Gil Penalosa
penalosag.bsky.social
Gil Penalosa
@penalosag.bsky.social
Founder 8 80 Cities, #Cities4Everyone. Worked in 350+ cities. Make Healthy Living = The Easy Choice • Children • Olders • Keynote speaker • Top 100 urbanist (13)
Good news: Australia bans Social Media for all under 16 years old.
Good intentions are not enough.
Governments at all levels must make healthy living the easy choice, through policy, infrastructure, and programs.
Everywhere. Banning social media is long overdue.
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Amazing presentation on THE BENTWAY!! By CEO, Ilana Altman. Over 300 connected live!
From horrible under elevated hwy to People Place. Video available in 2 days.

FREE - Next:
Dec. 9: #100th
Well+Being: Good Intentions are NOT Enough • Guest & host: Gil Penalosa
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November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
2/2 20 years ago... 8 80 Cities
Thanks to Amanda O'Rourke, who's been staff, director, now superb executive director, for 19 years, a true partner in the process.
#Grateful to Camila Uriona and all current and past staff, and board directors.
Much appreciation to many supporters, all doing good.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
20 years ago I created the Toronto based non-profit org, Walk & Bike for Life, and spoke about 8 80 Cities.
We changed the name to 8 80 Cities, talk & do about walking and cycling FOR LIFE, equity.
Amazing ride. I've worked in over 350 cities. I hope to have contributed, I've done my very best.
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You can have an URBAN FOREST.
One in every neighborhood. Everywhere. The size of a tennis court!

How? Delightful conversation, my friend Dr. Nadina Galle, Internet of Nature, with Adrian Wong of SUGi.
Plant absurdly dense, “untidy” forests grow fastest.

Enjoy, doing good.
bit.ly/4a60Ohp
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Partnerships happen when leaders find common ground: trust, respect, solidarity.

Australia, India, and Canada, new Technology & Innovation Partnership.
Prime ministers of India, Narendra Modi, Australia, Anthony Albanese, and Canada Mark Carney.
Step by step, creating / strengthening a new world.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reposted by Gil Penalosa
FREE webinar Tues. few spaces available:

THE BENTWAY
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces.
Presents: Ilana Altman, CEO
From under-highway horror, to space for well-being.
#Cities4Everyone. Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE Register & share:
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
FREE webinar Tues. few spaces available:

THE BENTWAY
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces.
Presents: Ilana Altman, CEO
From under-highway horror, to space for well-being.
#Cities4Everyone. Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pm UTC
FREE Register & share:
bit.ly/43kFT67
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"If we educate children very well, they will go home and educate their parents." Jaime Lerner, RIP. Great former mayor of Curitiba

Children • Play • Nature
The power of giving well.
15:1 For every $1 in grants ChildrenAndNature.org awarded, Communities leveraged over $15.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Even if we had $$ to buy hundreds of fighter jets, they would NOT make Canada safer.

Only a well educated, healthy, equitable pop. will keep enemies away.
Let's invest in World's Best Peace & Negotiation Center that will help all, and be supported.
Credibility. Integrity. Smart.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great alliance led by #CitiesforBetterHealth, in collaboration with UNICEF, C-40, 8 80 Cities, Gehl, others... many community groups in multiple cities.

Healthy eating and physical activity should be a Human Right.
Good intentions are not enough;
Cities must make Healthy Living be the Easy Choice.
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Copenhagenize should stick to doing what got them famous: sharing cute photos of people riding bicycles in Copenhagen, mostly women.

Global Bike-Friendly Cities? Wrong!!!
Bogota is not in top 50!
• It has more daily riders than CPH's pop.
• Sunday's Ciclovia over ONE million.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From LIFE AFTER CARS:

• Name an issue affecting society right now, and there’s a good bet it is caused or at least exacerbated by society’s overreliance on cars
• Our climate and our own health can no longer withstand the assault of the automobile.
bit.ly/485tCUB
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The New Face of Family Caregiving
63 million family caregivers in USA

• 29% are Sandwich Generation: care for aging parents & children
• 11% care for someone with dementia
• 89% care for relatives
• Average care recipient age 70
By Amy Goyer, Am. Soc. Aging
bit.ly/43EJLza
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Agree 100%:
"In difficult and turbulent times, one needs to choose one's friends carefully. Sweden and Canada choose each other as friends, allies, and partners."
Swedish Dep. PM Ebba Busch

Superb Canadian Industry Minister Mélanie Joly: "F-35 jets proposal doesn’t deliver enough jobs for workers"
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FREE this Tues:
Unlocking Unexpected Public Spaces
THE BENTWAY, Presents Ilana Altman, CEO

Spectacular change from under-highway horror to space for well-being.
Invited to my webinar #Cities4Everyone.
Tues. Nov. 25 11am EST / 4pmUTC
FREE Register & share:
bit.ly/43kFT67
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted by Gil Penalosa
Watch FREE & share video from this week's #Cities4Everyone The Webinar:
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CRISIS presents Angie Schmitt
bit.ly/3LD8Zb1

FREE, Nov. 25 at 11am EST:
THE BENTWAY, presents the amazing cultural programmer, Ilana Altman, CEO.
Register bit.ly/43kFT67
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Mamdani could make NYC's walking, cycling, & public transit bus: SAFE, convenient, and fast.

Janette Sadik-Khan: 'There’s absolutely no reason the city can’t achieve the plan for more people- and transit-friendly streets. Ambitious, not impossible.’
Planetizen bit.ly/43zk17c
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
95% of Utah residents will have a paved bike trail within one mile/1.6 Km.

Utah Unveils 'Ambitious' 3,100-mile (5000Km) Bike Network.
Proves cycling is NOT a 'left or right' politically.
It's just the right thing to do.
(Utah is x-republican).
Planetizen: bit.ly/3K4z2r4
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Grateful. Trust. Integrity.
Canada is in very good hands. PM Mark Carney working with Manitoba's premier Wab Kinew.

Today in Winnipeg they were working on getting the Port of Churchill expansion project built — fast.
I trust they are doing what they think is best for Canada.
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Paris. It was not 'built like this.'
Thanks Anne Hidalgo, a DOER, for greening Paris. Along the way, showing the world's mayors that change is doable.

Situation Modification: it’s NOT willpower, but the wisdom to shape the situations that shape you. Angela Duckworth
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
THE CURB: a key space in modern cities.

Can be used for car storage or
• Public transit • Bike lanes
• Last-mile delivery
• Waste collection • Outdoor dining
• Trees
• More
City for cars of city for people
By Andrés Franco, CNU
bit.ly/47RpLvP
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Congrats RWJF on 10 yrs of Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions

Honored to have been part of the program from start of wonderful initiative. Thanks Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
8 80 Cities has provided on-site capacity building on Open Streets, 100% HEALTH, and Winter Placemaking.
Learning & sharing.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Watch FREE & share video from this week's #Cities4Everyone The Webinar:
PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CRISIS presents Angie Schmitt
bit.ly/3LD8Zb1

FREE, Nov. 25 at 11am EST:
THE BENTWAY, presents the amazing cultural programmer, Ilana Altman, CEO.
Register bit.ly/43kFT67
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#ElectionsMatter
Doing things right and DOING THE RIGHT THINGS.

It's not about left or right, it's integrity. Caring for the future generations.
Both times when Lula da Silva has been president of Brazil, the Amazon deforestation has been cut in HALF!
Same country, military... leadership!
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM