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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 19/06/2024
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
ft.com
Canada’s long road ahead to a cleaner energy mix
Unprecedented parliamentary summons for bank executives reflects growing political heat around fossil fuels
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Jason M. @lapsedhumanist.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Fuck it. I am putting Being Awkward Around My Work Crush(es) under skills on LinkedIn.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/06/2024
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.
nytimes.com
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.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
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.
theintercept.com
“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.
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CNN @cnn.com · 18/06/2024
“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.
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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.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
“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.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
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.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
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.
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
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...
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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.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/06/2024
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.
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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.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
“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…” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
washingtonpost.com
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.
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🦋 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊® @thorchrs.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
👇🇬🇷 "Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say" #MigrantDeaths #GreekCoastguard
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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.
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Evo Daily @evodaily.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
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.🥺
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
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...
welcometohellworld.com
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...
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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
awesome
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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.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
I like this interview I did with Twilight Greenaway at The Window windowofopportunity.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
windowofopportunity.substack.com
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.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/06/2024
🚨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.
levernews.com
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.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
“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.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
washingtonpost.com
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.
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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
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...
ketanjoshi.co
The hollowness of the 2030 targets debate
What good is a 2030 target if you meet it using accounting tricks instead of real action?
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/06/2024
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.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/06/2024
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
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 13/06/2024
Turns out that encasing yourself in hundreds of pounds of metal and glass makes you pretty significantly antisocial!
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
canarymedia.com
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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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
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.
ft.com
AI boom powers rivals to Tesla’s battery storage business
Investors have been eyeing under-appreciated storage companies to bet on the AI revolution
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
I spent some time at the protest against the governor pulling the plug on congestion pricing, and then when walking to the train passed an ambulance that was stopped in crosstown traffic, siren blaring, due to congestion. I'm aware that there's irony there but it's not really very funny.
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Robert is Tired @robertistired.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
“Starting Sept. 3, anyone who accepts work through these and other gig-based apps, such as ride-hailing and delivery services, must receive $20.88 an hour from the time they accept an assignment to the time it is completed, the province says.”
cbc.ca
Uber, Skip the Dishes and other gig workers in B.C. to make at least $20.88 an hour under new rules | CBC News
British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to provide a minimum wage and other protections for people who work through gig-based apps like Uber, DoorDash, Skip the Dishes and Lyft.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
“The Grab has the feeling of a revelation… every single human needs food and water, and there is not enough arable land on Earth for the projected increase of 2 billion people by 2050. The instinct, on a primal and national level, is to hoard.” www.theguardian.com/film/article...
theguardian.com
‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year?
Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
From @caseycrownhart.bsky.social: A review of a new edition of the classic game, Catan: New Energies, which comes out in a few days. It has players building power plants, fueled by either fossil fuels or renewables.
technologyreview.com
This classic game is taking on climate change
What the New Energies edition of Catan says about climate technology today.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
"In the age of methods, science was human and then, suddenly, it was not." Oh how well this captures today's science reform zeitgeist. Once again we yearn for a science that's un/inhuman. We grasp at any promise of an algorithm or procedures that are proposed as an automated substitute.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
"Hypothesis and test, experiment and solution—the language of science today is often one of stability and control. The uncertain, unstable terrain of Darwin's day somehow became, over the century that followed, something solid, if not stultified."
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
At the end of the age of methods, the image of science as embodied cognition became something both constrained and constraining, a set of steps rather than a description of lived reality. The rise of "the scientific method" was, in this sense, less a success than a tragedy.
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Jason Broccardo @zoocoup.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
“As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.” grist.org/labor/heat-w...
grist.org
Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back.
As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
“While any new president could quickly transform policies around scientific integrity through new executive orders, the union contract provision is one advocates had urged as a way to make the protections harder to undo without a legal fight.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it
Several federal agencies are working to safeguard research, including climate science, from future political meddling.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Welcome to round 86 technical interview. We need you to fight a bear
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/06/2024
After testing popular generative AI programs including video creator Pika, text-focused ChatGPT, image generator Dall-E and an AI system that generates computer code, Haize Labs discovered that many of the well-known tools produced violent or sexualized content.
wapo.st
AI start-up sees thousands of vulnerabilities in popular tools
Haize Labs hopes to become a “Moody’s for AI” that establishes public-safety ratings for popular artificial intelligence models.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
It's been said a bunch of times but I want to say it, too: what's been so bracing about these Lauren Windsor/Rolling Stone stories is not that they reveal Alitos as grand villains but as absolute off-the-rack nightmare suburban shitheads. 0 wins above replacement between the two of them.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
I wrote a piece for Business Insider talking about "domestic offshoring," regional inequality, and the housing crisis: www.businessinsider.com/america-powe...
businessinsider.com
A map of power: where America's CEOs live
Executives in New York, call centers in Orlando: American cities are facing a growing power imbalance.
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Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group @montepaulsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
“British people in the 1930s and ’40s… thought the Empire outdated; few expressed pride. By contrast, recent polling trends suggest most British people are neither proud nor ashamed of their imperial past: They are simply becoming indifferent to it.” www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...
washingtonpost.com
Review | Imperialism isn’t in the past. Neither is the damage it did.
In “Imperial Island,” Charlotte Lydia Riley explores the modern ramifications of British power.
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
For a climate-safe, democratized economy, the housing crisis must be addressed with sustainability as a key consideration #housing #emissions #sustainability #Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/12/o...
nationalobserver.com
Sustainable housing can create a pathway to climate resilience
As funding is sought by developers looking to address Canada's housing crisis, sustainability should be a key factor for financiers considering new projects.
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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Can everyone find the Permian on the updated map of methane emissions form 2019?
Map showing methane emissions for US in 2019 with worst emission coming from the Permian shale fields of Texas and New Mexico.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/06/2024
“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
washingtonpost.com
Abused by the badge
Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Top 5 Canadian Energy Centre Mishaps, by #Alberta #abpoli #fossilfuels open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
open.substack.com
Top 5 Canadian Energy Centre Mishaps
There was never a dull moment with the UCP's now-shuttered war room.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/06/2024
"While R29 Unbothered remains as one of the few platforms that commission and amplify Black writers both in the US and UK, journalism is still a very, white, middle-class industry with Black journalists only making up 0.2% of the overall workforce." www.refinery29.com/en-us/black-...
refinery29.com
Black Women Are Leaving Journalism & It’s A Huge Loss
The golden era of journalism has long gone and many are choosing to make an escape plan—especially Black women, including myself.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
When people see a story like this, they understandably tend to think there must be more to it. Someone must be exaggerating. But Missouri's attorney general and its courts really are trying to execute a man they all know is innocent. That's the whole story. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
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