long, avoided accountability!
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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 17/03/2026
Canada’s clean energy future depends on people. Right now, we don’t have enough skilled workers to build and operate a low-carbon economy. Our Sustainable Workforce program is focused on closing that gap — and turning it into a long-term advantage. 👇 buff.ly/y1scWy4
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
hilarious short video, well worth the watch. And the consumer council receives government funding! Swoon.
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Cities well-designed for children, generally, tend to be well-designed for everybody. And not to forget the positive effects on children's interpersonal and cognitive skills.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
STUDY: “Bicycle lanes reduce GHG emissions as effectively as highways create them.” “Investing in networks of protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce GHG emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, & improve quality of life for people in cities around the globe.”
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Protected Bike Lanes Increase Safety, Save Money And Protect The Planet, New Report Finds
Investing in protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, and improve the quality of life for people in cities ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Millions of workers — including at Walmart, Amazon, & McDonald’s — rely on food stamps, WIC, and Medicaid, because pay doesn’t cover basics. Corporate profits soar while taxpayers pick up the bill. Low wages aren’t just a worker issue — they’re a taxpayer subsidy to big business.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We tried to invite Ontario Premier Doug Ford to our live show in Toronto on Thursday, February 5th, hosted by @cycletoronto.bsky.social, so we brought two comically large tickets to Queen's Park. Here's how it went. Get normal sized tickets here: boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pag...
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Local independent store finds. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This!!!!! Every child has the right to play. Commodifying play is an erosion of that right.
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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 27/12/2025
Excited for year two! The Mamdani administration should study expanding the Congestion Relief Zone to bring these benefits to more areas of our city.
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Cities well designed for children are well designed for everyone.
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Pragmatism is the new delay.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“The decarbonization project is a matter of investment and divestment.”  For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit.  👇  www.common-wealth.org/green-plannin…
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/12/2025
Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada. Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.
washingtonpost.com
Amazon eyes expanding delivery network after talks with USPS stall
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its long-standing partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
#Green agenda success in #city cores may breed resentment in the periphery. As @havardhaarstad.bsky.social & @mahiryazar.bsky.social argue in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social, a moral hierarchy that punishes car-dependent suburbanites —often on lower incomes— is a recipe for #populism. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
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Ignacio Jurado @jurado.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Postdoc call‼️ I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT. Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community. Application deadline: December 10th. Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Care in car centered design?
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CleanAirForAll2 @cleanairforall2.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Airpollution An international study, published in the journal Nature, has found cutting pollution from road traffic and wood burning may be the most effective way to reduce the harm from air pollution across Europe.
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Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds
Researchers measure toxicity of air samples across continent to advise on ‘efficient’ policies to reduce harm
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/10/2025
"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 starting as early as Tuesday… Well, the White House ballroom ain't gonna pay for itself.
wsj.com
Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers
The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.
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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Minister Flack says that the Ontario government will not be moving forward on changes to Ontario's tenancy lease framework regarding month-to-month leases. More to look at in the bill but thank you to everyone who called, emailed and spoke up.
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Desperately needed recognition as local bike shops are on the front lines of the e-mobility revolution. No support from governments at all levels, strained logistics, and not enough experienced staff to fill open positions. #bikeshoplife
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
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Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This shit makes me furious & despondent. Scientific evidence, mass suffering, and the prospect of economic, political and social breakdown are insufficient to spur action. We talk abt geongineering while investing further in fossil fuels. We have collectively become untethered from reality.
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US and Canada weigh revival of ‘zombie’ Keystone XL pipeline in trade talks
Controversial project to ship heavy crude to Texas coast was killed by Biden administration on environmental grounds
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Julie Witmer @witmaps.ca · 11/10/2025
Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pedestranised street in North America... Say what?!!!!!
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Subina Shrestha @iamsubina.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Allocating space disproportionately in favor of cars also means taking space from other modes of transport. UTSC students told us about the inequities in transport planning in and around Scarborough and how this affects their everyday lives.
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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Highly recommend this webinar next week presented by @bcpolicy.bsky.social 👇
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