Solve local/global challenges with sustainable redevelopment. Municipal CAO/CEO/Planner, International Advisor at ReadLyte, Co-Founder of Rural Beat. DMs open.
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It’s not just that a better world is possible.
It’s that a better world is possible with redevelopment.
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Unsustainable development has drained, filled, and built over wetlands, swamps and marshes.
Consequences have ranged from flooding and contamination to species loss and carbon release.
Sustainable redevelopment adds nature and restores balance for people and the planet.
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Swamps are nature’s kidneys; filtering water, preventing floods, storing carbon, and providing homes for countless species. Protecting swamps means protecting both people and wildlife.” 🌿💧🐦
#SaveOurSwamps #WetlandsMatter #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #ProtectNature
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Myron Belej, RPP, MCIP retweeted
Sustainable redevelopment adds nature and expands environments, which makes environmental protection a given.
Getting to a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting starts with sustainable redevelopment.
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If every journalist pointed to redevelopment as the solution…
If every researcher and scientist pointed to redevelopment as the solution…
If every teacher, business, government and international agency pointed to redevelopment as the solution…
We’d see more redevelopment.
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“Imagine if we, as a society, had taken the money we spent on [development] and spent it instead on [redevelopment].”
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Imagine if we, as a society, had taken the money we spent on AI data centres and spent it instead on fighting climate change.
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If half a century has gone by and your train service has gotten worse, your region needs redevelopment.
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toronto to montreal by train took 4 hours in the 1970s. today it takes 5 and a half. canada is spending $90 billion on high-speed rail to beat a baseline that has gotten WORSE since trudeau's dad was prime minister. the train didn't just fail to improve. it regressed for 50 years
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Myron Belej, RPP, MCIP retweeted
Development-induced climate challenges aren’t solved with more development that impacts more nature.
Responding to development-induced climate challenges starts with redevelopment that replaces polluting and harmful development while adding nature.
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Development and sustainable redevelopment are both multipliers.
Development multiplies disparity, dependency, and destruction of environments.
Sustainable redevelopment multiplies equity, opportunity, and expansion of environments.
#RedevelopmentIsBetter
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Immigration is routinely used as an instrument for unsustainable development.
Once you see the difference between development and redevelopment, you can’t unsee it.
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Stuck in traffic.
Stuck in bad neighbourhoods.
Stuck with rising costs.
Stuck with waste and pollution.
Stuck with the wrong infrastructure.
Stuck with the wrong development.
And the more development you add, the more stuck people get.
Replace it with sustainable redevelopment.
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Myron Belej, RPP, MCIP retweeted
"We can't build in the greenbelt! They exist to make sure our cities are dense and we maintain beautiful countryside!"
- Ah, so you must build a huge amount of housing in the city cores?
"Well, no"
The UK has what has to be the world's most obviously fixable housing crisis.
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Sustainable redevelopment undoes and replaces the worst of capitalism while mobilizing and maximizing the best of capitalism.
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Myron Belej, RPP, MCIP retweeted
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Car dependency is a mandatory tax on your freedom and bank account. True fiscal conservatism is living in a walkable neighborhood where you don’t need a $40,000 depreciating asset just to buy groceries.
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Choose one:
1. A world full of healthy food, soil and people, clean air and water, birds in the sky, fish in the sea, community, joy and peace.
2. A world full of data centres and robots, pollution and waste, parking lots and power struggles, crime, fear and climate challenges.
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Sustainable Redevelopment
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Unsustainable Development
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It is more important to fill the world with forests, rainforests and wetlands than with landfills, incinerators and data centres.
#GrowTheGlobalForest
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Redevelopment deserves more credit, attention, and incentives for it, especially on the multi-city and multi-region scale.
What city becomes sustainable without redevelopment? What sustainable transportation or supply chain system change is accomplished without redevelopment?
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Should cities be spending more time on where they are going to put waste in 10 years or on how they are going to eliminate waste completely in 10 years?
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When we connect ‘doing good’, ‘helping others’ and ‘making a difference’ to sustainable redevelopment, we literally change our communities for the better in ways we can see, touch and experience.
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