Rene Bissonnette
@renebissonnette.bsky.social
Grandfather, happily married, happily retired, vegan,no car, stopped flying, likes to walk, bike, kayak ,concerned about the future
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All told, the nearly 2,700 Mobi share bikes in Vancouver clocked 21.4 m kilometres from Jan 2017 - Sept 2025.
"Meet Vancouver’s most-travelled shared bicycle in the Mobi network" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
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"Meet Vancouver’s most-travelled shared bicycle in the Mobi network" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
Meet Vancouver’s most-travelled shared bicycle in the Mobi network
Vancouver’s Mobi shared bikes have been ridden more than 21.4 million kilometres since 2017. Find out more.
vancouversun.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
All told, the nearly 2,700 Mobi share bikes in Vancouver clocked 21.4 m kilometres from Jan 2017 - Sept 2025.
"Meet Vancouver’s most-travelled shared bicycle in the Mobi network" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
"Meet Vancouver’s most-travelled shared bicycle in the Mobi network" as told by @njgriffiths.bsky.social via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/news/meet-va...
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This is a really cool find, and I was so surprised by how on-board outside researchers were with calling this solid evidence for hominins *making* fire, 400,000 years ago 🧪 🏺 www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose has been difficult for scientists to pin down
www.scientificamerican.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is a really cool find, and I was so surprised by how on-board outside researchers were with calling this solid evidence for hominins *making* fire, 400,000 years ago 🧪 🏺 www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
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In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
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My latest: More than half of Americans’ nitrogen dioxide exposure can come from gas stoves, depending on how often they cook, a new study concludes insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes - Inside Climate News
The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.
insideclimatenews.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My latest: More than half of Americans’ nitrogen dioxide exposure can come from gas stoves, depending on how often they cook, a new study concludes insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...
We may not have to worry about a new pipeline if this environmental disaster comes to fruition.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We may not have to worry about a new pipeline if this environmental disaster comes to fruition.
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There are still people cutting Carney all kinds of slack on the climate front. But I now think I was naïve to believe Carney would support Trudeau-style, regulatory climate policy. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
Mark Carney is making a cynic out of me
What to do in a political ecosystem where, for anyone concerned about climate change or whose politics run even slightly left of centre, there is precious little choice?
www.nationalobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
There are still people cutting Carney all kinds of slack on the climate front. But I now think I was naïve to believe Carney would support Trudeau-style, regulatory climate policy. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
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"The energy transition could wipe out over 80% of Canadian provincial governments’ expected revenue from upstream oil and gas in the 2030s."
carbontracker.org/reports/petr...
carbontracker.org/reports/petr...
Petro-Provinces at Risk - Carbon Tracker Initiative
How oil- and gas-dependent Canadian provinces face fiscal strain as the energy transition progresses A number...
carbontracker.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"The energy transition could wipe out over 80% of Canadian provincial governments’ expected revenue from upstream oil and gas in the 2030s."
carbontracker.org/reports/petr...
carbontracker.org/reports/petr...
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The ‘neighbourhood character’ of our stroads is unique
Bacon, in Ottawa for six days, was joined by Sir Robert Matthew, a renowned Scottish architect. Together they produced a 6 page report whose recommendations were largely rejected by Ottawa’s planners, who said the consultants didn’t appreciate local history or understand "the Ottawa experience".
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The ‘neighbourhood character’ of our stroads is unique
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Fossil fuel and nuclear interests found common ground in Texas. Now, the alliance spans the US to the detriment of renewable energy projects.
Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables
The once unlikely alliance took root in Texas and now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban wind energy projects.
bloom.bg
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Fossil fuel and nuclear interests found common ground in Texas. Now, the alliance spans the US to the detriment of renewable energy projects.
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Council is set to pass a cobbled-together status quo budget that fails to coherently address the challenges our city faces. We can be more ambitious, to build a city that works for everyone.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Councillors spar over spending as city budget heads to final vote | CBC News
City councillors are divided over funding for police, transit and infrastructure as they prepare to vote on Ottawa's last budget before next year’s municipal election.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Council is set to pass a cobbled-together status quo budget that fails to coherently address the challenges our city faces. We can be more ambitious, to build a city that works for everyone.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Okay #LdnOnt - you declared a climate emergency what are you actually doing?
For decades, sustainable & responsible cities haven’t just been possible — they’ve been common sense, logical, ridiculously obvious! And yet we’ve failed to act. A better future through better cities is STILL possible with real leadership at every level. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Okay #LdnOnt - you declared a climate emergency what are you actually doing?
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Canada's most lucrative fishery — and a global black market — rely on American eel. But Canada was among the countries who voted against global trade restrictions on the eel last week, and won't list it under the Species At Risk Act, @moiradonovan.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/american-eel...
Illegal American eel fishing is big business in Canada. Ottawa just voted against protections | The Narwhal
Federal fisheries department also announced American eel will not be listed as a species at risk, despite illegal fishing pressures
thenarwhal.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Canada's most lucrative fishery — and a global black market — rely on American eel. But Canada was among the countries who voted against global trade restrictions on the eel last week, and won't list it under the Species At Risk Act, @moiradonovan.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/american-eel...
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NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
A very good question.
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A very good question.
« In other words, a new pipeline would produce around 15 times more carbon dioxide than the Pathways Alliance could capture in a best-case scenario. »
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/a...
Read it and weep: This pipeline agreement is a document of betrayal
How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it. It’s not just the hard-won ground lo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
« In other words, a new pipeline would produce around 15 times more carbon dioxide than the Pathways Alliance could capture in a best-case scenario. »
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/a...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/a...
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Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/
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narrowing car lanes is a good way to force low-speed streets in addition to a way to provide bike lanes without getting caught in the province's stupid legislation.
bike on, toronto. the province can try, but this is a city that walks, bikes, and takes transit in huge numbers and that won't change.
bike on, toronto. the province can try, but this is a city that walks, bikes, and takes transit in huge numbers and that won't change.
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
narrowing car lanes is a good way to force low-speed streets in addition to a way to provide bike lanes without getting caught in the province's stupid legislation.
bike on, toronto. the province can try, but this is a city that walks, bikes, and takes transit in huge numbers and that won't change.
bike on, toronto. the province can try, but this is a city that walks, bikes, and takes transit in huge numbers and that won't change.
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Carbon capture and storage technology is, at its core, a calculated tactic by fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their environmentally destructive practices while giving the illusion that they’re addressing the very crisis they’ve been fueling for over a century.
The false hope of carbon capture and storage
Do we need carbon removal? Almost certainly, but not because we need to offset “hard-to-decarbonize” industries: we need it because we’ve already disrupted the climate to dangerous levels. Just ask an...
canadiandimension.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Carbon capture and storage technology is, at its core, a calculated tactic by fossil fuel companies to perpetuate their environmentally destructive practices while giving the illusion that they’re addressing the very crisis they’ve been fueling for over a century.
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Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.
He directly cites today's MOU:
He directly cites today's MOU:
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.
He directly cites today's MOU:
He directly cites today's MOU: