Author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle, Teaching sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan university, Substacking at lloydalter.substack.com
Joined July 2007
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8 Aug 2024
Forget the JD Vance jokes, furniture matters. The @BlueJays ripped out all the regular seats and replaced them with barcaloungers behind first base and all of us plebs seethe and resent that they are empty and the home base lady is gone. I even get mad at my @TD_Canada.
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1 Aug 2024
Treehugger, the site I worked for since shortly after it started, went live 20 years ago this month. It was never taken seriously but we were serious about "driving sustainability mainstream." Thank you, @ghill I wrote this ten years ago today: treehugger.com/happy-birthda…
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26 Jul 2024
Hey @CBC if you keep running @AirCanada ads over the opening ceremonies I will never fly with them again
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26 Jul 2024
Americans Too Old To Be Driving Risk It Anyway Because Living Without A Car Is Miserable And Dangerous jalopnik.com/americans-too-o… #lyft #oldage
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26 Jul 2024
I've admired @FACIT_HOMES technology since 2007 when I wrote, "this is truly the future." I am excited to see it breaking out to a larger market; the time is right for this new form of digitally manufactured housing. lloydalter.substack.com/p/fa…
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25 Jul 2024
In Toronto, another cyclist has been murdered by the construction industry that puts money ahead of lives and the government that won't legislate side guards or decent visibility for trucks. I wrote about this last year: lloydalter.substack.com/p/an…
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24 Jul 2024
I liked the idea of an urban planner being on council, but Bradford, who voted for this stupid highway and worked at city hall, does nothing but campaign for Mayor. He is an embarrassment.
24 Jul 2024
Councillor Bradford is questioning Mayor Chow on the Gardiner. “Why wasn’t this the original approach we brought forward?”
Chow says the procurement for this work was done in 2022, prior to her time in office. Also before the New Deal, the city was very cost-constrained.
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21 Jul 2024
Many disagreed with my article “in praise of traffic congestion” which got picked up by @StreetsblogUSA . Now they can yell at the radio too! I am on CBC Metro morning at 6:40 AM Monday talking about it. cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-3… article: usa.streetsblog.org/2024/07/…
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15 Jul 2024
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is trying to kill us, making beer and wine more available, closing emergency rooms, and raising speed limits on many highways. Maybe instead, we should be slowing down, to save fuel, upfront carbon, and lives. lloydalter.substack.com/p/in…
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12 Jul 2024
I recently reviewed @PaulBrannenNE book Timber! in which he extols the virtues of mass timber as carbon storage. I have been writing about wood from a #sufficiency point of view: wood is wonderful, but we should still strive to use as little as possible.
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10 Jul 2024
On a recent visit to North America, a bad traffic jam forced international pop start Niall Horan to do the unthinkable: walk 300 meters on a public sidewalk. @lloydalter explains why this isn't a bad thing. usa.streetsblog.org/2024/07/…
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10 Jul 2024
I blurbed for the cover of Timber!: "@PaulBrannenNE 's engaging and accessible book explains how building materials that are grown instead of mined can change buildings from being a climate problem to part of the solution.” lloydalter.substack.com/p/ti…
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8 Jul 2024
The world is apparently agog that musician Niall Horan recently had to walk to his gig at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena because of traffic congestion. Really, the whiners should all move to Detroit. lloydalter.substack.com/p/in…
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5 Jul 2024
I have always liked at this building, and can imagine the client telling the architect “give me a strip mall. And an office building. And an apartment building.” Each third is a perfect representation of how they were done at the time. It’s an icon.
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5 Jul 2024
Some thoughts on why houses should be built on stilts: lloydalter.substack.com/p/wh…
2 Jul 2024
I wonder why it has to stand on legs. Like a modernist house, given the loss of the thermal mass of the ground beneath, and the additional surface area exposed to external temperatures.
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3 Jul 2024
A number of factors suggest that we need to upgrade the soundproofing standards in our housing: more wood construction, louder home theatres, and most importantly, demographics, the ever-increasing number of aging baby boomers with lousy hearing. lloydalter.substack.com/p/ag…
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1 Jul 2024
I am so proud of my granddaughter here, and just reading the comments on my daughter's posts, I realize why I don't hang out on twitter anymore, who are these people?
1 Jul 2024
The four year old - who learned how to bike a month ago - has decided to bike across the city.
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1 Jul 2024
The cold chain has changed our cities and our lives; we now drive big cars to big box supermarkets to fill our big fridges. It's a vast, secret world explained by @nicolatwilley in "Frostbite." lloydalter.substack.com/p/re…
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29 Jun 2024
I asked my kid what she wanted to do on this rainy day and she said “go to the science centre” 😭😭😭
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21 Jun 2024
The most egregious example of “demolition by neglect” that I have ever seen.
21 Jun 2024
BREAKING: The Ontario Science Centre is closing for good today after an engineering report found the roof is in danger of collapsing, the @TorontoStar has learned.
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