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Lloyd Alter
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Demographics being what they are, “walking while old” is going to be a growing problem. I have been banging on about this for years www.treehugger.com/complaining-...
Walking While Old Is Killing a Lot More Pedestrians Than Walking While DistractedThere are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it.www.treehugger.comI had one of these for years, it was so loud it was like a jet plane in your house. I replaced it with a composting toilet. Neighbours have a Cinderella that is apparently much quieter cinderellaeco.com/en-ca?srslti...
Cinderella Incineration toiletsAward-winning toilet solution. No water and sewage connections required. End product is sterile ash. Made in Norway.cinderellaeco.comMinimalism is apparently trendy again (yay!), but it is important to know where it came from- the battle against tuberculosis. It was all about health. With an aging population, we have to think about prescribing it again. lloydalter.substack.com/p/minimalism...
Minimalism is not a style, it's a prescriptionIt fights disease with design and was a weapon in the battle against tuberculosis. It's time to get serious about making our homes safe, healthy, and minimalist again.lloydalter.substack.comWe should all dress like Pierre in fringe jackets and become one big proud fringe group.
John Michael McGrathre: "fringe group" — the vast majority of GTA residents do not, and likely never will, fly out of Billy Bishop, this was always special pleading from a narrow interest group, they just happen to be extremely wealthy
Best did not win the Nobel Prize. It went to Banting and his lab director Macleod, which made banting furious, so he shared his winnings with Best. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
The controversy of insulin and its Nobel Prize: 100 years onDr Kersten Hall explores the history of insulin and what it has taught us in this article, 100 years after Dr Banting's Nobel Prize Award.ahc.leeds.ac.ukI love the simplicity of this study: 1) Find homes with gas stoves and asthmatic children 2) Replace the gas stoves with induction stoves. 3) Come back in three months. Results? "Missed days of work or school because of asthma dropped by about 80%."
An elegant study shows how bad gas stoves are for your kids' healthResearchers replaced gas stoves with induction in homes with asthmatic children, and they got better fast.lloydalter.substack.comA Toonie says it doesn't open tomorrow, that there is some technical border issue or customs problem, that it all gets slow-rolled, and the trucks are lined up for many kilometres. Any taker?
Dr Gerald Kutney | Climate PoliticsAmerica builds walls. Canada builds bridges. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... That says it all folks. #ClimateBrawl