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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 09/10/2026
If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal reneweconomy.com.au/the-queensland-…
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The Queensland LNP plan for coal-powered data centres could cost taxpayers $20 billion a pop
If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BE TOGETHER – the art of standing up for life In #TheSustainableHour #611, Malaysian 'artivist' Shaq Koyok takes us from giant animal puppets in South Australia to communities defending forests in Malaysia. → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 30/09/2026
Fossil fuel subsidies lead to increased emissions, but cancelling them can harm poor people. Shifting funds from fossil fuel producers to low-income consumers via existing social assistance programs can reduce poverty and lower emissions. In PNAS: ow.ly/vCQZ50ZSNpQ
Worker delivering LPG gas cylinders to rural customers in a village in Maharashtra, India
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 30/09/2026
3(!) climate researchers won @macfound.org genius awards today: @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, Kaiyu Guan, Marika Holland! Well deserved. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...
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Holly Jean Buck
Investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of climate and energy policies and emerging technologies.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #610: FROM MIST WALLS TO ELECTRIC HOMES → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With refrigeration engineer Jesper Pedersen and Geelong Sustainability Programs Manager Lucy Allinson. #ElectricHomes #ClimateRepair
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Environment Victoria @envirovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Leaked docs reveal the gas industry is pressuring Victorian MPs behind closed doors & threatening a fact-free scare campaign 😡 Getting off expemsive gas cuts bills. But gas networks want to keep us hooked on expensive, polluting gas to protect their profits 🤑 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Gas lobby ‘scare campaign’ urges Victoria to scrap ban in new homes, leaked documents show
Exclusive: Australian Gas Infrastructure Group lobbying campaign warns energy bills could increase by $100 unless ban is reversed, despite experts disagreeing
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #609: FINDING COMMON GROUND – the parents who refuse to look away → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With coral ecologist Marie Carvolth, cofounder of #ParentsForClimate #ClimateAnxiety #ActiveHope #ClimateAction
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #608: ‘WHETHER’ BECOMES ‘HOW’: Denmark’s green transition in motion → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... In this week’s episode, we broadcast from Aarhus in Denmark and speak with Danish journalist and podcaster Bjørn Olsen.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #607: ON THE GROUND – practising what comes next → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With environmentalist, musician, writer, community builder and long-time climate activist Tim Hollo.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #606: → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... In The Sustainable Hour no. 606, we explore the waste story with Kirsty Bishop-Fox from Zero Waste Victoria #ZeroWaste #ZeroWasteFestival #CircularEconomy
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#TheSustainableHour #605 → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest is Dion Devow, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneur, speaker and consultant.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#TheSustainableHour #604: Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #TinyHomes #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #OlderWomen #CommunityHousing #WellbeingEconomy #LocalEconomy #Community #Geelong
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#TheSustainableHour #603: Lives we overlook → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... with environmental journalist and author Anthea Batsakis #Biodiversity #WildlifeConservation #TaxonomicBias #ExtinctionCrisis #CitizenScience #TakeActionForEarth
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#TheSustainableHour #602: GENTLE AS A MAN – WHEN POWER LEARNS HOW TO SERVE LIFE → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #ManOfEarth #GentleAsAMan #Masculinity #Manosphere #Masculinism #ServiceToLife
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
THE CLIMATE BILL HAS ARRIVED. SO WHAT DO WE DO? Keep turning up. → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... That is how campaigns become movements. That is how movements change politics. That is how the future is built.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#TheSustainableHour has reached episode 600: CATCH THE BALL: THE 600TH EPISODE OF HARD TRUTHS → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest is Johann Hoschtialek from the Caribbean island nation of Grenada.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#TheSustainableHour #599: COUNTRY REMEMBERS WHAT GREED FORGETS → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With First Nations Leader Polly Cutmore. #ListenToCountry #FirstNationsWisdom #WaterJustice #WomensLaw #MurrayDarlingBasin #NAIDOCWeek
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#TheSustainableHour #598: BLUE ECONOMY: The sea is the limit What if some of the answers to the climate crisis are washing up on our beaches? → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #Seaweed #Kelp #BlueEconomy
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Airborne microplastics have an unexpected role in climate warming www.byteseu.com/2175513 We already knew microplastics were turning up in our food, our water, even the air we breathe. Now there’s a twist nobody saw coming: these tiny plastic fragments floating overhead are actually …
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Airborne microplastics have an unexpected role in climate warming - Bytes Europe
We already knew microplastics were turning up in our food, our water, even the air we breathe.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#TheSustainableHour #597: ANCIENT WISDOM FOR A NATION STILL GROWING UP → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 597 on 1 July 2026 is professor Mark Rose AM who speaks about Aboriginal education and community.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#TheSustainableHour #596: LEARNING TO SHARE THE ATMOSPHERE → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With futurist, researcher and political activist Jose Ramos #AtmosphericCommons #FutureStudies #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #PostHolocene
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#TheSustainableHour #595: FROM THE GROUND UP: The connecting link between medicine and farming → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... With nutrition researcher and vet Gundula Rhoades, and organic farmer Jesper Andersen. #TheRegenerativeVet
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#TheSustainableHour #594: Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 594 is Michael Poland, Campaign Director of the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative. #FossilFuelFree #FossilFree
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#TheSustainableHour #593: JUSTICE ON COUNTRY → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest is Bruce Lindsay from Environmental Justice Australia, an organisation that has spent decades using the law to defend nature @envirojustice.bsky.social
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#TheSustainableHour #592: FOOTY FOREVER – CLIMATE ACTION MEETS AUSTRALIA'S GAME In this 592nd episode of The Sustainable Hour, we speak with Lex Lynch, CEO of Footy for Climate → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab...
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#TheSustainableHour #591: THE WORLD DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 20 May 2026 are David Mould from Geelong Duck Rescue and Hayley Sestokas from Environment Victoria.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#TheSustainableHour #590: Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 13 May 2026 is ex-enviro radio host Joe Cicero #Geelong #GeelongRefinery
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 13/05/2026
“Perhaps somewhere down the line housing in Australia could be viewed as a human right, rather than a good investment.” – Gen Z Ima Caldwell. Members of four different generations at Guardian Australia on Jim Chalmers’ 2026 federal budget announcement. 🔗 👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#TheSustainableHour #589: DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – CAN WE RECONNECT AND RESPOND? → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #Democracy #CitizensAssembly #ClimateEmergency #SystemChange #CommunityPower
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#TheSustainableHour #588: RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities Guest: Sam Smith → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #UrbanPlanning #FoodSecurity #NaturePositive #CommunityResilience #RegenerativeDesign
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Climate Intelligence @climate.centralintelligence.co · 29/04/2026
In The News: Yahoo - A new European climate report says nearly all of Europe saw above-average temperatures last year, with record wildfires and severe heatwaves. It also found solar power reached a record share of electricity. clck.it/A8G8pp3
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 29/04/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are in the midst of a crisis that is now, I hope, well understood. Global warming, climate change, the devastating loss of biodiversity are the greatest threats that humanity has ever faced ..." www.reuters.com/article/worl...
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Prince Charles says climate change is humanity's greatest threat
Britain's Prince Charles said on Wednesday that global warming and climate change are the greatest threats humanity has faced, calling on business leaders in Davos to act now to create a sustainable e...
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ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🌍 We welcomed Jean-Noël Thépaut to IVM last week. Great insights on leading the Copernicus Climate Change & Atmosphere Monitoring Services, and how these data support environmental decision-making. Thanks for the talk & to the IVM PhD Council for organising 🛰️ #Copernicus #ClimateData #IVM
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#TheSustainableHour #587: EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... We bring together voices from Geelong and beyond to reflect on a different way of seeing: That we are not outside nature.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#TheSustainableHour #586: BE COLLECTIVE – POWER, CLIMATE AND THE NECESSITY FOR CO-OPERATION Our guest is union leader and writer Godfrey Moase. → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #unions #democracy #climateaction #regeneration #Geelong
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#TheSustainableHour #585: POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 8 April 2026 is Mhairi Fraser from the newly opened Goulburn Solar Farm. #CommunityEnergy
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#TheSustainableHour #584: POWER OF IMAGINATION IN A WORLD ON EDGE → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guests on 1 April are Stretch Kontelj, Mayor of Geelong, and Ro O’Reilly, inventor and team leader at Project Greenlift.
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#TheSustainableHour #583: RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Our guest is Hilary McAllister who is from the ice-cream company Ben & Jerry's Australia #fracking #gas #frackfreeAustralia
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
#TheSustainableHour #582: FESTIVALS OF CHANGE - from climate worry to community action  → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #RenewableEnergy #CommunityResilience #Degrowth #DegrowthFestival #OnePlanetFestival #CommunityResilience
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#TheSustainableHour #581: TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #TakeActionForEarth #SwiftParrot #ProtectForests #BobBrownFoundation #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #Tasmania #Tarkine
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#TheSustainableHour #580: BE DIFFICULT – BALANCING THE SCALES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #BalanceTheScales #ClimateJustice #BeDifficult #WomenInClimate #Geelong
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#TheSustainableHour #579: WHEN THE EMERGENCY BECOMES OUR NEW REALITY → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Guest: Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine #TheSustainableHour #ClimateEmergency #PolluterPays #VICSES #Geelong #Bellarine
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#TheSustainableHour #578: Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... A reflective journey into meaning, responsibility and belonging in a world under stress. #BatsAndBelonging #BatsAndBeing
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context776.bsky.social @context776.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
EPA to ax landmark climate finding Thursday The polluted Donald Trump regime plans to repeal the landmark 2009 legal finding that climate change poses a threat to the public this week, Trump mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt blared Tuesday.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
TL/DR: Philanthropic funding won’t support organizing, confrontational tactics, front-line decision making—what builds real power over time. Funders want immediate deliverables (ie “reports” and “strategies”) that perform non-partisan academic competence. 😭 drlennecefer.substack.com/p/i-said-env...
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I Said Environmentalism Was Out of Ideas. I Was Wrong. It's Worse.
How the people fighting for the planet lost touch with the people living on it
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#TheSustainableHour #577: Be ready for a climate reset → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Featuring Luke Taylor on why Australia may need a national climate reset #StateofDisaster #ClimateReset #ClimateEmergency #PoliticalCourage
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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
#TheSustainableHour #576: Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa → Listen: climatesafety.info/wp-content/u... → Notes: climatesafety.info/thesustainab... Truthtelling and permaculture education to close out 2025 #permaculture #ClimateDenial #CommunitySolutions
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 16/12/2025
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’ #Climate
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Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
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Daniel Firth @danielfirth.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is a great summary of what it takes to transform a city's mobility DNA: - push AND pull policies (read more in our recent report: www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/Ac...) - persistance - trusting the process momentummag.com/new-study-pa... (Although LOL at the idea it was done "quietly")
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
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